Epicor Software announced that its board of directors has named software and technology industry leader Thomas Kelly as the Company's President and Chief Executive Officer. The appointment is the result of Epicor's on-going succession planning process and is effective immediately. Kell

Symphoniq announced the release of TrueView for SOA (service oriented architecture). Designed to manage distributed environments by monitoring from the browser through every backend application server and service, TrueView for SOA offers the first truly end-to-end web application perfo

GT Software announced a distribution agreement for the company's mainframe data access product with Treehouse Software. Under the licensing agreement, Treehouse will now offer industry leading mainframe data integration capabilities, globally for users of IBM mainframes. The product wi

Red Hat announced that the National Institute of Design and Mint in Italy (Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, IPZS) has selected the JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform to develop and implement software services in a SOA environment. With JBoss solutions, IPZS has increased the produc

Unify announced the next generation of the Company's product, NXJ 12. The new features and enhancements in NXJ 12 speed development and testing, and offer more AJAX functionality for the creation of SOA-based Rich Internet Applications (RIA). NXJ 12 is designed to enable developers to

ILOG announced ILOG Rules for COBOL , a new add-on module for ILOG JRules , a key offering in ILOG's business rule management system (BRMS) product line, that helps organizations with significant IBM mainframe investments simplify their legacy modernization efforts - including moves to

Business intelligence now sits at the top of most IT budgets, yet most deployments are still far from complete. This is costing companies thousands of pounds everyday, and some are considering abandoning projects altogether. Here Paul Harris outlines his top five ways for ensuring succ

As a result of its majority acquisition of Business Objects, SAP has now created a new line of business called SAP Business Objects, under the leadership of former Business Objects CEO John Schwarz, who also named officially as the seventh member of the SAP Executive Board, effective M

Being held for the first time on March 18, 2008 at the historic Roosevelt Hotel in New York City, AJAXWorld Security Bootcamp is a compelling, intensive, one-day, hands-on training program that will teach Web developers, Web designers, and other Web professionals how to build secure AJ

Vordel announced that the company has been positioned in the Visionaries Quadrant of the recent inaugural Gartner's Magic Quadrant report on SOA Governance, 'Magic Quadrant for Integrated SOA Governance Technology Sets, 2007'. Vordel?s XML network management products provide high perfo

IBM announced that WebSphere Application Server, a key building block for services oriented architecture (SOA), shattered a popular industry benchmark for scalability and performance by more than 33 percent using technology that costs half the price of the competition.

CA has introduced a new version of its identity and access management solution. CA IAM r12 provides the identity lifecycle management, access management, workflow automation, delegated administration, reporting, federation and other capabilities IT organizations require to securely del

Lately we've done a lot of research and publishing on how Dev & QA teams can ensure better quality throughout the software development and release lifecycle. But what about the IT Operations guys? It seems we are encountering a disconnect between the Enterprise Architecture and Integra

Parasoft announced native support for multiple commercial registries with Parasoft's SOA Quality Solution. This integration enables teams to automatically execute a quality workflow and correlate quality data in context of a SOA Governance initiative. Parasoft's SOA Quality Solution al

JBoss and iWay Software announced an agreement designed to bring a full range of information management capabilities to global organizations. The combined power of iWay Software's pre-built data and application connectors and JBoss' enterprise application platform delivers a complete S

The SOA Consortium announced that a podcast and transcript of the SOA Hot Topics Roundtable: CIO SOA Concerns, recorded at the SOA Consortium meeting in San Francisco in December is now available. The objective of the CIO SOA Concerns Roundtable was to generate a meaningful conversatio

Citect announced the release of version 3.2 of its Manufacturing Execution System (MES), Ampla; a MES solution that drives the effective planning, operation and improvement of production operations. Ampla V3.2 provides new features to support Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) and si

GT Software, a provider of rapid SOA development solutions, announced a distribution agreement for the company's mainframe data access product with Treehouse Software. Under the licensing agreement, Treehouse will now offer industry leading mainframe data integration capabilities, glob

Workday is delivering Integration On Demand, making it simple for Workday customers to link technology solutions to meet business requirements. Workday has reached a definitive agreement to purchase Cape Clear. The Cape Clear ESB, already a component of every Workday deployment, provid

IBM announced that MIB is building a service oriented architecture (SOA) using IBM technology to better serve its clients. MIB is moving towards an SOA so its members can more easily integrate the services they need from MIB with their own business systems. At the same time, SOA is all

