New Products Worthy of Your Attention

CA announced a series of initiatives intended to help customers derive maximum long-term business value from their investments in mainframe computing technology. The initiatives include new mainframe suites, new no-cost consulting services, and simplified models for pricing and licensing. www.ca.com

Embarcadero Technologies has released EA/Studio Community Edition, a free business process modeling (BPM) tool, the third database tool built by Embarcadero on the Eclipse framework. The professional-grade tool enables business process modelers and database architects to engage in more productive and efficient enterprise architecture modeling, including documenting business processes for regulatory compliance purposes. www.embarcadero.com

Melissa Data, a developer of high-performance contact data verification and mail management solutions, has unveiled Email Object, a new product for verifying email addresses. This customizable API tool can be used to verify email addresses in databases, address books and spreadsheets, or from a Web site form. www.melissadata.com

Cognos, a provider of business intelligence and performance management solutions has launched Cognos 8 BI v3 which includes enhanced BI user capabilities and advances in its SOA-based enterprise-class platform. Cognos 8 BI v3 is the third major release of Cognos’ business intelligence flagship that was introduced in 2005. The release includes new targeted information delivery and improved analysis capabilities to let knowledge workers, ranging from front-line managers to executives, receive strategic business information where, when and how they need it. www.cognos.com

Melissa Data, a developer of high-performance contact data verification and mail management solutions, has unveiled Email Object, a new product for verifying email addresses. This customizable API tool can be used to verify email addresses in databases, address books and spreadsheets, or from a Web site form. Email Object is targeted at companies who rely heavily on email communication to stay current and connected with their customers, or for companies who intend who do email marketing campaigns. www.melissadata.com

Kalido, which calls itself the active information management company, announced the Kalido Information Engine, a suite of products intended to create an enterprise-wide framework for business and IT that streamlines how key performance questions get asked and answered. The Kalido Information Engine helps customers deploy a BI infrastructure faster than traditional hand-coding or ETL-based methods, according to the vendor. www.kalido.com

Stratavia, a provider of data center automation software and services, has introduced the Stratavia Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) Automation Library. The library will offer “SOP modules” that allow IT professionals to access complimentary step-by-step recommendations to automate complex, manually-intensive and repetitive tasks related to emerging critical IT issues. The library is available as a public service to the IT community and will expand as new SOP modules are made available. www.stratavia.com

Following its schedule of releasing annual major updates, SPSS, a leading provider of predictive analytics software, unveiled Clementine 12.0 and Text Mining for Clementine 12.0, the latest release of its data and text analytical workbench . “The key to this release is increased productivity and speed to good answers,” Richard Hren, director of product marketing at SPSS, told DBTA. “It is much easier to use for business analysts. And its reporting and visualization has been improved. This is a significant jump.” www.spss.com

Actuate, a provider of business intelligence, performance management and reporting applications, announced the launch of Actuate OnPerformance, the first software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution from Actuate’s Performance Management portfolio. The SaaS model will allow Actuate to address the growing number of organizations reluctant to purchase on-premise performance management software because of the prohibitive up front cost, enterprise-wide commitment and traditionally low adoption rates such deployments entail. www.actuate.com

mValent, a provider of automated application configuration management solutions, has introduced a new version of the company's flagship product, mValent Integrity. Targeted at infrastructure and application support teams who require advanced tools for application configuration, change and release management, mValent Integrity v5 includes capabilities for provisioning configuration settings simultaneously to large-scale distributed environments, detecting and managing configuration changes and in-depth change reporting for IT audit and compliance. www.mvalent.com

LongJump, a provider of on-demand business applications, has unveiled application programming interfaces that enable LongJump's platform to deliver a “database-as-a-service" (DaaS) offering. LongJump's new DaaS offering enables companies to self-provision relational database access and storage on-demand. According to the vendor, LongJump's DaaS provides a complete environment for hosting a Web-enabled database for entrepreneurs and developers who would otherwise have to purchase a database server, provision it, address data access and availability issues, manage backup and replication issues, and tackle security and data protection. www.longjump.com