Infrastructure

Three vendors with roots in business-to-business integration have snapped up data synchronization specialists in recent weeks, highlighting the growing importance of data quality in electronic transactions.

IBM Corp. on Monday announced the latest addition to its eServer line based on the company's POWER5 microprocessors. The new eServer i5 is designed for the small and medium business market and incorporates the newly announced Virtualization Engine, announced late last month.

PeopleSoft Inc. is preparing a major sales push and technology update for the World software it inherited in its July acquisition of J.D. Edwards & Co. The company will soon release PeopleSoft World Express, a small business-aimed repackaging of the World software, with new features tailoring the suite for customers in four industrial markets, it said Monday.

The use of customer data integration (CDI) tools just may be the cure for enterprise software deployments that struggle with return on investment. And the migration to managing customer information assets using a CDI strategy has already begun, according to Elizabeth Roche, enterprise applications strategies vice-president for Meta Group Inc.

Enterprise software vendor BEA Systems Inc. has teamed with management consultancy Accenture Ltd. to streamline the management and creation of Web portals for customers, employees and partners.

It doesn't take a corporate collapse to expose a non-compliant, poorly managed e-mail system - a simple audit will do it. However, e-mail...

IBM Corp. has plans to expand its portfolio of WebSphere integration middleware with data synchronization software from Trigo Technologies Inc.

If Phil Freidman has his figures right, the volume of products to keep stocked on retail shelves is going to be astronomical in a...