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SAP takes tag-team approach to exec reshuffle

News After years of massive investments and the successful launch of trendsetting innovations in the areas of service-oriented architecture, new solutions and business models for the mid-market.SAP now faces the task of boosting the application of...

Tags: ceo, sap

[04 Apr 2008]

Don't forget to secure your BlackBerry, companies told

News It said the BlackBerry architecture can be insecure if no firewalls are used to separate the BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) router component from the central BES server on the internal network. Companies are being warned to make sure they...

Tags: blackberry, hacker, security, balance

[10 Mar 2008]

Diamond trader spends $16.5m on IT outsource

News This includes supporting virtualisation technology and creating an IT architecture to support the DTC's software apps and help the company improve supply chain efficiency. DTC is aiming to move to the new virtualised infrastructure by August 2008...

Tags: virtualisation, unisys, outsourcing, contract

[20 Nov 2007]

Scottish council boosts network

News The council previously used an SDH-based star architecture network supplied by NTL but the first elements of that contract began to run out in 2005. As East Renfrewshire Council e-government project manager Jim Love put it, staff are "scattered to...

Tags: telewest, ntl, cctv, voip

[18 Oct 2007]

Salesforce.com launches on-demand CRM platform

News David Bradshaw, analyst at Ovum, said big user organisations are unlikely to rush to embrace Salesforce.com's platform because of the investment in their existing architecture and infrastructure but said SaaS generally is making more inroads into...

Tags: marc benioff, saas, salesforce.com

[18 Sep 2007]

IT must pull together to battle skills shortage: Gov CIO

News Suffolk said it is difficult for businesses to find graduates with relevant skills, for example, in systems architecture. Deep enterprise architects are hard to find, and there aren't many in the world," he said.

Tags: suffolk, skills shortage, skills

[21 May 2007]

The Tote bets on SOA much more

News UK betting organisation the Tote is adopting a service-oriented architecture (SOA) to improve customer service, and develop new products faster and more cheaply. That first SOA service for in-pool betting has primarily been "a DIY effort" but the...

Tags: progress software, soa, tote

[03 May 2007]

CA: We're not the company we were five years ago

News And as Mike Yorwerth, Tesco's group technology and architecture director, said: "I don't even consider it. During his keynote at the conference Swainson gave some details of the company's new Unified Service Model (USM) approach - part of the...

Tags: ca

[24 Apr 2007]

BlackBerry blackout: Is RIM overreaching itself?

News But, that said, the RIM architecture also provides a lot of benefits to its corporate customers. Dan Taylor, managing director of the Mobile Enterprise Alliance, a not-for-profit trade organisation that promotes enterprise mobility, said: "With all...

Tags: blackout, rim, blackberry

[19 Apr 2007]

CIO Agenda: The 2007 tech shopping list

News Another new entry on the 2007 shopping list is service-oriented architecture (SOA), although the CIOs said SOA was the most over-hyped technology of 2006. Today Andy McCue examines what's hot and what's not when it comes to the enterprise...

Tags: cio agenda

[15 Jan 2007]

Channel 4 switches on to SOA

News Channel 4 has opted for a service-orientated architecture (SOA) to power its planned video-on-demand (VoD) services. The broadcaster will use Cape Clear's Enterprise Service Bus platform to deliver its PC-based VoD services and manage more than a...

Tags: service, soa, channel, bus

[11 Dec 2006]

Windows Vista fails to convince CIOs

News Graham Benson, IT director of the Web Factory, Play.com's IT organisation, said: "The new technologies deployed within the Vista architecture will enable a far more function-rich entertainment experience which, as an entertainment retailer, is of...

Tags: windows vista, cio jury

[28 Nov 2006]

Vista security: What's in it for you?

News Okin said: "From a business perspective I think the one feature which will have the biggest social change will be the new architecture around log-ons and smart card authentication. Although Vista apparently exceeds expectations for robustness...

Tags: microsoft vista, windows vista, vista, security

[20 Nov 2006]

We love WLAN, say consumers

News Business demand for centralised WLAN architecture technology in particular continued to grow, with revenues jumping 48 per cent, whereas revenue for decentralised architecture products fell 16 per cent.

Tags: home wireless

[16 Oct 2006]

BP pioneers 'DIY IT' scheme for employees

News The initiative is being led by Jim Ginsburgh, VP of enterprise architecture at BP, who told silicon.com in an exclusive interview: "You have to be patched to current; your firewall up; be on a current version of antivirus; and not go to...

Tags: bp

[11 Oct 2006]

Google and BEA in enterprise portal mash-up talks

News But Chuang said service-oriented architecture (SOA) will be key to businesses being able to embrace these new technologies and ways of working. Google and BEA are in talks about partnering on a new initiative that will allow organisations to create...

Tags: bea, google

[11 Oct 2006]

SAP eyes 'third way' for software - using SOA like a gearbox

News Software isn't a straight choice between packaged and on-demand - at least that's according to SAP, the giant software vendor which has recently been saying how it will use service-oriented architecture (or, to use the buzzy acronym, SOA) to...

Tags: mysap, soa, sap

[28 Sep 2006]

SAP outlines its SOA strategy

News He announced SAP Discovery System, a collection of software components meant as a "starting point" for a services-oriented architecture (SOA), a system design meant to make SAP's applications more modular and flexible.

Tags: soa, sap

[13 Sep 2006]

Intel poised to unleash high-end Xeon

News Tulsa is the last model to use Intel's all-but-extinct NetBurst architecture, which Kilroy acknowledged is "long in the tooth". Tom Kilroy, general manager of Intel's Digital Enterprise Group, said: "The 7100 really brings us up back to where want...

Tags: tulsa, opteron, xeon, amd

[29 Aug 2006]

IBM splurges $740m on asset management firm

News MRO Software's products are built using a services-oriented architecture, or SOA, which will make product integration easier, the companies said. Al Zollar, Tivoli general manager, said in a statement: "This acquisition will provide companies with...

Tags: mro software, asset management, ibm

[03 Aug 2006]

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