The most recent Applications articles from IT Week

Oracle confirms BEA licence changes

Gareth Morgan — 2008-07-23T14:31:00.000Z

Gareth Morgan, IT Week, Wednesday 23 July 2008 at 14:31:00

Standardising on Oracle's mulit-core processing terms means price rises for some

Oracle has confirmed that BEA customers using multi-core processors can expect licensing fees to rise, as the software maker imposes its own definitions on how these processors are classified....

SAP Tomorrow's never now

Rosalie Marshall — 2008-07-22T14:31:00.000Z

Rosalie Marshall, IT Week, Tuesday 22 July 2008 at 14:31:00

TomorrowNow to close, customers helped to move to Oracle

SAP is to close its controversial subsidiary TomorrowNow by the end of October. In the meantime customers will be helped move to new support providers, including arch-rival Oracle....

Carving out a virtual niche

Daniel Robinson — 2008-07-18T16:22:00.000Z

Daniel Robinson, IT Week, Friday 18 July 2008 at 16:22:00

While VMware goes head-to-head with Citrix and Microsoft, Parallels is addressing needs overlooked by the bigger vendors

Virtualisation firm Parallels is looking to compete in the enterprise market by offering capabilities that are not available from its rivals....

A cloud of suspicion hangs over online security

Tim Anderson — 2008-07-18T15:17:00.000Z

Tim Anderson, IT Week, Friday 18 July 2008 at 15:17:00

Online services need stronger security if business users are to entrust their critical data to the cloud

There’s a lot of hype about IT services living “in the cloud” these days. But is this approach to computing safe? If the recent experience of one software developer is...

Oracle unveil new performance management tools

Rosalie Marshall — 2008-07-17T11:41:00.000Z

Rosalie Marshall, IT Week, Thursday 17 July 2008 at 11:41:00

Integrates Hyperion technoolgy and Fusion middleware

Oracle is to deliver a new enterprise performance management suite, based on its Hyperion business intelligence technology and its Fusion middleware....

Progress refreshes easy BI

Gareth Morgan — 2008-07-14T16:37:00.000Z

Gareth Morgan, IT Week, Monday 14 July 2008 at 16:37:00

Updated BI tools make it easier to find enterprise info

Progress Software has released the latest version of its data analysis tools, which it claimed can extend the use of business intelligence (BI) across the enterprise through the deployment of...

Borland simplifies control of multiple coding projects

Dave Bailey — 2008-07-14T10:22:00.000Z

Dave Bailey, IT Week, Monday 14 July 2008 at 10:22:00

New tools promise to end software development delays

Borland has unveiled a new suite of tools that it said can help firms to meet their software development targets....

QlikTech updates BI offering

Rosalie Marshall — 2008-07-10T14:20:00.000Z

Rosalie Marshall, IT Week, Thursday 10 July 2008 at 14:20:00

QlikTech releases QlikView 8.5

Business Intelligence firm QlikTech has updated its flagship product QlikView. QlikView 8.5 offers a new analysis feature that allows users to compare two sets of data at once....

Google goes all Lively

David Neal — 2008-07-09T16:27:00.000Z

David Neal, IT Week, Wednesday 9 July 2008 at 16:27:00

Google launches Second Life-like 3D chat environment

Google has just launched Lively, an online 3D chat environment that users can use to embed communications tools into their blogs or web sites....

Microsoft discusses its online services push

Rosalie Marshall — 2008-07-09T14:49:00.000Z

Rosalie Marshall, IT Week, Wednesday 9 July 2008 at 14:49:00

What will Microsoft do for the world's deskless workers?

Microsoft has fleshed out details relating to its online services offerings to customers and partners attending its annual worldwide Partner Conference in Houston....

eBay, Gmail and PayPal seek to limit bad emails

David Neal — 2008-07-09T12:51:00.000Z

David Neal, IT Week, Wednesday 9 July 2008 at 12:51:00

Three firms unite to stop the spread of misleading or malicious mails

PayPal, eBay and Gmail have teamed up to try and limit the amount of spam or phishing mails that their customers receive....

Can Microsoft make it in the super league?

Dave Bailey — 2008-07-09T12:21:00.000Z

Dave Bailey, IT Week, Wednesday 9 July 2008 at 12:21:00

The vendor is determined to make a bigger impact in the supercomputing arena

IBM’s latest supercomputer, said to be the first to deliver a petaflop of performance a million gigaflops is a mine of mind-boggling statistics....

SaaS propels CRM sales

Rosalie Marshall — 2008-07-07T17:42:00.000Z

Rosalie Marshall, IT Week, Monday 7 July 2008 at 17:42:00

CRM sales rose dramatically in 2007 says Gartner

Sales of customer relationship management software rose dramatically in 2007, driven in part by the take-up of software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings, according to analyst group Gartner....

Mozilla gains more market share

David Neal — 2008-07-07T11:34:00.000Z

David Neal, IT Week, Monday 7 July 2008 at 11:34:00

Release of Firefox 3 browser has given Mozilla user numbers a boost

The release of version 3 of the Firefox browser has given Mozilla a significant boost, increasing its share of the browser market to just under twenty per cent, according to...

CRM gets more personal

Rosalie Marshall — 2008-07-04T15:29:00.000Z

Rosalie Marshall, IT Week, Friday 4 July 2008 at 15:29:00

Vendors such as HP and EMC are developing personalised communications platforms that aim to boost customer loyalty

A new generation of customer relationship management (CRM) systems is presenting businesses with fresh opportunities to strengthen customer loyalty and generate demand for their products and services, according to experts....