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Data Integration, Data Warehousing, and ETL Software Tools

2 May 2007

The most popular sotware tools for enterprise data integration, data warehousing, and Extract, Transform and Load (ETL).

Informatica - Tools for Data Warehousing, Data Migration, Data Quality, Data Consolidation, Data Synchronization, and Master Data Management.
Syncsort DMExpress - DMExpress is the high-speed ETL tool for data warehousing, BI, and other mission-critical applications. For UNIX, Windows, and […]

Asset Management Software

1 May 2007

Asset Management software capabilities maximize the lifetime value of complex assets and closely align them with the overall business strategy, allowing businesses to:
* Increase return on assets
* Decrease costs
* Increase productivity
* Improve asset-related decision-making
* Improve asset service delivery
* Improve regulatory compliance
* Increase business responsiveness
* Lower total cost of ownership

MRO Maximo - Maximo was built by […]

Bug Tracking Software Tools

2 October 2006

BugZilla
http://www.bugzilla.org/
Bugzilla is a Defect Tracking System or Bug-Tracking System that allows individual or groups of developers to keep track of outstanding bugs in their product effectively. Despite being free, Bugzilla has many features its expensive counterparts lack.
IBM Rational ClearQuest
Expensive software as part of Rational Suite Enterprise.
Mantis
http://www.mantisbt.org/
Mantis is a web-based bug tracking system written in PHP […]

Version Control Software Tools

2 October 2006

Visual Source Safe
The most popular version control tool from Microsoft.
IBM Rational ClearCase
The high-end version control tool as part of Rational Suite Enterprise. Many powerful features such as creating version tree and view tag.
CVS
http://www.nongnu.org/cvs/
CVS - Concurrent Versions System is a version control system, an important component of Source Configuration Management (SCM). Using it, you can […]

Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) Software

27 August 2006

Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) Software tools are one of the cutting-edge products just emerging onto the technology scene in recent years. Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) is a standards-based integration platform that combines messaging, web services, data transformation, and intelligent routing to reliably connect and coordinate the interaction of significant numbers of diverse applications across […]

Data Replication Software and Disaster Recovery Tools

27 August 2006

Data replication software, which copies corporate information to an offsite location, is one of the key components of any disaster recovery plan. These software are used as disaster recovery tools to mirror a company’s mission-critical applicaitons from its primary data center to a backup facility, where it can restore the data if the primary center […]

Client Security Software

27 August 2006

Network administrators are often required to select, install, configure and manage client security software to protect network and desktop from security trreats. Some of the commonly used security software are listed below:
Symantec Client Secuirty - Automatically detects and repairs the effects of spyware, adware, viruses, and other malicious intrusions in real time to help […]

Database Design Tools

27 August 2006

Database design is one of the most important IT funcitons, and software tools have been created to help you perform this important job. Database design is always a valuable skill in IT. Many of today’s database design tools support the entire database development lifecycle although many people only use these tools as […]