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• Reduce SOA complexity with GIntegrator

  A new open source project aims to be a lightweight and simple solution for enterprise application integration and SOA.

• Public prosecutor shops for software upgrade

  The Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions (CDPP) will upgrade its financial management and HR applications before the end of 2010 and has gone to market for the supply of software and support services.

• Citrus squeezes SOA with open source test suite

  A Java-based testing framework, dubbed Citrus, aims to automate integration testing of message-based enterprise service-orientated artchitecture (SOA) applications by simulating surrounding systems across multiple protocols.

• Agile BI Development: Meet User Demand, Beat IT Complexity

  BI remains atop business managers' wish lists and, not coincidentally, on IT's to-do list. The demand for BI and analytic tools is unlikely to abate any time soon.

• Talend to release integrated data management tool

  Open source data management company, Talend, has pulled together its data integration, data quality and master data management (MDM) products into one integrated release. The company said that Talend 4.0 would offers users higher productivity and lower operational costs.

• SOA market to reach $US8B by 2016: report

  Analyst firm WinterGreen Research has released a new report on the global SOA middleware software market, which is set to grow from $3.5 billion (2009) to $8.2 billion in 2016.

• Google hosts 400 CIOs, updates Docs

  Google's enterprise division is hosting several hundred CIOs on Monday at its headquarters, where it will unveil enhancements to its Docs office suite, including a revamped code base.

• Most IT directors look to SOA to cut costs

  The majority of businesses will embrace Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) in an effort to cut costs, a new survey has revealed.

• SOA is not dead, says IDC

  Business spending on Service-Oriented Architecture will grow by up to 25 percent worldwide by 2013, according to analyst house IDC.

• Forrester: Uncertain future for SAP's NetWeaver

  SAP customers shouldn't rely on the vendor's NetWeaver technology stack for all of their middleware needs in the future, according to Forrester Research.

• Red Hat boosts JBoss SOA platform and developer tools

  Red Hat rolled out on Monday updates to its SOA platform and development tools in the company's JBoss middleware product line at the EclipseCon 2010 conference.

• Infor's Flex upgrade program termed an early success

  ERP (enterprise resource planning) vendor Infor says its customers are warming up to Flex, a new upgrade and application-exchange program it started last year.

• App performance '1.0' bad for cloud, SOA: exec

  The founder and CEO of an application performance management (APM) software vendor said that today's IT development and production environments are not adequately served by what he terms "APM 1.0."

• CA brings SOA security to open source JBoss

  CA has announced its SiteMinder and SOA Security Manager products are now available for the open source JBoss middleware platform.

• Union Pacific Railroad ditches its mainframe for SOA

  At the heart of Union Pacific Corp.'s railroad operations is an IBM mainframe-based transportation control system that's been chugging along like a hardworking locomotive for nearly 40 years. According to industry experts, it was a pioneering system when first introduced, and it made the Omaha-based transportation giant one of the first companies in the world to make extensive use of online transaction processing technologies.