Dennis Callaghan

Siebel Systems Inc.s business continues to sputter in the slowing economy as first-quarter license revenues were less than half of what they were in the same period the previous year. Siebel, the acknowledged market leader in customer relationship management software, saw software license revenues, the heart of its business, plummet to $112.1 million from $246 […]

Speech software vendors ScanSoft Inc. and SpeechWorks International Inc. announced Thursday that they will merge, with Scansoft to buy all the outstanding common stock of SpeechWorks. The deal calls for ScanSoft to issue 32.6 million shares of its common stock to SpeechWorks shareholders, who will receive .86 shares of ScanSoft stock for every SpeechWorks share […]

Business Objects SA staked its claim to providing an end-to-end business intelligence platform with the announcement of its Enterprise 6 suite late Wednesday. The suite, which company officials boast is the most integrated BI suite on the market, features Web-based query, reporting and analysis, a BI portal, a data warehouse, and metadata integration with enterprise […]

PeopleSoft Inc., which has been a star performer in an enterprise software space sagging under the weight of the slowing economy, saw revenues and profits fall in the first quarter of 2003 as license revenues took a big hit. The Pleasanton, Calif., companys overall revenues dropped to $460.3 million from $483.3 million in the same […]

Endeca Technologies Inc., iPhrase Technologies Inc. and Ask Jeeves Inc.s Jeeves Solutions division are releasing new versions of their software, with a common thread of developing more intelligent search results gleaned from more content and data sources (see screen). Endeca this week will announce Version 3.5 of its namesake Navigation Engine platform, while iPhrase is […]

Content management vendors Documentum Inc., Interwoven Inc. and Optika Inc. turned in a mixed bag of results in the first quarter in earnings reported this week. Documentum, fueled by acquisitions its made since last years first quarter, enjoyed a healthy revenue bounce and signed up a record number of new customers, but saw net losses […]

Group 1 Software announced Wednesday that it has entered into an agreement to buy the assets of Sagent Technology Inc., in a deal valued at up to $17 million in cash and debt forgiveness. Sagent was declared in default on a $7 million loan package last month and announced that it would explore a number […]

SPSS Inc. and WebSideStory Inc. are both announcing new products designed to help customers make better use of their Web channels and integrate them with other marketing channels. SPSS will announce Wednesday the general availability of the latest version of its Web analytics application, Net Genesis 6, while WebSideStory announced Tuesday a new integration offering […]

Siebel Systems Inc. on Tuesday announced Version 2.0 of its Universal Application Network integration software, introducing 50 new industry-specific integration applications. The first 50 UAN applications that shipped last year as part of the 1.0 release were horizontal in focus, according to Siebel executives in San Mateo, Calif. But in this release, Siebel is releasing […]

Pivotal Corp., Salesnet Inc. and SupportWizard Inc. are each adding features to their respective customer relationship management offerings to widen their appeal for small and midsize businesses. Pivotal is adding a host of capabilities, including guided selling, in the next release of its namesake midmarket CRM software to make it more accessible to the higher […]

IBMs Lotus Software division, under the direction of its newest general manager, is moving to open up its platforms in an effort to make the companys collaboration technologies more attractive to developers who rely on open Internet standards. As part of that effort, Lotus is expanding the output capabilities of the development tools in its […]

IMLogic Inc and SurfControl both announced new products for spam-blocking and security at the RSA Conference 2003 in San Francisco. Instant messaging management software developer IMLogic Inc. announced new software for blocking viruses and spam in IM. IM Manager 5.0 adds security, content filtering, and anti-spam protection to existing control, reporting, archiving and compliance capabilities, […]