The non-profit HR-XML Consortium has updated its data interchange standard for employee benefits enrollment in HRIS systems to accommodate more insurance carriers and third-party benefits administrators.
It is probably
easier for Red Sox and Yankee fans to find common ground than it is for adherents to Java or .NET.
Two organizations developing standards for XML and Web services are joining larger standards bodies to advance their technology.
OEM deals have gained in significance for application server maker BEA
Systems since it first brought the WebLogic server on the scene.
Developers can now use Microsoft .NET to build applications linking to the popular Apache Web server, according to San Francisco-based Covalent Technologies Inc., which markets Apache 2.0 as part of its Enterprise Ready Server.
Enterprise applications vendor J.D. Edwards is putting a new twist on application performance management by working to optimize an application while it's in development rather than in a production environment.
The proliferation of Wireless LANs (WLANs) will add $2.8 billion to the so-called third generation (3G) mobile data market by 2005, complementing rather than threatening the future of that market, concluded UMTS Forum in a report dubbed "Impact & Opportunity: Public Wireless LANs and 3G Business Revenues."
The future of one of the key building blocks of Web services applications has been placed in the hands of an international standards body.
IBM moved to strengthen its consulting business with the purchase of PricewaterhouseCoopers’ global business consulting and technology services unit. -July 31
Lost in the hoopla of the .NET lovefest in Redmond last week was the unveiling a technology that Microsoft officials promise can provide IT developers the ability to more easily integrate applications built on the .NET framework with Oracle databases.
Sprint has unveiled a new strategy calling for partnering with system integrators and hardware manufacturers to voice-enable corporate applications to be hosted on the Sprint telecommunications network.
Industry maven Ahmar Abbas sees grid computing, the collaborative, network-based model that enables the sharing of data and computing cycles among many processors, as a new paradigm that could dramatically alter the IT industry's competitive landscape.
Salt Lake City-based SBI has agreed to acquire consultant Lante Corp., Chicago, in a move to boost its expertise in manufacturing, retail, transportation, telecommunications, financial services and consumer packaged goods industries.
Can Web services champions convince skeptical corporate IT managers that this emerging technology can make it safe to spread the confidential data outside the firewall? Struggling CommerceOne, once an Internet high flyer, is betting big that the model can work.
The SALT Forum, a group of technology companies working together to accelerate the development of speech technologies in telephony and so-called multimodal systems, has released the 1.0 version of its Speech Application Language Tags (SALT) specification.
Gregg Armstrong, CEO and
president of Starfish Software, along with colleagues from Ericsson, IBM, Lotus, Matsushita,
Motorola, Nokia, Openwave and Symbian, joined forces to establish a
single, synchronization protocol based on XML. By the end of 2000, the
initiative produced the first specification of SyncML.
There's one set of benchmarks that no one seems to want to
talk about anymore -- The TPC (www.tpc.org). These performance
benchmarks were once the darling of vendors like Oracle and Sun. The
problem now is that the top TPC benchmark products are dominated by
Microsoft.
Business Objects has agreed to acquire data integration specialist
Acta Technology as part of an effort to evolve from a business
intelligence (BI) tools provider to an enterprise analytic platform
player.
More details are emerging from Hewlett-Packard Co.’s pledge
last month to support the concept of wireless LAN "hot spots"
with a new initiative aimed at providing high-speed wireless
access points in large, public areas, such as airports, hotels
and restaurants.
Microsoft’s .NET technology is at least six months ahead of its
rivals. It’s more complete, more ready and more widely deployed
than any of its Web services framework competitors.