Former IBM and ACS Executive Joins Platform Solutions, Inc. To Drive Sales Growth and Expand Market for Open Mainframe Servers
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Platform Solutions, Inc. (PSI), the first developer of a new generation of Open Mainframe(TM) Servers, today announced Michael O'Hara, a 30-year IBM veteran, has joined the company as Executive Vice President of Sales.  Mr.
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IBM said Monday that it is partnering with ACI Worldwide, an electronic payment software vendor, to create a payments system based on service oriented architecture (SOA) principles.ACI&#39;s software will be combined with IBM&#39;s System z mainframe, DB2 database, WebSphere middleware, Tivoli IT management software and Crypto-chip technology, according to an IBM statement. ACI also intends to host its software in IBM&#39;s data centers, for customers who desire an on-demand payments system.IBM said the combination of ACI&#39;s technology and its own will result in an SOA foundation that allows payment information to be shared throughout enterprises, many of which see a tangle of legacy systems strewn across their IT environments.The partnership will first result in a version of ACI&#39;s BASE24-eps online payments software optimized for System z; a wholesale payments product aimed at the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA), and real-time fraud detection technology. Later, the companies will focus on smart card management, dispute management, online banking and a payment hub implementing IBM&#39;s Payments Framework, they said.ACI&#39;s customers include more than 110 of the world&#39;s top 500 banks, according to IBM.
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At a time of dramatic consolidation in the enterprise BI (business intelligence) market, MicroStrategy sees great opportunities as an independent vendor, the company&#39;s chairman, president and CEO Michael Saylor said Wednesday.Unlike competitors that become part of larger IT vendors, MicroStrategy retains the freedom and flexibility to support a broad variety of third-party products without having to weigh the competitive considerations of a parent company, Saylor said.&quot;Our view is to be Switzerland in this business and to make sure we protect your investment when we give you the ability to tap into lots of different vendors and technology architectures to achieve your goal,&quot; Saylor said during a keynote speech at the company&#39;s MicroStrategy World 2008 event in Miami.For example, it&#39;s natural for Business Objects to prioritize making its products work better with the applications of its&#160;new parent company SAP&#160;-- a $6.7 billion deal -- while Cognos will do likewise once its $5 billion&#160;acquisition by IBM&#160;is completed, he said. The same story will play out with Hyperion, recently&#160;acquired by Oracle&#160;for $3.3 billion.Even as Saylor was giving his speech, it appeared that the enterprise software market would be further consolidated, with Wednesday morning news announcements that&#160;BEA has agreed to be acquired by Oracle&#160;for $8.5 billion, and that&#160;Sun Microsystems would buy MySQL&#160;for $1 billion.By contrast, MicroStrategy can continue to chart its own course for supporting a wide variety of complementary, third-party products, such as Web browsers, operating systems, processors, databases and application servers, based on the needs of its customers and on market dynamics, Saylor said.&quot;The market needs a vendor that provides the flexibility we can provide,&quot; Saylor said.Another benefit from the latest round of consolidation is that it lowers the noise in a market that 12 years ago was very crowded with over 60 BI vendors competing for attention. This makes it easier for MicroStrategy, founded in 1989, to get its message out to potential customers.This year, MicroStrategy will focus on a number of technology and business priorities, including strengthening its BI products so that they can effectively analyze even larger data sets -- whether they be in data warehouses, data marts or transactional databases -- resolve queries faster, generate higher volumes of more interactive and sophisticated reports and support increasing numbers of users, he said.MicroStrategy will also continue to improve the performance for global and decentralized deployments of its systems, while striving to continually simplify and enhance its front-end software.The vendor will also improve its software&#39;s support for mobile devices, and make &quot;profound investments&quot; in global services, in order to beef up its partner roster of qualified MicroStrategy consultants and practitioners worldwide, he said. MicroStrategy also plans to increase the amount of end-user training and education it offers globally.While those are some of the priorities for 2008, MicroStrategy has drafted long-term goals, looking out 10 year and 20 years, which it plans to continue pursuing as an independent company, he said. &quot;We just keep plugging away, like the Little Engine that Could,&quot; Saylor said.
