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 Nvidia, whose revenues ducked into the crapper last quarter and who's got myriad other problems too, has effectively put an ad in the paper looking for a handful of promising early-stage start-ups that will grow the GPS platform that it sees as a parallel processor and increase its mar...Mar. 11, 2009 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,345 |
 Recently, a client approached me with a quandary. When designing XML schemas for Web services, how do you balance the desire to use industry standards such as UBL ( Universal Business Language) or CICA ( Context Inspired Component Architecture) to support data interoperability with th...Mar. 11, 2009 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,368 |
 Joe Manna is CIO of Live Nation (www.livenation.com), based in Beverly Hills, CA. A native of southern California, he double majored in math and computer science at Cal State-Fullerton before starting his career in technology. He’s spent many years as a CTO, but now finds himself inter...Mar. 10, 2009 11:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,249 |
 A tech publisher cannot file its year-end financial results due to improper accounting. While its investors are waiting to find out what happened to their investment, TechTarget announces that they are launching a new magazine on Compliance! :- ) TechTarget said the site gives strategi...Mar. 10, 2009 02:02 PM EDT Reads: 2,123 |
 A majority 51% of the big survival-threatened Indian outsourcer Satyam Computer Services Ltd, whose disgraced founder and former CEO confessed in January to loading its books with a billion dollars in "fictitious" assets and "non-existent" cash, was put up for auction Monday. Those coo...Mar. 9, 2009 04:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,776 |
 According to the Wall Street blog, The Motley Fool, both IBM and Oracle have been among the flock of 50-odd companies that have responded to the possible sale of Indian consulting/outsourcing biggie Satyam Computer Services, whose founder and subsequently ex-CEO Ramalinga Raju, now in ...Mar. 9, 2009 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 3,693 |
 Managed Methods has announced the availability of their SOA management and runtime governance support for deeper visibility for Aqualogic ESB, WebLogic Integration (WLI) and Progress Sonic ESB 7.6. This capability expands the SOA environments that JaxView supports, including a wide ra...Mar. 9, 2009 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,883 |
 Gartner is currently figuring PC shipments will drop 11.9% this year to 257 million units worldwide, the steepest plunge ever. PCs’ worst showing before was in 2001 when the market declined a mere 3.2%.
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 You may view CEP as just another acronym. But bear with me, complex-event processing is the way to wring efficiency out of your SOA. CEP optimizes things and provides a way to get out of this economic mess we're in.Feb. 22, 2009 06:00 PM EST Reads: 1,969 |
 Online content, and the searching of it, is often thought to be a nice "green" way of finding information and learning things. But how green is it really? The Personal Digital Footprint Calculator, based on research from IDC and sponsored by EMC, determines the rate at which you create...Feb. 19, 2009 10:00 PM EST Reads: 1,244 |
 Businesses in the southeastern United States have been hit hard with hurricanes in the last few years, and 2008 was no exception. As a project manager and CBCP for over 1600 disaster recovery deployments I can share real examples of how entire data centers were failed over to the DR op...Feb. 11, 2009 12:45 PM EST Reads: 1,540 |
 One of the fundamental goals when designing service-oriented solutions is to attain a reduced degree of coupling between services, thereby increasing the freedom and flexibility with which services can be individually evolved. Achieving the right level of coupling “looseness” is most o...Feb. 11, 2009 11:54 AM EST Reads: 4,342 |
 A global financial services firm deployed DataDirect Shadow and its mainframe Web services technology at the early stages of its service oriented architecture (SOA) adoption. The case study discusses how this strategy enabled the company to leverage existing mainframe assets while incr...Feb. 10, 2009 04:40 PM EST Reads: 1,961 |
