Today announced that it is positioned in the Leaders quadrant within Gartner’s 2010 Magic Quadrant for Security Information and Event Management (SIEM).  The positioning is based on completeness of vision and ability to execute and evaluates its RSA enVision^® Security Information and Event Management platform.  It appears in the May 13, 2010 report by Mark Nicolett and Kelly Kavanaugh entitled, “Magic Quadrant for Security Information and Event Management.” 
According to Gartner, “SIEM deployments are often funded to address regulatory compliance reporting requirements, but organizations should also use SIEM to improve threat management and incident response capabilities.”

Fujitsu and salesforce.com today announced that they are expanding their global partnership, establishing Fujitsu as one of salesforce.com’s global systems integrators.

Informatica Corporation, the world’s number one independent provider of enterprise data integration software, today announced the release of the industry’s first book about applying lean principles to the challenges of enterprise data and process integration, entitled Lean Integration: An Integration Factory Approach to Business Agility. Authored by noted data integration experts and Informatica executives John G. Schmidt and David Lyle, Lean Integration describes why the integration factory will be the dominant new “wave” of middleware for the next decade. It provides detailed best practices for implementing a lean integration strategy to align functions, eliminate waste and drive continuous improvements across vital data integration activities.

Teradata, a global leader in data warehousing and enterprise analytics, and DataFlux, a leading provider of data management solutions,  today announced a partnership agreement for the Americas region to add industry-leading data quality technology to Teradata data warehousing and master data management (MDM) environments. The solution is a joint offering that combines Teradata’s Enterprise Data Warehouse with DataFlux data quality technologies, enabling organizations to more effectively manage growing volumes of detailed enterprise data accurately, reliably and consistently.

Adds Heterogeneous Database Firewall to Oracle’s Industry-leading Database Security Solutions

Redwood Shores, CA – May 20, 2010

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IBM today announced that NECK & NECK, a children's clothing retailer in nine European countries with more than 200 stores, is using IBM predictive analytics software to maximize customer relationships and improve the overall business. Using IBM predictive analytics, NECK & NECK has effectively targeted sales promotions, improving campaign response rates by more than 25 percent and increasing the average amount of consumer purchases by 15 percent in one year.

In April 2010, retail sales continued to show signs of improvement since early 2008, but at a more sluggish pace than in recent months. In a still uncertain economy, retailers today need to spot trends early and proactively reach customers, rather than react to demand. IBM predictive analytics gives retailers real foresight about customer trends and deeper customer understanding and increases the overall lifetime client value.

Leading Software Providers to Co-Innovate to Mobilize SAP® Business Suite 7 for Millions of Mobile Device Users Worldwide

SAP and Sybase today announced that SAP’s subsidiary, SAP America, Inc., has signed a definitive merger agreement to acquire Sybase, Inc., in a transaction that will bring the two information technology (IT) leaders together to enable companies to become better-run “unwired enterprises.” As a result of this transaction, customers will be able to better harness today’s explosion of data and deliver information and insight in real time to business consumers wherever they work so they can make faster, more informed decisions. Companies will benefit from greater productivity, speed and agility to help their businesses grow. Under the terms and conditions of the merger agreement, SAP America, Inc., will make an all cash tender offer for all of the outstanding shares of Sybase common stock at $65.00 per share, representing an enterprise value of approximately $5.8 billion.

The per share purchase price represents a 44% premium over the three-month average stock price of Sybase. The transaction will be funded from SAP’s cash on hand and a €2.75 billion loan facility arranged and underwritten by Barclays Capital and Deutsche Bank..

New EMC SourceOne for Microsoft SharePoint Provides Control, Reduces Costs and Ensures Compliance
 

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BOSTON, EMC World – May 12, 2010 – EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC), the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today announced the new EMC® SourceOne™ for Microsoft SharePoint which enables organizations to adopt a proactive information governance strategy for content spread across multiple SharePoint sites and farms. SourceOne for SharePoint delivers operational control, compliance and e-discovery capabilities without impacting SharePoint end-users. As a result, IT departments can reduce costs, improve system scalability and performance and ensure compliance.

SourceOne for SharePoint is the newest addition to EMC SourceOne, a family of modular, integrated products for archiving, compliance and e-discovery that makes information governance actionable. Support for SharePoint 2010 in addition to earlier versions will be immediately available when SourceOne for SharePoint is released at the end of June 2010.

With SourceOne for SharePoint, EMC is delivering a building block approach to help customers address their operational challenges. This includes reducing the costs of managing content in both active and inactive SharePoint sites. As their needs mature, customers can be confident that the right content is managed, retained and disposed off according to internal policies and external regulations.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

The EMC SourceOne portfolio of information governance solutions also helps customers simplify e-discovery across multiple content types including those contained in SharePoint. EMC SourceOne eDiscovery - Kazeon allows early case assessment and automates the identification, collection, preservation, processing, analysis and review of content located in a variety of managed and unmanaged sites including SharePoint, Microsoft Exchange, IBM Lotus Domino, desktops, laptops, common Internet file systems (CIFS) and network file systems (NFS), networked attached storage and other content management repositories.

Addressing petabyte-level analytical data and storage to enhance online customer experiences