Dennis Callaghan

Two Web search companies have announced acquisitions this week with Google Inc. buying Weblog software developer Pyra Labs and Overture Services Inc. acquiring search vendor AltaVista Co. Pyra Labs, a six-person San Francisco-based startup, develops the popular Blogger personal Web publishing tool. Terms of Googles acquisition of Pyra were not disclosed. Both companies are privately […]

Divine Inc., an e-business software company formed from the acquisition of more than a dozen Internet startups, may go the way of many a dot-com bust. The Chicago-based developer of content management, collaboration and customer interaction management software announced Tuesday that it has retained Broadview International LLC to help it explore strategic options, including asset […]

Business intelligence and analytics software vendors reporting quarterly earnings last week turned in a mixed bag. Revenues were generally up, but only CorVu Corp. turned a profit. CorVu, best known for its balanced scorecard software, showed that its taking advantage of the business performance management trend, as it posted revenues of $3.89 million in its […]

As IT organizations are asked to provide more real-time views of data, the lines between technologies that integrate and manage data and applications are blurring. Vendors that provide software for data integration, data ETL (extraction, transformation and loading) and EAI (enterprise application integration) are often claiming capabilities in their products that were previously distinct. Data […]

Divine Inc. and Interwoven Inc. are adding more capabilities for document management to their respective content management software suites. Divine Content Server 5.0, which Divine unveiled last week, features DocLink, a Windows Explorer-like interface for saving and retrieving documents. DocLink also supports metadata insertion, revision tracking and workflow initiation directly within Windows Explorer, said officials […]

As it begins the North American push for its just-released Microsoft CRM suite this week, Microsoft Corp. is laying the groundwork for a broader push into e-business applications while expanding its partner channel to build out the software. Future versions of the customer relationship management software, which began shipping late last month, will expand beyond […]

Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday announced that it is adding reporting capabilities to its SQL Server business intelligence platform, a move that financial analysts predicted could threaten reporting software vendors. Microsofts plan is to provide what it calls an “open and extensible reporting platform,” known as Reporting Services, that its partners can use to broaden their […]

Information Builders Inc. and Sagent Technology Inc. announced business intelligence software last week to help users get a better handle on data generated by disparate applications in their enterprises. This promises to give customers a more enterprisewide view of business operations. Information Builders released Version 5 of WebFocus, its flagship BI tool. Separately, Sagent introduced […]

Divine Inc. announced Monday the latest version of its Content Server content management suite, adding more capabilities for document management and classification. Similarly, content management software developer Interwoven Inc., is adding collaboration and document management capabilities to its suite through a partnership with iManage Inc., also announced Monday. Divine Content Server 5.0 features DocLink, a […]

SAS Institute Inc. on Monday will announce an extension of its existing supply chain analytics applications, company officials confirmed. The SAS Supply Chain Intelligence suite will bring the business intelligence software developer into direct competition with supply chain management software vendors. SAS Chairman and CEO James Goodnight promised such a move in an exclusive interview […]

Groove Networks Inc. and Ipswitch Inc. are both announcing new products in different areas of the collaboration space this week. Groove will announce Wednesday the latest version of its flagship workgroup collaboration platform and a new Web services toolkit, while Ipswitch announced Monday that it was adding instant messaging to its small-to-medium business messaging product […]

IBMs previously stated strategy to bring its Lotus Software division into closer step with the rest of its Software Group took shape at last weeks Lotusphere user conference in Orlando, Fla. Several products announced at the show brought together Lotus and other IBM technologies. IBM also introduced a new, low-cost e-mail server that will be […]