Adrienne Baker is associate editor at Information Management. She can be reached at adrienne.baker@sourcemedia.com.

Integration is Never Simple
August 2, 2010 Enterprise content management vendors shift focus to buyer’s integration demands, according to Real Story Group

Adobe to Acquire Day Software
July 28, 2010 Adobe adds Web content management software to its portfolio

Information Management Announces 40 Vendors We're Watching
July 27, 2010 Products and services for the information management market that are useful, timely and appreciated by customers

The End of a Host-Based Replication Era
July 26, 2010 Vision Solutions finalized the acquisition of Double-Take software, adding a high-growth operating system environment to its...

Cloud Providers Duke It Out
July 21, 2010 Research firm BTC Logic ranks top 10 cloud computing providers in different market segments, including infrastructure,...

IBM Acquires BigFix
July 20, 2010 Privately held BigFix expected to accelerate IBM’s data center and security initiatives

Seven Rights of Cloud Service Customers
July 13, 2010 Market research firm Gartner defines basic rights to help providers and consumers maintain successful business relationships

Oracle BI 11g Sets itself Apart
July 7, 2010 Oracle’s major business intelligence release is more than a simple upgrade, it is a game changer, analyst says

Pitney Bowes Acquires Portrait Software
July 6, 2010 Pitney Bowes receives acceptances for over 90 percent of Portrait Software shares

Dell to Acquire Scalent
July 2, 2010 Core intellectual property for IT consolidation/virtualization; strengthening virtual data center management

Talend Takes on Hadoop
June 29, 2010 Talend incorporates open source platform into data integration suite, offering native support with access to Hadoop and Hive

Teradata Introduces Aggregate Designer
June 22, 2010 New desktop tool addresses data management challenges while optimizing in-database, online analytical processing

IT and Legal Rift Grows, Hindering E-Discovery
June 18, 2010 Results of vendor-sponsored survey show decreased collaboration and e-discovery investment since 2009

4 Steps for Evaluating SaaS
June 16, 2010 Gartner lists best practices for re-evaluating software as a service in your organization

IBM Acquires Coremetrics
June 15, 2010 Acquisition will integrate Web analytic capabilities into WebSphere and across IBM’s products and services, including...

Information Management Opens Call for 2010 Innovative Solution Award Submissions
June 10, 2010 Award features companies with groundbreaking applications that provide business value

Autonomy Acquires CA Technologies’ Information Governance Group
June 9, 2010 Autonomy gains significant expertise to bridge IT and legal needs for e-discovery, analyst says

Storage Software Market Grows in Q1
June 8, 2010 Results of new IDC study indicate recovery and a new normal for the worldwide software market

Midmarket Web Publishers Thrive
June 2, 2010 SharePoint’s slow uptake as a Web publishing platform has created a space for midmarket vendors to thrive, according to a...

Kalido Boosts Products for Better Data Governance
June 1, 2010 Updated versions of Kalido’s information engine and master data management tool include more robust data matching...

Open Source Makes a Difference
May 26, 2010 New Pentaho sponsored report from Mark Madsen conducts price comparison of commercial open source and top five proprietary...

Updated: Sybase IQ Adds Text Analytics
May 25, 2010 Sybase IQ 15.2 is the first and only columnar-based system to build in text analytics, analysts say

IDC Evaluates SAP Implementation Ecosystem
May 19, 2010 IBM and Accenture considered leaders in the space with other major players just behind, according to new report

Composite Updates Data Virtualization Platform
May 18, 2010 Broad updates to virtualization platform include new discovery product, data monitor, Oracle Essbase access and increased...

Process Populism
May 17, 2010 A new movement has business-users calling for greater control of process management. Will it put CIOs out of a job?

Sybase, an SAP Company
May 12, 2010 SAP announced the acquisition of Sybase this afternoon, for a cash exchange of $65.00 per share, representing an enterprise...

IDC Forecast – Cloudy through 2014
May 11, 2010 IDC forecasts rapid cloud computing growth up to $11.8 billion through 2014, with increasingly broad private cloud adoption

VMware’s SpringSource Acquires GemStone
May 7, 2010 Ongoing moves establish virtualization specialist as a significant player in the cloud, says analyst

BI Tools Struggle to Keep Up
May 6, 2010 Sponsored Forrester survey finds knowledge workers seeking agile, self-service business intelligence tools to ease backlog

CA Reveals Updates to its Backup and Recovery Products
May 5, 2010 With the addition of snapshot data capture, updates to CA’s family of backup and recovery products give the company a leg...

