IBM today announced, in collaboration with the European Union, industry and academia, the launch of a research consortium which aims to help businesses more easily take advantage of Internet-based services - or "e-services" - to create collaborative business operations and achieve shared business goals.

The unique effort focuses on the development of a new computer science model that will enable organizations to greatly accelerate the typically time-intensive process around the coordination of e-services and increase the automation and efficiency around deploying new e-service blends. The research will enable even small to mid-sized businesses to create or join into flexible e-service blends, without investing in expensive IT expertise. The initiative will create open-source software to enable many organizations around the world take advantage of the technology...

Jaspersoft is the company behind the famous and widespread JasterReports, an Open Source reporting solution preferred by most developers to embed in any Java application that requires a reporting system.

Jaspersoft

Jaspersoft has built its own B.I. solution around its reporting engine. It has done it in a way different from Pentaho. Jasper has integrated into its existing projects also settled and established solutions but has not absorbed them. This strategy makes it "depend" of Talend in terms of ETL and Mondrian solutions- Pentaho for the OLAP engine. At this point I would like to remark the importance of the fact that both are Open Source solutions, but the dependence of a direct competitor, like Pentaho, continues to be a risk factor. This is not a problem given the nature of both Open Source projects. Jasper has Mondiran access code and can adapt and continue the developments of any part of Mondrian.

Pentaho was created in 2004 and at this moment, it is the leader of the Open Source BI solutions. It offers a large spectrum of resources, and using its own solutions, it is able to maintain and explore a BI project.

Pentaho has built its own BI solution by integrating different existing projects of recognized solvency. For example, Data Integration formerly known as Kettle, in fact maintains its old name as a colloquial name. Mondrian is the other component of Pentaho who is still retaining its own entity.

Teradata University Network today announced the 2010 Business Intelligence Congress (BI) II where academic professionals and industry representatives will meet to discuss current academic research, teaching methods and industry demands for business intelligence, decision support and analytics.
The inaugural BI Congress, co-founded by Teradata University Network and the Association for Information Systems Special Interest Group for Decision Support, Knowledge and Data Management Systems, was held in December 2009. It revealed gaps between industry needs and current business intelligence teaching and research...

SAN FRANCISCO – June 29, 2010: Salesforce.com, the enterprise cloud computing(https://www.salesforce.com/cloudcomputing/) company, today announced that more than 10,000 of its customers have gone live on the GA release of Chatter in the first week of its availability. Chatter, the industry's first cloud-based enterprise social collaboration application and platform, unleashes the social enterprise and a new way to work for people around the world...

 EMC Corporation ), the world's leading provider of information infrastructure solutions, today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire California-based Greenplum, Inc. Greenplum is a privately-held, fast-growing provider of disruptive data warehousing technology, a key enabler of "big data" clouds and self-service analytics. Upon completion of the acquisition, Greenplum will form the foundation of a new data computing product division within EMC's Information Infrastructure business...

WALLDORF, Germany - July 02, 2010 - SAP today announced that its indirectly wholly-owned subsidiary, Sheffield Acquisition Corp., has extended the expiration of its cash tender offer for all outstanding shares of common stock of Sybase, Inc., at a price of $65.00 per share, to 9:00 p.m., New York City time on July 16, 2010, unless further extended. The tender offer was previously scheduled to expire at 9:00 p.m., New York City time, on July 1, 2010. The tender offer is being made pursuant to an Offer to Purchase, dated May 26, 2010, as amended, and in connection with the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated May 12, 2010, by and among SAP America, Inc., Sheffield Acquisition Corp., and Sybase, which SAP and Sybase announced on May 12, 2010...

02 Jul 2010: IBM  today announced the University of Bari (Universita di Bari) has selected an IBM System z mainframe as part of a cloud computing project to help local businesses, including fishermen, winemakers and trucking companies, adopt new business models.

The University of Bari is committed to solving community challenges through technology, providing a test-bed for software, devices, services, laboratories and other technical instrumentation. Delivering services through an IBM System z mainframe and cloud computing allows multiple entities to tap into heavy-duty computing power at minimal cost and lowers the barrier to help local businesses to benefit from this technology...

DinoSol, the Spanish grocery retail group, has selected Oracle Retail planning applications as part of a strategic initiative which the retailer expects will help improve performance and profitability across its four store formats.

Now owned by Permiera and formerly part of Ahold Spain, DinoSol operates HiperDino hypermarkets and supermarkets in the Canary Islands; SuperSol hypermarkets and supermarkets in mainland Spain; cash and carry chain Cash Diplo; and the Canary Islands convenience store format, HiperDino Express...

Macsteel Holdings, one of the world’s largest private metals service centers, international metals trading and shipping companies, has modernized its technology foundation and improved its operations in North America by implementing the Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1 at Macsteel Service Centers USA.

By replacing its legacy system and standardizing on the latest version of the Oracle E-Business Suite, Macsteel Service Centers USA now has a holistic view into its rapidly growing sales and procurement operations, and can keep a pulse on internal and external business trends surrounding orders, inventory, pricing and lead times in order to improve margins, reduce waste and strengthen its competitive edge...