Actuate Journal

RIA Developer's Journal on Ulitzer Actuate Corporation has announced BIRT Performance Scorecard 9, the latest iteration of its Performance Management solution. BIRT Performance Scorecard 9 is a Rich Information Application (RIA) that fully integrates BIRT to bring the simplicity and collaboration of consumer internet applications to the Performance Management process. With Version 9 comes BIRT Scorecard Exchange, a pioneering business to business site that grants BIRT Performance Management practitioners no cost access to best practices, frameworks, prebuilt measurement criteria and community links. BIRT Performance Scorecard 9 offers customers a completely new user interface, flash-based dashboard charts and an expanding number of newly designed out-of-the-box BIRT reports. BIRT Performance Scorecard 9 (formerly known as Actuate Performancesoft Views), includes BIR... (more)

Application Server Market

NEW YORK, Aug. 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Application Server Market http://www.reportlinker.com/p01593920/Application-Server-Market.html#utm_source=prnewswire&utm_medium=pr&utm_campaign=Personal_Computer_and_Server IBM is moving toward domination of the application server market, going from 55% share in 2011 to 60% share in 2012, buttressed in part by its dominance in supporting development of mobile apps. This achievement of 60% share of the application server market provides IBM with a defacto standard status in the market. Mission critical application servers are needed in the enterprise to support scalability, reliability, and security. More light weight open source application servers have a place in the market for web presence software, but for a solution that involves transac... (more)

Virtualization Conference & Expo 2009 West: Call for Papers Closing

Now held three times a year, in New York, Prague, and Silicon Valley, the organizing principle of each International Virtualization Conference & Expo remains the same: our aim is to ensure, through an intense and carefully chosen program of technical and strategic breakout sessions, that attending delegates leave each Conference with abundant resources, ideas and examples they can apply immediately to leveraging Virtualization, helping them to maximize performance, minimize cost and improve the efficiency and flexibility of their Enterprise IT endeavors. The Call for Papers for the 7th International Virtualization Conference & Expo, which will be held in Santa Clara, CA, on November 2- 4, 2009, is currently still open. The submissions URL is here, and the deadline for submissions is June 30, 2009. Topics welcomed include every aspect of virtualization. For example: ... (more)

AJAX-Powered Features in CoaguTrak Optimized With Google Chrome Browser

Medmatics, LLC, a leading vendor of on-demand, anticoagulation software for private practices and hospital settings, today announced its support for the Google Chrome Browser, a new open source browser intended to make the Web faster, safer, and easier. As the first anticoagulation management software application with native support for Firefox 3.0 (announced August), CoaguTrak continues to focus on innovation around the latest browser technology and is also the first anticoagulation software to support Google Chrome. Since it is optimized for Web 2.0, the new Google Chrome Browser enhances the performance speed for AJAX-powered features of CoaguTrak, such as list editing, type-ahead lookups, rich text editing, drag-and-drop and quick-add portlets. CoaguTrak supports three other Web browsers: Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari. With the addition of Google Chrome s... (more)

Bluenog Releases ICE 4.5 to Enterprise 2.0 Community

Bluenog has announced the availability of Bluenog ICE 4.5, the only Enterprise 2.0 application development platform built on pre-integrated open source collaboration, content management, presentation and reporting projects. ICE 4.5 is the new release of Bluenog's award winning flagship commercial product. Its Integrated Collaborative Environment of content management, portal, and business intelligence software now includes an Enterprise Wiki, secure group calendaring features and enhanced centralized administration. ICE 4.5 aggregates functionality from over a dozen popular open source projects into a single commercial product, with additional integration and features, all supported by Bluenog. This pre-integration eliminates the need for developers to manually code features such as security permissions and access to legacy systems across all their applications. "... (more)

Aptana Secures New Round of Financing

Aptana, Inc., a provider of open source tools and services for Web application development and management, today announced the completion of a round of financing led by Rembrandt Venture Partners and includes initial investor Accel Partners. "Aptana recently surpassed 4 million downloads of Aptana Studio, the leading open source IDE for web application development. This investment now provides us with the horsepower required to leverage this growing developer community by bringing them compelling web application platform services for the Cloud," said Paul Colton, founder and CEO of Aptana. Aptana launched the first version of their Aptana Cloud service in late 2008. This service provides a complete end-to-end solution for deploying, scaling, staging, managing and monitoring Web applications. With a few clicks you can deploy to scalable open source application platfo... (more)