IT Services Revenue Declines
May 4, 2010 A new Gartner report finds a 5.3 percent decline in the market; analysts attribute numbers to tough economy and an agile...

BackOffice Associates Acquires HiT Software
May 3, 2010 Product acquisitions extend customer base, transition BackOffice from services to data management platform, analysts say

IBM Acquires Cast Iron Systems
May 3, 2010 In a fragmented market fraught with integration challenges, Cast Iron Systems brings a key ingredient to IBM’s cloud...

SaaS Rolls on Despite Poor Governance
April 30, 2010 Gartner finds organizations drawn to SaaS hype failed to recognize downstream problems; separate studies reveal economic...

Attensity Acquires Biz360
April 28, 2010 Semantic analytics meets social customer relationship management with a new platform, Attensity360

Enterprise Architects Step to the Plate
April 27, 2010 Gartner analysts predict that 95 percent of organizations will support a blended approach to enterprise architecture by 2015

BI Grows Despite Economic Woes
April 22, 2010 Business intelligence, analytics and performance management prove less cyclical than other software areas, recording healthy...

Public Sector Slow-and-Go in SaaS Adoption
April 21, 2010 The public sector will likely have a flatter and longer cloud adoption curve that the rest of the market, according to a new...

Salesforce.com Acquires Jigsaw
April 21, 2010 The acquisition will combine salesforce.com’s cloud platform and customer relationship management applications with...

Don’t Put Influencers in the Corner
April 20, 2010 Sixteen percent of Americans online are responsible for 80 percent of brand impressions in online social media; marketers...

Three Steps for Successful CRM Strategy
April 14, 2010 Companies must link plans to the overall company strategy already in use and expect detours along the way, Gartner analysts say

Now, There’s a Snap for That
April 13, 2010 SnapLogic introduces new model for data integration – the SnapStore, with hopes to transform the industry

Closing In, SAS
April 12, 2010 Data integration giant SAS launches social media analytics software, challenging specialized vendors in the market

WebFOCUS 8 Improves Decision-Making
April 12, 2010 Information Builders integrates performance management into its business intelligence platform

IBM Squares-Off Against Other Industry Giants
April 8, 2010 Challenges Oracle and HP, driving workload optimized system strategy across all its hardware platforms, further extending...

An Apple for Oracle
March 30, 2010 K-12 Education Institutions are looking to Oracle business intelligence technology and applications for organizational...

Sybase Operator Analytics 365
March 24, 2010 Comprehensive predictive analytics application for mobile operators to improve quality of service

Yahoo and SAS Execs Launch Data Mining Company
March 23, 2010 Touting the expertise of “digital pioneers,” start up intends to bring large-scale data technologies to bridge the...

Aberdeen: Predictive Analytics and Data Mining Crucial to Success
March 19, 2010 Tough competitive environment and need to future customer behavion puts focus on cross- and up-selling top strategy for...

Aberdeen: BI Critical to Supply Chain Performance
March 17, 2010 A new study highlights to role of advanced business intelligence technologies in the enablement of supply chain processes

Gartner: Top Virtualization Security Risks and How to Combat Them
March 16, 2010 With 60 percent of virtualized servers expected to be less secure than the physical servers they replace through 2012, Gartner...

To BPM … and Beyond
March 15, 2010 Progress Software leverages Savvion, other acquired parts to extend BPM to real-time and event-based management in new suite;...

Pay No Attention to the Pricing Model Behind the Curtain
March 10, 2010 IDC Survey demonstrates both interest and skepticism toward pay-per-use software pricing

Euro Data Center Management Needs Improvement
March 9, 2010 Virtualization and automation are providing new ways to reduce costs and free resources; CIOs still have significant potential...

Clarabridge Self Service
March 3, 2010 Beta launch of new text analytics product for small organizations and free use for a limited time

Software AG Goes for Gold
March 2, 2010 Enterprise software company announces strategic goal to be largest player in the business process excellence market,...

