US State Government Agency Chooses Software AG's Event Replicator for Adabas
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DARMSTADT, Germany, June 18  /PRNewswire/ -- Software AG, a global leader in business infrastructure software, today announced that the Washington State Department of Information Systems has chosen Software AG's Event Replicator for Adabas in support of the Labor and Industries agency (L&I).
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(InfoWorld) - Software AG will adopt the webMethods name for its Crossvision range of SOA (services oriented architecture) products, executives said Friday, outlining how they will integrate staff and products following the company'sÂ acquisition of webMethods. To eliminate one of the few overlaps in their product lines, Software AG will adopt webMethods' BPM (business process management) offering, and stop selling Fujitsu's Interstage BPM software, which it has distributed since December 2004. However, Software AG will support its existing Interstage customers for at least five years, said Peter KÃ¼rpick, board member responsible for research and development. Another area of overlap is in SOA management and governance, where KÃ¼rpick expects to see Software AG's CentraSite SOA registry and repository combined with webMethods' recently acquired Infravio SOA governance tools by the end of the year. "We are strong in managing metadata, and they are strong in governance policies, rules and regulations," he said. The combined product will likely retain the CentraSite name, he said. All other areas of the companies' product lines are complementary, and there will be no need for customers to migrate, KÃ¼rpick said. KÃ¼rpick will lead the integration of the companies' product development teams, where he expects managers from both companies will take senior roles. It won't be like a classic merger where "you own the body but the head and legs are gone," he said. He sees little need for layoffs as the product development teams are combined: "We already have an R&D force that is 50 percent low-cost, mostly in India, some in Bulgaria, so we already have a good cost structure," he said. Although there may be little scope for payroll savings, CEO Karl-Heinz Streibich expects earnings to improve this year as the two sales forces -- which will remain separate at least through the end of 2007 -- exploit opportunities to cross-sell the two product ranges. The combined entity's revenue will grow organically by 10 percent over the next 12 to 15 months, he said.
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InfoWorld - AmberPoint on Monday is extending its AmberPoint SOA runtime governance suite to Tibco's new ActiveMatrix SOA platform and more application servers.
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The company's upcoming Diamond application deployment platform is designed for service-oriented architecture and its major component, code-named QuickSilver, will act as a Web services hub, introducing Web services management capabilities and full support for Web services protocols, such as WS-ReliableMessaging.
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IBM said Wednesday it is expanding its broad SOA (service-oriented architecture) portfolio with the acquisition of AptSoft, a maker of business event processing software.AptSoft&#39;s products will sit in IBM&#39;s WebSphere line. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.Also known as complex event processing (CEP), business event processing is seen as a key technology driver for the next generation of SOA. The software analyzes vast amounts of system events in real time, searching for trends and anomalies -- &quot;complex events&quot; -- that may impact the business, and triggers a response process if one is found.For example, the technology could be used by an online gaming site to spot malfeasance among the torrent of transactions that occur each second, or by a trading firm to track minute changes in stock price activity among various markets, IBM said in a statement.IBM executives are planning to reveal more about the acquisition during a conference call Wednesday at 1:15 p.m. Eastern Time.Other companies in the CEP/BEP market include Tibco and Streanbase.
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Software AG plans to unveil details of Version 7.1 of the webMethods business process management suite on Wednesday, along with a new enterprise service bus (ESB) and a supply chain performance optimization tool.
