Dennis Callaghan

Michael Doyle has left hosted CRM application services provider Salesnet Inc. after more than four years as the companys CEO and chairman. Though Salesnet did not respond to inquiries about Doyles status, Doyle, reached on his cell phone Tuesday, confirmed that he submitted his resignation, effective earlier this month, to Salesnets board of directors after […]

Bernard Liautaud has led business intelligence software developer Business Objects S.A. since its inception in 1990. Liautaud sat down with eWEEK Senior Writer Dennis Callaghan at the DCI Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing Conference in Boston in late September to discuss a number of topics, including the continued integration of Crystal Decisions Inc., which Business […]

Hosted CRM services provider Salesforce.com reported its fiscal third quarter earnings Wednesday, with revenues nearly doubling from year to year, but with net income down. The San Francisco-based company, reporting quarterly earnings as a public company for only the second time since its June IPO, saw revenues of $46.4 million in the quarter ended Oct. […]

IBMs Lotus software division is readying a host of improvements that will bring its fledgling Workplace messaging and collaboration platform closer to feature parity with its flagship Lotus Notes and Domino product line. While company officials maintain that Workplace and Notes and Domino will remain separate product lines running on parallel development tracks, the planned […]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—IBM on Tuesday unveiled a variety of new collaboration products and services here, mostly centered around its Lotus Workplace platform. The company announced a new role-based solution: IBM Workplace for Branch Banking. The package adds collaborative capabilities from Workplace and WebSphere Portal to retail banking applications. The company also announced Version 2.5 of its […]

Microsoft Corp. is following through on plans to reach out to IBM Lotus Domino developers in an effort to increase those developers adoption of Microsoft technology. Last month, Domino developers traveled to Microsofts campus in Redmond, Wash., for a workshop organized by Gary Devendorf, a former Lotus application development guru and now technology evangelist in […]

Enterprises seeking to improve control of outbound and inbound e-mail are getting help in a new offering from anti-spam software developer Proofpoint Inc. Continuing a push by software developers best known for anti-spam technologies into broader content security offerings, Proofpoint this week will announce the Content Security 3.0 suite, which features new technologies to screen […]

With $1.34 billion in annual revenue, SAS Institute Inc., in Cary, N.C., is the largest business intelligence software company and the largest privately held software company in the world. Its founder and CEO, Jim Goodnight, sat down with eWEEK Senior Writer Dennis Callaghan at the companys recent BetterManagement Live Worldwide Business Conference in Las Vegas […]

A fresh crop of hosted subscription CRM services are seeking to fill a gap in a market left open by licensed software applications that are often expensive and difficult to implement and maintain. SugarCRM Inc., a Cupertino, Calif., startup that reports 50,000 downloads of its open-source Linux customer resource management components and about 50 paying […]

Former J.D. Edwards & Co. customers, whove weathered a sometimes bumpy transition to becoming PeopleSoft Inc. customers, are now waiting to see if theyll have to go through the whole process again if Oracle Corp. succeeds in its hostile takeover bid for PeopleSoft. And its the waiting thats the hardest part, as customers put new […]