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The once-troubled software company is putting in place the ingredients for growth.
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Hoping to both bolster resources available to its network of business partners as well as expand its number of partners, IBM on Tuesday introduced services and support programs that boost financial support for co-marketing campaigns and grant deeper access to IBMâs sales network to close deals faster.ADVERTISEMENTSBC Case Study: Crate & BarrelWhat sold them on improving their network? A system that could cut management costs from the get-go. Find out more.
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CEO says demand for automated support and service drives addition to customer resource management products.
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Calling it their most significant release in the last four or five years, IBM's Rational Software on Wednesday formally rolled out its Rational Software Platform, code-named Atlantic, intended to better unify software development across IBM's line of server software.
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IBM chief executive Samuel J. Palmisano has never been your typical suit. During his 31-year career at Big Blue, he has taken bold actions and broken with IBM (IBM ) tradition when it made strategic sense.
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Company looks to juice its application server business with a version tuned for smaller organizations.
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IBM has released a series of SOA products for integrating software applications and improving business processes, and said more customers now understand the SOA concept.
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IBM shored up commitment to its mainframe computing platform Thursday with a series of new technologies, investments in emerging markets, new industry-focused solutions, and new partnerships.
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CAMPBELL, Calif., Sept. 14  /PRNewswire/ -- Groupware Technology, Inc., a rapidly growing Bay Area information technology solution provider, announced that it has become a member of the AMD  Commercial Systems Channel Program.
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I admire PeopleSoft&#39;s (Nasdaq: PSFT) fight. Tuesday, the business software maker announced a broad partnership with IBM (NYSE: IBM) in which Big Blue&#39;s popular WebSphere middleware
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The software vendor rides Apple's growth.
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InfoWorld - IBM Corp. is releasing more software to make it easier to program, manage and administer its mainframes in an ongoing bid to attract more customers to purchase its big iron hardware instead of high-end servers.
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(InfoWorld) - On Tuesday, Unisys plans to announce an expansion of its relationship with Oracle to move mainframe and Unix deployments over to Linux and SOA. Unisys and Oracle have partnered before, but the new arrangement features joint engineering, sales, and marketing activities to boost system migrations. Featured in the expanded arrangement are specific blueprints that demonstrate how to redeploy applications. For example, the companies have been building a blueprint, or "proof point," on moving from an IBM CICS environment onto Linux running Oracle Fusion middleware and the Oracle 10g database on Unisys ES 7000/one Enterprise Servers. These servers are powered by Intel-based multi-core processors. Also in this particular mix would be Micro Focus MTO (mainframe transaction option) software for CICS compatibility. The blueprints are horizontal and not industry-specific. Critical to the arrangement is use of the Unisys 3D-VE (3D Visible Enterprise) methodology, which features a knowledge-mining and abstraction service. Through the extraction of business rules and policies, users gain a better understanding of their applications. "One of the key areas that's different about our approach compared to some of the others is our story is not just advocating moving the applications over from one platform to another. What we've seen from customers is a desire to understand what the applications do in the first place," said Ali Shadman, Unisys vice president and general manager of open-source solutions, systems, and technology. Through 3D-VE, users can see the impacts of applications changes at the technology and business layers more clearly, Shadman said. The bulk of Unisys's alliance with Oracle will be geared toward moving z/OS and MVS mainframes over Linux. But the company has seen instances of users moving over very large Unix systems, said Shadman. Unisys can move over applications without rewriting code in some instances. Code conversions can be done manually or automatically. There are tools, for example, to convert over Addabas code. Other Oracle products featured in the alliance with Unisys include Oracle applications and the Oracle Enterprise Manager tool for application management as well as Oracle On-Demand outsourcing services.
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More process IBM has announced its Rational Software Delivery Platform 7.0 for desktops, to help developers design and deliver service oriented architectures (SOAs).â¦