Oracle Healthcare Data Warehouse Foundation
March 1, 2010 New enterprise analytics data model to help providers establish an integrated view of their business

CA Buys Into Cloud
February 25, 2010 CA acquires 3Tera, gaining the title of cloud provider and taking the startup infrastructure as a service company into the...

SAP Introduces BI SaaS Integrated Toolset
February 24, 2010 Analyst describes release as first of a kind entry into business intelligence software as a service from a large vendor

Mimosa Goes to the Mountain
February 23, 2010 Information management services vendor Iron Mountain acquires enterprise content archivist Mimosa Systems, bolstering its...

SAS and Accenture Partner on Predictive Analytics
February 17, 2010 New Accenture SAS Analytics Group attempts to tackle short supply of analytic experts with the ability to apply techniques to...

EMC Enhances Cloud Platform
February 16, 2010 Addition of GeoProtect gives users the scale and flexibility to protect information in a globally dispersed cloud infrastructure

Portal Buyers in Limbo
February 10, 2010 CMS Watch research finds IT directors are dragging their feet on new portal purchases

Adjusting BI’s Posture
February 9, 2010 Ness Technology survey says aligning organizational business intelligence strategy can reduce the pain points resulting in...

Oracle Acquires AmberPoint in the Shadow of Sun
February 8, 2010 Database, application and middleware giant to increase service-oriented architecture management capabilities with new...

Collaboration is Key – 5 Social Software Predictions
February 2, 2010 Gartner takes a closer look at the direction and role of social networking and offers best practices to embrace it

Informatica Acquires Siperian
January 29, 2010 Acquisition puts Informatica in a position to challenge master data management dominance of IBM, Oracle and SAP

Consumerization Cuts to Front of Cloud Security Threat Line
January 26, 2010 Forrester reports enterprise and SMB security trends for 2010, emphasis on managing vulnerabilities and complex threats

It’s a Skimmer
January 25, 2010 Netezza announces TwinFin’s little sister, a small capacity data warehouse appliance that can be used as a basis for...

IT’s Strategic Role Will Accelerate Despite Flat 2010 Budgets
January 20, 2010 Gartner survey shows CIOs will prioritize virtualization, cloud and Web 2.0 technologies to get out from under front-loaded...

Look Outside IT for Information Management Success
January 19, 2010 Gartner identifies four roles IT departments need to seek out to positively affect IT and business; legal and data management...

VMware Acquires Zimbra from Yahoo
January 15, 2010 Virtualization vendor will gain open source cloud collaboration/email product to compete with Web-based providers; Yahoo...

BPM Push - 5 Predictions for 2010 and Beyond
January 13, 2010 Gartner’s best practices challenge users and vendors alike to push BPM capabilities beyond its traditional market focus

Progress Software Acquires Savvion
January 12, 2010 Business process management suite market continues to converge with acquisition

Business Analytics SaaS to Grow Three Times Market Pace
January 12, 2010 IDC says SaaS for analytics expected to reach a compound annual growth rate of more than 22 percent by 2013

Oracle Acquires Silver Creek Systems
January 5, 2010 An influential vendor in product data management fills an in-house gap in a unique category of MDM

EMC to Acquire Archer
January 4, 2010 Acquisition brings EMC its first central governance risk and compliance platform

Snapshot on CEO Priorities for 2010
January 2, 2010 Back to Revenue

Refresh Cycle Preps Industry for a Rebound
December 30, 2009 A new survey from Pacific Crest Securities strengthens the case, as a majority of large enterprises plan to increase their...

Back to Basics: 12 Technology Predictions for 2010
December 29, 2009 Market research firm CMS Watch’s predictions for the coming year focus on internal technology applications

SourceMedia, DM Review Announce Innovative Solution Award Winners
December 22, 2009 Award features companies with groundbreaking software applications that provide real business value

IBM Acquires Lombardi
December 16, 2009 Business process management software vendor adds automated human tasks and workflows to IBM portfolio

Changing the Rules
December 15, 2009 The new normal for business looks like increased investment in IT, according to a new Gartner Study

Utilities Interest in Smart Grids Jumps
December 11, 2009 With increases in pilot project funding from the ARRA, information and communication technology spending on intelligent grid...

