Stories about: Attunity

Few reports have surfaced of security breaches in virtual-server environments, but the potential looms large.

Corporate users are increasingly pairing enterprise information integration (EII) technology with business intelligence tools to bolster their efforts to use real-time transaction data to make day-to-day operating decisions.

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.

Enterprise application vendors are advancing on the integration turf occupied by platform players with the help of third-party adapter partners.

IBM applied more glue to its integration strategy on Tuesday, significantly expanding the number of pre-built adapters that connect its WebSphere Application Server 5.0 with various enterprise applications and hardware environments.

Jim Shelton looked the data warehouse monster in the eye and blinked. And he says he's glad he did. In late 1998, Shelton, the director of information systems at Global Companies in the US, says he considered building a data warehouse to share data between the Lawson Software financial applications his petroleum-distribution firm was phasing out and the new Oracle financial applications it was embracing.

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