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Frontiers in Data Access: The Coming Wave in Data Services
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Can We Fix the Web?
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2008: The Year of the RIA
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IBM has announced the completion of its approximately $340 million USD tender offer for the shares of ILOG. The tender offer, announced July 28, 2008, was finalized after IBM acquired all outstanding stock in ILOG and satisfied the other conditions of the offer. ILOG has more than 2,50...
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...
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...
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...
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 compa...
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an approach to organizing IT resources and data to meet the changing needs of the business. Implementing SOA depends upon the IT organization being able to build interoperable, robust, reusable, and composable Services that abstract the underlying...
Today's business imperative for IT is to do more with less, and to respond to ever-changing business requirements efficiently and inexpensively. It is vital, therefore, for organizations to get the most possible value out of legacy technology. The movement to Service Oriented Architect...
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...
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 organiz...
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...
The pressure to reduce the costs of operations and future development has become a fact of life for today’s financial services institutions. To meet this challenge, one of the top 20 U.S. banks sought to break away from their historically turnkey, ‘black box’ applications. They w...
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...
Epicor announced Tuesday that Epicor 9, a next-generation enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution, has won the 2008 Product of the Year Award from Customer Interaction Solutions magazine. Epicor 9 combines Web 2.0 concepts with Epicor True SOA, a collaborative business architecture...
IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) is home to IEEE Xplore, a 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-technica...
XAware has announced the general availability of XAware 5.2, the open source data integration solution for creating and managing composite data services. Working closely with its user community, XAware has included upgrades that give developers new design options that make it easier to...
SOALogix has announced it has been positioned by Gartner in the niche players quadrant in the 'Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for SOA Composite Application Projects'(1) report. "SOALogix is very pleased to be included in Gartner's latest research involving SOA infrastruc...
Four Soft has announced that it has been listed on the IBM Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Business Catalog, after completing IBM’s SOA technical validation process. The IBM SOA Business Catalog is an online directory of reusable SOA content that has been validated to perform wit...
AgilePath released a new SOA whitepaper Tuesday entitled "Excelling in the SOA Red Zone." The whitepaper describes an idealized SOA Adoption Lifecycle Model and the necessary SOA adoption phases for a successful SOA initiative, while also highlighting high risk SOA adoption stages wher...
ILOG has announced that Aviva Canada selected ILOG JRules to automate its underwriting process for personal lines. With the new BRMS-based platform, which will support Aviva's partners and customers, the carrier expects to achieve speed-to-market gains by being able to implement rule c...
Active Endpoints has announced it will collaborate with 15 of the world's leading companies on an open community to improve software interoperability, resulting in improving the quality of web services standards. The ultimate goal of the Web Services Test Forum (WSTF) is to identify in...
Prolifics has announced that Kadeer Beg has been promoted to the position of Chief Technology Officer. Prior to becoming CTO, Beg held a senior management position at the company since 2006, as Practice Director for the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) group within the company, a th...
Sensedia has launched operations in the United States with a focus on growing its global presence. With several Fortune 1000 clients in the U.S. and Brazilian market, Sensedia is already positioned for continued growth. By 2010, Sensedia estimates that its sales in the U.S. market coul...
Active Endpoints has announced the general availability of ActiveVOS 6.0.2, in response to ever increasing demands for improved process performance and efficiencies. ActiveVOS is an all-in-one, 100% standards-based orchestration and business process management system (BPM) that permits...
Clerity Solutions has introduced new software and services that enable legacy mainframe applications and rehosted workloads to play strategic roles in SOA and Web Services initiatives. Building on a heritage of maximizing the value of core IT assets while lowering total cost of ownersh...
"SOA evolves in a set of micro domains," stated Intel's Joshua Painter, as he examined the state of SOA practices at SOA World Conference & Expo, in San Jose, CA. Despite the many instances of SOA that are emerging within the global 2000 today, the ability to leverage common services a...
OpenSpan and TIBCO have announced a technology and business partnership designed to extend TIBCO solutions to desktop environments. The partnership will enable TIBCO Service-Oriented Architecture, Business Process Management and Business Optimization solutions to more rapidly integrate...
SOA brings together people, not just software. That’s why integrating Web 2.0 concepts into a SOA—such as comments, feeds, ratings, tags, and automatic search alerts—holds so much promise for breaking down business silos and enabling many people to work together for the first tim...
XAware has announced that Kirstan Vandersluis, founder and chief scientist, will be a featured speaker at the 14th International SOA World Conference & Expo 2008 West to be held November 19-21, 2008 at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, Calif. Mixing and mashing multiple data sources, all...
David Linthicum, the highly popular SOA thought leader and practitioner, will be keynoting in San Jose, CA, on November 19 at the SOA World Conference & Expo 2008 West. 'While everyone wants to do SOA right the first time, the typical results are not always stellar,' says Linthicum. 'T...
CA has announced the planned release of additions and advancements in its Identity and Access Management product portfolio, including CA Federation Manager, a new product designed to ease the deployment and management of federated partnerships; an enhanced CA SOA Security Manager; and ...
Many times shipped BPEL processes need to be customized at a customer site or at various departments of enterprises. "Such customizations need to be retained in subsequent upgrades," notes Khanderao Kand, a Lead Architect for Oracle Fusion Middleware at Oracle. Kand will be giving a br...
The new LISA Eclipse Edition offers deep integration with many aspects of the platform, including the IDE, Source Control, Lifecycle Management, SWT interface elements, and other tools that operate inside of Eclipse. LISA test case documents can be stored and executed within the workfl...
SYS-CON Events announced today that the leading global SOA, Virtualization, Cloud Computing and Open Source technology provider Intel named "Gold Sponsor" of SYS-CON's SOA World Conference & Expo which will take place November 19-21, 2008, at the Fairmont Hotel in the heart of Silicon ...
Further demonstrating continued evidence that the SAP ecosystem strategy delivers additional choices, value and flexibility for customers, SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) and CA, Inc. (Nasdaq: CA) today announced a global reseller agreement that will enable SAP to resell the CA Wily Introscope(R) s...
Active Endpoints has announced a contest for the 2008 holiday season. Bring SOA Home for the Holidays offers evaluators of the ActiveVOS visual orchestration system for SOA and BPM applications the chance to win one of three Lenovo IdeaPad netbooks. The contest rules are simple. Evalua...
Once upon a time data modeling played a central role in the process of developing applications. Thus far in the SOA era, there has been a heavy emphasis on process, and data has all-too-often been lost in the SOA shuffle. In this session, Mike Carey presents a data model for SOA - i.e....
For the last month Brad Brown, CTO of TUSC, has been interviewing countless companies on their status of venturing into the world of SOA. Some companies have been doing "SOA" for more than 5 years, but a great many companies haven't even started down the SOA path. Brad has been talking...
Data Services World brings together experts in databases, data warehousing, business intelligence, enterprise computing and Internet computing to discuss new architecture considerations and technologies for accessing, integrating and processing data from heterogeneous data sources. As ...
SOA is about people as much as technology. This session will demonstrate how adding a layer of social (or "Web 2.0") features - things like tags, comments, and syndication feeds - to your SOA infrastructure can provide fertile ground to help grow a vibrant and connected community of de...
Data services, contends Rob Steward, Vice President of Research and Development at DataDirect Technologies, are critical to the predominant and emerging architectures we're embracing for building new systems. "Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is becoming a standard enterprise archit...

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