Thomas Weisel Partners Group, Inc. Hosts Annual Technology & Telecom Conference

SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 02/08/10 -- Thomas Weisel Partners (NASDAQ: TWPG), a global growth-focused investment bank, will host its Annual Technology & Telecom Conference, February 8-10, 2010 at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco. Institutional investors and company management will gather for this three-day conference, which will focus on opportunities and challenges in the technology and telecom sectors for 2010 and beyond. Over 230 companies representing applied technologies, communications equipment, computer systems and storage, electronic supply chain, information and financial technology services, semiconductors, software and telecom services, will be showcased at the conference. "We are very encouraged by the strength the Technology and Telecom sectors have demonstrated and by the exciting growth prospects in this area. Given the lag in tech ente... (more)

BIRT and Struts 2

Java Developer Magazine on Ultizer BIRT offers several ways reports can be deployed. The AJAX based BIRT viewer can be deployed to your application server, the BIRT tag libraries can be used or you can deploy the Report Engine in your application. You can also modify any of the above options, given that the source is available for download. Several commercial options are also available. This post explains deploying the BIRT engine as an Action component within Struts2. It also discusses using Actuate’s JSAPI with Struts 2’s Bean tag. BIRT Engine Deployed to Struts 2 The BIRT report engine can be deployed as a Servlet and the process for doing this is described in the BIRT wiki. If you happen to be using Struts 2 as your application framework you can deploy the Report Engine as an Action component. The process for doing this is not much different than the Servlet approa... (more)

New AIIM Study Finds Killer Apps Will Drive Big Data Initiatives

SILVER SPRING, MD -- (Marketwire) -- 05/29/12 -- AIIM, the global community of information professionals, today announced a new Industry Watch Report titled, "Big Data - Extracting value from your digital landfills." The research publication offers business insight into the key drivers, issues and deployment of Big Data, including the demand for unstructured analysis techniques. The study found 70 percent of business and technology professionals have a killer application idea for Big Data that could be used for competitive advantage, running the business smoothly or detecting non-compliance, although the majority of respondents regard details as closely guarded trade secrets. More than half of respondents want to make use of Big Data and, over the next three years, plan to invest in consultancy services, hardware and software. Issues holding users back include lack... (more)

Actuate Announces $30 Million Share Repurchase Program

Actuate Corporation (NASDAQ: BIRT), The BIRT Company - delivering more insights to more people than all BI companies combined, on Monday provided additional details of the $30 million share repurchase program first announced on August 2nd, 2012. “Our hybrid open source enterprise model continues to generate healthy cash flow, enabling us to invest in our business and return capital to our shareholders,” said Peter Cittadini, President and CEO of Actuate. “This repurchase program still enables us to take advantage of strategic acquisitions to propel our BIRT strategy forward - and we will remain focused and opportunistic on this front.” The share repurchase authorization does not have an expiration date and the pace and timing of repurchases will depend on factors such as cash generation from operations, the volume of employee stock plan activity, cash requirements... (more)

Mission Critical Middleware Messaging Market to Reach $32.7 Billion by 2020

DALLAS, Aug. 15, 2014 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Worldwide mission critical messaging markets at $10.3 billion in 2013 are anticipated to reach $32.7 billion in 2020, indicating growth based on implementation of mobile smart phone network connectivity, tablet use for mobile computing, Internet apps, cloud computing, SOA, and business process management systems (BPM) that support collaborat Photo - http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20140814/136319 Application Server Market Company Profiles: 360 Logica, Actuate, Adobe, AgilePoint,  Appian,  Aurea,  BigAgi,  BizFlow, BonitaSoft, CA Technologies, Crosscheck Networks,  EMC, Fabasoft Group, Fiorano, Fujitsu, GSX, Hewlett Packard, HostBridge, IBM, Informatica,  Intalio, iWay Software, K2, Kofax, Layer 7, Managed Methods, Mendix, Microsoft SOA, Nastel Technologies, Newgen, Novell, OpenText, Crosscheck Networks, Oracle,  Perce... (more)