Dennis Callaghan

HANNOVER, GERMANY—Just one day after announcing the 9.1 version of SUSE Linux at the CeBIT 2004 show here, Novell Inc. on Friday rolled out a host of new announcements that included a new partner program, the first release of its GroupWise collaboration platform to run entirely on Linux and a new patch management offering. The […]

Salesforce.com Inc. announced Wednesday a new offering that extends its sforce hosted application development environment to IBM’s WebSphere application server. The new hosted service offering, dubbed the sforce Toolkit for IBM WebSphere, allows developers to use IBM’s WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Studio Application Developer to build extensions to Salesforce.com that integrate customer data stored […]

A grass-roots movement to improve the SMTP protocol that governs e-mail traffic is gaining acceptance, and its lead developer hopes to get fast-track approval by the Internet Engineering Task Force to make the emerging framework a standard. The developing framework, known as SPF (Sender Policy Framework), would prevent the spoofing of e-mail addresses and hijacking […]

As the initial June deadline for complying with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act nears, publicly traded companies across the United States are scurrying to deploy software packages that will put them in compliance. Not surprisingly, IT departments view the act as an opportunity to show their impact on the company’s bottom line by helping forge tighter links […]

ORLANDO, Fla.—IBM continued its push to tell customers that its messaging and collaboration future is Lotus Workplace while pledging continued commitment to its flagship Notes and Domino products at the opening day of the Lotusphere show here Monday. The company’s Lotus Software division unveiled several new products for both the Workplace and Notes and Domino […]

Siebel Systems Inc. added to its growing portfolio of hosted customer relationship management service offerings with the acquisition Tuesday of Ineto Services Inc. in a cash deal worth up to $5 million. The San Mateo, Calif.-based company will offer Ineto’s hosted contact center service provider services as a part of its Siebel CRM OnDemand offering, […]

Improving the quality and scope of customer interactions and learning from those interactions are essential to improving customer relationships. In different ways, software developers ePeople Inc. and Kana Inc. are trying to help their customers better achieve those goals. ePeople this week is rolling out Version 5.1 of its ePeople Teamwork software, a collaborative customer […]

A cadre of former Lotus software employees is leading a reinvigorated push at Microsoft Corp. to lure Lotus customers to .Net with new products and services. Over the next six to eight months, the Redmond, Wash., company plans to roll out a series of initiatives, including a tool kit, due this summer, that allows Domino […]

Certive Corp. is trying to redefine the concept of data integration with its Certive Server. The new data integration and management platform, introduced last week, is positioned to enterprises as an all-in-one alternative to existing tools for data extraction, transformation and loading; data marts; OLAP (online analytic processing) cubes; and front-end business intelligence applications. Tools […]

SAS Institute Inc. made another move Tuesday to strengthen its vertical risk-management offerings with the acquisition of RiskAdvisory, a Canadian company that provides risk-management consulting and software for the energy industry. The move comes six months after SAS acquired another risk management company, OpRisk Analytics, which specialized in operational risk management for the financial services […]

Since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the U.S. medical community has been on high alert preparing for Anthrax and other biological attacks, as well as dealing with actual outbreaks of new diseases such as SARS and the West Nile virus. To fight this two-front battle of threat and outbreak, the medical community is turning […]

Siebel Systems Inc., in its latest move to attract a broader customer base, plans to enhance its fledgling Siebel CRM OnDemand hosted services with technology it is acquiring with customer relationship management application service provider UpShot Corp. Siebel plans to merge the Mountain View, Calif., company, which it is purchasing for $70 million, with its […]