Data & Analytics

Sybase Inc. and Sun Microsystems Inc. have teamed up on a system for data-intensive small and midsize businesses that need industrial-strength data processing power without the high-end price tag, the companies announced Wednesday

Microsoft Corp. plans to bundle a version of Crystal Decisions Inc.'s Crystal Enterprise business intelligence application with its forthcoming Microsoft CRM (customer relationship management) software, the companies said Wednesday.

Hoping to fend off a potential patent suit, Good Technology Inc. confirmed last month that it...

Despite an uneven economy, the growth of data from Web services and rich media continues to drive technology spending on storage and the networks required to share stored information across an enterprise. The result: Companies are constantly searching for better technology to manage that information. John Parkinson, chief technology officer at Paris-based Cap Gemini Ernst & Young LLP, spoke with Computerworld last week about information overload and the increased complexity it brings to the enterprise.

Business intelligence vendors such as Cognos, Crystal Decisions and Business Objects combine various Internet-based technologies with thin clients to push business reporting tools further down into a company

As federal investigators dig deeper into a scandal involving shady online energy trading, it looks as if IT departments will be required to redesign the e-commerce systems that once stood out as the pride of the energy industry.

Software applications and Web services will drive the IT market for the next three to five years, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.

Software applications and Web services will drive the IT market for the next three to five years, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC).