Stories about: Data Translation

Autodesk recently announced plans to donate its coordinate system (CS) and map projection technology to the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo). The software, acquired from Mentor Software will help users to more easily support geographic coordinate conversions and allow accurate and precise geospatial analysis. This planned donation joins several previous Open Source donations by the company, including the web mapping MapGuide and the geospatial data access technology (FDO) software, both donated last year.

Microsoft's launch of SQL Server 2005 this week will provide customers with the company's most scalable, business-intelligence-friendly database to date, said early-access customers of the product.

With a blitz of new radio frequency identification (RFID) products ready to ship, major platform vendors continue to bolster their efforts to make sure the wireless tracking technology is ready for corporate users to deploy.

Last month's legal hammering of a leading tenancy database operator by the Federal Privacy Commissioner was a warning that could propel large enterprises to clean up their data. Julian Bajkowski reports.

Sticking to a vision has its rewards. For AXA Financial Services LLC, those rewards add up to about US$55 million, which is what IT executives figure they've saved by adhering to a blueprint for the services-based computing architecture the company first laid out in 1990.

In a bid to streamline business processes and reduce operational costs by expanding its data transaction capabilities, MM Electrical Merchandising is implementing an upgraded EDI gateway solution.

ITT Fluid Technology has been working on a project to support the global sharing of design, engineering, manufacturing and other product-related information among its various operations. The initiative, part of a wider effort to implement a "design anywhere, build anywhere" capability, should also let the manufacturer sell, service and integrate its parts everywhere, says global products and data manager Ron Watson.

Getting excited about Web services simplifying enterprise computing? From Oracle's perspective, you should think again.

As hardware companies such as Hewlett-Packard-Compaq wrestle with crumbling margins, top-tier systems integrators are faced with their own paradigm shift many believe will intensify during the next 12 months.

The nature of application and data integration is changing. Although the early whisperings of the demise of EAI (enterprise application integration) are proving premature, the technology is now finding itself challenged by an expanding range of options.

The nature of application and data integration is changing. The early whisperings of EAI's (enterprise application integration's) demise are proving premature, and the technology is now finding a few emerging options.