Software

Windows administrators have long been denied good scripting tools with real enterprise features. Instead, they quite often offer little more than the most basic syntax colouring and text editing. PrimalScript 4.0 by Sapien gives administrators the features they

Unifying its developer offerings for Windows, Borland Software this month announced Borland Developer Studio, an environment that includes the latest versions of the company

IBM Corp. this month, along with a host of other companies, proposed the creation of a set of common practices and methods for developing software within the open-source Eclipse Foundation.

Choices in security event management (SEM) continue to grow as three SEM vendors debut products that ease central collection and analysis of log and event data generated by firewalls, intrusion-detection systems and other net gear.

With users looking to standardize by consolidating business applications through one business performance management (BPM) platform, BPM vendors are moving to integrate their offerings.

When end-users are involved in major IT decision-making from the beginning, IT projects are bound to succeed. That is the principle that Mississauga, Ont.-based Trillium Health Centre adopted when it embarked on a seven-year, $100-million IT restructuring project dubbed, Transforming Healthcare into Integrated Networks of Knowledge (THINK).

Data is everywhere, but useful information is in short supply. Many companies have or are planning to put in place a business intelligence (BI) system to transform all that leaden data into golden information. About 22 per cent of Canadian companies have BI in place, while another 34 per cent plan to invest in one over the next three years, according to Jeff Dutrizac, a research analyst at Info-Tech, a London, Ont.-based research consultancy.

On Sept. 23, the Massachusetts government made an official announcement that effective Jan. 1, 2007 all state documents must be saved in the OpenDocument file format and all state IT systems can use only applications that provide native support for OpenDocument. Since Microsoft says it has no plans to support OpenDocument, it will be shut out of the Massachusetts account.