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Goodbye Sunopsis, Hello Coopetition: Oracle Unveils Oracle Data Integrator

Oracle this week announced its first rev of ODI, along with an updated version of the Oracle Secure Enterprise Search tool it announced a year ago.

Microsoft’s PerformancePoint Server Coming into Focus

With PerformancePoint, Microsoft has a plausible reason to crow.

BI Heavies Look to the Mid-Market

For SME firms with limited IT know-how, BI is an especially tough nut to crack. It’s a nut BI players of every stripe desperately want to crack, however.

New Online Threats for the New Year

What's on SPI Labs' list of top Web application security threats it expects this year?

SOA, Better Value Driving System i Renaissance

Some industry watchers think Big Blue’s midrange workhorse might have finally turned a corner

SOA Finally Living Up to its Hype, Survey Shows

Development efforts are growing, and they’re finishing on time, new research says

CA Unveils Host-Based Intrusion Prevention System

As cyberfelons continue to attack simple host-based firewalls, antirust, and antispam measures, IT needs to be increasingly attentive to its endpoint defenses.



Seven Strategies for Compliance Change Management

Driven especially by SOX, companies are turning to change management to provide needed discipline for changes to IT infrastructure and systems. To ensure the integrity of systems storing regulated data, as well as the attendant IT policies and procedures, companies are increasingly adopting change management practices.

Business Process Discovery: The Key to Mainframe Modernization

Business process discovery avoids the risks of traditional business process re-engineering efforts and yields immediate end-user benefits

VMware Workstation 6 Beta Begins

Virtualization vendor VMware is shipping the public beta version of its Workstation 6.0 product.

Vista's Rolling Start is Now Official

The five-year run-up to Windows Vista culminated with the official consumer general availability of Vista and Microsoft Office 2007.

Yet Another Word Zero-Day Exploit Surfaces

A new exploit potentially lets an attacker execute code on a user’s machine

MicroStrategy’s Dashboard Splash

Call it a fashionably late, but nevertheless feature-complete arrival.

Oracle’s BI Suite Reborn?

The revamped BI Suite incorporates analytic technology from the former Siebel Systems Inc., which Oracle acquired 16 months ago.

Podcast: How to Avoid Project Management Failures

We explore new research with the author of “My Life is Failure -- 100 Things You Should Know to be a Successful Project Leader” so you can learn from the mistakes of others.

Innovative Web 2.0 Firms Storming the Next IT Battleground

Web 2.0 technology is helping firms bring applications to market faster than ever.

Sales Force Automation, SaaS-Style—It’s Xact-a-Mundo

If you haven’t yet heard of SaaS BI startup Xactly, consider yourself duly informed.

PSI Strikes Back Against IBM

PSI strikes back, charging IBM with antitrust violations, unfair competition, and business torts

Analysis: Intel, Sun Tie the Knot

After years of animosity, Intel and Sun have patched things up. Why? What’s the catch?

Migration Readiness Assessments, Part 2: Reaping the Benefits

How to leverage the results of an MRA as you develop migration strategies and staffing plans, establish rules for data conversion and system cutover, and move further to mitigate project risk.