Dennis Callaghan

Sarbanes-Oxley Act compliance projects are requiring the formation of internal steering committees, the involvement of multiple departments and the deployment of new applications. However, one of the largest costs of compliance, especially for companies just beginning the process, is the hiring of outside consultants to provide professional services. Boston-based AMR Research Inc. predicts that public […]

A combined hardware and software offering from Accellion looks to enhance the management of electronic messaging systems by storing e-mail attachments of more than 1MB on caching appliances and giving recipients a link to the attachment rather than the attachment itself. Version 3.5 of Accellion Attachments, which was released last week, features an attachment fingerprint […]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Microsoft Corp. Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates lectured computer science students Thursday about using computing technology to combat scourges of the present and create new opportunities in the future, while painting a vision of a more interconnected, integrated technology world. Gates, speaking to Massachusetts Institute of Technology students at MITs Kresge Auditorium […]

Salesforce.com Inc. announced Wednesday a new offering that extends its sforce hosted application development environment to IBMs WebSphere application server. The new hosted service offering, dubbed the sforce Toolkit for IBM WebSphere, allows developers to use IBMs 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 […]

Hyperion Solutions Corp. will announce Tuesday the latest version of its Essbase OLAP server as well as a new release of business intelligence technology it acquired from Brio Software Inc. last year. That technology, the former Brio Performance Suite, is called the Hyperion Performance Suite Version 8.2, which focuses mainly on improved, easier-to-use dashboards. Together, […]

Longtime rivals WebSideStory Inc. and Coremetrics Inc. announced new Web site analysis services Monday, promising enterprises more granular, detailed analysis of their online business operations. WebSideStory renamed its flagship HitBox Web analysis service HBX, merging the former HitBox Enterprise and HitBox Commerce services into one, while releasing the 10th version of the service, designed to […]

New enterprise collaboration technology was on display this week at the DEMO 2004 show in Scottsdale, Ariz., as IMlogic Inc., Convoq Inc., ViewCentral Inc. and ExpertCity Inc. rolled out new offerings for connecting people inside and outside of organizations. IMLogic unveiled its IM Linkage Preview Edition, a new platform for embedding instant-messaging capabilities into business […]

With enterprises always on the lookout for simpler, more consolidated applications, Cognos Inc. has forged closer links between its financial management applications and the planning and budgeting software it acquired from Adaytum Inc. last year. Cognos last week unveiled Enterprise Planning Series Version 7.2, removing some of the integration headaches in previous versions of the […]

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 companys bottom line by helping forge tighter links […]

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 Sender Policy Framework (SPF), would prevent the spoofing of e-mail addresses and hijacking […]

Cognos Inc. on Tuesday announced Enterprise Planning Series 7.2, an upgrade the company said will ease some of the integration headaches of its predecessors. The software, which combines the former Cognos Finance product with planning and budgeting software acquired last year from Adaytum Inc., supports financial reporting, calculation of business drivers effects on budget plans […]