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Compuware Supports IBM WebSphere Environments with dynaTrace 4.1

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 11:15:00 EST

Compuware on Monday released Compuware dynaTrace 4.1, an application performance management (APM) solution to provide full support for IBM WebSphere Message Broker. dynaTrace 4.1 also adds to its User Experience Management (UEM) capabilities, enhances visualization and integrates with Compuware Gomez Real-User Monitoring - Data Center. dynaTrace 4.1 provides broad support of IBM WebSphere and brings cutting-edge APM to IBM WebSphere environments including WebSphere Message Broker, Application Servers and Portal Servers. dynaTrace advanced end-to-end transaction tracing and UEM combine to provide development, test and operational insight into WebSphere infrastructures. "Customers across industries and around the world rely on the IBM WebSphere stack and WebSphere Message Broker to conduct tens of millions critical business transactions a day, and now they enjoy unprecedented visibility into those transactions from the world's leading APM solution," said John Van Siclen, General Manager of Compuware's APM business unit. "The end result is significantly improved time-to-value and faster ROI for WebSphere deployments and updates. Development, test and production costs are all slashed by reducing the time it takes to create, debug and finalize production releases."

Cloud Expo New York: The Java EE 7 Platform - Developing for the Cloud

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 08:00:00 EST

The focus of Java EE 7 is on the cloud, and specifically it aims to bring Platform-as-a-Service providers and application developers together so that portable applications can be deployed on any cloud infrastructure and reap all its benefits in terms of scalability, elasticity, multitenancy, etc. The existing specifications in the platform such as JPA, Servlets, EJB, and others will be updated to meet these requirements. Java EE 7 continues the ease of development push that characterized prior releases by bringing further simplification to enterprise development. It also adds new, important APIs such as the REST client API in JAX-RS 2.0 and the long awaited Concurrency Utilities for Java EE API. Expression Language 3.0 and Java Message Service 2.0 will undergo an extreme makeover to align with the improvements in the Java language. There are plenty of improvements to several other components. Newer web standards like HTML 5 and Web Sockets will be embraced to build modern web applications.

Oracle to SAP: ‘See You Back in Court’

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:30:00 EST

As predictably as the sun rising in the east, Oracle Monday rejected the slashed $272 million award for damages that the presiding federal court judge decided it should get from SAP for its admitted copyright infringement rather than the $1.3 billion the jury awarded Oracle in late 2010 following a captivating and highly publicized trial. Oracle told the court it wants the new trial it was offered to “vindicate” the jury and its property rights as well as to avoid risking its right to appeal the court’s decision. SAP, which agreed to pay a $20 million fine to the US government to avoid criminal prosecution, said it was “disappointed.” Calling the jury award “grossly excessive,” Judge Phyllis Hamilton last September found Oracle only proved actual damages of $272 million. SAP’s third-party maintenance arm TomorrowNow illegally downloaded reams of Oracle software and customer-support documents before it was shut down in 2008.

Google Loses Appeal to Suppress Evidence in Java Suit

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:00:00 EST

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington Monday punctured Google’s hopes of hiding the telltale Lindholm e-mail from the jury when Oracle finally drags Google and Android before the bar to answer charges of infringing its Java copyrights and patents. The appeals court sided with the district court that has already told Google six times that the highly compromising e-mail couldn’t be suppressed. Neither court bought Google’s story that it was an artifact protected by attorney-client privilege that was turned over in discovery to Oracle by mistake. The appeal court found that Google engineer Tim Lindholm “was responding to a request from Google’s management, not Google’s attorneys.” It said the message concerned a negotiation strategy, not a legal strategy and “does not evidence any sort of infringement or invalidity analysis.”

dynaTrace AJAX Edition 3.5 Delivers Beta Support for IE 10 and Firefox 10

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:21:00 EST

With the new release of the dynaTrace AJAX Edition you have beta support for the Firefox 10 browser and can test the performance of your websites with the latest available browsers from Mozilla and Microsoft. The new dynaTrace AJAX Edition also helps you prepare for the future. With support for the Internet Explorer 10 developer preview you’re now able to start testing the performance of your website before Microsoft releases its new browser. However, you are not only testing the performance of the latest browsers – to test the web performance of legacy browsers take a look at the dynaTrace AJAX Edition Premium, which helps guarantee a good performance for legacy, current and future browsers.

