Dennis Callaghan

Open Text Corp. has added to its enterprise content management platform by acquisition once again, announcing plans to buy German Web content management software developer Gauss Interprise Wednesday. The cash acquisition is valued at $11 million and is expected to close during the fourth calendar quarter. The deal will add Gauss Web content management, and […]

NEW YORK—Hosted CRM services provider Salesnet Inc. plans to add new functionality for dashboards and foreign language and currency support in coming versions of its service. By the end of September, Salesnet plans to release version 2 of its dashboard, adding full drill-down capabilities. Users will be able to click on graphical presentations of sales […]

A new call center architecture and two new products from Aspect Communications Corp. look to assist enterprises transitioning to IP telephony. The San Jose, Calif., company will unveil at this weeks International Call Center Management show in Chicago its Uniphi architecture, designed to help customers transition to IP-based call center technology at their own pace. […]

The SoBig.F virus, the fastest-spreading worm to hit the Internet, struck an uncounted number of Windows PCs this week, installing a Trojan horse that could turn infected machines into unwitting spam relays. Even enterprises that succeeded in stripping out virus attachments found that SoBig.F had already created a huge spam headache. E-mail in-boxes quickly filled […]

SAS Institute Inc. will announce Monday that it is joining the Eclipse consortium, an IBM-led initiative to develop an open-source application development tool platform. SAS becomes the first of the major business intelligence software vendors to join Eclipse and plans to contribute application development capabilities of its software to the effort. Eclipse members would be […]

Novell Inc. announced Thursday that it has cut 600 jobs in an effort to save more money after posting a loss for the fourth straight quarter. The Provo, Utah-based software and services company took a loss of $12.4 million in its fiscal third quarter, ended July 31, after posting income of $9.5 million in the […]

IBM Corp. will release Friday the first vertical application built on its Lotus Workplace platform, Lotus Workplace for Retail Store Operations. The software and services offering is designed to simplify the administration of in-store processes and reduce training time by improving access to information and collaboration and communication among store employees. The new offering integrates […]

Interwoven Inc. is acquiring iManage Inc. to extend collaboration capabilities across the Interwoven content management platform and add intelligence and distribution capabilities to document management. The deal, which was announced this month and valued at about $171 million, builds on a long-standing relationship between Interwoven, which develops content management software, and iManage, which develops document […]

A major upgrade to Microsoft Corp.s project management software is expected to take advantage of tighter integration with other components of the companys Office suite of applications, particularly the Microsoft Outlook 2003 client. Microsoft this week will release its Microsoft Office Project 2003 software to manufacturing, the first component of Office 2003 to reach that […]

New document management software from Workshare Inc., Information Management Research Inc. and Astoria Software Inc. seek to give users better control over e-mail and other records needed for regulatory compliance as well as support new vertical applications. Workshare this week plans to unveil Workshare 3, which offers usability, collaboration and e-mail management enhancements. The upgrade […]

It may seem like the height of the Internet boom all over again this week when ChoiceStream Inc. officially launches and debuts its flagship Web personalization software, MyBestBets. The startup promises that its technology, based on a statistical analysis model called Bayesian choice modeling, works better than that of foundering Web personalization pioneer Net Perceptions […]

A new suite of communication tools from IBM unites instant messaging with message brokering. IBM Community Tools allows users to interact with communities, such as customer and partner communities, in a peer-to-peer network. The suite combines IBMs MQ Event Broker with the enterprise IM capabilities of IBMs Lotus Sametime technology. Web services run under WebSphere […]