Dennis Callaghan

IBM is pushing users of its development tools to a unified application development platform that will revolve around the companys Rational Software division. The Armonk, N.Y., company last week said that it is grouping all its software development technologies under the IBM Software Development Platform banner and that those efforts will be driven from Rational. […]

LEXINGTON, Mass.—IBM announced Wednesday new programs to support adoption of a unified application development platform. That platform, to be known as the IBM Software Development Platform, will revolve around the companys Rational Software division. IBM completed the acquisition of the application development tools vendor in February and has since been working to integrate Rationals application […]

SAS Institute Inc. made another move Tuesday to strengthen its vertical risk-management offerings with the acquisition of RiskAdvisory, a Canadian company that provides risk-management consulting and software for the energy industry. The move comes six months after SAS acquired another risk management company, OpRisk Analytics, which specialized in operational risk management for the financial services […]

Siebel Systems Inc. is planning to add new hosting partners for its Siebel CRM OnDemand hosted customer relationship management service, though IBM will likely be the sole hosting partner in the United States for at least the first year. Officials at the San Mateo, Calif., company said they are committed to IBM as its hosting […]

Microsoft on Monday announced the availability of Version 1.2 of its Microsoft CRM suite, building on existing functionality and adding usability and performance enhancements. The new version of the software supports the latest Microsoft technologies such as Windows Server System 2003, Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, Microsoft Office 2003 and, for small businesses, Microsoft Small Business […]

Oak Investment Partners LLC announced Wednesday that it will not increase its bid to acquire Pivotal Corp., clearing the way for Chinadotcom Corp.s CDC Software Corp. to buy the CRM software developer. Pivotal shareholders are due to vote Monday on Chinadotcoms bid for the company. That deal is valued at $2 per share in cash […]

Onyx Software Corp. announced Wednesday that it has withdrawn its all-stock offer for Pivotal Corp. The bid, made last month, just a week before Pivotal shareholders were due to vote on another bid for the company, had been rejected by Pivotals board. Oak Investment Partners originally bid up to $1.81 per share for Pivotal in […]

Idiom Technologies Inc. announced this week version 6 of its flagship WorldServer product, offering new capabilities for automating translation and localization of Web content. WorldServer, typically used as an add-on to Web content management systems, synchronizes multilingual translations and automates the publishing of content in any language, according to company officials in Waltham, Mass. This […]

With predictive analytics at the core of many marketing initiatives, software developers are adding predictive capabilities to text mining so that enterprises can act on information in unstructured as well as structured data. SPSS Inc. announced last week Predictive Text Analytics, a packaged solution that combines technology from the Chicago-based data mining software companys Clementine […]

In just four years, Salesforce.com Inc.s high-profile chairman and CEO, Marc Benioff, has guided the upstart hosted CRM provider to 8,200 customers, more than $100 million in revenues and profitability. The San Francisco-based company, which has come to dominate the hosted customer relationship management services landscape, seems to have scaled back plans for back-office applications […]