Managed Services & Outsourcing

Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday said it has finished work on Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005, a major update to its MOM 2000 performance management software.

Motorola Inc. this week said it has completed the second of four phases in a planned companywide rollout of information life-cycle management (ILM) software that has cut the size of production databases by as much as 50 per cent in some business units.

As far as keeping their customers satisfied, Web portals, search engines and news and information sites in the U.S. continue to improve but still have work to do, according to a report released Tuesday.

There is no question that instant messaging (IM) is entrenched in the enterprise. More than 90 per cent of businesses report IM activity, according to Osterman Research Inc.

The Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) on Tuesday is releasing three profiles intended to make it easier to send attachments using Web services technologies.

BEA Systems Inc. on Monday is releasing a version of its application infrastructure suite designed to enable ISVs to deliver products for service-oriented architectures (SOAs).

Javalobby, an online community of Java developers, has removed from its new JDocs documentation Web site several vital Java APIs at the request of Java founder Sun Microsystems Inc., an official with Javalobby said on Friday.

Telecom New Zealand Ltd.'s Australian subsidiary AAPT Ltd. has lost its Electronic Funds Transfer at Point of Service (EFT-POS ) services account with the Commonwealth Bank of Australia.