Dennis Callaghan

IBMs Lotus software division has modified its Domino platform to create two messaging and collaboration products exclusively for small and midsize businesses. The products, Lotus Domino Collaboration Express and Lotus Domino Utility Server Express, are targeted at companies with 100 to 1,000 employees. The software, unveiled last week, provides much of the same functionality as […]

Informatica Corp. on Monday announced the availability of a new Web-based metadata management tool, called SuperGlue, that the company says will increase transparency of information assets and processes. The new tool integrates metadata from various systems and portrays and controls the movement, lineage and utilization of information assets, said company officials in Redwood City, Calif. […]

Contact center solutions developer Aspect Communications Corp. announced Monday that Beatriz Infante, its chairman, CEO and president, will leave the company by the end of the quarter, or Sept. 30. No reason was given for the surprise announcement other than that she is leaving to “pursue other interests.” Gary Barnett, currently Aspects executive vice president […]

Open Text Corp. reported its highest quarterly revenues ever Thursday, racking up $53.1 million in revenues for its fiscal fourth quarter ended June 30. That was up from $41.6 million in the same year-ago period. License revenues for the content and knowledge management and collaboration software developer climbed from $19.9 million to $24.1 million year […]

Microsoft Corp. will release to manufacturing Monday its Microsoft Office 2003 Project software, the first component of Office 2003 to reach that stage. The designation means the project management software is feature-complete enough to be installed on CD and pre-loaded on PC hard drives. But the software wont reach customers until the rest of Office […]

IBMs Lotus Software division will announce Wednesday two new messaging and collaboration products built on its Domino platform designed exclusively for the small to medium-sized business market. The new products, Lotus Domino Collaboration Express and Lotus Domino Utility Server Express, are targeted for companies with 100 to 1,000 employees. Company officials say they provide much […]

Customer service and knowledge management software developer Primus Knowledge Solutions Inc. announced Tuesday that it has reached an agreement to buy e-service software developer Broad Daylight Inc. in a cash-and-stock deal. Under terms of the acquisition, Primus will pay 2.09 million of its own shares plus cash equal to an additional 110,000 shares for Broad […]

Software developers are busy crafting new products and partnerships to help public companies comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. IT departments in particular have taken on a significant role in the compliance end of Sarbanes-Oxley, which goes into effect over the next year and a half. Thats because it requires that companies set up systems for […]

IBM on Monday released a new suite of communication tools that bring together instant messaging and message brokering. The suite, known as IBM Community Tools, is designed to allow users to interact with communities, such as customer and partner communities, in a peer-to-peer network. The tools combine IBM MQ Event Broker with the enterprise instant […]

NetPerceptions Inc., a once high-flying Internet software company that led the Web personalization craze of the late 1990s, appears to have gone the way of many of the dot-coms it once sold its software to. The Minneapolis-based company announced a cash payout of $1.50 per share to its existing stockholders, while laying off 12 of […]

Interwoven Inc. announced Wednesday that it has entered into an agreement to acquire iManage Inc., cementing a partnership the companies have had in place for the past six months. The cash and stock deal calls for iManage shareholders to receive $1.20 and 2.0943 shares of Interwoven stock for every iManage share they own, valuing the […]

The drive to improve the presentation of business information to executive-level employees continued last week with the release of dashboard offerings from UpShot Corp. and CXO Systems Inc., both of which are delivering dashboards as Web services. UpShot, which sells hosted CRM (customer relationship management) services, unveiled UpShot Dashboard, which gives CEOs, sales vice presidents […]