TODAY'S TOP STORIES:
ENTERPRISE INFORMATION INTEGRATION (EII)
Enterprise information integration provides a single point of access to a melting pot of data sources, in real time.
Despite cost and complexity, EII's rewards can be great. Of the seven suites we tested, our top pick demonstrated easy configuration, caching capabilities and exceptional data integration.
With the purchase of EII vendor Avaki and unstructured query vendor ISDD, Sybase could create an enterprise information integration environment that works across both structured and unstructured data.
To-do list: Check for HIPAA and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance; enable real-time enterprise and Web services initiatives. A tall order, but someone has to do it. Here's what you need to know.
A new Web phenomenon, Enterprise Mashup Services (EMS) pull data from enterprise search engines, Web services and other storehouses, mix 'n' match it and serve up the results to users. It sounds cool, but haven't we heard of this before?
Composite's software lets both business users and developers access rational data hidden in application databases such as those from SAP or Salesforce.com. You can even join data from different systems to get a complete view of your information.
Users want a single source of business intelligence that binds many data repositories. Is it finally within their grasp?
In the coming year, you'll hear plenty of experts going on about architecting "agile, competitive, strong-performing" apps that help your organization reduce costs internally, while maintaining customer satisfaction. That's easy to say, not so easy to implement. Here's how to make those new technologies walk the walk for your business.
A large amount of overlapping functionality between business intelligence and enterprise content management tools indicates that BI will become an integral part of the ECM framework in coming years, our expert argues. (Courtsey: Business Intelligence Pipeline)
Web 2.0 technologies offer great promise, but they're still immature and guaranteed to dramatically change your infrastructure in terms of monitoring, management, security and network load. We explore the current state of the market and what conditions must exist to move forward.
Business processes will continue to drive application initiatives, while businesses themselves will rely on enterprise architectures to integrate their apps with processes.
CenterBoard is extending the OSPF routing protocol to improve the efficiency of queries across networked data. If other vendors follow suit, they may pave the way for service-oriented architectures.
It's not enough for the winners in this category to do their jobs. These programs must behave flawlessly in the overall network schema, cooperating with other apps as well as the administrators who have to manage them every day.
In this edition we look at Ipedo's XIP 4.0, Apcon's IntellaPatch 288, AtomPark Software's Outlook Remote Access 1.10 and Expand Networks' ExpandView 3.0.
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