Tibco refreshes event monitoring offerings

According to Rourke McNamara, Tibco director of product marketing, the company has unveiled "the biggest product portfolio refresh in the company's history" at its annual Tucon user conference in Las Vegas, writes InformationWeek.

The upgraded set includes Tibco's heterogeneous services coordinator, ActiveMatrix 3.0; complex event processing software, Business Events 4.0; rapid application delivery platform, Silver; business analytics and data visualisation product, Spotfire 3.1; and distributed data caching and management system, Active Spaces suite.

Tibco chairman Vivek Ranadive claimed Tibco customers can gain steps on the competition by getting on top of software event management.

Openet has introduced a Subscriber Data Management (SDM) platform, which was designed to aggregate back office and consumption data across various networks and services, reports CEDMagazine.

By using Openet's FusionWorks convergent mediation product to aggregate subscriber data, Openet says its SDM solution is an umbrella architecture that enables a wide array of subordinate business intelligence and analytics solutions.

According to the company, the product aggregates, normalises, cleanses and warehouses subscriber data from back office systems and service consumption data from network infrastructure and makes it available to BI applications and service delivery platforms through a centralised, real-time subscriber profile.

Xhead = Document management saves company £100k

Soft drinks group Nichols, known in the UK for its Vimto, Sunkist and Panda brands, says it's saving £100 000 a year using a document management system from Version One in its central finance department, writes Computing.co.uk.

The company has now installed Version One's 'green meter' which uses formulae from the Carbon Trust, and has found that added to the monetary saving, it is eliminating 162 tonnes of carbon dioxide and 631 055 sheets of paper per annum.

“At Nichols, we recognise that every one of us has a responsibility to the environment,” says Allan Doyle, IT manager at Nichols. “This is why it's important to be able to explain to staff how their actions may or may not be directly impacting carbon emissions.”