October 2006 Archives

Today we're going to look at a quick way to implement - and to interactively manage - business activity monitoring. Last month, the Ultimus Corp. announced the Ultimus iBAM Suite, which has two pretty notable features: It enables business owners... Read More..

Gartner's Research VP for Information Security and Privacy Ray Wagner doesn’t mince words when it comes to the current state of identity and access management. It is “an undocumented morass that doesn’t work well and is not very auditable.� It... Read More..

Developers looking for help maintaining performance and availability and security of complex Web applications may want to give DejaClick a look. The program - available as a Firefox extension - was released by AlertSite on October 16. "The marketplace in... Read More..

Most current BI and BPM tools can only analyze 20% of current data pertaining to the enterprise. Analyzing unstructured data like chat and blog postings is becoming a popular way to provide better insights for better business decisions and processes.... Read More..

TIBCO on October 16th released Collaborative Information Manager (CIM) 6.0, a central Master Data Management (MDM) repository that aligns data so that business services and composite applications within an SOA have accurate, consistent and timely information. "The challenge in master... Read More..

Here's some news for companies building an SOA - there's a new approach to coordinating business and IT groups and ensuring a higher level of quality, change, and build management to deliver services. Dave Schwartz, General Manager of Mergere, joined... Read More..

Analysts estimate that over 80 percent of system unavailability is caused by incorrectly applied changes that don't conform to IT service management process and policies. This "change control gap" can have unfortunate effects. Solidcore Systems' VP of Marketing Bob Vieraitis... Read More..

Here's some news for companies seeking a model-based approach for better visibility into their SOA management and portal performance. The Ascera Corporation has just changed its name to ClearApp Inc. -- and in keeping with the new name, it has... Read More..

TIBCO today rolled out General Interface version 3.2 beta release, which features open source licensing, support for Firefox 1.5 -- and a very interesting ability to combine AJAX Rich Internet Applications into SOAs. TIBCO's director of product marketing -- and... Read More..