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Compuware refocuses: optimization, performance, portfolio management in -- Quality out

This guest post comes courtesy of David A. Kelly at Upside Research, where he’s principle analyst. You can reach him here. Well, okay, maybe that headline is misleading, but the details aren’t. Detroit-based software giant Compuware isn’t really dropping the quality of its products,...

Tags: Performance, Optimization, Borland Software Corp., Micro Focus, Compuware Corp., Portfolio Management, MicroFocus, Mainframes, Government, Vertical Industries, Strategy, Servers, Hardware, Management, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2009-05-06

Business leaders worry: who will mind the IT store?

Too much Web 2.0 and Internet skills hiring at the cost of mission-critical systems? by Joe McKendrick

Tags: Recession, Information Technology, Leader, Micro Focus, Recruiting, SOA, Survey, Business Leader, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Hardware Upgrade, Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-12-10

Enterprise Cloud Services: Deriving Business Value From Cloud Computing

Cloud computing is the next computing platform paradigm shift and refers to Internet-based development and use of computer technology. The cloud is a metaphor for the Internet and is an abstraction for the complex infrastructure it conceals. It is a style of computing in which users access technology-enabled services from...

Tags: Micro Focus, Internet, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware

White papers 2008-12-01

Micro Focus Net Express 1.0.0.1 (Windows)

Micro Focus Net Express® is the market-leading COBOL development environment for extending core business processes to the .NET Framework and other distributed platforms. Powerful integration with Microsoft Visual Studio and the .NET Framework plus direct COBOL Web services capabilities, J2EE connectivity and XML support allow easy integration of existing and...

Tags: Micro Focus, Microsoft Windows, COBOL, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Software downloads 2008-02-11

Extending COBOL to SOA, Web Services and Beyond: A Look at the Architecture

A variety of tactical Web-enablement technologies were used to meet that requirement, but most of these extension solutions were implemented as short-term, stop-gap responses to an immediate need. In many cases the resulting deployment infrastructures are fragile, failure-prone and inflexible. Until recently most extension solutions focused primarily on exposing legacy...

Tags: Web, Web Service, Micro Focus, SOA, COBOL, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Programming Languages, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development

White papers 2006-10-01

Introducing Micro Focus Net Express to Develop and Extend COBOL Applications Within .NET

This paper will introduce the capabilities of Micro Focus Net Express that allows COBOL to operate within the .NET environment. This provides a variety of options for enhancing and extending existing systems. The paper discusses how Micro Focus helps to extend and modernize COBOL applications reusing existing code within the...

Tags: Microsoft .NET, Micro Focus, COBOL, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development

White papers 2006-10-01

Microsoft, Micro Focus target mainframes

Microsoft, Micro Focus target mainframesTwo sides of this issueThere are applications that are cheaper in a Wintel server than a MF if the amount of data and the resources required can be hendled by the Wintel server. Also programming and changing wintel applications is easier and far cheapr than MF...

Tags: Mainframes, Servers, mainframe, IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp., Wintel, Micro Focus

Discussion threads 2004-04-08

FNS Benchmarks Core Banking Solution in Windows Environment Using Micro Focus Products

FNS provides end-to-end, integrated solutions for the banking and finance industry around the world. From 27 January to 21 February 2003, a multi-disciplinary team worked to demonstrate the scalability and performance of the FNS solution, BANCS, within a Windows server environment. Traditionally, COBOL based critical banking software such as BANCS,...

Tags: Environment, Micro Focus, FNS, Banking, Microsoft Windows, Financial Services, Operating Systems, Software

Case studies

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Oracle OpenWorld 2009 - Social CRM Technology Rears an Actual Head

I am almost always in awe of Oracle OpenWorld.  The scope of this conference is spectacular. Can you imagine an event that the attendance is down to 37,000 attendees?  Actually, that puts me in awe of their event planners more than even the event. How in the name of whoever...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Siebel Systems Inc., CRM, Anthony Lye, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-10-14

Jobsworths and Box-Wallahs...

We've all been behind the glass in bureaucratic purgatory at some point. Having waited in line at the department of motor vehicles or similar our number finally comes up and we interact with the bureaucrat, who has some issue with your missing some...

