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Teradata Offers Hardware/Software Packages For Data Warehousing
The Teradata Accelerate bundles are meant to give mid-size companies a quick way to get started in data warehousing in four months or less.
Making the Business Case for Mashups
Once a boutique pursuit for geeks, mashups are entering the enterprise application development mainstream.
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Doug Henschen
Adobe To Unify Developer Apps With Flash Platform
Adobe is rolling out several new and updated products to fend off Microsoft's Silverlight, not to mention the growing use of open source technologies like HTML, CSS, and Ajax.
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Thomas Claburn
Microsoft Offers 0% Financing On Business Software Purchases
Zero-percent financing could become a popular incentive from software companies looking to make sales during a tough economy.
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Mary Hayes Weier
IBM CEO Touts Smart Systems, Efficient Infrastructure
Supply chain inefficiencies cost the consumer products and retail industries an estimated $40 billion annually, or 3.5% percent of sales, IBM's Sam Palmisano pointed out.
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K.C. Jones
Sybase Offers Real-Time Loading Of Transaction Data
The Real-Time Loading Solution provides continuous loading of transaction changes into the company's IQ analytics-optimized server to enable real-time reporting.
Boomi Offers Online Integration Service To ISVs
Called AtomSphere, the "platform-as-a-service" offering allows ISVs to productize and embed integration services within their applications.
Salesforce Ascends Beyond SaaS Into Cloud Computing
Salesforce will let customers build and run applications on its platform, customize their applications, and tap into other Web-based services.
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Charles Babcock
Web 2.0 Summit: Cloud Computing Smackdown
Microsoft competitors Marc Benioff of Salesforce and Dave Girouard of Google sound off on Microsoft's Azure venture into the cloud.
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Thomas Claburn
IBM Unveils Mac Support, Roadmap For Lotus Symphony
The 2009 version calls for 60 new features that included developing the software entirely on version 1.2 of the OpenDocument format and OpenOffice 3.0 code base.
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Antone Gonsalves
Dreamforce: Salesforce Tools Emerge From Its Own Cloud
CEO Marc Benioff asserts his customers in effect are tapping into a cloud when they run their Salesforce applications from two U.S. data centers over the Internet.
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Charles Babcock
SaaS-Based BI Vendor Offers State-by-State Election Dashboard
Comparing past election results to Census data, Birst business intelligence environment looks inside state voting patterns.
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Doug Henschen
Salesforce.com Plans Hosted Web Site Service
Force.com Sites, to be announced at Salesforce.com's Dreamforce conference Monday, is an aggressive effort to move beyond its roots in on-demand sales force automation software.
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Mary Hayes Weier
Alfresco Upgrades ECM Platform
The share component of Alfresco Enterprise Edition 3.0 includes a document library with features that make it easier to use a content management tool across teams of employees.
Informatica To Offer Salesforce.com Integration Service
Informatica's Web-based service, to be announced at the Dreamforce conference next week, will let companies synchronize data between Salesforce CRM and onsite applications.
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Mary Hayes Weier
Open Source Data Integrator Talend Adds SAP Data
Its Open Studio software can already connect to Oracle, IBM's DB2, Microsoft's SQL Server, Sybase or any standard relational database that follows ODBC or JDBC access standards.
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Charles Babcock
IBM's On Demand Push: Greater than Sum of Parts
Few individual announcements at this week's IBM Information On Demand Conference are earth shattering, but taken together, they underscore the depth and breadth of Big Blue's portfolio and its ability to set the information agenda.
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Doug Henschen
IBM Describes New Data Lifecycle Management Tools
IBM plans to unveil additions to its Optim data management portfolio at its Information On Demand user group in Las Vegas this week.
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Charles Babcock
Pegasystems Offers Tools For Connecting BPM Systems
The Federated Business Frameworks for Pegasystems' SmartBPM Suite comprises four components that enable system administrators to create a business process and workflow that incorporates processes running across different operational units.
SaaS Revenue Growing, Market Set To Double By 2012
Driving the growth in SaaS deployments is businesses' desire to reduce their IT capital expenditure budget and to rapidly implement software that supports a specific business need, Gartner said.
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Antone Gonsalves
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