Dennis Callaghan

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 […]

LAS VEGAS—Now that PeopleSoft is the clear No. 2 in the enterprise application software space after completing its acquisition of J.D. Edwards and staving off Oracles hostile takeover bid, the company sought to leave little doubt in the minds of attendees of its Executive Leadership Summit here that its ready to take on No. 1. […]

LAS VEGAS—PeopleSoft Inc. on Tuesday rolled out a host of new applications, as it settles into what CEO Craig Conway described as the third generation of software, an era of interconnected applications and online business processes. The Pleasanton, Calif.-based company announced new applications for demand-driven manufacturing and Sarbanes-Oxley Act compliance, as well as what it […]

Future versions of IBMs Lotus Notes client will benefit from the companys new server-managed software model, as Big Blue crystallizes its strategy for converging its Lotus Workplace suite with its Notes and Domino product lines. Lotus Workplace Messaging and Documents are the centerpiece of a new IBM software model for managing and administering clients from […]

Oracle Corp. is developing a new component for its software integration stack to give enterprises real-time analysis of business events and the ability to kick off business processes in response to those events. The technology, known generically as business activity monitoring, or BAM, is being built on Oracles 10g Application Server, putting it at the […]