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Articles from business and trade publications, listed in chronological order.
September 22, 2009 | More info
Data classification: why it is important and how to do it
Computer Weekly
Data classification and identification is all about tagging your data so it can be found quickly and efficiently. But organisations can also gain from de-duplicating their information, which helps to cut storage and backup costs, whilst speeding up data searches. Thirdly, classification can help an organisation to meet legal and regulatory requirements for retrieving specific information within a set timeframe, and this is often the motivation behind implementing data classification technology.
July 10, 2008 | More info
The highs and lows of former-Borland's Dumbledore
The Register
You'd be hard pressed to find anyone in the software tools business who has seen more changes in programming than David Intersimone. Not all of them welcome. Best known as "David I," he worked for more than two decades at Borland Software, the company regarded by many as having invented the integrated development environment (IDE). At Borland, Intersimone held positions as director of research and development for languages and tools covering Windows and Java.
August 26, 2008 | More info
Embarcadero rallies on Windows and web with CodeGear
The Register
Embarcadero Technologies has updated its recently acquired CodeGear Rapid Application Development (RAD) suite and languages for Windows. Delphi 2009 and C++Builder 2009 feature the first merging of previously separate development environments from CodeGear and Embarcadero, sharpening the focus on database development. The tools also expand the former CodeGear's Visual Component Library (VCL) of re-usable components for Windows XP, Vista and the web.
May 15, 2008 | More info
Getting Meta All the Time
Inside Reference Data
In this feature story on metadata management, Embarcadero's Greg Keller advises firms to move on if the tool does not speak 'standards,' to choose model-driven products and to focus projects on data rationalization.
May 15, 2008 | More info
Cross-platform database concepts standardize management and reduce costs
Computer Zeitung
Global players in the database technology market (such as Microsoft, IBM or Oracle) are increasingly confronted with serious competitors. However, this heterogeneity makes management difficult. Providers such as Embarcadero therefore offer cross-platform concepts. "Companies profit from a heterogeneous landscape meanwhile the management is consistent", explains Martin Lohmann.
May 8, 2008 | More info
Borland parts with CodeGear
IT-Times.de
The US Software specialist Borland sells its CodeGear subsidiary for $23m to the San Francisco based software and database specialist Embarcadero Technologies. Borland expects that the deal will be finalised by the end of June. By selling GodeGear, Borland intends to push its cost reduction programme.
May 7, 2008 | More info
Sold: CodeGear goes to Embarcadero
Der Entwickler
Borland sells of its developer tool subsidiary CodeGear to Embarcadero Technologies for $23m. The acquisition of the CodeGear business is expected to make Embarcadero the world's largest, independent software provider offering developer tools in the area of databases and applications.
May 7, 2008 | More info
Borland sells Delphi & Co. – Embarcadero pays $23m for CodeGear
Golem.de
Database tools vendor Embarcadero Technologies bought Borland Software's tools subsidiary CodeGear for $23m. By combining its offering with the CodeGear products, Embarcadero sees new market opportunities. According to CodeGear the announcement is great news for their customers, employees, partners and the community at large. It will give them the resources to be even more aggressive and focused on their core products and markets.
May 7, 2008 | More info
Borland gets rid of its development tool subsidiary CodeGear
it-im-unternehmen.de
Embarcadero Technologies buys Borland Software's tools subsidiary CodeGear for $23m. The CodeGear development tools were increasingly confronted with gratis open-source competitors. However, CodeGear is in line with the Embarcadero offering: By combining the two companies, Embarcadero wants to win the millions of developers who already have CodeGear software in use.
May 7, 2008 | More info
Embarcadero snaps up Borland's CodeGear for $23m
Reg Developer
Database tools vendor Embarcadero Technologies has snapped up Borland Software's unwanted tools subsidiary CodeGear for $23m – $127m less than initially sought. Embarcadero said the deal provides a "significantly larger footprint" to serve millions of software developers. The deal appears timed to capitalise on the growing appetite for databases that's being fueled by web-based development.
March 29, 2008 | More info
Linux-based change management tool
IT Architect
Embarcadero now has a Linux version of Change Manager that allows developers and database administrators to make database configuration comparisons from a Linux workstation.
February 19, 2008 | More info
Get some respect in data management
Register Developer
"Having worked in the data-management field for more than ten years, the most common complaint I've heard voiced by data architects is: "Why don't we get more visibility, respect, and funding?" Data managers and architects often feel like second-class citizens compared to their counterparts programming new applications, using new tools and techniques."