A Look at CumuLogic’s Java PaaS for Clouds

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:00:00 EST

CumuLogic is a cloud computing company founded by Sun Microsystems’ alumni. The company has developed a Java Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) software that makes it easier and faster to develop and deploy Java applications (apps) in the cloud. By automating the management of the runtime environments for developing and deploying Java apps in the cloud, including automated scaling, CumuLogic’s Java PaaS [...]

Java's Road Ahead in 2012, Oracle at the Wheel

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:00:00 EST

Oracle's ongoing stewardship of the Java platform and language is still garnering the occasional spat of criticism from time to time. Much of the disquiet rests on Oracle's plans to bring Java Standard Edition 6 to the end of its natural life. Adrian Bridgwater

SeaMicro Adapts Xeon for Microservers

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:00:00 EST

SeaMicro, the ambitious start-up that has been building so-called microservers out of low-power Intel Atom chips, has started building microservers out of low-voltage quad-core Intel Xeon chips using the same architecture its Atom systems use. The development is called the SeaMicro SM10000-XE. Needless to say, it’s the first fabric-based Xeon microserver ever made. It’s also supposed to be the most energy-efficient, highest-density, highest-bandwidth Xeon server now available, period. A single SM10000-XE replaces 32 dual-socket servers, but draws half the power and takes up a third the space without any changes to operating systems, applications or management tools. It eliminates layers of Ethernet switches, server management devices and expensive load balancers.

Facebook Files To Go Public

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:00:00 EST

Facebook put in its papers to IPO after the market closed Wednesday, as expected. The S1 runs 200 pages. The S1 runs 200 pages. It’s supposedly looking to raise $5 billion, not the $10 billion expected, although that could change back to $10 billion by the end of this exercise. What tiny percentage of the company $5 billion or $10 billion might represent is unclear.

cVidya Unveils Data Retention Solution

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:40:22 EST

cVidya Networks, a provider of Revenue Intelligence solutions for Telecom, Media and Entertainment service providers, has announced the release of DRMap, a complete data retention solution that enables CSPs to comply with current regulations and swiftly fulfill law enforcement requests. With its current positioning in the revenue assurance and fraud management spaces, cVidya was able to leverage its capabilities to create a solution which by nature collects richer sets of information as part of existing applications deployed at CSPs. With the necessity to ensure compliance with increasing regulations, such as the EU Data Retention Directive 2006/24/EC requiring CSPs to store data for up to 24 months, it is imperative that CSPs have fast, secure, and compliant data retention systems. According to a leading research firm white paper, the majority of CSPs are spending a lot of time and money trying to adapt their current systems to meet the regulations. cVidya is leveraging Oracle Exadata Database Machine, allowing CSPs to benefit from the extreme performance, speed and scalability offered by Oracle. cVidya's DRMap V1.0 has also achieved Oracle Exadata Ready status through Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN). This demonstrates that cVidya has fully tested and supports DRMap V1.0 on Oracle Exadata Database Machine.

DS Data Systems Releases KonaKart v6.0.0.0

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:14:46 EST

DS Data Systems UK Ltd. is pleased to announce the release of KonaKart v6.0.0.0, a Java-based eCommerce shopping cart application that provides an extensive set of features to enable retailers to successfully sell their products over the internet. KonaKart is a Java / JSP / XML based solution with comprehensive easy to use java, SOAP, RMI and JSON APIs that allow you to quickly integrate eCommerce functionality into your existing systems. The customizable parts of KonaKart are Open Source and available under the GNU LGPL.

Intel to Buy RealNetworks IP

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 03:45:00 EST

Intel last year bid billions trying to get the Nortel patents. Thursday RealNetworks said Intel was paying it $120 million cash for 190 “foundational media” patents, 170 patent applications and next-generation video codec software good for stuff like streaming. The IP is apparently supposed to brace Intel’s Ultrabook, smartphone, tablet and digital media interests. Intel’s also picking up Real’s video codec engineering team. Real retains “certain rights to continue to use the patents in current and future products.” RealNetworks and Intel signed an MOU to collaborate on future support and development of the next-generation video codec software and related products.

