Dennis Callaghan

Compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and other regulatory requirements remains high on enterprises to-do lists as Open Text Inc. announced Monday a new corporate governance product built on its Livelink knowledge management and collaboration platform. The new product, which the company is referring to simply as the corporate governance platform, is driven largely by the […]

ORLANDO, Fla.—SAP AG CEO and Chairman of the Executive Board Henning Kagermann said during his opening keynote at the companys Sapphire 03 conference here Tuesday that economic recovery will depend on companies abilities to effectively consolidate their IT operations and adapt to changing technologies. Not surprisingly, Kagermann positioned new SAP technologies like NetWeaver and Xapps […]

ORLANDO—SAP AG announced here today new versions of its customer relationship management and supply chain management products both built on its NetWeaver integration platform and supporting new vertical industry business processes. The latest version of mySAP CRM, 4.0, supports more than 280 industry-specific business processes as well as multichannel interaction processes via NetWeaver. “Version 4.0 […]

Salesforce.com Inc.s launch earlier this month of its Sforce hosted application development utility has competitors scrambling—not to offer similar technology but to position themselves to enterprises considering hosted application utilities as application service pure plays. Just two weeks after the splashy Sforce launch, Salesforce.com rivals Salesnet Inc. and NetLedger Corp. will introduce new features to […]

Developers PeopleSoft Inc., Siebel Systems Inc. and SAS Institute Inc. are each readying predictive analytics software that looks to broaden the audience for such products, from the typical cadre of statistical analysts to mainstream business users. Specifically, the products are designed to help users of sales, customer service and marketing applications make better decisions on […]

NEW YORK—Officially, Steve Mills declined to comment on Oracles hostile takeover bid for PeopleSoft, a move that could put two of IBMs key application software vendor partners under control of one of its chief competitors. But Mills, the senior vice president and group executive of IBMs Software Group, left attendees at IBMs Integration Media Day […]

NEW YORK—IBM Corp. on Tuesday announced a number of new integration technologies designed to better meet enterprises needs for connecting disparate applications and technologies and automating business processes. “What we see is businesses around the world are obsessed with integration,” said Steve Mills, senior vice president and group executive of IBMs Software Group in his […]

Greg Peters, former chairman and CEO of Vignette Corp., has joined pricing software developer Zilliant Inc. as president and CEO, Zilliant announced Monday. Peters led content management software developer Vignette as president and CEO through its initial public offering in 1999, though the once high-flying companys revenues have slumped since. He relinquished the CEOs office […]

Salesforce.com Inc. is moving from providing hosted CRM applications to providing hosted software development tools with the release last week of its Sforce online application development utility. The San Francisco-based company, which has more than 6,500 companies using its customer relationship management applications, is partnering with several big names on Sforce. With backing from Microsoft […]

Capping a week of consolidation in the enterprise applications space, Oracle Corp. announced Friday a $5.1 billion cash tender offer for PeopleSoft Inc., a move analysts and customers rejected as competitive gamesmanship. The proposed takeover, coupled with PeopleSofts planned acquisition of J.D. Edwards & Co. announced earlier in the week, would create a $5.5 billion […]

Siebel Systems Inc. announced a new point release focused on performance improvements at its European User Week conference in Cannes, France, Wednesday, one day after announcing the acquisition of e-mail marketing software company BoldFish Inc. The new release, Siebel 7.5.3, features reductions in installation, operation and upgrade costs, and improvements in performance and scalability thanks […]

Salesforce.com plans to extend its business model from providing hosted customer relationship management applications to providing hosted development tools with the release of its sforce online application development utility, launched at the Grand Havana Club in New York Tuesday evening. The San Francisco-based company, which has more than 6,500 customers for its hosted CRM applications, […]