New Products Worthy of Your Attention

GoldenGate Software, a leading provider of high availability and real-time data integration solutions, announced the availability of GoldenGate Veridata 2.0, which compares data between two active databases and identifies discrepancies for data quality assurance in compliance and auditing, acceptance testing for upgrades and migrations, and disaster tolerance solutions. GoldenGate Veridata is a high-speed, low impact data comparison engine that identifies and reports the data discrepancies across databases, without impacting the availability or performance of the business applications that they support. www.goldengate.com

In its seventh upgrade since March of 2004, Oracle unveiled version 3.1 of Oracle Application Express, its rapid application development tool for data-driven Web applications. Using only a Web browser and with limited programming experience, developers can build and deploy professional applications. Oracle Application Express is integrated with all editions of Oracle Database 11g and Oracle Database 10g. www.oracle.com

Embarcadero has unveiled PowerSQL, a new professional-grade SQL development tool, aimed at improving productivity for Eclipse application developers charged with SQL development. Embarcadero PowerSQL is the company’s fourth tool built on the Eclipse framework.Embarcadero PowerSQL is a SQL IDE that can be installed as an Eclipse plug-in or as a standalone application (Eclipse RCP). It offers native support for Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase and DB2 for LUW, as well as JBDC support for other prominent DBMSs such as MySQL. www.embarcadero.com

Sybase iAnywhere has announced the release of Advantage Database Server 9, which offers enhanced FoxPro support, performance boosts for large transactions, reduced end-user configuration requirements. The release also adds key functionality including an SQL Debugger and 64-bit platform support. A part of Sybase’s embedded and workgroup database management portfolio, Advantage Database Server is a high performance embedded client/server data management system that provides both ISAM table-based and SQL-based data access, enabling application developers to easily chart a growth path for legacy database applications to modern techniques. www.advantagedatabase.com

Spotfire, a division of TIBCO Software, has announced the newest version of its flagship software, TIBCO Spotfire 2.1, to help customers and partners more easily create highly visual, interactive, and extremely fast business mashups adapted to their needs.  This latest release also includes new application programming interfaces which enable richer analytic and pervasive BI application development.  Spotfire 2.1 also offers significant new analytic capabilities and usability enhancements that make it easier for business professionals to find new insights in any information.  www.tibco.com

Business Objects, an SAP company and a provider of business performance optimization solutions, announced the availability of Xcelsius Engage 2008, a data presentation and dashboard tool. Xcelsius Engage uses Microsoft Excel as its data modeling foundation, enabling both technical and non-technical to create interactive data visualizations and dashboards. www.businessobjects.com

Ignify, a Microsoft Gold Certified partner and provider of e-commerce solutions for the mid-market and large enterprise business segment, has announced that its flagship e-commerce platform now integrates with all Microsoft Dynamics ERP product lines. Ignify’s eCommerce platform will incorporate Microsoft Dynamics NAV completing its support of Microsoft ERP solutions. In addition, the platform will also support Microsoft Dynamics CRM version 4.0, offering businesses a single fully automated suite for e-commerce, financial, customer relationship, supply chain processes and many others. www.ignify.com

Identity Systems, a subsidiary of Nokia and a provider of identity matching technology, has announced Information Quality Server (IQS), a comprehensive data quality product suite. The suite represents a strategic shift that more closely aligns Identity Systems with the broader market for data quality solutions.IQS is intended to meet the evolving challenges of higher data and transaction volumes; the need for real-time synchronization across disparate sources; international character sets and languages; and flexible configurations for high performance and accuracy. www.identitysystems.com

Imperva, a leader in application data security and compliance, has announced that its SecureSphere Database Security Gateways now automatically identify and alert organizations to suspicious changes to sensitive database values right down to the row level. Unlike trigger-based approaches that require intrusive modifications to the database, SecureSphere uses Redo logs to transparently monitor even the most fine-grained changes and pinpoint the users who executed them. www.imperva.com

ModelRight has announced the release of ModelRight 3.0, a database design tool that offers in-depth support for SQL Server Developers and DBAs and also expands the product's support for Oracle and MySQL database users. ModelRight was founded by Timothy Guinther, a veteran developer of database-design software, who once headed development of Erwin, prior to its acquisition by CA. www.modelright.com

Sentrigo, an innovator in enterprise database security software, announced the availability of version 2.0 of Hedgehog, its database activity monitoring solution. The new version supports Microsoft environments in addition to Oracle and offers a new module for speeding up compliance with laws and regulations, such as Sarbanes-Oxley, the payment card industry’s data security standard (PCI DSS) and the service companies’ auditing standard SAS 70. www.sentrigo.com

Progress Software, a supplier of application infrastructure software used to develop, deploy, integrate and manage business applications, has announced that Progress EasyAsk for Operational Business Intelligence software is now available as a turnkey sales and marketing analytics solution. www.easyask.com

Sonasoft Corp. has announced the availability of its new version of the SonaSafe solution which provides features for protecting Microsoft Exchange and SQL Server in a virtual environment. SonaSafe supports several scenarios to protect virtual servers with minimal footprint on these servers. www.sonasoft.com