Court Finds RPost Patent Valid

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 06:45:00 EST

A federal court in California has upheld the validity of a key RPost patent reinforcing the company’s claims to own the technology for registered, legally recognized, court-admissible evidence of e-mail content and delivery going back to 1995. RPost’s 35 patents, granted in 21 countries, broadly cover verifiable proof of e-mail delivery and value-added outbound e-mail processing. On December 27 the District Court for the Central District of California granted RPost a summary judgment finding its US patent 6,182,219 valid. The decision is a lead-up to RPost’s infringement suit against Trustifi Corporation but the 20-page ruling is expected to impact the suits RPost also has pending against Swiss Post, Canada Post, Adobe-Echosign, DocuSign, Zix Corporation, RightSignature, Farmers Insurance and Telarix, among others. They are all being sued for treading on ‘219 as well as other RPost patents.

AppDynamics Gets $20 Mil

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 07:45:00 EST

AppDynamics, the newfangled application performance management house started in 2008 to cater to mission-critical web apps, has picked up a handsome $20 million C round led by Kleiner Perkins. Its existing VCs Greylock Partners and Lightspeed Venture Partners also kicked in. With the new infusion it’s raised a total of $36.5 million. The start-up will use the new money to enhance its product and expand sales to extend the 400% growth in bookings it says it saw last year. It puts the surge down to a shift in application architectures and growth in mission-critical cloud applications. It says “modern applications are no longer monolithic in nature but are highly distributed and dynamic, fueled by architectural trends such as cloud, SOA, Big Data and Agile development. As a result, traditional application performance management solutions have become obsolete.”

Conclusion: Why Rule-Based Log Correlation Is Almost a Good Idea...

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 07:45:00 EST

Disappointed with your SOC in a box solution? Here are a few steps to improve your static rule based correlation solution... During these past few weeks, we have looked at several reasons why a static rule based correlation is not the "SOC in a Box", end-all be all that many thought it was. Indeed what to think about a "solution" that: Can only address a very limited set of attack scenarios Requires meticulous consideration on how to map out the few selected attack scenarios Doesn't guarantee you to catch attacks in progress even when one of the few selected scenario is taking place Obliges you to think of minute details to slightly reduce false positives Yields hundreds and thousands of basic correlation rules that need to be programmed, tuned, managed, kept up to date and constantly revisited Needs massive computing power and memory resources to run Cannot manage all of your logs or IT Data, otherwise the engine blows up in smoke

Judge Blocks Oracle’s Appeal in SAP Case

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 16:00:00 EST

Oracle can’t appeal the judge’s decision to cut the $1.3 billion jury award in its suit against SAP to a mere $272 million unless it rejects the $272 million, the judge told Oracle last Friday. Oracle is trying to avoid the other option the judge gave it, which is a new trial. If Oracle rejects the $272 million, there would be a new trial and then it could appeal the judge’s decision. The judge contends Oracle only proved actual damages of $272 million when SAP’s now defunct TomorrowNow third-party maintenance subsidiary illegally downloaded reams of Oracle software. Reuters, which reported the decision, said the order did not indicate if Oracle could accept the $272 million and then appeal, but an IP lawyer the wire service talked to said probably not. If SAP appealed to the size of the judge’s award Oracle might be able to try for the $1.3 billion.

Book Review: Building Enterprise Systems with ODP

Sat, 14 Jan 2012 14:00:00 EST

This is a very well put together book. It includes a single example company that the book grows and changes throughout the book. Sometimes examples get on my nerves. They are either too lightweight to mean anything, or sometimes too complex, and end up distracting you to the point of not wanting to continue read the book. The authors do an awesome job with the case study in this book. It really made it an enjoyable read. The book begins with a nice introduction to ODP. It introduces viewpoints, viewpoint languages, viewpoint correspondences, fundamental concepts, and UML4ODP. After a nice introduction to ODP the book has a chapter covering each viewpoint. They include the Enterprise Viewpoint, Information Viewpoint, Computational Viewpoint, Engineering Viewpoint, and the Technology Viewpoint. This part ends with a chapter titled Correspondences—Joining It All Up. The correspondences link the viewpoints together providing traceability between the viewpoints.

Oracle v Google Java Trial Up in the Air

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 08:15:00 EST

Last week Oracle’s long-simmering Java infringement suit against Google, already postponed from Halloween, was scheduled to go to trial “on or after March 19.” On Thursday the court entered another order saying it won’t set a trial date any time soon and suggesting that given the demands on its calendar it could be 2013 before the case gets heard. Presiding Judge William Alsup, who figures, speaking “from experience,” that the trial will take two months, also said in his order that “The court will not set a trial date until Oracle adopts a proper damages methodology, even assuming a third try is allowed (or unless Oracle waives damages beyond those already allowed to go to the jury). For this ‘delay,’ Oracle has no one to blame but itself, given that twice now it has advanced improper methodologies obviously calculated to reach stratospheric numbers.”

