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Alpha Software has a tool that will let power users (not necessarily programmers, though certainly they can benefit too) build Ajax-based web applications very quickly.

Survey Analytics is a survey creation and analytical tool. In addition to supporting complex survey types, it connects with Google Analytics and Omniture on the web analytics side, and with Salesforce.com on the software side.

With data taking center stage in every organization, the ability to make sense and take action on that data is vital. Technology like Many Eyes will make that process more inviting.

Raja Hammound, Group Product Manager at Adobe, at Enterprise 2.0 2009 giving a demo of Adobe LiveCycle ES2

James Hickman, Clearvale Enthusiast at BroadVision, giving a demo of BroadVisions enterprise social network called Clearvale at Enterprise 2.0 conference.

Ronald Leung, a software engineer at IBM showcases IBM Mashup Center.

A quick tour of SocialText Desktop

SAP's Marge Breya provides a demonstration of the latest BusinessObjects Explorer On Demand, as well as two brand new products not even in beta yet: Kona (a cloud-based BI tool) and 12 Sprints (a collaborative decision making tool, also in the cloud)

EchoSign offers electronic signature creation and workflow in the cloud, starting with the creation of the document to be signed, the signing itself, and the tracking of the process through completion. Watch our hands-on demonstration.

Enteprise applications are the central nervous systems of global business. But many of them are still rooted in the 1990s-era technology models and business models of their birth, and customers are getting fed up. What will the future hold?

TrackerSuite's project management suite is a cloud-based service that offers collaboration, workflow and all of the elements included in on-premise project management software. We provide a hands-on look at this offering.

SAP demonstrates BusinessObjects Explorer, its access-for-everyone BI tool, which presents non-power-users with an intuitive interface to access to charts and trend information via simple Google-like queries.

Document management systems are moving into the cloud, enabling a greater collaboration, but also, as w/ Sharemethods, tying into on-demand application delivery platforms like Salesforce and Oracle. We take a deep dive w/ our Sharemethods ReviewCam.

An Enterprise 2.0 tour about SAP's Business Intelligence deal with Jive Software, which lets you embed dynamic analytics BusinessObjects Crystal Reports widgets inside your ClearSpace blog posts.

Bill McDermott, president of Global Field Operations as SAP, chats with InformationWeek's Alex Wolfe about software as a service, mobile apps, multitenancy, Oracle, and business intelligence.

Although Mindtouch CEO Aaron Fulkerson does a good job listing the major points that his company's namesake product (available as a service too) touches on in this reviewcam, it's also one of those products that's difficult to describe.

At Web 2.0 Expo, InformationWeek editor-at-large David Berlind reviecams BantamLive.com with Bantam Networks co-founder and director of product management Alex Turnbull.

Video search is a different beast than normal Web search, and it requires a specialized video search engine to handle it. Blinkx is one of the leading players in video search. Its differentiator is that it indexes speech

Learn about the hottest PC speech app around -- Dragon Naturally Speaking 10 -- as InformationWeek's Alex Wolfe talks with Peter Mahoney, vice president of worldwide sales at Nuance Communications.

Truveo Video Search

Startup City TV went to Austin, TX to speak with startups. John Foley, editor at InformationWeek, spoke with Scott Abel, CEO of Spiceworks. Spiceworks offers free IT management software using an ad-supported model.

Small World Labs is an enterprise social networking service provider. It allows organizations to build customer engagement communities.

Mashery provides scalable on-demand infrastructure for managing your APIs.

InformationWeek'sJohn Foley, speaks with Larry Warnock, CEO of Phurnace Software. Phurnace Software helps you accelerate your delivery of production-ready Java EE" applications. It works across many of the popular web service platforms.

InformationWeek's John Foley speaks with Olivier Thierry, President and CEO of FiveRuns. FiveRuns is an Austin based startup that helps Ruby On Rails developers fine-tune the performance of their applications.

InformationWeek's John Foley, speaks with Paul Pellman, CEO of ClickForensics, an Austin, TX based company that claims to be "the industry leader in scoring, auditing, and improving traffic quality for the online advertising community."

InformationWeek's Michael Singer spoke with Fred Luddy, President and CEO of Service-now.com, an On Demand IT Service Management company.