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The Universal Home Application Programmer Interface Forum is working on a specification for analog and digital television designed to enable the creation of middleware and application software
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(InfoWorld) - Adobe Systems plans to launch the beta of a new runtime later this month that will allow rich Web-based applications to run offline, technology that could threaten the popularity of programming platforms such as Java and Microsoft's .NET. The release of a developer preview of the runtime, dubbed Apollo, will coincide roughly with an ApolloCamp event Adobe will hold in San Francisco on March 16, according to sources familiar with the company's plans. ApolloCamp will give developers a chance to kick the tires of the new runtime. Apollo delivers on the promise of technology Macromedia originally introduced in 2003 called Macromedia Central.Â Adobe purchased Macromedia in December 2005. Macromedia Central was an environment that allowed Flash-based applications to run offline so they didn't need to make continuous calls to servers on the back end, allowing them to run more quickly and efficiently. "Macromedia Central was an early [version] of Apollo," said Pam Deziel, director of theÂ Platform Business Unit for Adobe. Apollo will allow developers to take applications built not only in Flash, but also in HTML, AJAX, and other Web development languages and create them to run locally on a user's desktop, she said. According to Sean Christmann, senior developer at EffectiveUI -- a Denver-based company that has had an early look at Apollo -- the technology acts as a wrapper, which makes it easy to take code from an existing Web application, wrap it in Apollo, and transfer it to the desktop. The key to making this transfer is Adobe's Flex Builder tool, which developers can use to wrap their code with the technology, Christmann said. The Apollo runtime must be installed on the desktop or embedded directly in the application to enable it to run locally, similar to how the Flash player runs Flash applications in the browser, Deziel said. Apollo will be available for free to both users and developers. Anthony Franco, founder and managing partner of EffectiveUI, said Adobe plans to use Apollo to promote revenue-generating products, such as Flex Builder and Flex Data Services, which connects the Flex application framework to back-end data and business intelligence. It also could lure developers away from Java and languages used to develop .NET applications on Windows, Christmann said. "A lot of users start learning programming online, and now they don't have to learn a new language when they want to go to the desktop," he said. Though Apollo is not available for public release yet, EffectiveUI has used it to build a desktop application for eBay so its auction site can run on the desktop without being connected to the Internet or accessed through a browser, Christmann said. EBay will not confirm or deny the existence of the application. There are several benefits for companies with popular Web sites to also have a desktop version that can run in Apollo, Christmann said. It allows companies to interact directly with their users without having to access a browser, and it also takes a load off of their back-end servers if users can access their applications offline. Users benefit from running applications on Apollo, too, he said. If they want to put new products up for an eBay auction, for instance, they can type all of the information about the items and post photos of them while they are offline, then access the Internet later and have that information automatically uploaded to the site, Christmann said. Franco said Adobe plans to release a final version of Apollo in the third quarter, and eBay likely will go live with its desktop application then. Adobe's Deziel would only say that the company plans to release Apollo in the second half of the year.
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Business software maker's backing of event comes as company faces continued scrutiny over its security practices.
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Accela, Inc., the leading provider of government enterprise management software solutions, announced the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (TRPA) has selected Accela Automation(R) as the agency's new permit and land management solution.
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ActiveMatrix reloaded Tibco last week announced the general availability of TIBCO ActiveMatrix for service-oriented architectures (SOA). This is the industry's first âservice virtualization platformâ for the deployment and governance of composite applications based on distributed, standards-based services".â¦
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(InfoWorld) - Itâs virtualization to the rescue again -- this time with large-scale SOA deployments. Tibco Software on Monday launched Tibco ActiveMatrix, a service virtualization platform to help enterprises deal with SOA as deployments grow larger. The new platform includes a service grid, policy management software, and a UDDI-based registry, derived from Tibcoâs Project Matrix initiative. âWith SOA, the challenges that companies are facing are really around the deployment, management, and ultimately the virtualization of services,â Matthew Quinn, vice president of product strategy at Tibco, said. âIf you have two services, you know where those services are and what platform theyâre built on. If you have 500 to 1,000 services, you lose a lot of that control.â ActiveMatrix provides foundation technology for deploying an SOA. Virtualization enables communication with vast numbers of services without having to know what machine they exist on or what type of software container they use. Governance is enhanced because service and policy configuration and management are done centrally for each application server, enterprise service bus or orchestration engine, Tibco said. A centerpiece of the rollout is Tibco ActiveMatrix Service Grid. It serves as a distributed platform for deployment and managing Java, .Net and other services as composite applications. ActiveMatrix provides an integrated vision for application and integration platforms, builds in virtualization layers and addresses composite application programming, said analyst Randy Heffner of Forrester Research. The product also makes the protocols used in an SOA transparent, Heffner said. The three products are available now. Prices for a single product start at about $40,000. Tibco plans to expand its ActiveMatrix product line next year, though company officials declined to provide specifics.ADVERTISEMENTNEW IT SERVICES FROM IBM: EASIER TO BUY AND IMPLEMENTDiscover a simpler, more cost-effective way to get the solutions your company needs to grow more flexible and efficient.
