Dennis Callaghan

Actuate Corp. and SAS Institute Inc. are unveiling technologies to bring query and reporting capabilities to wider groups of users. The object of both companies is to reach the underserved business user, although they are approaching that problem from different directions. Actuates products have heretofore been the province of more casual, front-line users in an […]

As IBM, through a partnership with Onyx Software Corp., rolls out hosted CRM applications, the acknowledged leader of the space, Salesforce.com Inc., is shoring up its own hosted customer relationship management offerings with deeper Microsoft Corp. Outlook integration. IBM, of Armonk, N.Y., bolstered its e-business on-demand strategy last week by making available IBM Application Hosting […]

SEATTLE—SAS Institute Inc. previewed its forthcoming SAS 9.1 platform at the SAS Users Group International conference here Monday, showing off new business intelligence tools designed to broaden the user base of the Cary, N.C.-based software companys technology. As previously reported by eWEEK, the new tools focus mainly on generating self-service query and reporting for business […]

Microsoft Corp. on Friday released a patch for its recently released Microsoft CRM application suite, allowing users to turn off a feature that some had found to be more of a hindrance than a help. The patch, the third issued for MS CRM since it shipped in late January, involves a feature called the “generated […]

David Gurle, head of the Microsoft Corp. team that is developing the real-time communication platform codenamed Greenwich, is leaving Microsoft to join Reuters Group, one of the early beta customers of Greenwich. He will serve as Reuters executive vice president and global head of collaboration services effective April 1. Gurle had been director of program […]

IBM on Tuesday announced the availability of two new hosted services as part of its e-business on-demand strategy. The services include a hosted CRM offering based on Onyx Software Corp.s Onyx Enterprise CRM suite and a remote IT infrastructure management offering. Both services are designed for medium-sized businesses. The IBM Application Hosting for Onyx solution […]

Citrix Systems Inc. is integrating its MetaFrame presentation server and its portal application with new capabilities for application sharing and single sign-on. The company last week said it is combining its flagship MetaFrame XP software with its NFuse Elite portal product into Citrix MetaFrame Access Suite. As part of the announcement, Citrix is renaming NFuse […]

Cognos Inc. and Informatica Corp. are revving their respective business intelligence platforms with new features designed to make them more accessible to more types of users. Cognos last week announced a new corporate performance management solution, code-named Cognos Enterprise Planning, that will add functionality to Cognos Series 7 to make it attractive to chief financial […]

Siebel Systems Inc. is readying a more basic package of its CRM applications with reduced features and simplified default business rules in an attempt to quell criticism over the softwares complexity and long install process. Siebel, the market-leading customer relationship management software developer, will use the offering, which will be rolled out late this year, […]

GoldenGate Inc. Monday announced version 7 of its flagship data synchronization platform with improvements centering around monitoring of data synchronization projects in real-time. The product, GoldenGate 7, is used for applications such as business continuity, disaster recovery, data center consolidation and integration, system migration, application integration and active data warehousing, officials of the Sausalito, Calif.-based […]

Sagent Technology Inc. has been declared in default of $7 million in secured loans it received late last year, a move which could force the company to be sold. The data warehousing and enterprise integration software vendor announced Friday that it received notice of the default from CDC Software Corp., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Chinadotcom […]

SAS Institute Inc. is planning to unveil new technology for enterprise reporting at its SAS Users Group International Conference in Seattle later this month, the company has confirmed. The new reporting product will be part of the Cary, N.C.-based analytic software developers SAS 9.1 release. While SAS already offers the Enterprise Reporter product, the updated […]