Fabric Engine Boosts Node.Js Performance 25-Fold

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:20:00 EST

Fabric Engine, a software engineering company focused on bringing multi-threaded, compiled performance to web applications, has announced that its Fabric Engine server technology now supports Node.js, boosting its computational performance more than 25X. Fabric Engine has published the results of its performance benchmark online (http://fabric-engine.com/2011/11/server-performance-benchmarks/), and will be showcasing its support for Node.js at NodeJam this January. Fabric Engine is designed to tap into the power of modern, multi-core processing to bring true, multi-threaded, compiled performance to web applications. As web applications grow, they start to run into performance and scalability problems that dynamic languages like JavaScript are not well-suited to solve. Consequently, these applications need to be re-architected using compiled languages like C++, introducing significant costs to the developer. Fabric Engine gives the same performance as C++, yet retains the ease of use and speed of iteration of dynamic languages.

Internet Explorer 9 & Firefox 8/9 Support with dynaTrace Ajax Edition 3.4

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 09:30:00 EST

After announcing support for Internet Explorer 9 and Firefox 8 and 9 in dynaTrace AJAX Edition Premium we now also provide support for the latest versions in the dynaTrace AJAX Edition. The latest version of dynaTrace AJAX Edition 3.4 therefore gives you full JavaScript, AJAX, Network and Rendering analysis support for Mozilla Firefox 8 and 9 as well as Internet Explorer 8 and 9. You can also check out the Release Notes for a more detailed description of the enhancements.

Oracle Fusion Applications - Installation and First Impressions (Part 7)

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 06:00:00 EST

Oracle Fusion Applications Provisioning is the überinstaller for OFA. Based on your input and its knowledge about OFA dependencies it will prepare and deploy OFA components to appropriate target locations. Provisioning Plan is driving the installation process. It is created when you select this option from Provisioning Wizard. Here you pick components Provisioning Plan is created for - we chose Oracle Financials module. Wizard will show you topology summary and details about the chosen configuration. Here we provide Access Manager details.

Oracle Fusion Applications - Installation and First Impressions (Part 5)

Sat, 07 Jan 2012 12:15:00 EST

Oracle Forms and Reports is one of Fusion Middleware components needed for OFA installation. Forms is a GUI tool used to develop, generate and run database front end applications. Reports is a GUI tool used to develop, generate and run database reports. For the purposes of Oracle Fusion Applications installation we will secure Forms and Reports with Identity Management. Once you download and unzip Oracle Forms and Reports software and run installer you will be presented with the welcome screen.

Oracle Fusion Applications - Installation and First Impressions (Part 6)

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:40:09 EST

Oracle HTTP server is one of Oracle Fusion Middleware for Oracle Identity Management components. Oracle HTTP Server provides HTTP listener services for Oracle WebLogic. Once you download software ( it is a part of Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g Media Pack; HTTP server resides in Oracle Fusion Middleware Web Tier Utilities 11g DVD ), unzip it and run installer you will be presented with welcome screen.

Oracle Fusion Applications - Installation and First Impressions (Part 4)

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:49:12 EST

Oracle Identity Management is a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware and part of the Oracle Fusion Applications infrastructure. Its purpose is to manage user identities across the enterprise. We are going to install Oracle Internet Directory 11g (OID), Oracle Virtual Directory 11g (OVD), Oracle Identity Manager 11g (OIM), Oracle Access Manager 11g (OAM) as well as two instances of Oracle Database (11.2.0.2) - one for the Identity Store and the other for the Policy Store. SOA Suite is first component to be installed since Identity Manager requires it. Some SOA Suite components (Oracle Identity Manager, Oracle Access Manager ) require schemas to be created in middleware repository database. We created separate database to contain Oracle Identity Manager schemas.

