Dennis Callaghan

Business intelligence software developers Cognos Inc. and Hyperion Solutions Corp. are taking steps to make it easier for enterprises to adopt their products as a BI standard. Cognos plans to announce in late June at its Cognos Forum user conference in Orlando, Fla., the Cognos Performance Management System, which combines query and reporting, analysis, metrics […]

New hosted services and appliances are becoming available to give enterprises more options in their continuing battle against spam. Managed e-mail service provider The Electric Mail Company Inc. announced in June a new version of its PerimeterProtect messaging protection service, while Proofpoint Inc. announced a new series of its Messaging Security Gateway appliances designed for […]

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 […]