SPAM, denial of service, break-ins to corporate and government systems, identity theft. Hackers are very busy and increasing the burdens on IT. Organization and vendors are working to improve security.
Grand Central wants to be the switchboard for Service Oriented Architectures - and they just might succeed.
Better decision-making -- fueled by more timely and accurate business intelligence (BI) -- is a key driver for companies scrambling to become real-time enterprises. Business activity monitoring (BAM) is being touted by many industry pundits as a linchpin in the real-time infrastructure.
Push technology isn't dead; if you want a way to send content to a browser, take a look at LightStreamer.
A content management system for sites written in Flash, that itself works as a Flash application, CMSmx offers a way to open up Flash content to non-developers.
This Web Services firewall now offers WSDL validation for developers, making it a product that both admins and programmers can love.
Infravio's X-registry offers a federated Web services registry designed to help you build a marketplace for service providers and consumers.
Reflector is an essential part of the .NET developer's toolbox - and it's even free!
Extron offers a browser-based CMS, complete with an excellent editing control, that should be able to handle most content management tasks.
There are plenty of tools - here's my current pick of some that could use a little more publicity, simply because they're useful to have around.
Government regulations seek to enforce best practices, and IT development managers must respond. The Sarbanes-Oxley act is like sensible shoes -- with teeth. If corporate governance is here, will better IT governance follow?
InstallShield adds online update and cross-platform compatability to its all-in-one setup building package.
Although it's still in beta, this Outlook-integrated NNTP newsreader is already worth a closer look.
This shareware editor packs a large number of features into a low-price package. Worth a look for your text editing needs.
SpectrumSCM offers an excellent value in cross-platform source code management
A hand-picked collection of best practices that address key issues faced by organizations in the implementation of SOA and Web services.
Government regulations seek to enforce best practices, and IT development managers must respond. The Sarbanes-Oxley act is like sensible shoes -- with teeth. If corporate governance is here, will better IT governance follow?
Mike Gunderloy reviews RMTrack 2.0 and Cape Clear SOA Editor 4.8
It is still unclear whether or not BI projects can be sent to offshore labs. Any effort requires execution and teamwork to have a chance at success.
With its ability to automatically generate relevant testing scenarios, SOAPtest is the perfect counterpart for developing enterprise-class Web service apps.