Dennis Callaghan

Oracle Corp. announced the release Wednesday of version 11.5.9 of its Oracle Sales application, with several new enhancements designed to help salespeople do their jobs more effectively. Foremost among the enhancements is a new application called Oracle Proposals, which generates personalized sales proposals from templates. These proposals can then be tracked and monitored for effectiveness. […]

IBM Corp.s Lotus Software division announced Tuesday that it has shipped its previously announced Workplace Messaging product, a low-cost e-mail server designed to bring basic e-mail to deskless workers. The move comes on the heels of last weeks joint announcement of a similar offering called Workforce Mail by Sendmail Inc. in combination with Hewlett-Packard Co. […]

New applications from Stellent Inc. and Interwoven Inc. are aimed at centralizing and consolidating enterprises content management systems and operations. Stellent, of Minneapolis, will announce this week Stellent Site Studio, an add-on to its Stellent Content Management suite that automates the process of managing multiple sites at the same organization. Meanwhile, Interwoven, of San Jose, […]

Sendmail joined forces with Hewlett-Packard and Intel last week to announce an offering to bring e-mail to deskless workers, mostly in the health care and manufacturing sectors. Known as Workforce Mail, the Linux-based offering combines Sendmail e-mail software, HP ProLiant servers and access devices that use the Intel Centrino chip set, so that workers such […]

IBM Corp. on Wednesday announced a new tool for its WebSphere Portal server for building portlets, or links to Lotus Domino applications. The new tool, Application Portlet Builder for Domino, will allow business users to build portlets around enterprise application functions based on Domino, and enable administrators to customize its look and feel, IBM officials […]

FatWire Software Corp. announced Tuesday that it has acquired Divine Inc.s content management software business at bankruptcy auction. FatWire, which develops its own content management software under the UpdateEngine brand, as well as the Spark portal content management application, gets Divines Content Server and Participant Server products and their combined 300 customer accounts. Terms of […]

Few industries have been hit harder than the hospitality industry as belt-tightening corporations slash travel budgets and consumers cut back on travel plans because of fears of terrorism, job loss and even disease. Faced with these pressures, a well-developed Web marketing channel is becoming more and more important to businesses such as hotels and cruise […]

PeopleSoft Inc. officials have inaugurated what they are calling “the beginning of the end of middleware,” but enterprises dont expect to be throwing out their enterprise application integration tools just yet. Like other major enterprise software vendors, the Pleasanton, Calif., developer is promising to help its customers reduce the cost of connecting third-party applications to […]

Hyperion Solutions Corp. plans a major release of its Essbase online analytical processing server later this year as part of a plan to improve integration of its business intelligence and performance management applications and to simplify the release schedules of those applications. By the end of the year, Hyperion will deliver Version 7.0 of Essbase […]

IT managers are getting more tools to help gather data and create reports that show their companies are complying with the Sarbanes-Oxley law. HandySoft Corp., for instance, this week will announce BizFlow Solution for Sarbanes-Oxley, a subset of the companys BizFlow workflow software designed to simplify Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 audit procedures. The Web-based application automates […]

Sendmail Inc. joined forces with Hewlett-Packard Co. and Intel Corp. to announce Monday a joint offering to bring e-mail to deskless workers, mostly in the health care and manufacturing sectors. Known as Workforce Mail, the Linux-based offering combines Sendmail e-mail software, HP Proliant servers and access devices that use the Intel Centrino chipset, so that […]

Marc Benioff, the high-profile CEO of hosted CRM service provider Salesforce.com, will be appointed co-chair of the Presidents Information Technology Advisory Committee by President George Bush, the company acknowledged Friday. Benioff will co-chair the 25-person committee along with Edward Lazowska, who currently holds the Bill and Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science at the University […]