Dennis Callaghan

The Radicati Group Inc. on Thursday issued a report indicating that IBMs e-mail product strategy—with its converging Notes/Domino and Workplace roadmaps—will lead to the company losing share in the corporate e-mail market over the next four years. The report says that Lotus Domino now has an installed base of 85.9 million mailboxes, representing 24 percent […]

Web search engine powerhouse Google Inc. is more aggressively pursuing efforts to bring its consumer Internet technologies to the enterprise, including hiring for the first time a general manager for its enterprise business. After introducing its Google Search Appliance two years ago, the company has more than 500 customers using the hardware-software-support solution, according to […]

SAS Institute Inc.s upgrade to its namesake platform will give front-line business users predictive analysis capabilities. The SAS 9 platform, which the company formally rolled out at its headquarters here last week, offers ease-of-use enhancements designed to give business managers, for instance, the ability to predict customer response and plan marketing campaigns accordingly. In addition, […]

With the first Sarbanes-Oxley Act compliance deadlines just seven months away, Microsoft Corp. and Oracle Corp. have introduced software to automate publicly held companies compliance processes. Microsofts Office Solution Accelerator for Sarbanes-Oxley, rolled out last week, provides best-practice guidelines and templates for documenting processes using Microsofts Windows SharePoint Services and Office InfoPath 2003 products. Office […]

Products for helping enterprises glean more information from their data are expanding this week as MicroStrategy Inc., Business Objects SA and Genalytics Inc. all introduce new offerings in the business intelligence space. MicroStrategy on Monday announced its MicroStrategy Office product, which uses Web services to add live data from the MicroStrategy Intelligence Server to Excel […]

CARY, N.C.—SAS Institute Inc. announced Tuesday the release of its SAS 9 platform, nearly three years after company officials first began to preview the technology. Buffeted by increasing competition in the predictive analytics software space, the companys new technology is designed to be easier to use than previous versions of the business intelligence and analytics […]

Renato “Ron” Zambonini will retire as CEO of business-intelligence software developer Cognos Inc. but will remain with the company as chairman of the board of directors, Cognos announced Thursday. The company also announced an uptick in both revenues and profits for its fiscal fourth quarter, ended Feb. 29, as its new ReportNet enterprise-reporting software emerged […]

Oracle Corp. on Wednesday released the second version of its Internal Controls Manager product, a software application introduced last summer to help publicly held companies meet deadlines for complying with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and other regulatory compliance initiatives. The updated application, a part of the Oracle E-Business Suite, features capabilities designed to speed the automation […]

Cognos Inc. has updated its ReportNet enterprise reporting tool to make it more tightly integrated with the rest of Cognos product portfolio. ReportNet, which debuted to much fanfare last fall, was initially built on a Web-based architecture different from that of the other Cognos business intelligence products. Integration with those products was possible only at […]

Not even high-powered statistical analysis software could get inside the minds of the NCAA tournament selection committee this year. The NCAA Mens Basketball Tournament Dance Card application was developed using a computational procedure in Base SAS called Probit. The computational formula, which takes into account past tourney selections, computes scores for the top teams in […]

HANNOVER, Germany—The industrys two largest enterprise resource planning developers, SAP AG and PeopleSoft Inc., are offering corporations decidedly different paths to business automation. The choice between PeopleSofts EnterpriseOne 8.10 and SAPs NetWeaver 2004, both of which were introduced at the CeBIT trade show here last week, hinges in large part on an enterprises philosophy toward […]

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 the first release of its GroupWise collaboration platform to run entirely on Linux, a new patch management offering and a new partner program. Novell […]