Oracle v Google Java Trial Kinda Sorta Scheduled

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 01:45:00 EST

Oracle’s long-simmering Java infringement suit against Google, postponed from Halloween, has been scheduled to go to trial on or after March 19, according to case tracker Florian Mueller. It’s not the firmest date ever and to Oracle’s chagrin, federal Judge William Alsup has decided that the proceedings will be in three parts with a single 12-man jury deciding first Oracle’s copyright infringement charges, then its patent infringement claims, and finally any damages Google might owe and the extent of its willfulness. Oracle wanted to present all its evidence at once. It was also hoping the trial would start this month. Google, on the other hand, wanted to push it off until at least the summer. Florian says Wednesday’s order doesn’t hold out the possibility of a stay to accommodate a re-examination of five Oracle patents-in-suit by the US Patent and Trademark Office. But that doesn’t mean, he says, that Judge Alsup, who wishes Oracle and Google would settle their differences and go away, couldn’t issue a stay before the patent part of the trial starts. The jury will also be told a re-examination is in progress including the PTO’s prior art concerns and its initial findings of invalidity. However, despite a string of Google appeals, it will also be told about the compromising Lindholm e-mail in which a senior Google staffer told Google’s supreme command it needed a Java license, a piece of evidence for infringement as well as damages that the judge has previously considered damaging. At this point Florian figures that the judge realizes “the best chance to get the parties to settle is a reasonably firm trial date and, possibly, a ruling on the copyright part of the case. Once the copyright phase is over, the possibility of a stay of the patent liability part may be on the agenda once again.” Otherwise the court’s gonna need 12 jurors with well-padded bottoms and the ability to recall testimony from in a previous phase.

Oracle Fusion Applications - Installation and First Impressions (Part 1)

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:13:58 EST

Oracle Fusion Applications are released for production use. We are investigating the product and installation process. Oracle announced the general availability of Oracle Fusion Applications at Oracle Open World 2011. Oracle Fusion Applications is the next generation Oracle ERP that will gradually replace the existing Oracle E Business Suite, Peoplesoft, JD Edwards, Siebel and other products that Oracle either acquired or developed inhouse. According to Larry Ellison it took Oracle six years to develop and finalize this product. If you look at the Oracle E-Delivery Oracle Fusion Applications download page one of the reasons why it took so long becomes obvious - product comes on 24 DVDs - total size of downloaded software is over 50GB. Installation of such a humongous product requires special preparations and is a daunting task even for very experienced administrators. Oracle recognized the complexity of this product and responded by creating the provisioning framework and the suite of provisioning tools to help with the deployment process.

OpenOffice.com Lives

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 05:00:00 EST

The Apache Software Foundation, where Oracle sent OpenOffice in June after it adjured the stuff, said Tuesday that it will put out OpenOffice 3.4 in the first quarter whose code will all be under the Apache license, resolving lingering incompatibility issues. It used what was ostensibly an open letter to the Open Document Format community to distance itself from the new German Team OpenOffice.com fork and its fund-raising attempts and warn it about misusing its trademark including “OpenOffice.org and all related marks.”

Workday Reportedly Prepping to Go Public

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 08:30:00 EST

Workday, the six-year-old SaaS ERP start-up co-founded by David Duffield after a resistant PeopleSoft finally fell to Oracle, is planning to IPO in the second half of next year, according to two unidentified Bloomberg sources. It’s supposed to want to raise $200 million-$500 million. Workday, a threat to Oracle and SAP, is credited in some quarters with provoking SAP to spend $3.4 billion on SuccessFactors, a direct competitor, a price that could tickle Workday’s valuation. It has raised in the neighborhood of $190 million over repeated rounds, including an F round in October that reportedly included Michael Dell and Jeff Bezos. Duffield has also supplied millions of its bankroll. Bloomberg says the company is in the market for an IPO-savvy CFO.

