Dennis Callaghan

After fits and starts, Salesforce.com Inc. finally made its debut on the public market as its stock opened at $11 per share on the New York Stock Exchange, trading under the symbol “CRM.” Salesforce.coms stock surged throughout the first day of trading, going as high as $17.30 before closing at $17.20, an increase of 56 […]

This falls Comdex show has been canceled as the organizers of the marquee IT event seek greater participation from large IT companies and evaluate ways to make it more relevant to technology buyers. “Comdex was very relevant in the early days, when the industry was in its infancy,” said John Halamka, CIO of Harvard Medical […]

Expanded platform support and analytical and data manipulation capabilities are in the offing for enterprises looking to expand their use of business intelligence technologies. New products on the way from Actuate Corp. and MicroStrategy Inc. are designed to help businesses grapple with new challenges, such as getting a better handle on business activity and performance […]

While the Google Inc. initial public offering has captivated the tech world, a wave of other IPOs, led by hosted CRM service provider Salesforce.com Inc., are in the pipeline that demonstrate businesses growing reliance on hosted application utilities. The Salesforce.com IPO, delayed by a number of issues after an expected March launch, will be a […]

The Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday told Congress that a proposed National Do Not E-mail registry was unworkable until a universal e-mail authentication standard was adopted. However, this technological step may in turn make such a registry unnecessary. The announcement should give another boost to fast-moving initiatives to better authenticate senders of e-mail by improving […]

Enterprises looking for integrated messaging and collaboration software will soon get an enhanced offering from Oracle Corp. OCS (Oracle Collaboration Suite) 3.0, due in the fourth quarter, adds an instant messaging capability to complement the suites e-mail, voice mail, calendar, Web conferencing and file management features, said officials in Redwood Shores, Calif. Version 3.0 will […]

Seeking to meet enterprises need for more flexibility when analyzing internal and third-party data, Cognos is updating its PowerPlay OLAP server to deliver what officials say is more detailed yet easier-to-manage analysis. PowerPlay 7.3, which will be announced this week, supports more detailed analysis of business data by allowing users to create subsets of categories […]

Hosted CRM service provider Salesforce.com acknowledged in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing Friday that it is in a “cooling off” period after a possible violation of the SEC-mandated quiet period before the companys planned IPO. While Salesforce.com Inc. filed an amendment to its Form S-1 IPO registration statement Friday, the IPO, originally thought to […]

One week after Microsoft announced the Microsoft Office Information Bridge Framework, promising better integration between Office and other applications, particularly Microsoft CRM, the company on Tuesday announced an update to MS CRM designed to take advantage of the deeper Office integration. The feature pack announced Tuesday will be added to the 1.2 release of MS […]

Enterprises will be getting new tools to combat the intractable spam problem as e-mail server software developers and third-party software tools embrace efforts to authenticate e-mail senders at the gateway to block both spam and viruses. Microsoft Corp. made a number of announcements surrounding spam-blocking technologies for its Exchange messaging server at its TechEd conference […]

Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday announced the release of Service Pack 1 (SP1) for its Exchange 2003 messaging server, offering updates for e-mail security and administration. Chief among the new features in this release is Microsoft Exchange Intelligent Message Filter (IMF) for Exchange Server 2003, which uses the SmartScreen heuristics-based content-filtering technology deployed at Microsoft Corp.s […]

At its TechEd conference in San Diego, Microsoft on Monday released the technical beta of its Microsoft Office Information Bridge Framework, which will allow the company to form stronger ties between its Microsoft CRM application suite and the Office suite, company officials said. The Office integration framework will allow Microsoft Corp. to develop deeper levels […]