Oracle purchases AmberPoint

Oracle is to acquire AmberPoint, a supplier of service-oriented architecture (SOA) management tools, reports eBizQ.

AmberPoint's solutions can help organisations diagnose and resolve issues in application performance and business transactions, such as insurance claims processing or account provisioning where multiple applications need to work together.

AmberPoint's SOA management products will extend Oracle Fusion Middleware's SOA capabilities including Oracle SOA Suite, Oracle SOA Governance, and Oracle Enterprise Manager, said to accelerate the resolution of application performance and business transactions issues before the business is impacted.

Mega released its IT planning solution to help enterprises successfully align IT plans with business strategy, and manage IT transformations faster and more efficiently, states Business Wire.

Mega integrates IT planning with enterprise architecture (EA), a necessary combination to provide all capabilities required to quickly understand how potential changes to IT resources will affect business operations.

“The combination of business' increasing reliance on IT and the volatility of the marketplace have put more pressure on IT to plan quickly, accurately, and thoroughly. IT must now compare plans to alternatives, prepare them with contingencies, and review them on a monthly or quarterly - not yearly - basis,” says Sharyn Leaver of Forrester Research.

Colt, a provider of data, voice and managed services, has selected Tibco Software's cloud products to provide organisations throughout Europe with the ability to deploy and manage enterprise applications across physical, virtual and cloud infrastructures in real-time, says CNN Money.

Colt's platform-as-a-service and infrastructure-as-a-service offerings for cloud services aim to bring flexibility and scalability into the business, especially for organisations operating applications in high-performance computing environments.

The services will be rolled out in a staged approach during 2010, with introductory services available to beta customers prior to general availability during the second quarter of 2010. Additional upgrades will also be introduced throughout 2010.