RedPrairie announced a new E²e Business Process Platform to orchestrate cross-application business processes. Built on SOA standards and web services technologies, the new platform enables a common point of integration for all RedPrairie and third-party applications.

SOA Software announced that it will certify SAP NetWeaver as a Governed Service Platform. This allows customers to confidently use SAP Enterprise SOA solutions implemented with NetWeaver products as part of a heterogeneous enterprise SOA environment sharing services with other commerci

AmberPoint announced that it has extended the reach of its runtime SOA governance software across a broad set of additional platforms. These capabilities, which result from enhancements to the company's architecture for distributed SOA governance, extend AmberPoint's visibility and con

The Dot Net Factory introduced EmpowerID Role Enforcer for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, the role-based entitlement management application for SharePoint permissions. EmpowerID Role Enforcer for SharePoint enables enterprise-wide access control, auditing, and enforcement of

Managed Methods has announced the availability of their Web Service management portal JaxView 4.0. While providing full support for the SOA and Web service management for the IT operations, JaxView 4.0 offers expanded features with the Agentless Web services management and SOA visibili

Initiate Systems announced that it will offer Initiate Patient, a master data management (MDM) software solution for healthcare enterprises, as a pre-validated integrated offering on the Intel SOA Expressway for Healthcare. By deploying Intel SOA Expressway for Healthcare, integrated d

SunGard announced that it is a founding member of the Banking Industry Architecture Network (BIAN). BIAN is a new association, formed by software and financial industry firms and banks, aimed at helping banks to move to a service oriented architecture (SOA) by openly sharing technical

Temenos Group announced that it is one of the founding members of the Banking Industry Architecture Network (BIAN). Led by global tier one banks and industry vendors including among others Temenos, Microsoft, SAP, SunGard and S.W.I.F.T., this independent body will drive the creation of

Pat Gelsinger, SVP and co-GM of Intel's Digital Enterprise Group (DEG) - Intel's largest business group accounting for more than half of the corporation's revenue - believes Moore's Law will continue to hold good through 2029. Speaking recently at the Intel Developers Forum, where he g

Peer networks are really just logical graphs of computers, or, in many cases, logical graphs of connected applications. The physical topology of the peer network, means of communication, and weighting of the edges are all implementation-specific details that differ from P2P network to

SOA Software and Solidsoft announced the appointment of Solidsoft as Consulting Partner and Value Added Reseller for SOA Software's suite of products. SOA Software is recognized by its customers for providing enterprise-class, platform-independent, integrated SOA Governance automation

SOA Software announced that it has certified the Neuron ESB from Neudesic as a Governed Service Platform. Certified Governed Service Platform status means that customers can be confident that their platforms won't compromise the fidelity of the governance systems and structures defined

Spotfire, a division of TIBCO, announced TIBCO Spotfire Operations Analytics, which allows customers to deploy real-time process-specific analytics applications and streamline business process control across the organization. The software embeds event processing into Spotfire's next ge

SAP, together with Microsoft, announced a milestone in its mission to help banks establish a service-oriented architecture (SOA) for their business operations. SAP and Microsoft, along with other founding members, have created the Banking Industry Architecture Network (BIAN). The goal

SOA Software announced the release of SOLA 6.0 (Service Oriented Legacy Architecture), a major update to its mainframe SOA Solution. SOLA is a complete mainframe Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) solution. SOLA solves today's most critical problem, making mainframe applications part

TIBCO announced it has added new functionality to its ActiveMatrix Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) platform to automatically predict and fix IT service problems before they slow down access to mission critical business information. The new TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Performance Man

TIBCO announced that BMC will embed TIBCO ActiveMatrix in its Business Service Management (BSM) platform. BMC selected TIBCO ActiveMatrix because of its ease of use and ability to provide service enablement and management on a single platform. ActiveMatrix will provide BMC and its cust

TIBCO announced that the company is working closely with Microsoft to make it easier for customers to use their respective technologies together - giving them more power and flexibility over their service-oriented architectures.

