Dennis Callaghan

Longtime rivals WebSideStory Inc. and Coremetrics Inc. announced new Web site analysis services Monday, promising enterprises more granular, detailed analysis of their online business operations. WebSideStory renamed its flagship HitBox Web analysis service HBX, merging the former HitBox Enterprise and HitBox Commerce services into one, while releasing the 10th version of the service, designed to […]

New enterprise collaboration technology was on display this week at the DEMO 2004 show in Scottsdale, Ariz., as IMlogic Inc., Convoq Inc., ViewCentral Inc. and ExpertCity Inc. rolled out new offerings for connecting people inside and outside of organizations. IMLogic unveiled its IM Linkage Preview Edition, a new platform for embedding instant-messaging capabilities into business […]

With enterprises always on the lookout for simpler, more consolidated applications, Cognos Inc. has forged closer links between its financial management applications and the planning and budgeting software it acquired from Adaytum Inc. last year. Cognos last week unveiled Enterprise Planning Series Version 7.2, removing some of the integration headaches in previous versions of the […]

As the initial June deadline for complying with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act nears, publicly traded companies across the United States are scurrying to deploy software packages that will put them in compliance. Not surprisingly, IT departments view the act as an opportunity to show their impact on the companys bottom line by helping forge tighter links […]

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 Sender Policy Framework (SPF), would prevent the spoofing of e-mail addresses and hijacking […]

Cognos Inc. on Tuesday announced Enterprise Planning Series 7.2, an upgrade the company said will ease some of the integration headaches of its predecessors. The software, which combines the former Cognos Finance product with planning and budgeting software acquired last year from Adaytum Inc., supports financial reporting, calculation of business drivers effects on budget plans […]

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 […]