Roger Smith spoke with the CEO of Engine Yard, Lance Walley, about their Ruby and Rails deployment platform.

The startup offers software for CIOs and IT leaders to help them run IT

Centrify lets non-Windows systems integrate with Active Directory for a single authentication and access control system.

Startup Mulesource offers an open-source ESB for SOA architectures

Startup ClearApp helps IT diagnose problems in SOA-based environments

Startup Solidcore enforces change control on critical infrastructure.

Marketbright helps non-technical marketing managers run Web sites, send mail blasts and generate leads

Roger Boyce, CEO of Evident Software, discusses application virtualization. As companies take many servers and make them look like one, Evident provides unique insights into the operation of those new app fabrics.

Mark Armstrong, president of WhamTech, discusses how the company helps customers such as the government integrate their disparate data sources.

Glen Solimine, CEO of Speranza, discusses how the company helps customers in a variety of industries control their bank relationships with Speranza software, which allows for the opening and closing of accounts and changing signing privileges.

Renet Khasanshyn, CEO of data integration software vendor Apatar, talks about the company's product, which links data between different kinds of systems, whther Salesforce.com apps, Microsoft or Oracle databases, and Microsoft Excel files.

David Fox, CEO of Agistix, talks about the company's logistics and supply chain management software as a service. The service gives customers visibility over their global supply chains, with built-in analytics and reporting features.

SmartSheet.com lets you collaborate on project management online

SmartSheet.com provides SaaS-based project management apps

The startup tackles compliance, finance and supply chain issues

The startup lets companies use heterogeneous systems with Active Directory for authentication, access control and auditing.

Startup Mulesource offers an open-source ESB for SOA architectures

ClearApp helps manage complex SOA-based environments

Get a handle on change management with Solidcore

Marketbright provides on-demand marketing automation to help non-technical users run Web sites and more.

The company's IT GRC software helps automate the assesment and testing process for business decision makers with a customizable dashboard.

InformationWeek's David Berlind covers the announcements made by IBM today regarding "extreme" business event processing.

The company says its 15 on-demand business applications are just the starting point for customizing and building your own tools.

Using Web 2.0 technologies, the software can help underwriters streamline their processes with automation, collaboration, and knowledge management capabilites.

The startup is using the software as a service model to create a customizable BI platform for small to medium sized businesses.

Working with Microsoft's Outlook, the software analyizes, processes, and consolidates daily e-mail into a single view that is more simplified.

Krugle's code search product helps speed up development time by zeroing in on software code.

The company's software help customers build Web 2.0 applications for the back end services.

Qumranet explains the unique value proposition behind its desktop virtualization technology, which is included as part of the Linux kernel.

Free Software Offers Applicationi Visualization And Combines Diagnostics & Monitoring in One Dashboard

Sun CEO Talks About The State of, and Future of the Java Development Platform

Coyne talks about the struggle in the software industry to regain its innovative edge, and the need for trust between IT and end users.

WaMu's CIO talks about the bank's innovative IT projects, and how innovation is baked into the company's culture.

Coke's tech chief talks about turning IT into a partner with the business side.

Business Guru C.K. Prahalad Talks About What Innovation Means, How Technology Vendors Can Help, And What IT Can Do To Continue Its Own Innovative Practices

IBM WebSphere VP Sandy Carter and Austin Energy CIO Andres Carvallo Discuss How SOA is Enabling Agility In Organizations Today

InformationWeek's Editor in Chief Rob Preston, interviews Geoff Rego, the CEO and Co-Founder of Market2lead.

Eric Rubin, CEO of Dreamfactory, talks about the company's Business Essentials, a suite of software services, including project management and business intelligence, that runs on the Salesforce.com AppExchange platform.

Bruce Francis, VP of corporate strategy with Salesforce.com, discusses the company's AppExchange incubator, which lets startups focus on their unique services while Salesforce provides the service delivery platform.

Roger Boyce, CEO of Evident Software, discusses application virtualization. As companies take many servers and make them look like one, it's very difficult to measure the changes. Evident provides unique insights into the operation of those new appli

Mark Armstrong, president of WhamTech, discusses how the company helps customers such as the government integrate their disparate data sources.

