Dennis Callaghan

Crystal Decisions on Wednesday announced two new products designed to broaden its business intelligence software and make it accessible to a wider user base. The company announced a new version of its Crystal Enterprise platform, Crystal Enterprise 9 Premium, as well as a new version of a product within that platform, Crystal Analysis Professional, which […]

Jeffrey Lunsford, formerly the president and CEO of TogetherSoft Corp., will take over the same positions at Web analytics software and service provider WebSideStory Inc., San Diego-based WebSideStory announced Thursday. Lunsford replaces John Hentrich, who had held both positions at WebSideStory since 1999. Hentrich guided the company as it transitioned to focus exclusively on the […]

The battle for the small to medium-sized CRM business goes on as developers Pivotal Corp., Salesnet Inc. and SupportWizard Inc. each add new features to their offerings to widen their appeal. Pivotal is adding a host of new capabilities, including guided selling, in its Pivotal 5 release designed to make the midmarket CRM software more […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. on Monday launched a new partner initiative at the AIIM show in New York called the iForce Content Network, designed to make it easier for customers to manage complex content. The network brings together more than 30 companies, most in the content and document management, collaboration, and streaming media spaces, who will […]

Hyperion Solutions Corp. and SRC Software Inc. aim to give enterprises a better handle on operations with updates to their respective business performance management software. Hyperion, of Sunnyvale, Calif., last week rolled out Version 3 of its BPM (Business Performance Management) Suite, which includes Planning, Financial Management, Performance Scorecard and Business Modeling applications. The upgrade […]

SAS Institute Inc. is strengthening its portfolio of business intelligence and data warehousing tools in an effort to satisfy enterprise users need to consolidate IT assets. The Cary, N.C., company last week at its SAS User Group International conference here introduced Version 9.1 of its namesake BI suite. Key new features of the software, which […]

Siebel Systems Inc. issued preliminary first-quarter earnings on Friday, warning that revenues will be lower than anticipated earlier this year, as several large deals failed to close by the end of the quarter. The market-leading CRM (customer relationship management) software developer reported that first-quarter revenues will end up in the range of $330 million to […]

Hyperion Solutions Corp. made a move Thursday to extend its business performance management technology with the acquisition of financial modeling solution developer The Alcar Group. Terms of the transaction, expected to close in the next several weeks, were not disclosed. Alcars financial modeling solutions are used by senior managers in corporate finance and business development, […]

FileNet Corp. has expanded is enterprise content management offerings with the acquisition of electronic forms software developer Shana Corp., announced Wednesday. The all-cash deal is valued at $8.5 million. Shana, based in Edmonton, Alberta, had already been a FileNet partner, jointly offering an integrated e-forms solution. That integration is expected to become even tighter now, […]

Hyperion Solutions Corp. and SRC Software Inc. are both announcing this week new versions of their respective business performance management offerings, with Hyperion also announcing an update to the Essbase XTD platform its applications are built on. Hyperion, of Sunnyvale, Calif., on Wednesday announced Version 3 of its Business Performance Management Suite, made up of […]

Documentum Inc. on Tuesday announced the first release of its records management software product since it bought TrueArc Corp. last November. The new product, Documentum Enterprise Records Management Edition, automates the records management process, handling records such as incoming and outgoing e-mail and attachments, documents, Web content, graphics, video and physical records—from creation through archiving […]

An update to GoldenGate Inc.s flagship data synchronization platform offers better monitoring of data synchronization projects in real time, officials said. GoldenGate 7, which was announced last week, is used for applications such as business continuity, disaster recovery, data center consolidation and integration, system migration, application integration, and active data warehousing, said company officials, in […]