PushToTest announced the
results of a research
paper, entitled 'The
Composition Approach for
Large-Scale SOA,' which
analyzes approaches to
service oriented
architecture (SOA) and
evaluates SOA development
and deployment solutions
from leading vendors,
including Oracle, IBM,
BEA and TI
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
I took the advice of a
friend of mine and
steered clear of the
'normal' movie theaters
and went a little out of
the way to go to a DLP
movie theater. The
experience
There are 8,909 books
listed on Amazon.com with
the word 'Investing' in
the title; there are(!)
27,146 books with the
word investment in the
title. Without having lo
This book is an update of
an earlier version that
was written for SQL
Server 2000. It employs
the Murach approach of
dual pages that repeat
and enhance the concepts
Reviewers overuse the
phrase 'required
reading,' but no other
description fits the new
book 'Ajax Security'
(2007, Addison Wesley,
470p). This exhaustive
tome from B
In my many years of
programming, almost 20
years now, I have used
countless integrated
development environments
(IDEs). I have used
everything from a simple
text edi