Dennis Callaghan

Despite warning earlier this month that it would miss revenue and earnings targets, Cognos Inc. on Thursday reported a gain in net income in its fiscal first quarter, which ended May 31, exceeding analysts consensus estimates and the companys own reduced guidance. The Ottawa, Ontario-based business intelligence software company saw fiscal first-quarter net income rise […]

Enterprises looking to embrace or extend into hosted customer relationship management services will see updates from upstart market leader Salesforce.com Inc. and down-but-not-out colossus Siebel Systems Inc. as the pair adds functionality typically reserved for licensed software suites to their respective hosted services. Salesforce.com will announce this week its Summer 05 release; Siebel announced last […]

IBM is developing a next-generation Lotus Notes client that incorporates many of the rich-client features of the companys Lotus Workplace offering and may ultimately eliminate customers needs to embrace Workplace as a separate platform. IBM had previously envisioned the next-generation Notes client release as sitting on top of Workplace, with licensing issues unclear. The updated […]

Gordano on Tuesday will announce version 11 of its Gordano Messaging Suite, which the British company continues to position as an alternative to the Microsoft Exchange e-mail server. With that in mind, Gordano Ltd. is introducing shared calendaring, contacts, notes and tasks with a new product called GMS Web Organizer, the successor to the GMS […]

The benefits envisioned by enterprises for complying with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act may never materialize. So says a survey conducted by ACL Services and the Center for Continuous Auditing. The painstaking task of establishing, documenting and certifying financial controls was supposed to ultimately give public companies better visibility into their financial performance, according to proponents of […]

Salesforce.com Inc. and Siebel Systems Inc. are renewing their heated battle for the hosted customer relationship management application services space. Salesforce.com is announcing its Summer 05 release next Tuesday, while Siebel announced Release 8 of its Siebel CRM OnDemand service Wednesday. Salesforce.com, with 15,500 customers and 267,000 users, has long dominated the hosted CRM space. […]

IBM is developing a next-generation Lotus Notes client that incorporates many of the rich-client features of the companys Lotus Workplace offering and may ultimately eliminate customers needs to embrace Workplace as a separate platform. IBM had previously envisioned the next-generation Notes client release as sitting on top of Workplace, with licensing issues unclear. The updated […]

You cant fit a square peg into a round hole, and you cant take software designed for companies that manufacture, distribute or sell products and make it a good fit for companies that sell professional services. That was a hard lesson learned by Nicholas-Applegate Capital Management, a San Diego company that provides money management services […]

Plumtree Software Inc. is preparing to release its first vertical applications for the retail and pharmaceutical industries while porting its portal, content management and application development platform to Linux. The company is attempting to capitalize on the growing demand for composite applications, which combine traditional business application functionality with collaborative processes that are often specific […]

New developments in software are strengthening ties between business intelligence applications and business processes in operational applications. The Eclipse Foundation will announce this week the availability of the Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools Project, a project spearheaded by Actuate Corp., while Business Objects S.A. announces its XI for Operational Business Intelligence, a new version of […]

ISVs are rolling out applications designed to give enterprises better control and management of their Microsoft Corp. Exchange environments. DYS Analytics Inc. and Zenprise Inc. both announced late last month Exchange Server management offerings that attempt to solve different issues that typically arise for organizations that have deployed the most widely used e-mail server. DYS […]

Siebel Systems Inc. is pressing on with its technology road map even as the repercussions of the companys recent executive shake-up continue to be felt and questions remain about the companys future ownership. Acquisition rumors have swirled around Siebel, in San Mateo, Calif., since former CEO Michael Lawrie was ousted in April. Oracle Corp. and […]