News Briefs: December 15, 2008

By SD Times News Team

December 15, 2008 —

NEW PRODUCTS
Imaging development tool kit provider AccuSoft has created an SDK for building Web imaging applications for Microsoft Silverlight. ImageGear for Silverlight displays desktop rich Internet applications. It offers image processing and photo enhancement capabilities, and supports 80 image formats.

Artisan Software Tools, a U.K.-based modeling tool company, is offering a free single-user version of its Artisan Studio SysML/UML collaborative development environment. Artisan Studio Uno provides what the company calls an entry-level tool set, and it implements OMG SysML and UML standards.

UPDATES
Active Endpoints has made available a new version of its business process management system. ActiveVOS 6.0.2 adds service-level reporting, which summarizes the response times of the top 10 activities in a business process so that operations staffs can prioritize tasks.

Embarcadero has released CodeGear RAD Studio 2009, the newest version of its rapid application development suite. RAD Studio 2009 lets developers create applications that handle global data. Developers can build database applications by separating data and business logic with a new DataSnap feature. The suite also lets developers use various .NET technologies.

Component provider FarPoint Technologies has fielded a new edition of its COM spreadsheet component. FarPoint Spread 8 COM targets Visual Studio 6 development, and its source code is available for purchase. Spread 8 provides a more modern user interface, more formulas, 64-bit support and the ability to add OCX controls to a cell.

Bredex, a software development IT services company, released GUIdancer 3.0, an update of its automated GUI test tool. The release adds a new modeling perspective for model-based testing that lets testers automatically transform models into GUIdancer test cases. The revision also lets testers create reusable keywords from a running application.

Ilog has added integration with ICEsoft’s ICEfaces and other AJAX frameworks in version 8.5 of Ilog JViews, its Java-based visualization suite. The suite’s Ilog JViews Graph Layout for Eclipse brings integration with the Eclipse Modeling Framework, Graphical Editing Framework and Graphical Modeling Framework.

Data analysis and visualization software provider Visual Numerics has added new finance and business intelligence algorithms to its IMSL C Library of mathematical and statistical algorithms written in C, C# and Java. More than 30 algorithms in the library can now be used in multicore environments.

A Java business intelligence software maker has delivered an updated version of its embedded reporting tool. Jinfonet’s JReport 9 provides increased network security and more options for report output, in addition to performance and usability tweaks. The release also supports the JSR 168 Java Portlet Specification.

ScriptLogic released Security Explorer 7.0, a real-time management platform for access controls and security on Windows file servers and on Exchange, SharePoint and SQL Servers. The new version lets users manage, report and recover all types of permissions in Exchange. Quest Software’s June 2007 acquisition of ScriptLogic resulted in the Security Explorer for Exchange edition, which is bundled with Quest Archive Manager and other Quest products.

Network emulation company Shunra released version 5.0 of VE Desktop Professional, its Windows-based software tester. The new version has automatic delivery of post-test analysis to make reviewing test results easier; an upgraded GUI; and root cause diagnosis.

PEOPLE
John DelSignore has been promoted to CTO of TotalView Technologies. According to the company, DelSignore has more than 25 years of experience in developing debugging and performance analysis products. He previously served as TotalView’s chief architect. TotalView CEO Rich Collier said DelSignore had done “pioneering work” on parallel debugging for the company.

Related Search Term(s): Eclipse, Java, networking, RIAs, Silverlight, testing, AccuSoft, Active Endpoints, Artisan, Bredex, Embarcadero, FarPoint, ICEsoft, Ilog, Jinfonet, ScriptLogic, Shunra, TotalView, Visual Numerics

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News Briefs: November 15, 2008 Metaforic comes out with a new security product for monitoring networks, ICEsoft and ILOG announce that they are merging their technologies for later releases, and Urbancode adds pre-flight builds for testers to AnthillPro.

News Briefs: February 1, 2009 TopCoder launches its annual TopCoder Open, Adobe creates the full version of its LiveCycle ES Developer Express, and former Red Hat COO Tim Buckley is named the executive chairman of the board of directors of rPath.

News Briefs: August 1, 2008 Microsoft and ASG team up to create an API connecting their products, DevExpress has a beta of its AgDataGrid suite for Silverlight, and TotalView's source debugger has been updated to allow it to run on the Cell Broadband Engine architecture.

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