Dennis Callaghan

Business Objects SA and SAS Institute Inc. have rolled out offerings designed to help companies get a better handle on how their business is performing. Business Objects new Performance Manager software includes goal management, scorecards and strategy maps and enables customers to align goals and performance with enterprise strategy, said company officials, in San Jose, […]

A wave of new customer relationship management software products signals CRM vendors increasing focus on supporting specific business processes and improving how users interact with the software. SAP AGs MySAP CRM 4, released at the companys Sapphire user show here in June, supports more than 280 industry-specific business processes as well as multichannel interaction processes […]

Celequest Inc., a startup, will emerge this week with a new offering in the fledgling real-time, event-driven business intelligence space known as business activity monitoring, or BAM. The company, headed by Informatica Corp. co-founder and former President and Chief Operating Officer Diaz Nesamoney, will announce the general availability of its Celequest 2.0 product on Monday. […]

Microsoft Corp. next week will release its Exchange 2003 messaging server to manufacturing, with new licensing models and no increase in price. Exchange 2003 will offer both per-user and per-device client access licenses (CAL). Companies can buy a per-user CAL which allows a single user unlimited access to the Exchange server from multiple devices as […]

Enterprises looking for speed when it comes to their business intelligence applications are getting some help from Microsoft Corp. and Sybase Inc. Microsoft Wednesday announced the availability of Version 1.2 of its SQL Server Accelerator for Business Intelligence, a rapid application development tool to automate the process of building the infrastructure of an analytical application. […]

Business Objects SA will announce Wednesday a new product called Performance Manager, enhancing its offerings in the business performance management space. Performance Manager includes goal management, scorecards, and strategy maps, allowing customers to align goals and performance with enterprise strategy, Business Objects officials in San Jose, Calif. said. In January, Business Objects released the first […]

Looking to put additional pressure on Oracle Corp. to halt its hostile takeover bid of enterprise software rival PeopleSoft Inc., Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has contacted every state in the union asking them to join a class action suit against Oracle, according to Blumenthals press office. Several states have expressed interest, including Texas and […]

Geac Computer Corp. Ltd. made a move to consolidate the business performance management software space, announcing plans Monday to acquire Comshare Inc. in a cash tender offer valued at $52 million. The move gives Geac, a Markham, Ontario-based developer of ERP (enterprise resource planning) and business management software for vertical industries like manufacturing, government, health […]

SiteScape Inc. and Kubi Software Inc. are debuting new software offerings this week that continue the recent trend of integrating collaboration capabilities with other applications and business activities. SiteScape is rolling out three collaboration solution modules built on its SiteScape Enterprise Forum 7.0 platform that support specific business processes such as proposal generation, partner relationship […]

SAS Institute Inc. unveiled several new products at its SAS European Users Group International conference in Vienna, Austria, Wednesday, most geared to business and IT users rather than statisticians as the Cary, N.C.-based developer of business intelligence and analytics software continues its push to widen its enterprise reach. As part of its SAS 9.1 platform […]

Cognos Inc. continued to prove the strength of the business intelligence software space, with revenues and profits both turning in double digit growth rates in its fiscal first quarter, ended May 31. The Ottawa, Ontario-based company reported revenues of $143.7 million, up from $111.6 million in the first quarter of the last fiscal year. Business […]

PeopleSoft Inc. issued a statement Wednesday afternoon saying its board of directors would review Oracles sweetened bid to buy the company and advising stockholders to take no action until that review is complete. Oracle raised its unsolicited cash tender offer for PeopleSoft to $19.50 per share from $16 Wednesday morning. PeopleSofts board of directors rejected […]