Oracle Misses Badly, Spooks Everybody

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 22:49:00 EST

Oracle zigged when it was expected to zag Tuesday and came in with a nasty fiscal Q2 miss that caused its stock price to buckle close to 10% after-hours for fear the results are a harbinger of the broad-based tech slowdown everybody’s afraid of given the newspaper headlines, especially out of Europe. Oracle in its conference call never once said it was, claiming instead that Q2 was a one-off event and that “short of a global meltdown” Q3 “won’t be a repeat.” Obviously there was a struggle to close deals in Q2, which ended with the hateful November. Ellison, Catz and Hurd are three pretty slick articles, still it’s hard to believe that the company didn’t already have the management controls in place to monitor last-minute approvals but that’s what Catz said. Approvals came through – lurchingly and apparently with more, higher-up signatures than they used to need – and Oracle has had to figure out how to deal with that wrinkle going forward. Apparently any deals missed are expected to close this quarter. Both its Q2 revenue and earnings were short of consensus. It reported earning 54 cents a share, up 6%, on revenues of $8.79 billion, up 2% year-over-year, when the Street thought it would do 57 cents on $9.23 billion. GAAP income was up 17% to $2.2 billion or 43 cents a share. Unfortunately Oracle had guided to revenue of $8.99 billion-$9.34 billion. It said new licenses were up 2% to $2 billion when it had guided to an increase of 6%-16% and updates and product support was up 9% to $4 billion. It’s supposedly not seeing a slowdown in Europe. It even said the US public sector was pretty good. CRM is supposed to be up close to 20%. Most of everything else, however, looks off. Hardware was down 14% to $953 million – when it was supposed to be flat to down 5% – and that’s despite what Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said was accelerated sales of engineered systems. According to him “Exadata growth was well over 100% compared to last year, and Exalogic grew more than 100% on a sequential basis. We shipped our first SPARC SuperCluster in Q2 and expect to begin deliveries of our Exalytics system and the Oracle Big Data Appliance in Q3.” Evidently the product transition from the T3 to T4 Sparc chip was a hold-up since it requires a brand new system and people aren’t going to buy outdated equipment so late in the cycle. In addition, Oracle could only deliver a few SuperClusters since they only became available at the end of the quarter. But Hurd maintains that Oracle pipeline is as full as it’s ever been, with Exalogic ramping faster than the Exadata machine, something he’s said before. Larry said 200 Exadata/logic machines were sold in Q2 and prophesized that 300 would be sold this quarter and 400 in Q4. By then they’ll be a billion-dollar business that he said will double next fiscal year. Bernstein ace analyst Toni Sacconaghi noticed that wasn’t quite as many as previously forecast and Ellison had to admit he was right. Oracle might not triple its installed base, maybe it’ll only be up 2.5x, Ellison said, but “It’s still spectacular.” Oracle’s GAAP operating margin was 35%; its non-GAAP margin was 45%, which it’s pleased enough with, and it claims it should return to pre-Sun margins soon. Oracle’s workforce was up 1,700 salesmen in the first half. Co-president Mark Hurd said in a statement, “We believe that this increase in our field organization combined with innovative new products like Fusion Cloud ERP and Cloud CRM will enable solid organic growth in the second half of this year.” Oracle exceeded estimates in the four previous quarters and it’s going to have tough compare this quarter because last year was sensational. It’s forecasting total revenues will be up 3%-7% this quarter. That would work out to somewhere between $9 billion and $9.42 billion. It said new software licenses would be flat to up 10% and hardware down 5% to 15%. Adjusted earning should be 56 cents-59 cents. The Street had it down for 58 cents on $9.46 billion. To console investors Oracle said it could buy back another $5 billion worth of stock at some point. It’s got $31 billion in the bank.

Choose the Right BI Solution to Meet User Demand

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 15:00:00 EST

ActuateOne, built on open source BIRT technology, is the leading embedded business intelligence solution for independent software vendors (ISVs) looking to maximize their product portfolios and meet evolving user needs. For over ten years ISVs have leveraged Actuate and BIRT technology to add value to their applications by introducing features and functionality such as dynamic visualizations, interactive content delivery, data analytics and dashboarding. Download this informational white paper and find out how to: Choose the right BI solution to meet user demand Add interactive functionality, customizable dashboards and rich visualization capabilities to increase the adoption of your product

Forrester Wave: Open Source Business Intelligence

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 13:00:00 EST

Open source software and Business Intelligence are two related market segments where Forrester sees continually increasing interest and adoption levels. BI specifically continues to be one of the top priorities on everyone’s mind. Comparing open source BI technologies is often an apples-to-oranges comparison: 1) not all vendors include the same functionality in the free community versions of the software versus commercial open source versions that carry license and/or support cost, 2) some tools offer full BI suites, while others offer just reporting and analytics. Download Forrester’s evaluation of open source BI vendors and learn why Actuate BIRT led the pack due to its richness of reporting functionality.