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(InfoWorld) - SAP's planned suite of hosted midmarket applications will be available in select markets later this year. The company will offer more details on pricing and functionality after the Cebit trade show in March, according to CEO Henning Kagermann. Kagermann spoke about the new hosted product, known internally as A1S, with reporters at the company's headquarters in Walldorf, Germany. A1S will target midmarket customers who seek an inexpensive, easy-to-deploy, low-risk suite of business applications including ERP (enterprise resource planning) and CRM (customer relationship management). The on-demand product will be available as a monthly subscription, giving smaller, cost-sensitive companies the flexibility to test the service and drop it if they don't like it. The new offering comes asÂ SAP moves to capture a larger shareÂ of the huge but cost-sensitive segment for midmarket companies that are showing interest in hosted business applications such as those offered by Salesforce.com. Kagermann referred to A1S as an "entirely new product" that will not be a hosted version of the company's All-in-One product. All-in-One is a slimmed down version of mySAP Business Suite, which is designed for large enterprises. The hosted offering will be a highly preconfigured, "off-the-shelf" product that gives companies a range of applications with limited flexibility to tweak their functionality, he said. "To drive the price down, the product must be highly standardized," Kagermann said. The need to offer a set of standardized functions, he said, also means "less choice" of options to customize the product, he added. By narrowly limiting product customization and thus complexity, SAP and its partners will be able to deploy the offering much faster, Kagermann said. Fewer consultants will be necessary, resulting in lower costs. SAP aims to squeeze the new hosted offering between two of its existing products targeting small and medium-size businesses (SMBs): All-in-One and Business One. As part of the company's assault on the global SMB market, A1S will target businesses with between 100 and 1,000 employees, while All-in-One will focus on companies with between 1,000 and 2,500 employees and Business One between 10 and 100. The rollout of the new hosted service will not steal customers from Business One, an inexpensive offering that is also highly preconfigured, Kagermann said. On the contrary, "we expect more than 50,000 of our targeted customer base of 100,000 by 2010 to be Business One customers," he said. For customers that want more functions and greater flexibility to customize the software, All-in-One is the preferred product, Kagermann said. SAP currently has 39,000 customers. Kagermann expects demand for the hosted service to be strongest in the U.S., which is "ahead of Europe" in takeup of on-demand services. Pricing of the service will be highly transparent, he said, but declined to provide details. Nor would he divulge the name of the new service. "We are currently in talks with customers and partners on numerous issues, including pricing and functionality," Kagermann said. "It's too early to talk details just yet."
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(InfoWorld) - Two U.S. government agencies are embracing performance-engineering processes and application testing throughout the development cycle as a way to avoid costly fixes after deployment, officials there said Wednesday. Representatives of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) said they've deployed performance-engineering software in recent years, and it has helped cut down on problems after development. "If you catch an error in development, the cost is the cost," said John Chambliss, manager of the IRS WAN management team. "Once you get to [operations and maintenance], it's about 100 times the cost." For the past two years, the IRS has used application performance management software from Opnet Technologies in Maryland to fix problems in the development of its portals that allow Web-based tax filings, Chambliss said at Opnet's annual conference in Washington, D.C. If electronic filing doesn't work, the IRS has major problems, he said. The IRS uses Opnet's software on in-house development and also encourages outside developers to use it, Chambliss said. The IRS has run into several IT problems in recent years. In 2006, the agency paid out more than $381 million in improper tax returns because of problems with a new Web-based version of software that detected fraudulent returns. Carolyn Aragon, enterprise operations center manager for the Forest Service, said her agency has been using Opnet application performance management software for about eight months. The agency has used the software to help with the development of two applications, including one that allows vendors to create invoices for firefighting services, she said. Chambliss and Aragon, along with representatives of Opnet and three private customers, participated in a forum on successful implementations of application performance management software. One of the major advantages of application performance management is testing how changes to software will affect how they run, added Peco Karayanev, senior systems engineer at National Instruments, an engineering design testing vendor. Application performance management helps the company roll out changes "without completely destroying the service we're providing customers," he said. It's sometimes difficult to get developers to buy into application management, added Farid Dana, director of Dell's global operations for telecommunication networks. "You don't tell them it's [application management]," he said. "You tell them its application enhancement. Then, they're receptive." While the forum participants sung the praises of application performance management, many organizations are still looking at the technology. "We're at that stage in the adoption curve where it's getting out there," said Alain Cohen, Opnet's president and CTO. In many cases, an organization needs to run into serious problems with application development before they see a need, Chambliss said. Cohen agreed. One large company used "war rooms" during their application development, he said. Instead of a typical war room, where an organization would map out a strategy, this company's war rooms were places where employees would argue about who's to blame for an application's failure, he said. Application performance management can pinpoint problems in development and "the 'blamestorming' can stop," he said. "Some organizations need to get burned before they say, 'Okay, maybe we need to go back and call Opnet.'"
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NEW YORK, Feb. 14  /PRNewswire/ -- GridApp Systems, Inc. (http://www.gridapp.com/), the leading provider of database automation software and solutions, today announced that it will host a Webinar on Tuesday, February 27th at 1 p.m. ET (10 a.m.
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The group, StopBadware.org, said AOLÂs free client software displayed characteristics consistent with Âbadware.Â
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Alchemi is a software framework that allows you to painlessly aggregate the computing power of networked machines into a virtual supercomputer (computational grid) and to develop applications to run on enterprise grids.      We are pleased to announce the release of version 1.0.6. The major changes since 1.0.5 are a LUA (Least Privileged User Account) operation for both Manager, Executor in normal and service mode and an option for executing user's GThreads in a secure sandbox (experimental)  Please note that this is a developer release intended for enthusiasts and early adopters as documentation is not up to date.     Go here for downloading the files in this release:     http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=66729&package_id=186776&release_id=456163