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How to Be Ready for Big Data

Big Data is coming, but for most organizations it's three-to-five years away. That doesn't mean you shouldn't prepare now. Analyzing Big Data will require reference information like that provided by a semantic data model. And once you mine the data, you need to secure it.

Can Your Apps Handle an 1,800 Percent Spike in Traffic?

Business customers and users are demanding ever-better performance from websites and applications. However, the majority of CIOs are uncertain they can meet those expectations. Next-generation application performance management (APM) tools can provide the visibility necessary to proactively identify bottlenecks and performance issues before they affect users.

HTML5 Raises New Security Issues

As HTML5 enhances the Web, so too will it bring new vulnerabilities, security experts warn

Is Software AG a Good Fit for SAP?

Some tech industry rumors have an extra-long life, and the one about SAP buying middleware vendor Software AG got an extension this week following public comments by top leaders of both companies.

Cisco Systems' New Client/Server Messaging Protocol Announced

Are your developers using SOAP, CORBA or EJBs? You might want to take a look at Etch. It's language-, platform- and transport-agnostic, and Cisco is planning to release it as open source.

Office Open XML Standardization to Drag into Next Year

The long and contentious battle to standardize Office Open XML won't end this weekend when ISO member countries cast votes, but is likely headed for a special meeting where specific questions regarding the 6,000-page specification will need to be resolved.

CRM Growing, Partially Due to Demand for Software as a Service

AMR Research predicts customer data integration and data quality will be the two big initiatives seeing the heaviest investment in the coming years. The study also reports an increase in inquiries about mobile technology and CRM integration.

Iona Adds Repository Tool for SOAs

Iona Technologies is broadening its suite of Artix infrastructure software with a new tool announced Monday for managing software services in a service-oriented architecture (SOA) environment.Called Artix Registry/Repository 1.0, the tool acts as a catalog that lists the software services available to developers in a company, including information about who can use the services and how they should be deployed, said ...

IT Vendors Ready to Submit SOA Specs to Oasis

A group of 18 software vendors made good on its previous commitment to hand over service-oriented architecture (SOA) specifications to standards bodies once those specifications, designed to make it easier for users to develop SOA-based applications, reach maturity.

Software AG Cements Focus on SOA

As part of a new market strategy aimed at growth markets, business software vendor Software AG will focus on service-oriented architecture (SOA) products and services, and plans acquisitions to broaden its product portfolio and market share, company executives announced at a news conference Wednesday.The Darmstadt, Germany, software maker, which used to tag itself The XML Company, sees its future in ...

 
This IDC study uses the IDC MarketScape model to assess the capabilities of vendors to support midrange to complex process improvement scenarios using business process management software.
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With this white paper, Oracle SOA vs. IBM SOA, you'll get a healthy perspective on SOA and figure out which one is best for your organization.
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Learn why a mobile development platform is critical to be able to support today's complex enterprise mobility strategies. Learn what to look for in a mobile development platform and how apply these tools whether you're developing a dedicated app for one device or multiple apps running across multiple devices.
Learn how developers are using HTML5 and native development methods to build mobile apps. Get practical insights on how these tools are being used, what's driving their usage, and how to choose the best development approach for your business.
Date: Tuesday, June 5, 2012, 2:00 PM EDT

Whether your B2B complexity is caused by multiple technologies due to M&A, business or application specific needs or traditional under investment, the net effect is usually the same: high cost and lower productivity. Enabling business-to-business (B2B) integration using point-to-point EDI translators is usually time intensive and cost prohibitive.

Join IDC's Maureen Fleming and SAP for an insightful Webcast on the different approaches companies are taking to B2B integration and how you can ask the right questions to reassess you B2B approach.
Date: Wednesday, June 20, 2012, 1:00 PM EDT

Siloed organizations continue doing the wrong things and doing things wrong, leading to increased costs, project delays, lower quality, and time-to-market delays. Providing a collaborative platform where the whole organization can prioritize, share and manage deliveries with more transparency can help the organizations make more informed decisions at all levels, and greatly improve communications and traceability between teams. Hear from application lifecycle management experts how to increase delivery efficiency and effectiveness with a new approach to Delivery Management.
Date/Time: June 5, 2012, 11:00 a.m., EDT, 4:00 p.m. BST / 3:00 p.m. UTC

Please join us for this webcast, as Dr. Barry Devlin, Founder and Principal, 9sight Consulting, describes what operational analytics can do for your business and reviews an architectural approach that will enable you to make it a reality.
With BMC Control-M, you schedule and manage everything - down to the very last platform and application - from one simple interface. It's the foundation of workload automation, really - the ability to run application and business processes as one. Siloed job schedulers can't do it. BMC Control-M can.
Sun Chemical, the world's largest producer of printing inks and pigments, quadrupled its complex batch environment with zero extra headcount using BMC Control-M's Automated File Transfer features.
Learn how IT teams can protect against spear phishing tactics. Harry Sverdlove, chief technology officer of Bit9 offers a frank discussion about spear phishing - the most common technique used in today's advanced attacks. Learn how spear phishing works and three recommendations for IT to protect against modern threats.
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