Selecting a Business Intelligence Solution

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 11:00:00 EST

A new era of Business Intelligence is unfolding with users buying and deploying BI either with or without cooperation from IT. Because of this shift, users now have many choices and need to make the best decision when it comes to BI features, functionality and price. Stay up-to-date on the ever-changing BI market by reviewing the findings of the 2011 Dresner Advisory Services Wisdom of Crowds BI Market Study. Howard Dresner, report author and worldwide authority on BI, shares the latest market trends and provides true insight into what is happening in the BI arena today. In addition, read why Actuate/BIRT is in the top position and how it exceeded its peer group and the overall sample average for all Technical Support and Product metrics by a wide margin. Read to find out: The best approach to selecting a BI solution that is easy to buy, fast to deploy and simple to use How to take a more active role in planning, managing and evolving your BI portfolio Why Actuate is named the Leader in the Open Source Business Intelligence Vendor category

OpenXava 4.3: Rapid Java Web Development

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 09:00:00 EST

OpenXava is a framework for Rapid Java Web Development, well-suited for business and database oriented applications. OpenXava allows you develop applications just by writing simple domain classes with Java or Groovy. The user interface is generated automatically in runtime, without code generation. OpenXava 4.3 adds support for total properties in collections, it has a new editor for HTML_TEXT stereotype, add info and warning messages and some other useful new features. Now you can use square brakets in @ListProperties to asociate one or more properties of the container entity to a property of the collection. In this way you can add arbitrary values as totals.

Return on Information: Improving Your ROI with Google Enterprise Search

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 07:45:00 EST

As organizations consider the benefits of bringing high-quality search to the workplace, it’s critical to assess the various factors influencing the ROI they seek. Google search solutions can add to your ROI and boost your bottom line when searching intranets, content systems and applications.

VMware vFabric tc Server Streamlines Application Deployment

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 08:45:00 EST

The Integration Group in John Muir Health’s ITS department is responsible for maintaining a broad range of applications that link all the department systems to the core health system, enabling data exchange, enhancing functionality and improving productivity throughout the organization. Read this case study to understand how VMware vFabric tc Server delivered more efficient application deployment, improved server deployment and management and rapid response time.

Solving the Data Challenge for Real-Time Awareness and Risk Assessment

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 08:30:00 EST

Real-time, global data updates have become a critical business requirement for financial-services firms. Overnight or hourly batch jobs can cause erroneous results and missed opportunities. New regulatory requirements dictate real-time reporting of liquidity; traders want access to real-time market and risk positions; and the time windows for relevancy of cross-selling and marketing opportunities are getting shorter. To deal with these issues and new requirements, firms need to be able to react quickly to changes in data. Quick reactions require near-instant access to data, risk analysis and deeper computational analysis for effective decision making. View this webcast to learn how to achieve real-time awareness by: Managing ever-increasing data volumes and transaction rates Supporting a single, consistent view of a global business while running on regionally provisioned hardware Integrating various client systems as active subscribers to different slices of rapidly changing data Overcoming the scale and latency issues associated with traditional relational database management system (RDBMS) models

Seven Qualities of Wildly Desirable Software

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 07:45:00 EST

Great software applications seldom happen by accident: Wise design decisions are the key. Yet many application development teams only design for one, two, or three of these qualities, and others have strayed from design altogether as teams, distracted by shiny new technologies, methodologies, and platforms, fail to engage design principles and talent effectively. Is your business demanding more innovation? You must respond by rising above mediocrity to deliver great software and, to achieve this, you must balance your design to provide seven key qualities: user experience, availability, performance, scalability, adaptability, security, and economy. Boost your commitment to design and design for all seven qualities to create better software, faster.

Web Applications at Cloud Scale

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 06:45:00 EST

Modern web applications must meet the needs of users connecting anytime, anywhere, and from a variety of new devices, in particular mobile handsets, tablets and non-traditional PCs. Supporting these new, modern web applications and devices requires an application infrastructure that easily scales and is cost-effective to monitor and manage. VMware vFabric Cloud Application Platform enables modern applications at cloud scale.

Migrating JEE Applications to SpringSource tc Server

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 11:15:00 EST

This white paper discusses an important trend in IT development and deployment architectures: the evolution from JEE Application Servers to lighter weight Java containers. As evidenced by the growing popularity of Tomcat server, many IT organizations have been re-thinking their commitment to commercial JEE Application Servers. The IT Manager considering migrating applications from their commercial JEE servers has a number of important things to determine before embarking on the process.

Fulfilling the Lean Software Promise

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 08:00:00 EST

Why have millions of Java developers discarded bloated JEE containers in favor of lean, lightweight application servers? What have they gained by the move? Get the details – plus the insight you need to decide whether to take the same course – in this informative white paper. Discover how your peers are using efficient, lightweight application server platforms to: - Develop and deploy up to 50% faster – at a fraction of the cost - Tune and debug in a fraction of the time - Move quickly and effortlessly from development to production