Talend, Microsoft align on data integration
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Open source data integration vendor Talend has been working with Microsoft to build better interoperability between Talend&#39;s Open Studio product and Microsoft&#39;s business software, Talend said Tuesday.
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A host of companies led by Microsoft (Quote, Chart) and Intel has revised and released a specification for making sure computer systems have a common way to communicate.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Data integration will be one of the major themes at Oracle's OpenWorld conference this week.Â
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Cementing a peculiar partnership among rivals, Microsoft and Novell are opening an eight-employee lab to make products interoperable.
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Microsoft (Quote, Chart) and Sun (Quote, Chart) are scheduled to talk about their platform compatibility, spokespersons with both companies said Monday.
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Open-source BI software vendor JasperSoft is set to unveil the final piece in its BI suite, JasperETL, after signing its first full-blown OEM deal with French vendor Talend. At the same time, the U.S. company will commit to complete internationalization of its entire BI suite.
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Microsoft introduced a desktop computer application that aims to seamlessly integrate e-mail, instant messaging, video conferencing, traditional phone service and Internet-based calling.
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Microsoft preached its "new world of work" mantra at the company?s Global High Tech Summit 2007 conference in San Jose, Calif. on Thursday.Noting synergy between the disciplines of business and IT, the event is intended for professionals from both realms, said Tyler Bryson, Microsoft's newly announced general manager of the U.S. Manufacturing Industry portion of the company?s Industry Solutions Organization."At Microsoft, we believe that alignment [of business and IT] is critical to innovation," Bryson said. Also featured at the event were speakers from chipmakers Intel and Freescale Semiconductor, who talked about modernizations to their systems and processes.Trends are accelerating, such as globalization and market growth that are creating a new world of work, Bryson said. Other relevant trends include the pressure to improve operation performance, quality-driven regulatory compliance, and rapid cycles of product innovation.Globalization and technology create entirely new ways that people think about work, and everyone must adjust and respond, said Bryson. "The world is transforming what it means to be at work," he said.The morning's presentations had a bent toward high-tech manufacturing. Bryson said the National Association of Manufacturers expects a 40 percent turnover in the manufacturing work base; companies must cope with transferring knowledge to employees."Most manufacturers are reporting a shortage of skilled workers," he said. A culture of innovation must be created that can attract the best talent, said Bryson.New tenets of work, according to Bryson, include creating a culture of innovation, empowering the workforce, driving operational excellence, running a customer-centric business, using compliance as a tool of transparency, and operating in a global environment.At Freescale, the company is undertaking several upgrades, including moving to a single global instance of SAP for supply chain operations. Freescale is what Janelle Monney, senior vice president of business operations at the company, described as "a 50-year-old startup" that was part of Motorola until 2004.The company also has initiatives in manufacturing and business intelligence, she noted. Freescale's business intelligence platform is intended to bring multiple data streams altogether into a single data warehouse."One of the key objectives of IT is to turn data into information for decision-making," said Monney.Also, employees can access e-mail on cell phones equipped with Windows OSes, she said.With Intel, the company is extending itself to accommodate three market opportunities: mobile Internet devices, consumer electronics, and development of low-cost PCs, said Stuart Pann, an Intel vice president and co-general manager of customer fulfillment, planning and logistics."One of our goals is how do we configure the supply chain to take advantage of these new opportunities," Pann said.Intel is running a new manufacturing process on Intel systems and Microsoft operating systems at its high-volume plant in Arizona, Pann said. "That is virtually run on Intel architecture and on Microsoft operating systems, so we've made the transition over the years, and we've found that the combination of these two products is more than robust enough to run $3.5 billion factories," said Pann.Among other improvements, the company is developing a new workspace that is a fundamental change to the company's cubicle culture, he said. Phone booths will be created, more privacy options will be offered, and the company will get rid of underutilized office space, said Pann.Also, author and consultant Geoffrey Moore, managing director of TCG Advisors, lectured on the challenges of finding a competitive advantage and innovation in a marketplace that faces frequent commoditization."You must innovate in order to continue to sustain advantage," Moore said.Differentiation also is important, he said. Apple with its iPod has customers acknowledging it is different, he said. But past differentiation can erode so that a company?s core competency is no longer core, he said."Our friends at Dell are dealing with that right now," with the industry catching up and Dell having to reinvent itself, said Moore.Microsoft officials briefly noted the company's new unified communications platform, which features Office Communications Server and provides such capabilities as IM, voice, and videoconferencing.
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PC maker Dell and software company Microsoft have formed a development partnership to improve the way customers manage systems across the enterprise.
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Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has released Navision 4.0, a product that integrates financial, manufacturing, distribution, customer-management, supply chain, analytics and e-commerce data. The software is the first major release to come out of Microsoft's acquisition of Danish firm Navision in 2002.