Glen Solimine, CEO of Speranza, discusses how the company helps customers in a variety of industries control their bank relationships with Speranza software. The software automate the process of opening and closing accounts and changing signing autho

Renet Khasanshyn, CEO of data integration software vendor Avatar, talks about the company's product, which links data between different kinds of systems, whther Salesforce.com apps, Microsoft or Oracle databases, and Microsoft Excel files.

A 30-second description by CEO David Fox of Agistix, a vendor founded in 2003 that focuses on logistics and supply chain management software as a service. Agistix, according to Fox, helps customers "make better business decisions."

SnapLogic's open source data-integration tools can be used to create enterprise mashups and rich Internet apps, tie into service-oriented architectures, and more.

InformationWeek's John Foley speaks with Kiva Systems' Founder and CEO, Mick Mountz. Mountz discusses some of the unique and innovative ways his company is changing the order fulfillment business.

As companies look for ways to deploy applications, both internally and as services to their customers, they worry about scale, performance & visibility. Startup Sonoa Systems offers a solution.

Going green often involves the immediate thought of taming the data center, but there's plenty to do in software as well: Everything from using collaboration tools, to process automation, to monitoring your energy footprint. We talked to IBM/Tivoli Software CTO Alan Ganek and InformationWeek's head of analytics, Art Wittmann, about some of the latest trends in going green.

Startup City welcomes Hon Wong, CEO of a startup called Symphoniq, which provides web application performance monitoring. Hon discusses their product TrueView and its features.

Microsoft Windows Server Group Product Manager, Manlio Vecchiet answers questions about Hyper V, network access protection and the adoption to date of Windows Server 2008.

InformationWeek's John Foley speaks with David Selinger, the CEO and Co-Founder of Richrelevance. Richrelevance is a SF based startup that makes a next generation recommendation engine.

InformationWeek's Art Wittmann speaks with Tina Bean, the Sales & Marketing Director for VisiStat. VisiStat is a company that offers a software as a service application for web service analytics.

InformationWeek's John Foley speaks with Cloud9 Analytics' President and CEO, Swayne Hill. Cloud9 Analytics has developed a set of analytic applications for customers of salesforce.com

SocialCast takes many of the social network tools from the consumer world and makes them available in an on-demand service for the enterprise.

Spigit brings makes many web 2.0 concepts ready for a collaborative enterprise environment with its software as a service model.

Splunk wins Best of Interop award. Search capability looks at log data across devices.

Microsoft GM of Virtualization, Mike Neil, on the State of Virtualization, Hyper V and Windows 2008

Upstart Intacct focuses on financial and accounting software as a service, providing a choice for small-to-medium sized businesses.

Vindicia offers an e-billing product that runs as a service, manages recurring billing and offers fraud management

Spiceworks agentless, ad-supported management tool runs right in the browser, targeted at the small to medium sized business.

Replay Software Offers a Unique Quality Assurance Solution: Record The Software Execution and Replay The Results

Quickbase Database as a Service Is Being Exposed For Rich Application Developers For Some Surprising New Apps

Startup Marketcetera Offers Buy Side Traders An Open Source Software Platform For Algorithmic Trading

Corporations Are Slowly Testing The Software As A Service Model Beyond Just CRM and They Are Quite Excited About the Possibilities

Likewise Software Lets You Take Advantage of Active Directory Infrastructure Across Linux, Windows and Mac Systems

Large Health Center Company Embraces SaaS Model for HR

Oracle SVP of Application Development, Jesper Andersen, on Key Trends in Software and Application Integration

Workday Founder and CEO Dave Duffield On The Myths of the SaaS Model and Building a Startup

Data Warehouse Appliance Promises Database Transparence, Mixed BI Workload, Massive Scalability

Belgium-based Aventiv showed off its collaboration/file sharing software in a discussion with John Foley at Interop 2008 in Las Vegas.

We caught up with CEI's CEO D. Raja to talk about the state of the custom development market, what CEI's role in it is and also about the entrepreunerial nature of the Pittsburgh PA market.

InformationWeek's Andrew Conry-Murray interviewed EMC World 2008 attendees to find out what interesting IT projects people have going on.

nformationWeek's Andrew Conry-Murray spoke with Mike Rowland about Joe Tucci's speech at the EMC World convention in Las Vegas. Mike is the Creative Support Manger of Cabela's.