IDC says that Y2K and Euro projects have held back the data warehouse market for the last year, but it predicts growth will increase during 2000 and 2001 as businesses free up budgets and find they need data warehousing functions in order to compete.
Computer Associates (CA) has bought Sterling Software in a deal valued at more than $4bn stock-for-stock deal which it claims is the largest in the history of the software industry. CA is offering 0.5634 of CA shares per Sterling share and the deal...
Net earnings rose 83 per cent based on increased sales, including 21 per cent revenue increases in data warehousing, 18 per cent in retail store automation and eight per cent in financial self service.
Neil Ward-Dutton, principal analyst at Ovum's Software and IT Services Group, considers the latest developments in enterprise application integration. The enterprise application integration (EAI) market became a coherent entity in the mid-to-late...
Information technology managers expect to increase their spending by 2.4 per cent in 2004, according to a survey released by Forrester Research. That's up from the 1.7 per cent rise projected six months ago.
Through referring to Microsoft's functional repository - its own version of a Universal Description Discovery and Integration engine - a model can easily be constructed that defines the functions that a composite application will need, as well as...