Dennis Callaghan

Once high-flying CRM software developer E.piphany Inc., of San Mateo, Calif., will announce Tuesday E.piphany Service 6.0, completing its Java 2 Enterprise Edition-based suite of applications, a move it hopes will go a long way towards reversing a long-term downward trend in revenues. E.piphany Service 6.0, the descendant of software E.piphany acquired from Octane Software […]

Cognos Inc. will announce Monday the availability of a new integration platform designed to extend its business intelligence applications into other applications as Web services. Known as Cognos Web Services, the platform builds connections between Cognos BI apps and other applications, such as CRM, ERP, supply chain management and collaboration, using SOAP (simple object access […]

Vignette Corp. announced Wednesday the addition of new reporting and analysis capabilities to its flagship V6 content management platform. The new enhancements are designed to give Web site managers a better understanding of how content is being used at the site and to make improvements in how the content is organized and presented, Vignette officials […]

The SALT Forum announced Tuesday that it has sent its namesake Speech Application Language Tags (SALT) specification to the World Wide Web Consortium for review. SALT is a specification used for adding voice tags to existing application development markup languages so as to develop so-called multimodal applications, which combine speech recognition, speech synthesis, graphics and […]

Art Technology Group Inc. this week will introduce the next version of its e-commerce and portal application suite, which features integrated analytics, search and application integration technologies licensed from other developers. ATG 6 includes Hyperion Solutions Corp.s Essbase OLAP Server for analytics, integrated search software from Autonomy Corp. plc., and integration connectors to Siebel Systems […]

Technology and service providers are rolling out offerings to help financial services companies and other businesses cope with growing regulatory demands for storing communications such as e-mail and instant messages. EMC Corp. last week announced a partnership with e-mail server developer Critical Path Inc. that calls for the companies to jointly market and sell messaging […]

Firstwave Technologies Inc. announced Monday that it has licensed from Extreme Logic Inc. a .Net framework, which it will use to build a Web services-oriented workflow engine. Firstwave, which develops online customer relationship management software, will build the workflow engine to handle CRM workflow and call scripting using Extreme Logics framework, which has been developed […]

eGain Communications Corp. shuffled the deck in its executive suite after reporting a sharp drop-off in fiscal fourth-quarter revenues and earnings Thursday. The company announced that CFO Harpreet Grewal will step down at the end of the month, though he will remain a special adviser to chairman and CEO Ashutosh Roy. Eric Smit, currently vice […]

Art Technology Group Inc. next week will introduce the next version of its e-commerce and portal application suite, which features integrated analytics, search and application integration technologies licensed from other developers. ATG 6 includes Hyperion Solutions Corp.s Essbase OLAP Server for analytics, integrated search software from Autonomy Corp. plc and integration connectors to Siebel Systems […]

Web site management software and services provider Watchfire Corp. announced Tuesday that it has acquired the Bobby Web site accessibility software from the Center for Applied Special Technology. Bobby is used to analyze Web sites to determine which sections are inaccessible for people with disabilities and then to automatically fix those parts of the sites […]

In the lawsuit-plagued world of reporting and analytics software, the Circuit Court for Fairfax County, Va., ruled on Monday that MicroStrategy Inc.s trade secrets lawsuit against Actuate Corp. could proceed. MicroStrategy had filed the suit last June, alleging that Actuate and two of its senior software engineers engaged in a conspiracy to misappropriate trade secrets […]

MicroStrategy Inc. is deepening its commitment to Unix by adding more support for IBMs AIX platform, the company announced Friday. The company later this year is expected to deliver Web-based reporting and analytics capability on AIX—significant because of the improved performance AIX can provide over Windows-based systems. By early next year, MicroStrategy will offer an […]