Dennis Callaghan

As enterprises demand tighter integration between digital asset files and content management systems, developers such as Interwoven Inc. are answering the call. Interwoven, of Sunnyvale, Calif., this week will announce a packaged integration of its TeamSite content management platform and MediaBin Inc.s Asset Manager, which automates the way companies handle graphics, images, and audio and […]

Two developers are giving small and midsize businesses new options for automating their business processes. OpenMFG LLC last week launched its first product, Standard Manufacturing Solution, an integrated package of manufacturing, distribution and finance software for small businesses. Separately, Dutch ERP (enterprise resource planning) software developer Exact Software N.V. last week announced it is bringing […]

Documentum Inc. continued to buck software industry trends, posting a 24 percent revenue increase and a profit for the third quarter, ended Sept. 30. The Pleasanton, Calif.-based enterprise content management software developer saw revenues rise from $45.3 million to $56.3 million in the quarter, led by an increase in license revenues from $19.8 million to […]

MicroStrategy Inc. withstood falling revenues to post a modest profit for its third quarter, ended Sept. 30, marking the third straight profitable quarter for a company once plagued by financial restatements. The McLean, Va.-based business intelligence software vendor saw revenues fall to $33.4 million from $41.4 million in the third quarter last year. License revenues […]

Art Technology Group Inc. and chief rivals BroadVision Inc. and Blue Martini Software Inc. all continued to fight falling revenues. Reports issued this week put the trio in the red in the third quarter as the performance of all three companies showed the continuing weakness in the portal and e-commerce software space. ATG came the […]

Customer relationship management software maker Pivotal Corp. saw software license revenues nearly cut in half in the most recent quarter. And like sometime rival Siebel Systems Inc., which is also plagued by falling license revenues, Pivotal is turning to Microsoft Corp. to help boost sales. Pivotal on Thursday announced that license revenues fell to $3.2 […]

Just two days after Siebel Systems Inc. signed a landmark deal with Microsoft Corp., embracing .Net, the market-leading CRM software vendor threw a bone to the Java crowd Wednesday, recommitting itself to the J2EE platform in a joint announcement with Sun Microsystems Inc. The companies, at Siebels User Week conference in Los Angeles this week, […]

IBM and Crystal Decisions announced Monday an extension of their partnership into the small-to-medium business space. The deal calls for the two companies to develop new joint offerings, expand existing sales channels and explore new services opportunities together. Key to the deal is Crystal porting its Crystal Enterprise Crystal reporting software to IBMs AIX 5L […]

Microsoft Corp. and Siebel Systems Inc. finally announced their long-awaited partnership Monday, committing the two companies to joint development and marketing agreements. As expected, Siebel will increase its commitment to Microsofts .Net platform and use Microsofts Visual Studio.Net as its primary application development tool. Siebel applications will be optimized for .Net, and new versions of […]

Vignette Corp. debuted the latest version of its enterprise content management suite Tuesday, a product the company hopes will reverse its sagging fortunes. The Austin, Texas, company is splitting this release, Version 7, into three separate versions that will be based on an organizations size and needs. Previously, Vignettes software was split into two versions, […]

Enterprises faced with the daunting task of managing hundreds of thousands—if not millions—of records in data warehouses are finding that job scheduling applications can ease their data management headaches. Companies use job scheduling tools to automatically schedule migrations and conversions of data from flat files into data warehouses, specifying how often to update the data […]

CognosInc. and Informatica Corp. are readying new releases of their respective data extraction, transformation and loading tools that focus on making information in data warehouses more accurate in such dimensions as time and location. Cognos, of Ottawa, will announce early next month its DecisionStream Series 7 ETL tool, which will support late-arriving facts that can […]