February 8, 2008 | More info
Embarcadero to expand channel with EMEA sales director
Channel Business Solutions
Embarcadero Technologies, provider of cross-platform database tools, has Ludovic Neveu as its new EMEA sales director to help grow the company's presence outside of the US.
January 3, 2008 | More info
Embarcadero goes back to basics
Computer Business Review Online
Embarcadero Technologies, a database tools provider that recently strayed into an enterprise data governance strategy, is going to return to its roots, according its recently named CEO Wayne Williams.
December 23, 2007 | More info
New kid on the data management block
Register Developer
In the age of Web 2.0, data is a strategic differentiator. Tim O'Reilly, considered the father of Web 2.0, has claimed "data is the Intel inside" of this revolution.
November 16, 2007 | More info
ER/Studio's Universal Data Models
VSJ (www.vsj.co.uk)
Embarcadero's ER/Studio data modelling tool now supports a set of Universal Data Models intended to improve quality and reduce data model development and maintenance.
November 16, 2007 | More info
New Versions of DBArtisan and Rapid SQL
VSJ (www.vsj.co.uk)
DBArtisan 8.5 and Rapid SQL 7.5 are the newest releases of Embarcadero's cross-platform database tools. Both tools feature a re-designed user interface, a new query engine, and a deeper support for Oracle, SQL Server, DB2 and Sybase.
October 31, 2007 | More info
Understanding the organisation through process and information modeling
British Journal of Healthcare Computing and Information Management
Donna Burbank of Embarcadero Technologies explains how understanding the critical interrelationships between data, process and organisation can be facilitated by the use of graphical models.
October 11, 2007 | More info
XML for ER/Studio
VSJ (www.vsj.co.uk)
Embarcadero's data modeling tool, ER/Studio 7.5, offers support for XML schema generation, allowing data modelers and application developers to collaborate on SOQ initiatives.
September 25, 2007 | More info
Box clever to avoid data overload
IT Week
The growth of distributed databases that can consume terabytes of space in multiple locations is also pushing up capacity requirements. Raj Sabhlok, chief executive of Embarcadero Technologies, said that companies can use tools that help them design, develop and maintain large databases more efficiently so they do not take up as much space, however.
September 18, 2007 | More info
Embarcadero brings discipline to XML schema
Register Developer
Database tool builder Embarcadero wants to make life easier for data modellers involved in building Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) applications. Version 7.5 of its ER/Studio data modelling tool, announced last week, includes features to generate XML schemas based on traditional database modelling techniques.
September 13, 2007 | More info
Embarcadero updates ER/Studio modeling tool
ZDNet.co.uk
Embarcadero Technologies has updated its data-modelling tool ER/Studio to offer support for XML schema generation. Extended XML support should allow software engineers to collaborate more widely on service-oriented architecture (SOA) initiatives because it gives both data modellers and architects greater flexibility by extending the level of customisation throughout the application and database lifecycle.
September 3, 2007 | More info
Embarcadero sets out on Quest for growth
CRN
Embarcadero Technologies will look to exploit the uncertainty surrounding rival Quest Software as it develops its EMEA channel and increases partners in Europe by 300 per cent. According to new vice president Nigel Brown, Quest is currently embroiled in a share options scandal in the US, while Embarcadero is enjoying a period of renewed assurance following its takeover by Thomas Cressey Bravo in July.
August 16, 2007 | More info
Change to Change Manager
VSJ (www.vsj.co.uk)
Embarcadero Technologies has introduced Change Manager 4.0, with a complete set of schema, data and configuration tools that enable database professionals to better manage database changes.
July 25, 2007 | More info
Embarcadero updates change manager suite
IT Week
Database management software specialist Embarcadero Technologies yesterday unveiled a major update to its change management suite, featuring several new modules designed to make it easier for database administrators (DBAs) to identify authorised and unauthorised changes when migrating or replicating databases and investigating database performance.
July 25, 2007 | More info
Embarcadero updates change manager suite
VNUNet.com
Database management software specialist Embarcadero Technologies yesterday unveiled a major update to its change management suite, featuring several new modules designed to make it easier for database administrators (DBAs) to identify authorised and unauthorised changes when migrating or replicating databases and investigating database performance.
