Stories about: Vitria

Red Hat Thursday said its JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform would be available later this month and introduced three new open source projects designed to infuse transaction, management and other capabilities into its middleware software lineup.

SOA Software, a vendor of security, management and governance products for services-oriented architectures, is partnering with Red Hat to make its products available with JBoss open source middleware.

Vitria Technology and CA are ready to release service-oriented architecture software products aimed at letting customers more easily monitor and fix problems that occur in an SOA environment.

Four years ago, MasterBrand Cabinets CIO Dave Mewes faced one of the toughest challenges of his career. Fortune Brands, the parent holding company, wanted to diversify its portfolio of cabinet products and began an acquisition spree under the MasterBrand name. Mewes' mission soon became clear: Tie together the supply-chain management systems of six diverse business units and four sales channels without replacing the dozens of legacy systems used by each group.

Microsoft has officially released its flagship database SQL Server 2005, a product the company said is now truly ready for big businesses.

Unlike BI – the rear view of business which analysts love, business activity monitoring – BAM to the acronym-philes – gives you the upfront action on whatever part of the business you nominate, live on a PC near you. And the action is attracting not only pure-play vendors, but also BI, apps integration and the heavy hitters too. Leon Erlanger canvasses some early adopters who say, "start small"

OfficeMax had a visibility problem. "Two years ago we started a major third-party drop-ship program that caused us to lose some visibility of the orders after they left our network," says Brian Walmsley, divisional vice president of EAI technology at OfficeMax.

Predictions in the 90s that we'd soon see the last of the mainframes were quite clearly way off and, far from their demise, today's estimates indicate that - 40 years on - mainframes host most business transactions and enterprise data, writes Eric Knorr.

When Toronto came under the threat of the severe acute respiratory syndrome virus last spring, Joanne Pearson had to shut down operations at the West Park Healthcare Assessment Centre offices for six weeks. Yet she and her IT staff couldn't stop processing medical insurance referrals and claims.

Citing purchasing delays and the troubled economy, a flurry of software vendors have already warned that the numbers will be grim when they release later this month their financial results from the quarter ended June 30. In the particularly hard-hit EAI (enterprise application integration) sector, this quarter's across-the-board shakiness reflects the deeper problems of a market that's likely to consolidate within the next few months, analysts say.

Iteration Software Inc. this week unveiled its debut product: reporting software that alerts users within seconds of when a significant business event occurs, such as a rash of US$1 million customer orders or inventory shortfalls.