New Products Worthy of Your Attention

Oracle has announced new releases of Oracle Berkeley DB, Oracle Berkeley DB XML and Oracle Berkeley DB Java Edition, open source, embeddable databases which developers at ISVs, OEMs and enterprises can integrate directly into their software applications, devices, and equipment. Go here.

Noetix Corp., a software provider that automatically generates business intelligence content from enterprise applications, has introduced Noetix Search, a new product providing users with the search capability they need to quickly access Noetix data generated from Oracle E-Business Suite and PeopleSoft Enterprise applications. www.noetix.com

Talend announced what it describes as the first open source data profiler, which enables companies to assess the quality of data and decide which actions must be taken to correct problems. Talend Open Profiler is available immediately at no cost under a GPL license. www.talend.com

GT Software, a provider of mainframe SOA solutions, announced release 4.0 of its flagship product, Ivory Service Architect. The most significant aspect of the new release is "the ability to bring in systems that would not be what you would consider to be conventional or traditional interfaces," Rob Morris, chief strategy officer for GT Software, told DBTA. www.gtsoftware.com

Composite Software, a virtual data integration leader, has unveiled a new appliance called Composite Discovery which is intended to help non-technical business users who normally depend on IT teams to access data for analysis and decision-making. The Discovery appliance allows users to quickly quickly “discover” the business-critical information they need, delivered with the relevant data relationships context, regardless of data source or location. Go here.

HP has introduced a new blade offering for the one-to-four-terabyte market segment within the Oracle Optimized Warehouse initiative. The HP BladeSystem for Oracle Optimized Warehouse builds on current reference configuration solutions available from HP and Oracle for data warehousing. www.hp.com/go/oraclebi

NewEra Software, a leading system software developer and marketer, announced that the Image FOCUS Control Environment Version 6.3 (IFOCE) is now generally available (GA). Customers are encouraged to download the no-charge upgrade to IFOCE V6.3. Free trials are available to qualified prospects. www.newera.com

Imperva, a leader in application data security, has announced a closed loop solution for managing the Web application security lifecycle on production systems. The Imperva SecureSphere Web Application Firewall, through bi-directional integration with vulnerability scanning tools from Cenzic, HP, IBM, and NT Objectives, is intended to address application security from quality assurance/testing into production. www.imperva.com

Pervasive, a leader in embeddable data management and agile integration software, has announced the general availability of Pervasive PSQL Summit version 10.10. New features in this update are 32- and 64-bit support of Windows and Linux platforms, including platform certification for Windows Server 2008 and support for Windows Vista SP1. Go here.

Birdstep Technology announced the release of version 8.1 of its Raima Database Manager Embedded also known as RDM Embedded. This is the latest release from the Raima Database Management Family providing new capabilities and functionality for embedded systems application developers. Go here.

At the Softwareware AG International User Groups Conference in Spain, the vendor released two new products to support real-time, standards-based data interoperability between mainframe and distributed systems. For users of Software AG's Natural programming language, there is the Natural SQL Gateway to access data stored on open systems SQL databases, including DB2, Oracle, Sybase and Microsoft SQL Server. Event Replicator for Adabas on Open Systems provides real-time replication of Adabas data across databases running on distributed systems such as Unix, Linux and Windows. www.softwareag.com

Jaspersoft Corp. announced the availability of its new Jaspersoft Business Intelligence Suite v3 Professional Edition. The new release features an interactive Web 2.0 interface based on technologies that offer the ability to mashup BI features to provide a seamless, cross-application experience. www.jaspersoft.com/v3