Dennis Callaghan

Cognos Inc. on Tuesday will announce the first update to its ReportNet enterprise reporting tool, a product launched to much fanfare last fall. The product, designed to give Cognos a stronger presence in the high-volume enterprise reporting space, contains a number of new enhancements in this 1.1 version, including tighter integration with the rest of […]

Market-leading CRM software developer Siebel Systems Inc. this week has been hit with a class-action shareholder lawsuit that accuses the company of exaggerating its new software upgrade levels and customer satisfaction claims. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, accuses the San Mateo, Calif., company and three of its […]

Groove Networks Inc. is launching an upgrade to its flagship peer-to-peer collaboration platform designed to make it easier for enterprises to add a collaborative element to their business tasks. The company on Monday will release a public beta of Groove 3.0, which has enhancements geared toward teams of workers spread out at different locations. The […]

BOSTON—Microsoft Corp.s instant messaging architect Paul Haverstock stated the case for messaging interoperability at the opening keynote address of the Instant Messaging Planet Spring 2004 Conference and Expo here Wednesday. Haverstock, one of the original developers and former general manager for the Lotus Sametime IM product, said messaging would become as ubiquitous as e-mail is […]

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, […]