A core reference model to guide the creation of specific SOAs is in the works, thanks to a new committee by international standards consortium OASIS. Driven by a need for continuity across the industry, the SOA Reference Model (SOA-RM) Technical Committee will strive to deliver a normative SOA reference model by the end of the year.
AOL Instant Messenger users got a freebie this week: Web-based e-mail.
IBM and Lawson Software announced yesterday that Lawson will optimize and standardize its business apps portfolio on IBM WebSphere--a move intended to help clients move to a J2EE compliant SOA and mitigate application complexity by reducing the source coding required. Apps and Web services will share the same data repository as clients' existing Lawson applications, enabling clients to perform only an upgrade, not a migration or new implementation, to take advantage of them, Lawson says.
Between 30 to 60 percent of the security budget increases in the last two years can be tied directly to compliance, according to analysts at Nemertes Research.
The Common Language Runtime is at the heart of Microsoft’s .NET vision. It promises to co-opt the benefits of Java–it’s a run-time environment that features a just-in-time compiler and built-in management services–with the bonus that (unlike Java) it’s language-independent.
A good business requirements tool can help you gain the understanding and agreement of everyone involved in a software project, from customers to the business side to the technical team. That can speed time to market and reduce development costs by helping you quickly document and share information among stakeholders.
In a bid to help SMBs address IT security, reliance and compliance needs, IBM recently announced a new suite of Express hardware, software and services.
Plenty of companies are making the connection between compliance and the policies and practices that align IT with business goals. In its 2004 global status report, the IT Governance Institute reported that 76 percent of executives surveyed acknowledged having IT problems that could be resolved by implementing an IT governance framework.
Today, Informatica is embracing a broader definition of data integration that includes operational data integration—things like data migration and consolidation, building operational data stores, synchronization among different databases and master data management.
IBM acquired Gluecode Software, an open-source application infrastructure company that sells software, services and support on top of the Geronimo J2EE application server from the Apache Software Foundation.
Action Engine, a mobile application platform leader, launched the Action Engine Developer Network for independent software vendors and developers to build applications for the Action Engine Mobile Application Platform.
IBM released the first software development patterns represented in code and integrated with tools for automating enterprise application development. Available on IBM's developerWorks Web site, the four new IBM Enterprise Patterns work with IBM's Rational Software Architect tool.
IBM acquired Gluecode Software, a privately held company which provides software and support services for open-source application infrastructure software.
IBM’s alphaWorks updated its Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Laszlo, a technology preview of an Eclipse-based development environment for creating, editing, debugging and testing applications based on the LZX declarative mark-up language.
The Apache Software Foundation yesterday said it is proposing to create a new project called Harmony that will lead to the development of an open-source version of Java 2, Standard Edition (J2SE) runtime platform.
U.S. businesses are spending cautiously but steadily on technology this year, although oil prices, interest rates and currency fluctuations could slow IT spending worldwide
RIM’s ubiquitous BlackBerry has proven so popular that the company is now the top PDA vendor worldwide, according to market research Gartner. Sales of all PDAs worldwide topped 3.4 million units in the first quarter of 2005, a 25 percent increase from the same period last year, Gartner adds.
The thing about a knowledge management solution is, it’s tough to get hard data to demonstrate ROI. Even when you know it’s working, how do you quantify the value of technology that allows you to make the most of the experience, skill and expertise your enterprise already has?
Depending on whose statistics you believe, the number of non-technical users who use business intelligence and analytics applications is between a tenth and a third of the total of business users.
What’s the hottest trend in BI? Several industry causes celebres come to mind–data integration, anyone?–but a very good case can be made for an emerging trend in favor of user “self-service” applications.