Tags: Job, Recruitment & Selection, Wiki, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Online Communications, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-09-13

Panasonic introduces LUMIX DMC-GF1 and two new lenses

Panasonic announced the release of a new addition to the LUMIX G family: the DMC-GF1. The 12-megapixel model is the world’s smallest and lightest system digital camera with a built-in flash. A follower in the LUMIX G series, known for producing "DSLR-like" models at the sizes of pocket cameras, it comes with...

Tags: Panasonic, Lens, Video, LUMIX DMC-GF1, LEICA, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Rachel King

Blog posts 2009-09-03

Dell EqualLogic TCO Analysis by ESG

Organizations of all sizes are struggling to meet the conflicting challenges associated with macro-level global financial uncertainty and micro-level information storage growth and complexity. A growing number of IT managers are turning to virtualization and consolidation technologies to meet these challenges. With a focus on scalability, automated management using rich...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Dell EqualLogic, Analysis, Storage, Hardware

White papers 2009-09-01

Samsung Mondi SWD-M100

Editors' note: The Samsung Mondi is designed for Clearwire's WiMax markets. At the time of this writing, service is limited to Las Vegas, Atlanta, and Portland, Ore. Customers also can access Sprint's WiMax network in Baltimore. WiMax is not yet available in the San Francisco Bay Area, so our review...

Tags: Keyboards, Mobile operating systems, WiMAX, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Handhelds, Mobile applications, Wireless and Mobility, battery cover, Samsung Mondi, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

Product reviews 2009-08-13

Poll: How important is the quality of the built-in camera when buying a mobile phone?

They're all basically toysPhone cameras are handy for an occasional "grab" shot, but I sure wouldn't use one as my main camera on a vacation trip.RE: Poll: How important is the quality of the built-in camera when buying aAn onboard camera in a cellphone is of little importance to me....

Tags: mobile, camera, phone, cell phone, pic

Discussion threads 2009-08-10

Twitter attack: Bots may have been hardest hit

To read the coverage of yesterday's Denial-of-Service attack on Twitter, you'd think it was the end of the online world. But to put things in perspective as it relates to Twitter and the number of people who are using the service - and hit hardest by the outage - consider...

Tags: Robot, Bot, Twitter, Attack, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-08-07

Asus Essentio CG5290-BP007

Editors' note: This review is part of our 2009 Retail Laptop and Desktop Back-to-School roundup, covering specific fixed configurations of popular systems that can be found in retail stores.The $1,199 Asus Essentio CG5290-BP007 stands out from the rest of our back-to-school PCs because of both its price and its intentions....

Tags: Blu-ray, Desktops, Games, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Network technology, Asus Essentio CG5290-BP007, Asus Essentio, ASUS

Product reviews 2009-08-04

SAP's Schwarz & Sikka: The Road to More Agile Business Performance

Last week I had the opportunity to spend time with SAP CTO Vishal Sikka and separately SAP executive board member John Schwarz, and I've been ruminating on our conversations a lot since those meetings. Fortunately I was part of a group of bloggers who have been following SAP closely, and...

Tags: Performance, SAP AG, Financial Planning, Change Management, Performance Management, Strategy, Finance, Tools & Techniques, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-07-31

Sony Ericsson Cyber-shot C905

Photo gallery:Sony Ericsson Cyber-shot C905We don't typically see high-end megapixel camera phones from Sony Ericsson here in the U.S. unless they're unlocked, and as a result, prohibitively expensive. So it was a welcome surprise to us when we heard that the Sony Ericsson Cyber-shot C905a would make its way to...

Tags: Sony Ericsson C905a, camera, Sony Ericsson Cyber-shot, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, Cyber-shot C905a, Sony Ericsson Cyber-shot C905a

Product reviews 2009-07-15

bizSessions 1.0, FTW or WTF funding models for startups

Hosted by Wildcog, and the creators of geekSessions, tonight was the first bizSessions. Jonathan Abrams, founder of Friendster and now Socializr, was the first to speak. The Lean Startup Low burn rate, the use things that are cheap...

Tags: Start-up, Money, Data Centers, Social Networking, Entrepreneurship, Strategy, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Management, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2009-07-14

Why the first Chrome netbooks may not be so revolutionary

Acer and Lenovo will be among the first to release netbooks running Google's Chrome OS. These netbooks, which will be dual-boot systems with Windows XP as well, could be available as early as next month in some markets, according to several reports. HTC, the smartphone manufacturer, could also release a...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Android, Google Chrome, Netbook, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Mobile Operating Systems, Smart Phones, Hardware, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, John Morris

Blog posts 2009-07-14