Software


Informatica, Salesforce.com Plight Their Troth

It’s a big win for Informatica and an important milestone in the SaaS-ification of its data integration stack.

Data Visualization Specialists Out in Front

Pure players Spotfire and Tableau have quite a head start on what Microsoft and others currently bring to the table visualization-wise.

Here at Last: Oracle Delivers Long-Awaited ETL Overhaul

Oracle positions OWB R2 as a full-blown competitor to enterprise ETL solutions from IBM, Informatica, and SAS Institute.

Q&A: Automating Security Controls for Compliance

Can companies use built-in ERP capabilities to better automate their IT controls?

BMC, CA Tackle Mainframe Change in the Age of Compliance

Mainframe change management in an age of compliance is a very different beast



Case Study: Software Lifecycle Management Tools Get a Handle on Change

Rapid growth pushes software firm to a more mature development process

Case Study: SUNY-Buffalo Health Science Schools Aim for Network-Admission Controls

The challenge: securing an infrastructure you don’t control

Building Storage Part I: A Device-Driver Approach

Addressing the difficulties of both horizontal and vertical scalability has seen the rise of clustering techniques—but the question is where the brains for the cluster should reside.

Backup/Recovery Strategies: Moving to Recovery Management(Last in a 3-part Series)

IT must shift from developing backup strategies to developing reliable, easy-to-use recovery practices to ensure that data, applications, and operating systems can be recovered in a consistent format.

Podcast: Best Practices for Personal-Use Storage Policies

Setting a storage usage policy can be tricky

Companies Stingy About IT Spending, Gartner Reports

If there’s an economic recovery afoot, IT budgets haven’t benefited

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.