Stories about: DataChannel

Enterprise application integration supplier, WebMethods, has announced two acquisitions and the closing of another in a single day.

The Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) is out of order. The technical term is broke, busted, clueless -- and now, term-limited. And Norbert Mikula is the Jack Valenti of the Web Services community. What am I saying -- a stooge of the entrenched monopolists? As the world's foremost authority, comedian Professor Irwin Corey says, "No, no, I really mean that."

Security software vendor Netegrity Inc. this week will unveil the first iteration of its own portal product, giving users a portal framework that is tightly integrated with its market-leading access control software.

Momentum is quietly gathering behind a prospective standard for defining how Web services will find their way into the hands of business users.

Looking to create a platform for next-generation Web services, many high-tech heavy hitters are joining under the umbrella of the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) to set standards for the multichannel access to those services.

Content management software vendor Interwoven on Tuesday rolled out a partnership program aimed at tying its software to enterprise portals, and the company rallied early support from vendors including Epicentric, IBM, and Plumtree Software.

Underscoring the growing importance of portals in managing today's expanding e-business environments, BroadVision this week became the latest software maker to jump headlong into the fray with the next generation of its portal software.

Intranets and extranets, which provide views of corporate data to employees or external partners, respectively, are now sharing the spotlight with another much-ballyhooed technology: portals.

Attempting to simplify the process of pumping content into corporate portals, software vendor OnePage Inc. will roll out a content aggregation tool this week, designed to convert Web-accessible data into components that can slide into portals.

Competing Web-services vendors achieved the almost unthinkable during an industry panel discussion on standards today: they agreed.

Parsons Corp., a global construction and engineering firm in Pasadena, Calif., has about 15,000 Windows NT identifications in use, says CIO John Thomas. They're assigned to the company's 11,200 employees, as well as to Parsons' contractors, clients and partners.