Dennis Callaghan

DYS Analytics Inc., which develops messaging and collaboration system add-ons, later this month will expand its offerings for IBMs Lotus Software division applications. The offerings, which are all due to be announced at the Lotusphere conference in Orlando, Fla., are designed to improve performance and management of the Lotus software. The new products and updates, […]

A year into Ambuj Goyals tenure as general manager of IBMs Lotus Software division, customers and partners have mostly praise for the job hes done at keeping the developers Notes and Domino messaging and collaboration platform relevant. Check out eWEEKs recent interview with Ambuj Goyal. Goyal and Lotus continue to face questions over the direction […]

Onyx Software Corp. CEO Brent Frei announced Monday that he will step down from his position on the same day that the mid-market customer relationship management software company announced disappointing preliminary fourth-quarter earnings. Frei founded Bellevue, Wash.-based Onyx in February 1994 after architecting an internal CRM system at Microsoft Corp., where he was a computer […]

Consolidation in the software industry is off to a roaring start in 2004 with two more acquisitions announced Monday. Natural language search software developer iPhrase Technologies Inc. announced the acquisition of text classification software developer Banter Systems Inc. while Stellent Inc. snapped up fellow content management software company Optika Inc. iPhrase bought Banter in an […]

Business Objects SA Thursday released the first Crystal Decisions Inc. products since closing on the acquisition of Crystal last month and announced the roadmap for future integration of Crystals software with its existing business intelligence platform. The Paris-based company, with North American headquarters in San Jose, Calif., announced Crystal Version 10, combining Crystal Decisions Crystal […]

IBMs acquisition of document management software vendor Green Pasture Software Inc. last month could pay big dividends for IBM in the months ahead. Although the terms of the deal were not disclosed, the acquisition adds a pure-play document management player to IBMs ECM (enterprise content management) portfolio. “It fills a pretty significant gap they had […]

Certive Corp. is trying to redefine the concept of data integration with its Certive Server. The new data integration and management platform, introduced last week, is positioned to enterprises as an all-in-one alternative to existing tools for data extraction, transformation and loading; data marts; OLAP (online analytic processing) cubes; and front-end business intelligence applications. Tools […]

While experiencing growing pains related to its 10-month-old Microsoft CRM product, Microsoft Corp. is pushing ahead with technology enhancements to the customer relationship management software suite for small and midsize businesses. Microsoft over the next 16 months will add integration, client support and migration technologies that will build on usability and performance enhancements in a […]

Cognos Inc. CEO Renato “Ron” Zambonini happily kept his clothes on during his companys fiscal third quarter earnings call Wednesday as Cognos new ReportNet enterprise-reporting product exceeded its revenue targets in the quarter. ReportNet, launched in September, generated $16 million for Cognos in the quarter ended Nov. 30. Zambonini had vowed during his companys fiscal […]

IBM Corp. on Wednesday announced the acquisition of document management software vendor Green Pasture Software Inc., the fourth acquisition for IBMs DB2 software group since last November. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Green Pasture will become a part of IBMs Enterprise Content Management software business and its software for editing, managing and collaborating […]