Software change and configuration management (SCCM) products solve the traceability, accountability, and scale problems that challenge today's software developers. Borland StarTeam is a fully integrated SCCM tool designed for both centralized and geographically distributed software development environments. A robust platform for coordinating and managing the entire software delivery process, Borland StarTeam promotes team communication and collaboration through centralized control of project activities and digital assets. "In my opinion, our position in the visionaries quadrant of the Gartner SCCM report substantiates the outstanding technical elements of Borland StarTeam," said Corne Human, director of product marketing for Borland. "StarTeam is hard to beat in terms of value for the money, ability to support distributed teams, ability to support agile teams, and ability to provide management oversight - all of which are key drivers for tools in the SCCM market today." Borland StarTeam is widely recognized for its support of a broad variety of platforms through the use of Java-based, cross-platform clients and for its ability to remotely cache content over the Web to provide high-quality performance for geographically distributed teams.

Software optimizes enterprise financial crime investigation.

Enterprise Investigation Manager delivers detection, investigation, and intelligence capabilities to command and control defenses against financial crime. Via its tracking and management capabilities, solution intelligently links Fraud, Anti-money Laundering, Know Your Customer/Customer Due Diligence, and Corporate Security incidents with related internal and external data to provide complete picture of risk and optimize investigations and resolutions of criminal activity.

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VCs putting money into personal finance sites

SAN FRANCISCO - Venture capitalists have been busy investing in personal-finance Web start-ups, attempting to tap into a new generation of consumers who have never balanced a checkbook and increasingly view online money management as they would any other kind of Web service.

These companies take advantage of Web 2.0 strengths: quick, attractive user interfaces, easy to use tools, and social features that make personal finance a community activity.

Companies such as Buxfer Inc., Mint Software Inc., Spendview Inc. and Wesabe Inc. allow consumers to aggregate all their credit card and online banking transactions. Then they analyze the transactions, categorize them, present an array of brightly colored graphs and help people maintain a budget.

The sites are designed to be a counterpoint to online banking sites, which generally only allow users to access accounts for that one particular bank.