May 15, 2007 | More info
Real-world Enterprise Architecture part II: conversation, federation, road trips and tools
Macehiter Ward-Dutton
It's critical to focus not only on the outputs of EA work, but also on the process/practice of EA - and moreover that the process/practice has to focus on conversations.
May 15, 2007 | More info
Real-world Enterprise Architecture part I: journey vs destination
Macehiter Ward-Dutton
In the context of the 21st Century business, the critical EA competency is the ability to drive shared language and multiparty understanding.
April 20, 2007 | More info
Web-based reports of database audits
Prosecuritytalk
Embarcadero Technologies has introduced DSAuditor 4.1, a professional-grade database auditing tool that enables organisations to identify performance issues, secure critical data, ensure data privacy and enable regulatory compliance by monitoring all database activity.
January 2, 2007 | More info
Data Modelling Wars
The Register - Developer
It is actually going a bit far to say that there are truly data modelling wars going on but certainly the users of ERWin are being aggressively targeted by both Sybase with PowerDesigner and Embarcadero with ER/Studio.
September 25, 2006 | More info
Data Analysis Isn't Dead
The Register - Developer
.Embarcadero is certainly not abandoning data. It sees data as the core of a business - and control of data quality is vital to SOX (Sarbanes Oxley) and Basel II compliance and the like.
July 18, 2006 | More info
Embarcadero Technologies Releases New ER/STUDIO Version (7.1)
Information Security Bulletin
In the 7.1 release, ER/Studio builds on its enterprise model management and collaboration capabilities to help organisations take a global approach to two important aspects of data management: reducing risks associated with data security and enhancing data model quality.
July 18, 2006 | More info
Embarcadero Veroffenlicht ER/STUDIO 7.1
Entwickler.de
June 28, 2006 | More info
The Market for Data Migration
IT Director
Embarcadero specialises in database migration because its background is completely in the data management space.
May 17, 2006 | More info
Database Id Checks to Ease Security Headaches
IT Week
.. the increasing sophistication of criminals attacking databases means that database vendors must make a greater effort to ensure their products are kept secure.
April 28, 2006 | More info
Compliance Quandry
Computer Weekly
..research for data management software specialist Embarcadero shows that compliance is fourth out of 13 priority issues for UK IT directors at present.
April 25, 2006 | More info
Who Sees your Data?
Computer Weekly
..suppliers such as Embarcadero Technologies, nCipher and Protegrity offer add-on tools for database access control such as database firewalls, simplified database encryption and granular auditing tools.
April 25, 2006 | More info
Detecting Mischevious Activity?
The Register
.. of the suppliers that I have identified in this area, the leading one is Embarcadero. Unlike the other players it is well-established, has a global presence and a significant, existing customer base. Embarcadero's product, which is called DSAuditor, provides both auditing and monitoring (not all tools do) and it is currently a major focus for the company....
March 29, 2006 | More info
Embarcadero Technologies Strengthen EMEA Team with Appointment of New Technical Consultant Manager
IT Reseller
January 31, 2006 | More info
Embarcadero Makes First Data Security Tool Release
Computer Business Review Online
“Following its 3-month old acquisition of Ambeo, Embarcadero Technologies Inc is releasing the first upgrade of its new data security product line.”
November 30, 2005 | More info
Embarcadero Techonlogies Launches New Strategic Data Management Approach in EMEA
Theitshield.com
“Embarcadero Technologies launches new Strategic Data Management approach in EMEA and moves into Data Security Market Following acquisition of Data Security solutions leader, Ambeo.”
November 30, 2005 | More info
Naivety and Misconception Pushing 81% of European Business Towards Compliance Disaster
Theitshield.com
“Embarcadero data compliance survey uncovers inadequate corporate data practices; with confusion and over-confidence threatening European companies..”
October 20, 2005 | More info
Embarcadero Acquires Security Tool and Upgrades Modeler
Computer Business Review Online
Embarcadero Technologies Inc, which makes database administration and data modeling tools, is adding a security piece to its portfolio, through the $6m acquisition of Ambeo, which offers products that track who is using which databases and when.. the company is also releasing version 7 of ER/Studio, its data modeling tool.
October 17, 2005 | More info
Embarcadero Acquires Security Company Ambeo
Computer Business Review Online
Data management software vendor Embarcadero Technologies Inc has paid $6m cash for database auditing, access, and usage monitoring company Ambeo Inc.