Talent agents and publicists have the most contacts in their online address books, according to a survey released yesterday by Plaxo, a company that provides a service to manage e-mail, instant messenger and other sources of personal contact data.
In a keynote address at the first Microsoft Business Intelligence Conference in Seattle earlier this month, Jeff Raikes, president of Microsoft's business division, said the explosion of data produced by businesses points to the need for business intelligence (BI) tools. Such tools can help executives interpret data and make decisions that align with overarching strategic goals, he said. In an interview with Computerworld at the show, Raikes talked about the company's PerformancePoint Server 2007, which is set to ship this summer, and about Microsoft's purchase of SoftArtisans's report-authoring tool.
In his opening-day keynote at the first Microsoft Business Intelligence Conference, Jeff Raikes, president of the Microsoft Business Division, noted the explosion of data being produced in most business today. That growth points to the need for business intelligence (BI) tools to help executives interpret data and make decisions that align with overarching strategic goals. But as the number of employees using BI tools expands, he said, companies are discovering the need to provide access to BI data to workers where they live -- mainly in Office tools. With that in mind, Raikes also announced that Microsoft's Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 -- the company's performance management server linking monitoring, analysis and planning -- will ship this summer. Computerworld spoke to Raikes at the conference.
IBM announced a new Web application development tool that can help users without technical skills develop online forms for automating common manual tasks like collecting and analyzing information.
Business Objects Tuesday unveiled an online community designed to tackle pressing global issues by linking data analysts, technologists, academics and others and providing them with tools needed to address key challenges facing businesses and social organizations.
At its first Microsoft Business Intelligence Conference in Seattle, Microsoft -- which had been holding details about the next version of SQL Server close to the vest -- announced the target ship date and new details for the follow-on to SQL Server 2005. Code-named "Katmai," the next release will include support for unstructured data and will boost scalability and administration, said Ted Kummert, Microsoft's corporate vice president of the Data and Storage Platform Division. Kummert spoke to Computerworld recently about the next version of SQL Server, which will focus on enterprise scalability, developer productivity and providing users with pervasive insight about data.
Microsoft Wednesday announced new details about the next version of its SQL Server software, which it said will let users access and manage increasing volumes of data.
Bob Brewin, software CTO at Sun Microsystems, said the company will discuss the state of its open-source plans for Java and present the first CommunityOne day for open source and Web developers at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco this week. In an interview with IDG, Brewin said that the company is on track to make all Java products available under the same General Public License (GPL) that Linux carries. He added that the company continues to mull over whether to make the Solaris operating system available under GPL. Solaris is now available under the Sun-created Community Development and Distribution License.
Digg.com, the popular site where users determine the placement of new stories by voting, Tuesday found itself in the centre of what some are calling a test case for the power of user-generated content on social networking sites.
BEA Systems Tuesday rolled out a blended set of development products that meld open source and commercial Java tools.
Adobe Systems Wednesday unveiled a new version of its Flex SDK development tool set, code-named Moxie, along with plans to provide its code to the open-source community.
The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) late last week asked two companies that provide Internet audience measurements to submit to a third-party audit.
Google has rolled out a new Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) API geared to help AJAX developers more easily add Atom and RSS feeds to Web applications or blogs.
Google plans to take another swipe at Microsoft's Office suite of tools by adding presentation software to its Google Docs Web-based tools for word processing, e-mail and spreadsheets.
Blog search engine Technorati Thursday announced that is has acquired Personal Bee, which operates a Web site that customizes news and entertainment content submitted by users for communities of interest around the topics.