Software AG announced that it was recognized as a 'Leader' in the recently published The Forrester Wave: SOA Service Life-Cycle Management, Q1 2008 [by Larry Fulton with Randy Heffner and David D'Silva (January 28, 2008)]. According to Forrester Research, a leading independent IT rese

The Websydian WebClient developed for CA Plex in a partnership between ADC Austin and Websydian A/S is now available to all customers. The WebClient was available to partners since September, 2007. This new tool enables CA Plex development shops to generate rich HTML directly from exis

Presens Technologies announced it's recognition as a JBoss Advanced Business Partner. As an Advanced Business Partner in the Red Hat partner program, Presens has made an investment in certified personnel and in development and support of JBoss solutions. Becoming an Advanced Business P

Crosscheck Networks announced the availability of SOAPSonar v.3.5. This release enables QA and Development teams to test and validate the most complex data structures that are being generated in the most demanding of the SOA deployments. 'Enterprise customers are increasingly generatin

Perceptive Software announced its latest Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) solution, ImageNow Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). Perceptive Software has a history of developing products and initiatives that complement Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) environments, making it easy for in

While organizational business units and departments are in a hurry to embrace Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), without a proper control or governance of SOA adoption, the organizations are at risk of building unmanaged SOA environments that result in chaos and failure. The success

BluePhoenix Solutions announced that it has successfully completed a legacy modernization and SOA pilot project at Israel Phoenix Assurance Company. The project modernized existing applications to provide Web services, and included a successful pilot program that tested the ability to

CMS Watch released research that finds Enterprise Content Management (ECM) products ill-equipped to meet the security requirements of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA). In its most recent research, CMS Watch looked at 30 leading ECM vendors around the globe and found that all fell f

Alphalogix, a long time IBM Business Partner, announced its validation for the IBM SOA Specialty for its electronic workflow solution, Tasica Forms Director 3.1. With several other validations under its belt, including technical validations for IBM WebSphere and IBM Lotus, Tasica Forms

Parasoft announced native support for multiple commercial registries with Parasoft's SOA Quality Solution. This integration enables teams to automatically execute quality a workflow and correlate quality data in context of a SOA Governance initiative. Parasoft's SOA Quality Solution al

OpenSpan announced that five of the top 100 largest banking and diversified financial providers in the Forbes Global 2000 have chosen the OpenSpan Platform to rapidly integrate, automate and extend applications across the enterprise desktop. The banks and other financial services organ

Layer 7 Technologies announced its XML Firewall and XML Networking Gateway software products support the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS) running on SPARC platforms from Sun Microsystems. Layer 7 is the only XML security and networking vendor to offer server software for Solaris 10 OS

WSO2 announced the debut of the WSO2 Registry, the industry's first registry to combine service-oriented architecture (SOA) governance with Web 2.0 collaboration. The open source WSO2 Registry features a structured registry and repository; Web-based interface; and Web 2.0 community fea

'The Yahoo! Board of Directors has carefully reviewed Microsoft's unsolicited proposal with Yahoo!'s management team and financial and legal advisors and has unanimously concluded that the proposal is not in the best interests of Yahoo! and our stockholders.' With that unceremonious di

Architectures are like archaeology; in essence, layers upon layers of systems, applications, databases, and connections, typically built or procured to solve a tactical problem. Many corporations talk a good game and brag about the strategic long-term direction of the enterprise archit

Quoting an unidentified source, the Wall Street Journal is now saying that Yahoo intends sending Microsoft a letter Monday rejecting its $44.6 billion offer as 'massively undervaluing' the company and ignoring the risk to Yahoo if the regulators ultimately turn thumbs down on the merge

My first reaction to the news that Microsoft wants to absorb Yahoo! was 'of course.' After all, Microsoft has not managed to stop Google from becoming the only technology player that matters. Microsoft has not stopped Google from becoming the only player whose strategy is the center of

Oracle announced the immediate availability of Oracle Data Integration Suite. Oracle Data Integration Suite provides a comprehensive end-to-end data integration platform that connects heterogeneous data sources and applications and delivers clean, accurate, and timely data across the

Perceptive Software announced its latest Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) solution, ImageNow Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). Perceptive Software has a history of developing products and initiatives that complement Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) environments, making it easy for in

The Yahoo! Board is supposed to convene today to thrash out whether or not to accept Microsoft's $44.6 billion acquisition offer, try to get Microsoft to sweeten the pot, or resist and hammer out an outsourcing deal with Google, according to TechCrunch. Based on what the blog (http://w