The repercussions of recent major corporate frauds such as the Enron and WorldCom scandals have given rise to an increasing number of new governance laws and regulations. These include Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), Basel II, Data Protection Act and International Accounting Standards...

IDC estimates that there are currently 900 million consumers globally under the age of 16 using Web 2.0 products, accounting for a third of the online population. Over 80 percent of the 900 million young Web 2.0 consumers come from India and China...

CTOs and IT managers face the daily stress of having to deliver reliable services while reducing overall cost. Clearly, the natural tension between the dual goals of higher efficiency and lower cost is difficult to resolve using conventional approaches. This is where virtualization can lend a helping hand...

Mashups comes into picture when there is a demand in today’s global environment, a web site that should have the power of drawing upon content and functionality retrieved from external data sources with no organizational boundaries...

The benefits of virtual environments are beginning to be realized. Companies intent on cashing in on the advantages of virtualization technologies are eager to reduce the financial and physical footprint associated with racks of computers.

Introduction

Corporate Performance management (CPM) provides a blend of technology and processes that enable enterprises to plan, monitor, measure and manage performance so they can better align execution with corporate strategies. This is a crucial objective for every business especially during times of slower growth and lower profitability, frequent mergers and acquisitions, global competition, and greater scrutiny of accounting practices. Companies in every industry are seeking ways to get a clear, accurate view of operational performance. Essentially, they need an effective, reliable approach to connect operational performance to financial results.

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) provides the design framework to integrate siloed applications so that their functionality can be accessed as services on a network. Most commonly implemented through standards-based, technology-neutral Web Services, SOA breaks down monolithic applications into a suite of services, implementing functionality in a modular fashion. The article also throws light on how SOA allows the creation of services and composite applications that exist independent of the underlying technologies.

After spending nearly USD 20 billion over the past three years to acquire more than 25 software companies, Oracle's Chief Executive Larry Ellison is still hungry for more. After a quarter's gap of silence on acquisitions, the Redwood Shores company added performance management software solutions company Hyperion to its shopping bag 2007. The Hyperion acquisition is a sign of the consolidation wave in the Business Intelligence (BI) software market.

With organizations running many disparate systems – including Windows servers, UNIX servers, AS/400 systems, and IBM-compatible mainframes – the issue of interoperability has become increasingly important. As a result, businesses in Asia continue to rank the integration of diverse applications and the automation of business processes among their most pressing IT needs...

It is virtually impossible to avoid the hype surrounding Virtualisation. It is perceived as the hottest theme of IT at the present moment which seemed to have reached a crescendo in 2006. The “V” word has been thrown around a lot in recent times. IT vendors have been promoting it as a type of silver-bullet to solve many pressing IT problems. Is server sprawl a problem? Virtualize! Storage issues? Virtualize! Want to streamline network management? Virtualize! Know how to smooth software testing and deployment?

Lately, a variety of PowerBuilder customers have been asking whether or not they should stay with PowerBuilder or go to .NET. This really isn’t a valid question because PowerBuilder and .NET are not mutually exclusive...

In today’s heterogeneous IT marketplace, “interoperability” can be defined as the ability of diverse IT applications or systems to exchange and use information. This is increasingly required of industry and governments alike. IT users of all types continue to demand interoperability, in order to reduce costs and complexity, and they are increasingly deploying the best products from multiple vendors to meet their IT needs...

The effective use of IT to address changing business requirements are central to any company’s ability to compete, and this holds especially true in the banking industry today. With the advent of new technologies and the use of the Internet to achieve tighter integration with customers, financial institutions can bank on the potential of IT to enjoy high returns on investment...

The evolution of IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) is looking to change the face of telecommunications and carriers are seeing the need to break out of their legacy infrastructures and the necessity to partner with IT companies to enable the proper implementation of IMS standards to meet the demands of the consumers.

This article will show you how to use techniques for visibility and verification to do most things – setting up processes and systems, doing QA and acceptance testing, and requirements gathering.

The geographically dispersed nature of Asian software development means that collaboration and integration tools are vitally important. This is why where ALM tools come into play—making software easy to use and accessible to a wider pool of people, by reducing the complexity and taking the mystery out of delivering large projects.

Once a server has been compromised, it can be used as a launch pad for additional attacks on other servers. To reduce the risks from such attacks, we need additional protection mechanisms, which will complement the existing one’s (like firewall) already in place...

In particular, web services are providing a way to "front-end" legacy applications, as well as allowing applications developed for competing platforms such as Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) and .NET to talk to each other...

If you have ever used tools for software engineering, you must be very familiar with three most popular players in this space – IBM, Borland and IDS Scheer AG, who have released Rational Rose, Together and ARIS, respectively...

Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) is a mature middle tier technology that has become the norm for building production quality enterprise applications. Scalability, reliability, extensibility, security, etc. are few main operating qualities which give J2EE its edge over competing platforms...