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(InfoWorld) - At its partner conference this week MicrosoftÂ released new tools to help partners navigate two of the company's more complicated offerings: product licensing and the Windows Vista client OS. The licensing tool, called Microsoft LicenseWise, builds upon a previously released tool for Microsoft customers, Product License Advisor. Product License Advisor helps customers configure an IT environment and generate a report online that would tell them what licenses they would need and the cost, Mike Oldham, general manager for Microsoft's worldwide licensing and pricing, said in an interview at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference in Denver. LicenseWise picks up for Microsoft's business partners where that tool leaves off, he said. It allows a partner to access a quote a customer generated in Product License Advisor, build its own pricing into it, and then generate a proposal back to the customer for how much it would cost to license those products through the partner. Microsoft's complicated licensing schemes have long been a headache for partners and customers, but the company has made a concerted effort in the past several years to simplify the process, Oldham said. For instance, just two years ago, Microsoft had 74 licensing models customers could choose from; now they have nine, he said. More information about LicenseWise can be found on Microsoft's partner Web site. The new Vista tool also is an extension of software that is already available, called Windows Vista Hardware Assessment, said Mike Sievert, corporate vice president of the Windows business group. That application helps business users see how much effort it will take to migrate desktops in a company to Vista by testing the hardware and device-driver capability of PCs against the OS and issuing reports about those results The new tool, Windows Vista Business Value Assessment, allows partners to sit down with customers to not only assess how Vista will impact their network, but also figure out how to improve the TCO (total cost of ownership) of the installation, Sievert said. TCO is "front and center on the minds of our customers" when it comes to Vista, he said. Sievert acknowledged that business customers are still in the early stages of deploying the OS, which was released to business customers last November, so it's important Microsoft articulate how to upgrade to Vista in the most cost-effective way possible.
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Microsoft Corp.  unveiled plans  on Sunday to work with hardware manufacturers to deliver on the  company&#039;s ambitions to use its software to simplify how workers  communicate with one another.
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Industry giants AMD, Intel, Dell, Microsoft and Sun have thrown their weight behind a web services specification that could provide a common way for systems to access and exchange management information.
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Seattle, October 19: Microsoft Corp and Cisco Systems Inc on Monday said they would work more closely to make their products work more reliably with each other.
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(InfoWorld) - Microsoft has purchased a small, privately held data management company and will use the technology to enhance its SQL Server database, Office, and related business software, the company said Thursday. Stratature, a 16-person based company in Alpharetta, Georgia, provides MDM (master data management) software called +EDM that manages a central repository of reference data that is accessed by a disparate group of enterprise IT systems. Microsoft plans to deliver capabilities from Stratature's software to business users through a combination of Microsoft Office on the front end and its SQL Server database on the back end. Microsoft is promoting the latest version of its Office suite for business users as a collaboration platform, and a big part of this plan has been providing tighter integration with Office and other applications where users need to share data across business units. The company is especially interested in providing storage and management for the unstructured data that is becoming more prevalent in the enterprise and is making this a key focus for the next version of SQL Server, code-named Katmai and recently named SQL Server 2008. Eventually, Microsoft plans to integrate MDM capabilities throughout its entire Office Business Platform, including the PerformancePoint, Dynamics, Project Server, and SharePoint product lines, said Alex Payne, group product manager for Office Business Applications at Microsoft. According to information on Stratature's Web site, the first delivery of MDM-related technology from Microsoft will focus on what is called analytical hierarchy management, which helps executives obtain company information in a way that accurately reflects their own view of their departments. This also will give developers one source of data, making it easier for them to integrate data and perform development tasks across the enterprise, while at the same time help IT executives retain control and governance over corporate information, according to Stratature. Payne said Microsoft will provide more information at a later date about exactly how Stratature's offerings will fit into Microsoft's portfolio. The companies did not disclose the terms of the deal.
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In the news release, KDDI and Microsoft  to Collaborate, Develop Value-Added Services for Corporate Users, issued earlier today by Microsoft Corp.
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(InfoWorld) - Talend, an open source data integration software maker, unveiled a new service-based software product Monday, Talend On Demand, a service (SaaS) version of the company's Talend Open Studio product. [ TalendÂ Â is one of the featured startups in InfoWorldâs Month of Enterprise Startups feature. ] The new product allows customers to share Web-based metadata repositories with remote offices and business partners who might be scattered across the globe. The hosted repositories, which are managed and hosted by Talend, enjoy the benefits of the Open Studio data integration software but offload management, configuration and maintenance of repositories, said Yves de Montcheuil, vice president of marketing at Talend. Repositories hold a variety of information that is used by Open Studio. For example, metadata repositories might store application descriptions and data types, descriptions of jobs, project documents, and business models as well as data mappings, functions, and reusable code necessary to do data transformation, de Montcheuil said. The kinds of data held in the metadata repositories tends to be small and easily transported via HTTP and SSL to the customer's Open Studio application, de Montcheuil said. Customer data is not hosted remotely but rather remains on the customer's network. That differentiates Talend's SaaS offering from hosted data integration solutions by established data integration vendors like Informatica, de Montcheuil said. Talend is a two-year-old startup based in Paris. The company's Open Studio product is an open source ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load) data integration tool that was first released at the end of 2006. Since then, the free software has been downloaded more than 75,000 times, and attracted a community of around 500 open source developers contributing connectors to leading commercial and open source products and 1,000 beta testers to refine the company's releases, de Montcheuil said. On Demand was created to satisfy the needs of Talend's large and small customers that didn't want to have to deploy and maintain a local metadata repository, de Montcheuil said. The SaaS model also makes it easier for geographically dispersed project teams to coordinate and reuse code, he said. Smaller firms don't have to worry about the headache of deploying and configuring a server or servers for the repository, whereas larger customers that want to share a repository across their organization have an easy way to do so. "It has appeal across the board," de Montcheuil said. Talend is partnering with a leading European hosting company in France to manage the hosting operations, although de Montcheuil declined to name the firm. Customers who wish to set up a hosted repository simply need to sign up on the Talend Web site. Instructions on configuring administrative permissions for the online repository will be sent in an e-mail, he said. Talend On Demand is free for as many as two users. After that, customers will pay $99 a month for a three-user license. De Montcheuil didn't have pricing available for larger packages of licenses.SEE ALSO:Talend: Data integration for the masses!