SAP Introduces Holistic Sustainability Management Application
December 10, 2009 The business software provider broadens the scope of sustainability to address product, economic and human rights performance

MySQL in Oracle's Hands: Open Source Users Weigh In
December 9, 2009 Concerns related to the proposed acquisition of MySQL by Oracle have a part to play in the predicted decline of MySQL popularity

New ParAccel Analytic Appliance Harnesses Flash-Based SSDs
December 8, 2009 Company’s new release includes patent-pending technologies that optimize the performance in SAN-attached data warehouses

IDC: Enterprise Storage Shows Signs of Rebound
December 4, 2009 External disk storage posted another year-over year decline in the third quarter says market research firm, but there are...

IT Executives Worry about Security in the Cloud
December 3, 2009 Concerns about the security of cloud computing environments tops the list in Forrester’s most recent survey for firms...

Gartner Agrees to Acquire AMR Research
December 2, 2009 AMR is expected to expand Gartner’s research offerings and compliment the market research firm’s consulting and...

IBM Acquires Guardium
December 1, 2009 IBM expands real-time data monitoring and business analytics with acquisition of privately-held software company

Four Critical Questions for Data Center and IT Managers
November 24, 2009 Gartner asks managers to examine cost and efficiency this year, as current energy, space and technology problems are expected...

Heathrow’s Terminal 5 Live on Progress Software
November 23, 2009 The U.K.’s only hub airport deploys enterprise service bus for airport integration capabilities

iWay Cloud Services for Amazon EC2 Released
November 18, 2009 Newest release from the Information Builders owned subsidiary deploys data integration technologies in the cloud

Informatica Delivers Cloud Platform as a Service
November 17, 2009 Vendor addresses software as a service, platform as a service and infrastructure as a service with new cloud release

SourceMedia, Information Management Announce Innovative Solution Award Winners
November 16, 2009 Award recognizes groundbreaking solutions that and provide quantifiable business value across interdependent market

Forrester Takes Pulse on IT Executive Budgets
November 13, 2009 Latest Enterprise IT Services Survey offers insights into IT and outsourcing decision-making in North America and Europe

Oracle GoldenGate Announced
November 11, 2009 Oracle repackages technology from GoldenGate software in data integration suite of solutions

Gartner: SaaS Revenue Expected to Increase 18 Percent
November 10, 2009 Year over year growth for software as a service forecast at five times that of the total application market

Gartner to Vendors: Target CFOs and SBUs
November 4, 2009 New report predicts 6.8 percent decline in vertical market, highlighting a new market environment for IT vendors

Aster Data Brings Applications Inside the Warehouse
November 2, 2009 Version 4.0 combines data warehousing and application servers in one system made up of separate and complete architectures

Open Text Looks to Leverage New Media
October 30, 2009 Enterprise content management vendor offers 2010 product roadmap for WCM, digital asset management and social media solutions

IDC Gauges Virtualization Market in Midst of Recession
October 28, 2009 Down economy takes a toll, but growth among customer adopters shows signs of recovery

Monarch 10.5 Embeds Source Data in Excel Spreadsheets
October 27, 2009 Datawatch adds compliance and auditing capabilities in to its report mining and analysis tool, allowing original report to be...

IT Spending to Turn Around in 2010
October 21, 2009 With worldwide IT spending on pace to decline in 2009, Gartner predicts 3.3 percent growth for 2010, cautioning IT leaders not...

What’s Hot and Not: Trends in Data Warehousing
October 20, 2009 New TDWI best practices report says master data management, real-time data warehousing and advanced analytics are the hottest...

DataCore Releases SANmelody 3.0
October 14, 2009 Latest version of vendor’s data storage and disk space management platform targets small and midsized businesses

Noetix Acquires Jaros
October 9, 2009 Acquisition of business intelligence analytics vendor allows Noetix to provide complete real-time reporting and packaged...

Initiate Enhances MDM Product with Data Governance
October 7, 2009 Master Data Service version 9.0 allows data stewards to centrally manage and classify business data issues

Enhanced Kalido Information Engine Takes On MDM
October 6, 2009 Automated data management functions and defined rules of engagement between IT and business users

Oracle Acquires HyperRoll
September 30, 2009 Oracle acquired HyperRoll, a provider of financial reporting solutions

iDashboards New SaaS Offering is In Cloud
September 29, 2009 Microsoft Excel users can turn spreadsheets in to comprehensive dashboards in the cloud with iDashboards new...

