Veritas Software chief executive Gary Bloom used his keynote at his company’s annual user conference, under way this week in San Francisco, to make the case for the pending merger of Veritas and Symantec Corporation, and to assure his customers that their service would not change.
Rotech Healthcare, a provider of home respiratory care and durable medical equipment, has deployed an SOA to automate order management and enable near-real-time visibility of patient information across disparate systems. Rotech used Sonic Software’s Sonic ESB, Sonic Orchestration Server and Sonic XML Server to build the SOA.
SAP's entrance into the business process outsourcing (BPO) market marks a major turning point in the outsourcing industry, according to market researcher Yankee Group. SAP's ERP model of the 1990s is finally transforming to adapt to the growth in outsourced services, with human resources at its center. Yankee Group says the HR BPO market is growing wildly and forecasts revenues will grow to $14 billion by 2009, up from $4.6 billion this year.
IBM and Cisco Systems are set to announce today a joint effort to combine IBM's WebSphere Voice Server and Cisco's Internet Protocol-based Customer Voice Portal to deliver speech-enabled, self-service solutions for enterprise contact centers.
Companies that comply with regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, Gramm-Leach-Bliley, FISMA and Basel II must have effective log monitoring to meet auditing requirements. The volume of data generated to comply with regulations is quickly overwhelming some companies. External firewalls and network intrusion devices may generate more than 100 million events per day, and may require one full-time employee to perform log reviews. Manually sifting through logs and compiling reports is nearly impossible because the data is so vast, it distracts IT from business critical projects and stalls productivity.
Software sellers generally base their pricing on the number of CPUs that will run their software. The recent arrival of processors with two or more cores, however, has prompted some software sellers to reassess their licensing models.
Network Appliance and VERITAS Software have introduced data protection and management solutions for multi-vendor environments, which the two companies say will enable their enterprise customers to reduce backup times, simplify management and decrease disk consumption.
Microsoft launched new 64-bit versions of its Windows operating system this week. Bill Gates announced the release of the long-promised, much-delayed OSes during his keynote address at the 14th annual Microsoft Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC 2005) in Seattle.
It shouldn’t surprise anyone that application development tasks are among the most likely to be sent offshore by U.S.-based firms.
What is surprising, even though it probably shouldn’t be, is the uptick, anecdotally, at least, in offshore app dev horror stories: Application deliverables that don’t satisfy project requirements; are characterized by poor, sloppy or incoherent coding; or are simply unusable.
High-end fashion retailer Elie Tahari was recently faced with a nice problem: the company was growing so fast—a 70-percent growth rate last year alone—that it needed to upgrade its operations.
As you might expect with any emerging technology, business rules, even when implemented in tandem with a high-performance business rules management system (BRMS), are anything but turnkey.
Proponents stress that the business rules approach isn’t a zero-sum proposition for developers, and to the extent that few companies today embrace business rules without also involving IT, this is true.
Borland Software launched a major update of its Together modeling platform last week. With this release—Together 2005 for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET—the software development toolsmaker breaks new ground in two areas: it provides Microsoft coders with support for the Unified Modeling Language (UML), and it marks Borland’s first foray into role-based modeling.
Don’t look now, but the next big frontier in enterprise data management is one most IT organizations probably feel they’ve already licked: search
In an effort to help companies develop secure applications for Microsoft .NET and Java, PreEmptive Solutions released Dotfuscator Professional Edition 3.0 and DashO 3.2.
If one of your considerations in planning a .NET or J2EE project is finding developers with the right skill set, your location may be a factor.
Action Engine says it will make its Action Engine Mobile Application Platform and Brand-n-Go Mobile Applications Pack available on Java-enabled mobile phones.
Hot on the heels of Oracle’s recent announcement of its proposed Eclipse project to support the Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) 3.0 specification, Versant, a data management company, has proposed an Eclipse initiative that appears to stake out the same territory.
The Universal Business Language (UBL) is on its way to becoming truer to its name. The English-only standard for XML business documents in B2B applications, approved last November by the OASIS standards consortium, has been translated into four new languages.
Instant messaging, the sometime consumer-driven technology for sending and receiving text messages in real time, now rivals e-mail in its rate of adoption among business users. For some organizations, IM has become a cornerstone communications technology. Companies that once complained about the IM assault on the corporate networks now encourage their employees to use it to interact with customers, partners and suppliers. “I could give up my phone before my Blackberry,” a San Francisco exec told AppTrends.