Enterprise Applications

 TIBCO Software has acquired Netrics, a privately-held provider of enterprise data matching software products for an undisclosed amount.

CIOs are struggling to defuse a “trust time bomb” caused by employees morphing into super-users with enough network access to damage a business warns information security expert Jo Stewart-Rattray.

Despite the economic doldrums which required downward adjustments to ABI Research’s RFID forecasts for 2009 and 2010, the outlook is good for steady growth through the next five years, according to new market data just released by the firm.

Bamboo has launched a new application suite designed to enable business process automation within a SharePoint. 

Quest Software has updated Quest ActiveRoles Quick Connect, its optional set of add-on solutions to ActiveRoles Server that provide cross-platform provisioning and de-provisioning for automated identity, password and access synchronisation.

IBM has unveiled a new PC server architecture that promises to run 78% more "virtual servers" for the same license costs and slash middleware and application expenses dramatically.

The US Defense Department has issued a new policy that allows Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to be accessed from non-classified government computers, as long as it doesn’t compromise operational security or involve prohibited activities or Web sites.

A new report from security specialist Imperva warns that hackers have become industrialised and represent an exponentially increased threat to individuals, organisations and Government.

Changing the way data is gathered, processed and presented is more likely to guarantee better information and improved business performance than large investments in IT, a KPMG report has found.

The global RFID industry is predicted to generate revenue of around $US11 Billion by 2013, according to industry analysts RNCOS.

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