Robert Frances Group has declared in a recent report that, "IT executives should consider the value of the 20-year advantage that mainframes have over other platforms." The report notes that IBM's continued investment in the mainframe "will ensure technology superiority...

Service Oriented Architectures (SOA), is not a product or a technology. Instead, it is an approach, or rather a style of architecture that uses the service model to enable integration across diverse systems, encapsulating the idiosyncrasies of diverse and often proprietary platforms, technologies and protocols....

Intel has described the technical challenges that need to be addressed if computing, from personal devices to giant data centres, is to keep up with increasing demand by consumers and businesses for Internet-based software, services and media-rich...

Interwoven, a provider of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions for business has expanded its five-year partnership with BEA Systems; to co-market a solution designed to enable organisations to more effectively take advantage...

Microsoft has announced a new initiative that open source developers hope will go a long way towards making life easier for all of them working together on the identity cross-industry. It’s called the Open Specification Promise (OSP). The goal was to find the simplest...

Shai Agassi, SAP AG’s president of the Product and Technology Group and executive board member provided a checklist comprised of four calls to action to prepare for the coming enterprise SOA evolution, solidify...

Of all the information a company needs to secure, none is more important than the Intellectual Property (IP)—the written knowledge, information, and know-how a company possesses—used to drive the product innovation engine. The fact is companies...

Companies are beginning to reap the fruits of their investments in Business Process Management (BPM) technology by growing revenue, keeping closer tabs on competitors, and sharing lessons learned to drive more constant improvement, according to the results of a new Aberdeen Group survey…

Spending growth on supply chain management (SCM) software solutions will more than double this year, from 3 percent in 2005 to 7 percent this year, according to an AMR Research report. SAP has emerged as the top SCM vendor in terms of revenue...

The worldwide market opportunity for SOA is touted to touch reach USD 143 billion and companies can save up to USD 53 billion in IT spending over the next five years by implementing a SOA. Asia smacks of an overall lack of awareness of SOA, however. A survey of CIOs and IT Decision Makers in...

Customer experience has long been an issue for companies, but in the past, customer interactions were simpler with fewer channels to interface with their customers, not as much diversity within these customer groups, and usually less demands...

Researcher Gartner has identified AJAX, mashups, location-aware software and sensor mesh networking as the key emrging technologies that will have the greatest impact on business over the next 10 years...

An alliance of software vendors has announced progress on specifications to define a language-neutral programming model for application development within service-oriented architecture environments. The vendors have been working...

The awareness of Service-oriented Architecture (SOA) benefit as an IT enabler is now extensive. There is a growing and widespread acceptance of SOA technology, especially in large...

Virtualisation, which had its inception in the late 90’s, has proved itself in pilots and test, and is now readily adopted by IT professional. They are embracing server virtualisation as an effective business enabler. With its introduction the complex data center...

Semiconductor maker Intel Corp. has launched its latest microprocessor for server computers. The dual-core Intel Xeon Processor 5100 series, previously codenamed ‘woodcrest’ is designed for the high-volume server, workstation, communications, storage and embedded market segments...

IT virtualization continues to grow at significant growth rate and spending on it is expected to reach USD 15 billion by 2009 (according to IDC). To take advantage of this growth of virtualization and the high rate deployment of Oracle databases on its integrity servers Hewlett-Packard has announced an extension of its Virtual Server...

The benefits and the advantages offered by Service-oriented Architecture (SOA) over traditional methods have drawn interests of many firms. Companies will significantly increase investments in service oriented architecture (SOA)-based services throughout the rest of 2006...

Jeff Raikes, president of the Microsoft Business Division, today unveiled the company’s vision, technology road map and partner framework for unified communications at a strategy event in San Francisco. Microsoft Corp.’s approach to unified communications will break down today’s silos of e-mail, instant messaging, mobile and voice...

Microsoft showcased the community technology preview (CTP) of a new Windows-based environment to create robotic applications for a wide variety of computing platforms, at the RoboBusiness Conference and Exposition 2006 in Pittsburgh. The new environment Microsoft expects will provide thrust for academic, hobbyist and commercial...