Loosely Coupled news releases live feedLive feed of the latest press releases and other news items from web services and business process suppliersTIBCO Brings BPM and SOA to Business Users- April 13, 2006 TIBCO Software Inc. (NASDAQ: TIBX), today announced at TUCON 2006, the company's annual user conference, the launch of TIBCO Business Studio(tm), the first software offering in a series of role-based design technology targeting the business user. TIBCO Business Studio represents a unified Eclipse-based environment that integrates modeling, management and simulation to help facilitate collaboration between business and IT users and optimize processes, thereby decreasing time-to-market of...http://www.tibco.com/company/news/releases/press727.jsp ObjectWeb Celtix Project Achieves Fifth Key Milestone- April 13, 2006 IONA(r) Technologies (NASDAQ: IONA), a world leader in high-performance integration solutions for mission-critical IT environments, and ObjectWeb, a well established and respected open source community with a focus on the development of industry-grade distributed middleware, today announced that the Celtix(tm) open source Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) project has achieved its fifth key milestone.Celtix Milestone 5 marks the fifth on-schedule delivery of planned enhancements to the project and...http://www.iona.com/pressroom/2006/20060413.htm TIBCO Delivers New SOA Integration, Orchestration Capabilities- April 12, 2006 TIBCO Software Inc. (NASDAQ:TIBX), today announced general availability of TIBCO BusinessWorks(tm) 5.3, the latest release of the company's flagship integration solution designed to help customers easily unlock the true benefits offered by an enterprise-scale service-oriented architecture (SOA). With this new version, TIBCO offers additional support for emerging Web Services standards, greater flexibility to quickly create services with one-click user interface features, and integrated partner..http://www.tibco.com/company/news/releases/press725.jsp SOA Software Announces General Availability of SOLA Mainframe Web Service Product- April 11, 2006 OA Software, the leading provider of comprehensive SOA and Web services management, security and run-time governance solutions, today announced that its Service Oriented Legacy Architecture (SOLA(tm)) product, the industry's first high-performance, secure, standards-based platform for CICS Web services, is now shipping.Already deployed in production at Merrill Lynch for more than three years, the first commercially available release of SOLA, version 5.0, adds comprehensive support for key...http://www.soa.com/index.php/section/company_press_detail/soa_software_announces_general_a... StrikeIron Offers Free Marketplace Edition of OnDemand for Microsoft Excel Add-in- April 11, 2006 StrikeIron Inc., provider of the Web Services Marketplace, today announced a free "marketplace edition" of StrikeIron OnDemand for Web Services. This free edition enables unlimited access within Excel to all of the Web services from the StrikeIron Web Services Marketplace. StrikeIron OnDemand for Excel provides Microsoft Excel users drag-and-drop access to the power of XML-based Web services, delivering "live" workbooks to the desktop that are fed by real-time data. Now, any subscriber or...http://www.strikeiron.com/news/si_freeondemand.aspx Service Provisioning Markup Language (SPML) v2.0 Ratified as OASIS Standard- April 11, 2006 The OASIS international standards consortium today announced that its members have approved the Service Provisioning Markup Language (SPML) version 2.0 as an OASIS Standard, a status that signifies the highest level of ratification. SPML provides an XML-based framework for managing the allocation of system resources within and between organizations. Encompassing the entire life-cycle management of resources, SPML defines the provisioning of digital services such as user accounts and access...http://www.oasis-open.org/news/oasis-news-2006-04-11.php Lawson Introduces First Landmark-Developed Application Designed for SOA- April 10, 2006 Lawson Software (Nasdaq:LWSN) today announced its first Landmark-developed application, Lawson Strategic Sourcing, to help customers improve the way they develop and manage supplier relationships. Landmark applications are specifically designed to deploy in a service-oriented architecture (SOA) and to help Lawson and its customers to more quickly and easily modify business processes to better adapt to rapidly changing business or technology needs.Landmark is Lawson's next-generation business...http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=129966&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=840709&am... WS-I Board of Directors Appoints SAP's Michael Bechauf Chairman at Spring Community Meeting- April 10, 2006 The Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) today announced that the WS-I Board of Directors, by unanimous vote, appointed Michael Bechauf Chairman of the Board. Bechauf, Vice President of Industry Standards at SAP (NYSE:SAP), succeeds Tom Glover, Senior Program Manager of Web Services Standards for IBM's Software Group (NYSE:IBM), who has served as WS-I Chairman since the organization's inception in February 2002. Bechauf was appointed Chairman at the Board of Directors meeting held..http://www.ws-i.org/press/20060410wsipr.doc IONA and AmberPoint Announce Integrated SOA Infrastructure Capabilities- April 10, 2006 IONA(r) Technologies (NASDAQ: IONA), a world leader in high-performance integration solutions for mission-critical IT environments, and AmberPoint, the industry's leading provider of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) management software, today announced a broad technology partnership designed to offer customers the integrated software necessary to create and manage successful enterprise applications based on SOA. The relationship pairs Artix(tm), IONA's extensible Enterprise Service Bus...http://www.iona.com/pressroom/2006/20060403.htm NetSuite Unveils SuiteScript(tm), First SaaS Platform for Business Process Customization- April 6, 2006 NetSuite, Inc., the leader in on-demand business software suites, today unveiled SuiteScript, a new platform and toolset that delivers unprecedented user-defined extensibility through robust, completely flexible business process customization. This new technology is built on industry standard JavaScript and introduces customization capabilities that allow complex processes with branching logic and time-based decision trees to be automated using scheduled SuiteScripts or user-event based...http://www.netsuite.com/portal/press/releases/nlpr04-06-06c.shtml |