Features & News


Aberdeen Research Points to SOA's Suite Spot

A 2006 report from Boston-based market researcher Aberdeen Group shows 90 percent of survey respondents say their companies are adopting service-oriented architectures.

Business Objects’ Data Visualization Strategy Coming into Focus

Business Objects hopes to do for data visualization what the former Crystal Decisions once did for reporting: make it ubiquitous.

Q&A With Microsoft’s Office BI Point Main

When users speak, says Office BI guru Alex Payne, Microsoft listens.

Scan for Security Issues While Building Apps

With the risks in today’s world, one company is taking the “fear” out of Web services with improved app scanning software that puts the developer in the driver’s seat.

Ipedo’s EII Platform Gets a Retrofit for Service-ability

Ipedo last week announced a refresh of its EII suite that’s tweaked for service-ability, officials say.

Free AJAX 101 Workshop Offered

Want to learn AJAX from the ground up? Or polish your developer skills? A free online course begins Aug. 4.

SOA Solution Offers Free Management Options

A slew of new SOA management functions are available through a new version of CentraSite, including a plug-in that lets developers ease into integration within Eclipse-based dev environments.



SIM Software Aims for SMBs

One company blocks real-time attacks, demonstrates compliance, and relays security effectiveness to executives.

Backup/Recovery Strategies: Protecting Networked Workstations (Part 2 of a 3-part Series)

Two key questions must be addressed: what do you back up and how do you do it?

Podcast: Inside Business Process Management

What problems BPM solves, plus considerations in build-vs-buy decisions.

The Mainframe Capacity Conundrum Revisited

zLinux or Big Iron J2EE workloads perform better and are cheaper than their RISC- or Intel-based alternatives

Q&A: Regulations and Security Drive Organizations to Adopt Frameworks

Why organizations are increasingly adopting the IT Infrastructure Library

Case Study: Easier Small-Business Backups

Simple disk-to-disk backup system yields reliable restores

CA Teaches Old Databases New Tricks

How many new tricks can you teach an old pre-relational database? Plenty, especially if customers are still actively banking on it.

Services: The Next Frontier for the BI Pure Plays?

Cognos is no stranger to professional services, having collaborated with an ecosystem of partners for some time, but last week’s announcements marked its most ambitious foray into the services game yet. Some analysts say Cognos’ move has the makings of a proverbial double-edged sword.

Best of Both Worlds: Actuate Touts Open Source-Commercial BI

Actuate 9 is a pivotal release for a company that continues to plot a best-of-breed course in a rapidly consolidating BI marketscape.

Celequest Branches Out

Last month, Celequest notched a deal with NEC to develop a compliance appliance for the financial services industry.

Security Briefs: Breaches Increase, Trojans Displace Worms

Despite increased security spending, the number of security breaches also increases. Plus, how Trojan applications have displaced worms and viruses as top threats—and why.

Five Tips for Securing VoIP

Thanks to immature standards, competing protocols, and nascent products, keeping VoIP secure isn’t easy. Here’s where to start.

Distributed Computing, Specialty Engines Bring Companies Back to the Mainframe

The cost of distributed complexity—which is also measured in air conditioned BTUs and kilowatts per hour—is about to get even more expensive