 WSO2 is an innovative Open Source technology company devoted to building Web services middleware for SOA. Offering leading products, support and other services, WSO2 was founded in August 2005. WSO2 is a global corporation with offices located in USA, UK and Sri Lanka. In addition to i...Feb. 9, 2009 11:00 AM EST Reads: 1,024 |
 Web services have played key role in integrating heterogeneous applications, particularly in the cross domains. As part of identity management, Security Token Services (STS) are used for request and response tokens. However, we need multiple communication channels among STS when number...Feb. 7, 2009 11:45 AM EST Reads: 1,606 |
 In this White Paper, Bluenog explains the benefits of SOA, and how Service-Oriented Architecture can meet business challenges by helping to reduce development costs. The pressure to reduce the costs of operations and future development has become a fact of life for today’s financial se...Jan. 31, 2009 01:15 PM EST Reads: 4,738 |
 Today's businesses can no longer afford to have essential business content trapped in separate, incompatible repositories. They want an interoperable interface for their repositories that allows them to reuse and share business content easily. In this session at SOA World Conference & ...Jan. 22, 2009 09:45 AM EST Reads: 4,221 |
 NASTEL AutoPilot M6 has been voted the Best Overall SOA-Based Product and the Best Management Solution in an awards competition sponsored by the SOA World Conference & Expo 2008 West. AutoPilot M6 was nominated in both categories during the SOA World Conference. The verdict of a global...Jan. 17, 2009 04:30 AM EST Reads: 1,691 |
 Telcos OpenSpan has announced that seven telecommunications companies have implemented the OpenSpan Platform. Currently deployed to more than 40,000 contact center agent positions, OpenSpan reportedly enables telecommunications organizations to integrate a range of legacy applications,...Jan. 14, 2009 08:00 PM EST Reads: 1,689 |
 WebLayers has announced the appointment of Jeff Papows as president and CEO. With more than 25 years of industry experience, Papows has experience in both emerging companies and global organizations. Most notably, Jeff was president and CEO of Lotus Development Corporation. Upon the ac...Jan. 14, 2009 09:30 AM EST Reads: 2,094 |
Torry Harris Business Solutions offers integration and simple adoption to take the mystery out of SOA, while Managed Methods' JaxView is able to fill the critical role of visibility into the THBS offering. JaxView’s flexibility is able to help THBS deliver a successful SOA by providing... Jan. 14, 2009 07:00 AM EST Reads: 1,445 |
Parabon Computation has announced its award of a NASA Small Business Innovative Research Grant (SBIR) to develop a grid portal and associated SOA that will allow models and simulations to be executed as services. The resulting Componentized Models as a Service (CMaaS) system will let u... Jan. 14, 2009 07:00 AM EST Reads: 1,408 |
SOA Software announced today the launch of what they call the industry’s first SOA Planning Governance product. SOA Software’s Portfolio Manager ensures the alignment of strategic investment in SOA and business objectives by helping enterprises build the right services at the right tim... Jan. 14, 2009 06:00 AM EST Reads: 1,518 |
Active Endpoints has announced record 2008 growth in sales and new customer acquisition of its flagship ActiveVOS development system. ActiveVOS new product sales grew 85% in Q4 of 2008 compared to Q3 of 2008. Bookings in Q4 of 2008 increased 106% compared to Q4 of 2007, and year-over-y... Jan. 14, 2009 03:00 AM EST Reads: 1,301 |
 SOA, an architectural approach to Enterprise IT that has spawned mashups, BPM, SaaS, and even cloud computing - all of them architectural approaches that depend on "services" - continues to have momentum since SOA is not just services, it is about truly transactional services, which ar...Jan. 13, 2009 07:00 PM EST Reads: 2,882 |
 Composite Software announced that Wachovia Corporation has selected its Composite Information Server. Wachovia has deployed the Composite software in its Corporate Investment Banking line to deliver Holdings and Offerings information to customers. With more than 125 different applicati...Jan. 13, 2009 11:49 AM EST Reads: 1,729 |
 Dajeil announced the release of their hardware accelerator subsystem to accelerate standard XML processing libraries. The accelerator, available in multiple form factors, delivers web services and SOA application acceleration transparently. Chris Fairclough, Dajeil’s CEO and founder, s...Jan. 12, 2009 06:30 AM EST Reads: 3,238 |
 IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) is home to IEEE Xplore, a popular research and publications e-commerce site. A portion of the content for IEEE Xplore was previously provided by content owners for management by the technical staff. These content owners were non-...Jan. 10, 2009 09:00 AM EST Reads: 1,294 |
 Software AG announced that Ping An Insurance of China will use its webMethods product suite to support its business expansion plans. Ping An will drive its 20-25% growth plans through offering full insurance, banking and asset management services to over 40 million customers in China. ...Jan. 10, 2009 08:15 AM EST Reads: 1,812 |
 MultiPlan’s business partners and customers needed automated access to client and patient information. MultiPlan initially provided a self-service portal using aging Cold Fusion applications with Oracle databases as the data store. This solution lacked the scalability and flexibility t...Jan. 10, 2009 07:30 AM EST Reads: 1,227 |
 “Adopting a services-oriented architecture should be undertaken as a gradual process, working toward your vision of a new IT enterprise which is more responsive to business drivers,” says Tom Termini, author of The Zen of SOA. Complex concepts have emerged over the past few years regar...Jan. 9, 2009 05:15 AM EST Reads: 3,086 Replies: 1 |
 Micro Focus has announced the availability of Micro Focus COBOL for Eclipse, encompassing versions of Micro Focus' Net Express and Server Express solutions designed specifically for the Eclipse open source ecosystem.
Micro Focus COBOL for Eclipse provides an integrated development en...Jan. 8, 2009 09:00 AM EST Reads: 5,754 |
MuleSource has announced a partnership with FastConnect that will provide Mule architecture and implementation services throughout the French market. FastConnect spans the domains of data and service integration, through to the user interface, using technologies such as SOA, distribute... Jan. 8, 2009 05:15 AM EST Reads: 3,123 |
Ricoh announced a Global Strategic Alliance with IBM that will provide customers with document solutions. As part of the alliance, the companies will first launch a new Ricoh offering, Document Security and Management Services (DSMS) in the United States. The DSMS offering includes Ass... Jan. 7, 2009 07:15 AM EST Reads: 1,531 |
 Michael Dell is going to try to turn a buck on the mortgage mess. He’s part of a consortium of seven private equity investors that signed a letter of intent with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) on New Year’s Eve to buy the failed IndyMac Bank, one of the accursed entit...Jan. 5, 2009 06:00 AM EST Reads: 2,754 |
Wipro Infotech has developed an integrated Police Information System, an end-to-end online application software which covers activities related to the day-to-day functioning of police departments, including the back-end administrative processes of general administration, finance and st... Jan. 5, 2009 03:30 AM EST Reads: 2,111 |
In this paper, Steve Craggs of Lustratus Research discusses a new approach to delivering pragmatic, SOA-based value, combining some of the best features of SOA with event-driven principles – message-driven SOA.
Message-driven SOA has its roots in the ongoing requirement many compani... Jan. 2, 2009 02:15 PM EST Reads: 2,208 |
Hear how many leading organizations have implemented CMDB’s and the practical approach that has helped their firms:
Demonstrate measured benefits against the business case throughout each phase of the project, and select the appropriate CMDB tool to meet process, people and organizat... Jan. 2, 2009 09:15 AM EST Reads: 1,255 |
MultiPlan’s business partners and customers needed automated access to client and patient information. MultiPlan initially provided a self-service portal using aging Cold Fusion applications with Oracle databases as the data store. This solution lacked the scalability and flexibility t... Jan. 2, 2009 07:45 AM EST Reads: 1,090 |
 This paper presents a performance analysis of publish/subscribe messaging throughput of FioranoMQ, SonicMQ, TIbco EMS and ActiveMQ. This analysis provides a head-to-head comparison of these products designed to illustrate the products' relative performance characteristics for several m...Jan. 2, 2009 07:15 AM EST Reads: 2,713 |
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