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Hewlett-Packard trotted out the new HP SOA Systinet 3.0 registry today, capping a year of announcements that create a services oriented architecture (SOA) lifecycle portfolio, and extends the governance function broadly — a cradle to grave approach — that spans from design time to run time and all the way up to project portfolio management (PPM).

News Analysis. Today, Microsoft kicked off its Business Intelligence Conference with three new forthcoming product annoucements.

A new data services offering from WSO2 allows a database administrator (DBA) or anyone with a knowledge of SQL to access enterprise data and expose it to services and operations through a Web services application-programming interface (API). WSO2 Data Services, the latest open-source product from the Mountain View, Calif.

New “managed self-service” business intelligence technologies and enhanced enterprise-class data warehousing capabilities usher in era of truly pervasive BI.

As the second annual Microsoft Business Intelligence Conference opens, Microsoft BI tools empower information workers and drive performance at pharmaceutical leader Merck & Co., Inc., highlighting market momentum.

By Boris Evelson Most modern large enterprise Business Intelligence (BI) tools are very robust and feature rich these days. Up until a few years ago BI users could blame vendors for most of their BI ills. This is getting harder and harder to do.

Between high oil prices and the sub-prime mortgage crisis, the economic situation here in the U.S. has gone from bad to worse over the past few years. Let's face it, we are still largely an oil-based economy and these higher oil prices have a trickle down effect as they increase the cost of goods (higher costs of manufacturing and delivery).

Customer vs. Company, With Call Centers in the Middle "Thanks to the Internet many customers have turned back the swords of CRM through product, service and price research. They return fire with devastating feedback, spread worldwide at the speed of light.

The matter of Rhine Capitalism vs. Anglo Saxon Capitalism, referring to the battle between the capitalist system that has long reigned in the US vs. the more socialist system that came forth from European countries, is one that is on the table right now.

I have to say that I (Vincent) am a little baffled by the amount of effort that goes into IT or ICT. I thought we had these discussions some years ago and the general consensus was: IT is not the source of sustainable competitive advantage.