Dennis Callaghan

The latest version of Microsoft Corp.s Business Portal provides users of the companys Great Plains and Solomon business applications with new collaborative capabilities. Microsoft Business Solutions Business Portal 2.0, released last week, uses Microsofts SharePoint services as its underlying infrastructure for information delivery and collaboration. This adds such SharePoint features as document libraries, event calendars […]

While IBM envisions greater ties between its venerable Lotus Notes messaging and collaboration platform and its next-generation Workplace software, many Lotus customers are hoping for a future that continues to revolve around Notes and the Domino application server. At its Lotusphere user conference here last week, IBMs Lotus Software division unveiled a packaged offering that […]

Microsoft Corp. announced Monday the latest version of its Business Portal, bringing other collaborative capabilities from the company to the product, which is used with Microsofts Great Plains and Solomon business applications. Release 2.0 of the Microsoft Business Solutions Business Portal utilizes Microsofts SharePoint services as its underlying infrastructure for information delivery and collaboration, bringing […]

Enterprise search and knowledge management software developer Verity Inc. plans to move into the electronic forms space, announcing late Monday an agreement to acquire Cardiff Software Inc. in a cash deal worth approximately $50 million. The deal will allow Verity, of Sunnyvale, Calif., to extend its search, classification and recommendation technologies into content capture, e-forms […]

ORLANDO, Fla.—Two years after the infamous Garnetgate incident at IBMs Lotusphere user show, IBM partners are picking up where Big Blue left off in its support for Java in Lotus Notes and Domino. At the 2002 Lotusphere show, many Domino developers were outraged when IBM announced it was discontinuing development of the native Domino Java […]

NetSuite Inc. and Siebel Systems Inc. are bolstering their respective hosted services as enterprise users seek to get more from online software. NetSuite will make available by April Version 10 of its namesake CRM (customer relationship management) services, which will feature a new offline client as well as support for team selling and an automated […]

New government regulation of bulk e-mailing notwithstanding, the technology fight continues against spam. Mirapoint Inc. is rolling out two Internet appliances designed to control spam, while CipherTrust Inc. aims to stay one step ahead of spammers with a new version of its anti-spam appliance. Mirapoint this week will introduce the appliances, the RazorGate 100 and […]

ORLANDO, Fla.—IBM continued its push to tell customers that its messaging and collaboration future is Lotus Workplace while pledging continued commitment to its flagship Notes and Domino products at the opening day of the Lotusphere show here Monday. The companys Lotus Software division unveiled several new products for both the Workplace and Notes and Domino […]

Siebel Systems Inc. exceeded its fourth quarter revenue targets, but the late sales infusion wasnt enough to prevent the CRM software leaders tenth straight quarter of declining revenues on a year-to-year basis. The San Mateo, Calif.-based company reported total revenues of $366.7 million, up from reported revenue expectations of no higher than $355 million announced […]

Siebel Systems Inc. added to its growing portfolio of hosted customer relationship management service offerings with the acquisition Tuesday of Ineto Services Inc. in a cash deal worth up to $5 million. The San Mateo, Calif.-based company will offer Inetos hosted contact center service provider services as a part of its Siebel CRM OnDemand offering, […]

Improving the quality and scope of customer interactions and learning from those interactions are essential to improving customer relationships. In different ways, software developers ePeople Inc. and Kana Inc. are trying to help their customers better achieve those goals. ePeople this week is rolling out Version 5.1 of its ePeople Teamwork software, a collaborative customer […]

Stellent Inc.s move to buy Optika Inc., a fellow developer of content management software, gives it more pieces of the enterprise content management technology stack. The deal, which was announced last week and valued at close to $60 million, brings imaging and business process content management technologies to Stellent, which has specialized in Web content […]