Software AG announced that T-Mobile International is developing its IT-Governance methodology and tools in conjunction with Software AG. One of the goals of this program is to accelerate the introduction of new products and service plans using Software AG's technologies for service-ori

HP introduced new and enhanced quality and management software designed to increase the success of mainstream deployment of service-oriented architectures (SOA) by businesses. SOA is an approach to delivering IT services in a secure and manageable way that uses loosely connected, reusa

'Our growth strategy, which comprises three pillars - the established business, the midmarket and the business user solutions - is working quite well,' said SAP's Chief Executive Henning Kagermann, as Europe's largest maker of business-management software today reported from Berlin, Ge

Intelliun announced that it has been highlighted in a recent ZapNote report by ZapThink. The report, entitled 'Intelliun Model-Driven Development for Service Oriented Business Applications,' underscores that the model-driven approach of Intelliun's flagship product, The Virtual Enterpr

Progress Software announced the availability of Progress Sonic ESB 7.6, its messaging-based enterprise service bus (ESB). This release offers greater productivity for developers and for managing a service oriented architecture (SOA) infrastructure across heterogeneous environments. The

Neudesic announced the release of version 2.0 of Neuron-ESB. Neuron-ESB is an Enterprise Service Bus that extends the Microsoft Platform by providing real-time messaging, integration and web service management. Neuron-ESB accelerates SOA adoption by helping companies successfully imple

IONA announced that VocaLink has selected IONA Artix Data Services as a component of VocaLink's Euro Payment Service for its pan-European and global customers. VocaLink provides its customers with the facility to translate legacy format payments into a SEPA compliant format, using Arti

EquaTerra announced that its Governance WorkPlace tool, which automates the management of multiple service providers and enables informed decision-making in support of back-office processes in both shared services and outsourced environments, is now available as a hosted, Software as a

HCL Technologies announced the launch of its new SaaS Service Delivery Platform (SDP) AGORA. Service disruption and Web 2.0 have resulted in a sudden outburst of participation by the user and developer communities. This, along with increasing collaboration between independent service p

Progress Software announced that it will host a three part SOA Management webinar series. The second session, hosted by Progress Software's David Bressler, Actional product evangelist and featuring Lombardi Software's Marc Smith, director of product marketing, will be held on Tuesday,

Enterprise IT's 'Moment of Truth' has arrived, according to Sandy Zylka, a co-founder of NextAxiom and the co-inventor of the company's seven patent-pending innovations. Zylka, who participates in consulting services to NextAxiom customers as a Principal SOA Architect, unveils in this

The OASIS open standards consortium announced a new initiative aimed at bringing the full advantages of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) to the telecommunications industry. The OASIS Telecommunications Services Member Section (OASIS Telecom) will work to pave the way for a new busin

Weitzner brings 30 years of publishing experience to ZDE, starting in editorial at Hearst Business Communications and moving over to the business side at CMP Media. As CMP Media COO and CEO, he transformed the company from a print-centric publisher focused on multiple markets to a tech

Dr. Richard Mark Soley, executive director of the SOA Consortium - the world's largest consortium of its type - and chairman and chief executive officer of the Object Management Group, will be keynoting in New York City in June at SOAWorld Conference & Expo 2008 East. He will speak abo

IBM may be starring down the barrel of an EC investigation of its precious mainframe business, significant to its bottom line. According to both Bloomberg and Dow Jones, the commission has sent Big Blue a questionnaire asking for details about its mainframe business practices and quest

GemStone Systems announced the release of GemFire Enterprise 5.5, a core component of its high-performance EDF. The release will offer distributed event processing capabilities with the introduction of continuous querying and durable event notifications to hundreds of clients. By provi

After a $1.5 million angel round, Desktone, which was started in 2006 by Eric Pulier, who also started SOA Software, US Interactive and IVT, picked up $17 million in first-round funding about a year ago from Highland Capital Partners, SoftBank Capital, Citrix Systems and the China-base

There is more data than ever to understand and improve corporate performance, and it's growing by 30% a year, according to recent industry analyst estimates. Accordingly an increasing number of verticals are using Data Services - services that deal with the production or consumption of

Analysts tell us that IT innovation is high on the CIO's agenda. But in the next breath they tell us that IT is increasingly being asked to do more with less. What's a CIO to do? If you want to re-align your IT to business need you have two main choices: tactically managing the issue (

URIs are the lingua franca of the web. They are in every web page and every HTTP request. In a practical sense, they represent the realization of the web. Without them, the web would cease to exist. The situation is very different in the world of the RDBMS. Here, URIs are interlopers.

An increasing number of verticals are using Data Services - services that deal with the production or consumption of data - to solve real business problems and deliver key information...all completely transparent to the user. Data is after all the primary component of architecture, inc

A lot of developers get forced into writing SQL as part of their jobs. Should they be doing it? I don't think so. It's not necessarily the best of ideas, and in MOST cases should probably be avoided at all costs. Besides, developers cannot be experts in every language or technology rig