Dennis Callaghan

Hyperion Solutions Corp. on Monday announced two partnerships that will allow it to deliver its business performance management technology as part of offerings for Sarbanes-Oxley Act compliance initiatives. At its Solutions 2004 customer conference in Chicago, the company announced partnerships with Axentis Inc., a developer of governance, compliance and risk management software, and Deloitte Consulting […]

PeopleSoft last week announced that George Ahn, an ex-marketing executive at rival Siebel Systems, was named group vice president and general manager of its CRM business. Ahn replaces Joe Davis, who left PeopleSoft last month to be president and CEO of Coremetrics. Ahn comes to PeopleSoft from TIBCO Software, where he had been executive vice […]

The Web personalization craze may have come and gone, but the needs of enterprises to better serve and wring more revenues from customers have never gone away. Two developers are rolling out analytical software to help enterprises craft tailored marketing offers while limiting integration legwork. Black Pearl Inc. will announce this week its B4 suite, […]

An upgrade to Workshare Ltd.s namesake collaboration software lets enterprises manage the job of coordinating changes to shared Microsoft Corp. Word documents by multiple authors. Workshare 3, to be introduced this week, goes beyond the basic document check-out/check-in features of typical document management systems by tracking changes made by individual authors and preventing document corruption, […]

Large CRM software developers such as Siebel Systems Inc. and PeopleSoft Inc. are focusing development on easing enterprises application integration and customization headaches, as the customer relationship management battleground moves beyond features and functions. Siebel last week announced Version 7.7 of its namesake CRM platform, with features focused on new industry-specific applications, such as a […]

OpenPages Inc. seeks to drive greater enterprise adoption of packaged Sarbanes-Oxley Act compliance software through a deal with audit company PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. OpenPages last week acquired for an undisclosed sum PwCs ICW (Internal Controls Workbench) software, which is used for SarbOx compliance. The software developer also joined PwCs Vendor Alliance Program, allowing the two companies […]

Enterprises with diverse collaboration needs will find new offerings from SiteScape Inc., Intranets.com Inc. and Centra Software Inc., all aiming to meet those challenges. An upgrade to SiteScape Enterprise Forum collaborative work spaces software, announced last week, features new capabilities focusing on improved document management and overall usability. Intranets.com, a provider of hosted collaboration services, […]

Siebel Systems Inc.s earnings surged in the first quarter of 2004, boosted by an increase in license revenue. The San Mateo, Calif.-based market leader in customer relationship management (CRM) software cut operating expenses by more than $25 million compared with the same period last year to report a profit of $31.7 million, up from $4.6 […]

Seeking to ramp up enterprise adoption of packaged Sarbanes-Oxley Act compliance software, OpenPages Inc. on Wednesday announced it has acquired PricewaterhouseCoopers LLPs Internal Controls Workbench software application. Terms of the deal between the two privately held companies were not disclosed. But the move gives OpenPages access to PwCs 375 ICW customers, more than seven times […]

Enterprises faced with multiple business intelligence challenges—from integrating data with desktop applications to moving data to data warehouses to updating analysis activities to be more forward-looking—have a selection of new tools from MicroStrategy Inc., Business Objects S.A. and Genalytics Inc. The diversity of these applications is indicative of the multiple-front battle that enterprises are waging […]