B2B marketplaces facilitate efficient search and transactions by offering services such as buyer/supplier and product/services searches and transactions such as procurement and asset disposal.

BMC Software announced today that two of its executives will speak at the SHARE User Event, February 11-16 in Tampa, Florida at the Tampa Convention Center.

IBM announced plans to create a Product Development Integration Framework to better link the design and development of products with core business processes, elevating product lifecycle management and development from an engineering-centric function to a strategic business process that

to IBM's manufacturing execution systems (MES) customers, among others.

willinclude real-time point-to-point video for expanded communicationcap abilities. This release will also include integration with MicrosoftOutlook and Office applications and support for Linux servers and Macintoshclients.

At Lotusphere today, IBM (NYSE: IBM) announcedthe planned availability of the IBM Lotus Notes and Lotus Domino 8 publicBeta starting this February. This is the final beta phase before theproduct's target ship date of mid-2007, concluding the most collaborativesoftware review program in

When building the right project team to complete a custom solution there are many forces at work. These include business drivers, technical drivers, and organizational and political motivations. Regardless of the business or organization there are three basic rules to follow in buildin

IBM (NYSE: IBM) has released details of asignificant project with EBS Building Society, one of Ireland's largestbuilding societies. The agreement, part of EBS' IT upgrade strategy, is toenhance its business flexibility by implementing a Service OrientatedArchitecture (SOA) which will

The struggle to integrate business assets across the .NET - J2EE technology divide is legendary. So it should come as no surprise that the emergence of portal applications as an enabler of Service Oriented Architecture is forcing enterprises to revisit interoperability challenges in

A new, independent research report on serviceoriented architecture found that 'IBM (NYSE: IBM) leads in overallEurope/Middle East/Africa (EMEA) offerings.' The Forrester Wave(TM): EMEASOA Integration, Q4 2006, December 2006, examined IBM Global Services'current SOA offerings, SOA stra

Even though I write for SYS-CON, I've never publicly complimented them. But this time they really deserve a credit. SYS-CON will present the AJAXWorld 2007 Conference & Expo 2007 East in March. Usually, attendees have very limited access to speakers during conferences, and SYS-CON Even

Understanding the complexity of AJAX at the browser level is critical to refining and debugging rich AJAX applications that leverage Web technologies such as JavaScript, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and XMLHttpRequests. Adding a third-party AJAX runtime heightens the complexity and su

At the end of each year, when SYS-CON informally polls its globe-girdling network of software developers, industry executives, commentators, investors, writers, and editors, our question is always the same: where's the industry going next year?

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that itsdeveloper community has grown at an unprecedented rate this year, withnearly 1,700 worldwide developers joining its growing community per day.Throughout the year, developerWorks noted several trends, as illustrated bythe high demand for content a

Does this sound familiar? You have a domain object, perhaps for reporting purposes, that's built from a ton of JDBC queries and it takes too long to load. Nothing else happens until this object is built, so it's become a bottleneck. Even worse, each of the queries is actually well tun

In response to the whopping great suit that IBM filed against Amazon.com in October, the one that lays claim to God knows how many hundreds of millions in damages for alleged infringing a handful of utterly fundamental e-commerce business methods patents it now holds - like on online a

IBM announced that it has developed software interfaces that will make it easier for assistive technologies to provide those with disabilities access to advanced features in software programs -- such as editing functions, hyperlinks, charts and menus. Many browser-based Rich Internet A

such as editing functions, hyperlinks, charts andmenus. These features can be found in rich browser applications based onDHTML, AJAX, and WAI-ARIA, and desktop applications based on theOpenDocument Format.

Centric announced their full support for the IBM Product Development Integration Framework and the release of Centric InSight, Centric MultiSight, and Centric Decision Center Product Intelligence applications certified by IBM as 'SOA connected.' Executives and multi-disciplinary teams

IBM has announced new provisioning software that will help accelerate the deployment time for Microsoft Windows Vista customers. The new IBM software reduces the time it takes to manually deploy or upgrade a computer, including an operating system deployment, to less than a minute.

According to Evans Data Corporation, in a single year WebSphere Application Server Community Edition gained 16 points of market share with Eclipse developers, versus only a 6.6 share gain for JBoss.

