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Microsoft Delivers Another Piece of Its Business Intelligence Puzzle
Microsoft is becoming an increasingly vocal proponent of integration across its various product lines. As of Tuesday, it added SQL Server Reporting Services, yet another layered software component, to its repertoire. Microsoft launched its Reporting Services product on January 27 via a Webcast for customers, analysts and the press. Microsoft offered Webcast launch participants several…
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IBM, Philips To Jointly Develop RFID
Royal Philips Electronics and IBM said Monday that the two companies will work together to develop radio-frequency identification tags (RFID) for use within Philips and later in the mass market. Philips Semiconductors will produce the chips themselves, which will initially be used to tag semiconductor wafer cases and carton packages within Philips Semiconductors’ Kao Hsiung…
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PeopleSoft Teams With Ascential
PeopleSoft entered into a new relationship with Ascential Software last week to embed the latter’s integration technology in its enterprise performance management software. Ascential replaces Informatica as PeopleSoft’s OEM provider of application integration adapters. PeopleSoft will use the new software to provide connectors to SAP and Siebel systems, which will enable users to run their…
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Securing Web Services: An Interview with IBM’s Arvind Krishna
One year after IBM and Microsoft Corp. released a number of standards for securing Web services, Arvind Krishna (seen above), vice president of security products for Tivoli software from IBM, said 2004 is the year enterprises will really begin to use federated identity to protect computing environments. Krishna, who is instrumental in managing the path…
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Oracle Retooling E-Biz Suite
Oracle Corp. is working to certify its E-Business Suite of enterprise applications for use with the company’s forthcoming Oracle 10g database and application server, which will be optimized for grid computing. Oracle officials said that the beauty of its Oracle 10g technology is that it will allow users to run the company’s applications on a…
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Want to Boost Technology Sales? Incent Your Support Staff
Clues for sales are everywhere, and many times they fall in the lap of someone who is not part of your company’s sales team. While most of these leads are passed along to a sales professional, it’s not a bad idea to provide incentives to the support team to continue to look for clues. This…
