Dennis Callaghan

PHILADELPHIA—At the SAS User Group International Conference here last week, SAS Institute Inc. announced applications for the life sciences industry and previewed a forecasting interface. The Cary, N.C., company announced the release of SAS Drug Development 3.0 and SAS Scientific Discovery 1.3, separate but integrated products built on the SAS 9 Business Intelligence Platform. SAS […]

Who is Siebel Systems Inc. getting in George Shaheen, the long-time Siebel board member who took over last week as the companys third CEO in the past year? Will it be the visionary CEO who grew Andersen Consulting (now Accenture Ltd.) revenues eightfold between 1989 and 1999? Or will it be the leader who came […]

Customers of Siebel Systems Inc. hope the company stays the course established by now-departed CEO Michael Lawrie, who resigned under pressure from the Siebel board of directors last week. But longtime Siebel board member George Shaheen, who was appointed to replace Lawrie, gave little indication of his intentions for the company. “I guess that if […]

Siebel launched Version 7.8 of its namesake suite Monday at its EMEA User Week conference in Barcelona, but the star of the show was new CEO George Shaheen, who spoke to the public and took questions from the media for the first time. The new version of the software extends Siebel Systems Inc.s capabilities in […]

In a surprising move announced Wednesday, Michael Lawrie has been replaced as CEO of Siebel Systems Inc. by longtime Siebel board member George Shaheen. Lawrie submitted his resignation at the request of the board, according to Siebel chairman Tom Siebel, whom Lawrie had replaced as CEO last May. “After a comprehensive review of the companys […]

SAS Institute Inc. and Hyperion Solutions Corp. will announce products designed to extend their business intelligence reach within the enterprise at their respective user conferences this week. SAS, of Cary, N.C., will announce at the SUGI (SAS Users Group International) conference in Philadelphia an updated version of its Enterprise BI Server. Hyperion, of Santa Clara, […]

PHILADELPHIA—SAS Institute Inc. CEO Jim Goodnight derided many of his companys competitors as “low end” as SAS staked its claim to becoming a provider of integrated enterprisewide business intelligence technology at the opening session of the 30th SAS Users Group International conference here Sunday night. At the conference this week, SAS is announcing its Enterprise […]

Google Inc. last week made a bid to increase its adoption as an enterprise search standard by instituting a new licensing scheme that will give enterprises more search at a lower cost. The new licensing chiefly affects the Google Mini appliance, effectively doubling the Google Minis document capacity while nearly halving the price. The Google […]

In a bid to increase its adoption as an enterprise search standard, Google is instituting a new licensing scheme that will give enterprises more search volume at a lower cost. The new licensing, announced Wednesday, chiefly affects the Google Mini appliance, effectively doubling the Google Minis document capacity while nearly halving the price. The Google […]

Michael Lawries attempts to make over Siebel Systems Inc. are winning praise from inside and outside Siebel. But much remains to be done as the company repositions itself in the small- and midsize- business market while remaining an enterprise software powerhouse committed to customers success. Richard Napier, director of business development for InFact Group, a […]