Datawatch Dashboard Solution for Power Users
September 23, 2009 New displays extract data from hard-to-reach sources providing easier data visualization and real-time capabilities

Aster Data Releases MPP Backup
September 22, 2009 nCluster and nCluster Cloud Edition Parallel processing for high performance online backup and restore capabilities

Melissa Data Debuts New Search Technology
September 16, 2009 Guided Information Access platform designed for access and analysis of legacy data

Actuate, BIRT and Infobright Release Integrated BI Solution
September 16, 2009 Two of the largest open source communities expand reach for the deployment of the end-to-end business intelligence solution

BMC, NetApp Partner in Cloud
September 8, 2009 The companies will provide mutual customers will a fully automated end-to-end cloud infrastructure

Informatica Aquires Agent Logic
September 4, 2009 Data integration provider expands market baseto incorporate complex event processing

Kalido Customizes with Netezza
September 3, 2009 Kalido data warehousing appliance confronts automation challenges with the incorporation of Netezza and QlikView

IBM Moves Desktop to the Cloud
September 1, 2009 New release provides centrally managed environment, gives users a new way to manage desktop infrastructures in the cloud

Sybase Deploys on EC2
August 26, 2009 Data management and analytics servers now available for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

Teradata Virtual Storage Released
August 25, 2009 New software uses access patterns to automatically place data on different storage units

MicroStrategy 9 Working for SaaS Companies
August 21, 2009 Original equipment manufacturer program augmented for software as a service companies

Gartner: Technology Service Providers Need a Contingency Plan
August 19, 2009 Despite decrease in retail spending on IT, opportunities remain elsewhere for technology service providers

Teracotta Acquires Ehcache
August 18, 2009 Acquisition brings a strong player in data virtualization with substantial caching deployment footprint

Gartner: Time to Embrace a New Architecture
August 12, 2009 Seven properties differentiate emergent architecture from the traditional approach to enterprise architecture

VMware to Acquire SpringSource
August 11, 2009 Acquisition is the first step in contributing to growing platform-as-a-service market

Gartner: BPM Spending to Rise
August 5, 2009 Companies that increase business process management investments are poised for growth, researcher says

Netezza Opens Architecture
August 4, 2009 New TwinFin appliance runs on commercially available hardware

Mashup-Style BI Leverages Organizations' Investments
July 30, 2009 Forrester report finds self-service mashups reduce pressure on IT

Cloud-Based Information Governance
July 29, 2009 CA and Acxiom launch new enterprise-class on-demand solution for email, archiving, records management

Razorsight Enters New Markets with Acquisition
July 22, 2009 Deal to buy SingleTusk Solutions brings business intelligence and analytics for marketing, engineering, sales and procurement...

New SaaS-Provider Support from InetSoft
July 21, 2009 Business intelligence solution touts increased embedded dashboard and report capabilities

JDA Software Acquires Strategix Shares
July 17, 2009 Expands Central and Eastern European market coverage with business-performance solutions company

BMC Software Leverages Amazon Cloud
July 15, 2009 Release simplifies deployment and management of cloud environments through self-service portal; analysts mixed on adoption rates

SPSS Updates Flagship Statistical Software
July 14, 2009 PASW Statistics 18 allows access to open source R and Python programming

Execs Want New Approach to Risk Management
July 8, 2009 Accenture study reveals desire for increased emphasis and investment in risk management

Responsys Data Integration for Marketing Campaigns
July 7, 2009 New self-service, data-driven marketing solution designed to give marketers increased transparency and control over how...

Autonomy Supports Multichannel Optimization
June 24, 2009 New solution enables organizations to respond to all forms of customer interactions across Web, contact center, email channels

Workflow Functions Cause Traders to Suffer
June 23, 2009 Sponsored study reveals investment bankers recognize need for short-term business model changes to increase business value

1010data Hosted Analytics and Reporting Platform Updated
June 18, 2009 1010data enhances business intelligence solution to increase power and flexibility

New IBM Commercial Cloud Services
June 17, 2009 “Smart Business” cloud portfolio expanded with new automation and IT simplification choices

HP: Run IT Like a Business
June 16, 2009 New IT financial management solution meant to help companies increase transparency, optimize costs

SAP Solution Tracks Stimulus Spending
May 27, 2009 Enterprise software vendor joins a growing list of providers offering performance management software to meet reporting...