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Legal Ruling Shakes Up E-mail Archiving
07. 3.2008

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

The whole issue of E-mail Archiving and Management (EAM) has come under the spotlight recently, triggered by a ruling by the Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco — a ruling that touches on the Fourth Amendment "Protection from unreasonable search and seizure."... It's a ruling that could have a huge impact on the EAM market.

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Doug Henschen

My Five Favorite Videos on IE.com
07. 2.2008
Did you notice the new video player on our home page? This isn't just a new user interface, it's a connection to a whole new video delivery infrastructure. This new service brings you a higher-quality viewing experience as well as faster and easier control over what you're watching... With this is mind, I thought I'd share my top-five list of IE-reader-relevant videos...

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Oracle Unveils Plans for BEA
07. 2.2008

Bruce Silver

Oracle has sorted the BEA catalog into one of three buckets: 1) strategic, where BEA was superior to existing Fusion components or offered a new capability; 2) continue and converge, where BEA component would be maintained but eventually merged into Fusion; and 3) maintenance, mostly OEM offerings, which it seems Oracle wants to walk away from as soon as they can. The BEA installed base was reassured that...

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Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Avoid End-of-Quarter Buying and ELAs
06.30.2008
Last week I had the pleasure of keynoting at the DocTrain event in Indianapolis and also running a small session on "How to procure Content Technologies."... At the end of the session I chatted with the head of a leading US-based systems integrator who said he liked the session but would have added two key points: 1. Never buy at the end of a quarter and 2. Avoid Enterprise License Agreements.

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EVENTS
• BPM Institute SOA/Business Architecture Conference
Washington D.C. June 24-25, 2008

• Gartner Application Integration & Web Services Summit
London June 25-26, 2008

• Web 2.0 Expo New York
New York September 16-19, 2008

• BPM Institute SOA/Business Architecture Conference
San Francisco September 9-10, 2008

• BPM Institute SOA/Business Architecture Conference
New York November 5-6, 2008

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ENTERPRISE APPLICATIONS INSIGHT

Ride the Next Wave of Flexible 'BI Workspaces'
June 30, 2008
by Doug Henschen
Forrester Research says SaaS and in-memory options will let power users and analysts gain insight without IT bottlenecks. Embrace the trend, but beware the costs and risks.

Are You Ready for Advanced Analytics?
June 16, 2008
by Doug Henschen
You can now buy analytics as an add-on module for your BI suite, but you'll need expertise to make the leap into predictive analytics.

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ENTERPRISE APPS NEWS & ANALYSIS

IDC Report Sees Steady Growth for BI, Pent-Up Demand for Analytics
Microsoft, SAS and SPSS lead marketshare gains in 2007. Analyst sees media and academia driving mainstream demand.

Oracle Outlines Roadmap For BEA Acquisition's Products
BEA's WebLogic will become Oracle's strategic application server and will undergo very little re-engineering, Oracle President Charles Phillips said.

Microsoft Revises Volume Licensing Agreements
The software vendor is continuing down a path that's cut the total number of licensing programs from more than 100 last year to 26.

Cast Iron Offers Integration Appliance For NetSuite
NetSuite is the latest software-as-a-service vendor supported by Cast Iron integration appliances, which are billed as supporting application integration through configuration rather than coding.

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WHITE PAPERS

•Nexaweb Advance: End-to-End Application Modernization

•DHL Switzerland Improves the Flow of Information and Goods with Nexaweb's Enterprise Web Suite

•Aflac Japan Trims IT Management Costs, Slashes Development Cycle, and Boosts Application Performance with Nexaweb Enterprise Web 2.0 Solution

•The Evolution of IT Operations

•Spector 360 for Call Centers

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ENTERPRISE APPLICATIONS TOPICS

Composite Applications and SOA

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)