IBM has announced that its BladeCenter system uses up to 30 percent less energy than HP BladeSystem. As energy prices rise to nearly 15 cents per kilowatt hour in New York City, 21 cents per kilowatt hour in Tokyo and up to 23 cents per kilowatt hour in London, businesses can save hund

IBM announced that more than 600 independent software vendors (ISVs) and systems integrators have joined IBM?s WebSphere Application Server (WAS) Community Edition partner initiative since it was launched just six months ago. WAS Community Edition, based on technology from Apache Geron

IBM has announced Lotus Expeditor, a development platform for creating Eclipse-based and Web 2.0 applications. Lotus Expeditor's open standards-based programming model enables enterprises to integrate existing and new applications and deliver them to a variety of connected and disconne

For the third time in a row, Neoware, the thin client house and heir to IBM's thin client business, said Monday that revenues for the September quarter would fall short of expectations and come in somewhere around $21.5 million, down from the $23.5 million it saw in the June quarter an

Early Monday morning IBM, the plaster saint of the open source movement and lately a high-profile critic of software patents given to open sourcing or foreswearing the litigious use of its patents, filed suit against Amazon claiming that Amazon 'has built its business model on the use

With software architecture evolving toward SOA, many projects in this space have encountered challenges associated with accessing data. As has been said, 'The way an organization thinks about applications and data must evolve - it must stop thinking about data as a second-class citizen

'Our processes are bulletproof. Nothing gets into production that doesn't go through the proper and complete approval process.' Famous last words uttered by far too many enterprise architects. Some of them actually believe it's true - others think that by hoping it's true, maybe, just

Forrester Research, a leading independent research firm, has recognized IBM WebSphere Commerce as the only commerce vendor to land in the leaders category for the last two years in both B2C (business-to-customer) and B2B (business-to-business) e-commerce, in a 3rd Quarter 2006 Forreste

SYS-CON Events (www.events.sys-con.com) announced today that the first international 'AJAXWorld(TM) Conference & Expo' (www.ajaxworldexpo.com), taking place on October 3-4, 2006, at theSanta Clara Convention Center, California, will offer AJAXWorld University - Developer Bootcamp progr

Thailand's Office of Computer Clustering Promotion (CCP), under the National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA), has announced it will create an SOA Excellence Center with IBM. The SOA Excellence Center will train and develop Thailand's IT resources around service orient

We live in the eternal present, yet think mostly about the future and the past. When we are able to stop time and consider what's going on 'right now' or 'these days,' we often think about how our lives and times used to be simpler. How often do you recount stories from a 'simpler, mor

dtms Solutions and IBM (NYSE: IBM) todayannounced that dtms will market IBM WebSphere® Voice Server speechrecognition solutions to enterprises, tying their customers' transactionsto related systems through a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).

Whatever the industry or company size, everyday business processes require access to information resources such as data, applications and people. Providing access to all necessary information resources in a cohesive and efficient manner can play a large part in improving employee produ

To be able to adapt to market changes, organizations tend to focus on flexibility and responsiveness. The IT challenge has usually been to support this business vision with the appropriate architectures and technologies.

At the annual SAP international customer conference beginning today in Paris, the company's executives will detail new tools, strategies and the industry's first services-enabled ERP suite designed to simplify and expedite customers' road maps to enterprise service-oriented architectu

'Java-driven code quality' was the topic of discussion during a recent SYS-CON.TV Power Panel discussion held at the Reuters studio overlooking Times Square in New York. Moderated by SYS-CON Publishing Director Jeremy Geelan, the panel featured industry analyst Judith Hurwitz of Hurwit

Cassatt Corp., an innovator in providing enterprise software for agile IT infrastructure, today announced that CEO Bill Coleman will deliver the opening keynote for SYS-CON's 10th International SOA Web Services Edge Conference on Mon., June 5 at 8 a.m. EDT at the Roosevelt Hotel in New

IBM will be upgrading its IBM WebSphere Portal, making it easier to work with composite applications, making it faster and easier for businesses to realize the benefits of integrated applications and reusable services, and integrating it with technology it acquired from its Bowstreet a

Database locking strategies is one of the most complex areas of application development -- and one of the most critical for reliable application performance and behavior. The basic issues, common strategies, and general recommendations on when and how to use different locking strategie