Dennis Callaghan

With businesses facing a growing number of regulations surrounding the retention of and access to corporate data, myriad vendors are responding with software and services to help IT organizations comply. IBM, Zantaz Inc. and ZipLip Inc. are each delivering technologies to aid companies in fulfilling the terms of such industry-specific directives as the emerging Basel […]

An update to Informatica Corp.s flagship PowerCenter data integration platform promises to give enterprises a more open and adaptive approach to data warehouse building. PowerCenter 7 will be unveiled this week and is due early next month. It replaces earlier versions of proprietary APIs with standards-based integration technologies to support Web services interoperability. Another key […]

Microsoft Corp. this week announced a new Solution Accelerator toolkit for generating sales proposals using its Office 2003 suite. The Office Solution Accelerator for Proposals uses MS Office Professional Edition 2003 applications such as Word and InfoPath to allow organizations to develop sales-proposal-generating applications. It combines software components, templates and architectural guidance. Solutions developed with […]

Salesforce.com will announce next week at its inaugural Dreamforce user and developer conference in San Francisco new versions of its namesake hosted CRM application service and sforce hosted application server. The company will also announce a partnership with Research in Motion Ltd. to allow Salesforce.com customers to access their hosted applications via RIMs BlackBerry wireless […]

The Federal Trade Commission Thursday took action against a company that it alleges was exploiting a security hole in Microsofts Messenger Service utility to send full-screen pop-up ads to consumers advertising software that would block the very same pop-up ads. At the FTCs request, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Maryland issued […]

BOSTON—IBM Corp. announced Wednesday new applications on its Lotus Workplace platform for instant messaging and team collaboration, e-learning and content management. The new products add to Lotus J2EE-based next-generation platform, which previously had been limited to basic e-mail and some vertical-specific collaborative applications A new version of the original Lotus Workplace product, Workplace Messaging 1.1, […]

Siebel Systems Inc. announced Tuesday that it has closed on its acquisition of hosted customer relationship management services provider UpShot Corp. Siebel paid $50 million in cash to UpShot shareholders with up to an additional $20 million to be paid as earn-outs this year and next. The acquisition gives Siebel UpShots own hosted service, which […]

IT managers and software vendors alike are not optimistic about the potential effectiveness of federal legislation that aims to stop spam from getting into enterprise e-mail in-boxes. The U.S. Senate late last month approved a bill, by a vote of 97-0, that would direct the Federal Trade Commission to create a do-not-spam registry, where users […]

BOSTON—SAP executive Claus Heinrich stressed the importance of innovation and embracing new technologies while speaking here at Forrester Research Inc.s Executive Strategy Forum on Wednesday. Heinrich, a member of the Walldorf, Germany-based companys executive board, oversees development efforts for the mySAP Business Suite. He told attendees, mostly CIOs and IT managers, that the future of […]

Hyperion Solutions Corp. on Tuesday detailed the beginnings of its product integration plans with technology it recently acquired from Brio Software, as the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company extends its offerings from business performance management into business intelligence. While the full roadmap will not be determined until closer to the end of the year, Hyperion plans to […]

CRM developers E.piphany Inc. and Remedy are each tackling the issue of interoperability among diverse applications, albeit with distinctly different approaches. E.piphany next month will release Version 6.5 of its eponymous suite, offering new integration features with non-E.piphany applications, even though the product already provides sales, marketing and customer service capabilities. E.piphany officials said about […]

Enterprises with diverse content management needs will have new options from IBM and Open Text Corp., following announcements from those companies regarding new products and an acquisition, respectively. IBM last week rolled out new content management software for small and midsize businesses and Linux shops, as well as new content management integration offerings and records […]