Dennis Callaghan

Interwoven Inc. announced Monday that it has entered into an agreement to buy its digital asset management partner MediaBin Inc. in a cash and stock deal worth approximately $10 million. The companies have worked together since last October when they announced an integration of their respective products—for content management and digital asset management—and have since […]

U.S. public companies have been paying for the financial scandals at Enron Corp., Global Crossing Ltd. and WorldCom Inc. for months—and another large bill is about to come due. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act, enacted last year in response to Enron, et al., requires companies to make new disclosures on internal controls, ethics codes and the makeup […]

IBM has developed a metadata product that will help enterprises that use a variety of third-party reporting tools access data from its DB2 database. The product, called Cube Views and due this week, serves as a bridge between third-party reporting and data modeling tools, making it easier for the tools to share information with one […]

Microsoft Corp. will debut Release Candidate 1 of its long-awaited Exchange 2003 messaging server software this week, with a renewed emphasis on migrating enterprises that remain entrenched in the 5.5 version of Exchange. The new version, which will be launched at Microsofts Tech Ed conference in Dallas, will include new tools to ease migrations from […]

With its sforce launch slated for this week, hosted CRM service provider Salesforce.com got a head start on its application integration push, announcing pre-built accounting adapters for Intuit QuickBooks and Microsoft Business Solutions-Great Plains accounting software. The accounting adapters, built by eBridge Software Inc., link Salesforce.coms hosted CRM service with Intuit and Microsoft-Great Plains accounting […]

Enterprise content management software developer Optika Inc. has acquired records management software developer Select Technologies Inc., which had provided the technology for Optikas own records management product as part of an OEM deal. The cash-stock deal, valued at $1.425 million, will give Optika Selects Extempore software technology, which Optika has used in its Acorde Records […]

The Divine Inc. bankruptcy sale continued Wednesday as customer service and support software developer eAssist Global Solutions Inc. announced the acquisition of Divines Customer Interaction Management product line. The acquisition gives eAssist Divines NetAgent Suite, Expressions, the eBIS/jeBIS platforms, and Velocity Marketing products. Divine, formed from the acquisitions of more than a dozen Internet software […]

Microsoft Corp. formally announced Tuesday that its forthcoming real-time collaboration server will be included in the Microsoft Office System of servers, programs and services and will be known as Microsoft Office Real-Time Communications Server 2003. The extensible IM (instant messaging) server, formerly code-named Greenwich, will allow developers to build real-time communications capabilities into their applications. […]

Kanisa Inc. struck another blow for consolidation in the search space with the acquisition of AskJeeves Inc.s Jeeves Solutions enterprise software business unit Wednesday. The deal is valued at $4.25 million. Kanisa, a customer-service software company based in Cupertino, Calif., gets Jeeves Solutions JeevesOne platform, a natural language search product typically used for online customer […]

Oracle last week released version 11.5.9 of its Oracle Sales application, with several new enhancements designed to help salespeople. The enhancements include a new application called Oracle Proposals, which generates personalized sales proposals from templates. These proposals can then be tracked and monitored for effectiveness. This release also supports tighter integration with Oracles Order Management […]

Data mining stalwarts SPSS Inc. and SAS Institute Inc. are each planning to add more predictive capabilities to their respective Web analytics software offerings. SPSS announced last week a product called Predictive Web Analytics, which will combine the Chicago-based companys NetGenesis Web analysis software with its flagship Clementine data mining software. SAS, of Cary, N.C., […]

Novell Inc. enjoyed a revenue increase and shaved its losses in its fiscal second quarter ended April 30, though software license revenues were down in the quarter. The Provo, Utah-based provider of identity management, Web application development and messaging software and networking and other services posted total revenues of $276 million, up from $273.9 million […]