Dennis Callaghan

Plumtree Software Inc. on Wednesday will announce a new version of its portal platform that adds more advanced Web services capabilities. The new version, 4.5WS, builds on the Web services support first in-troduced in version 4.5 of the Plumtree Corporate Portal. It will be announced at the companys Web Services and Portals Executive Event in […]

America Online Inc. will begin beta testing this month an encrypted version of its AOL Instant Messenger service targeted to enterprises. The service, to be known as Enterprise AIM, will be sold to corporations, a company spokesman confirmed Friday, though the spokesman, Marty Gordon, declined to say when the encrypted service will be available. VeriSign […]

IBMs Lotus Software divisions plans to continue to support and enhance its existing Domino collaboration platform in parallel to developing next-generation Java technologies are winning mostly applause from the Domino developer community. But questions still linger over how long that commitment to Domino will last and how customers and partners will choose which technology path […]

IBMs Lotus Software division, under pressure by customers to clarify its product road map for Domino, announced plans Wednesday at IBMs DeveloperWorks Live show in San Francisco to continue to support and enhance the existing collaboration platform while offering separate paths for customers who wish to embrace Java, Web services and other IBM technologies. The […]

CRM software developer Kana Inc. announced on Thursday that its CFO, Brett White, has left the company, less than a year after taking the position. White said in a statement that he was leaving to focus on “family and new endeavours,” but the abrupt nature of his departure and the lack of any comment from […]

Microsoft Corp. announced Tuesday at NetWorld+Interop in Las Vegas that the next version of its Microsoft Project project management application is in final code and will be generally available next month. With this release, Microsoft Project 2002, the company is looking to take the software to the enterprise for project and resource management, company officials […]

Cognos Inc. is announcing this week new analytical applications for SAP AGs enterprise resource planning platform as well as a repackaging of its analytical applications designed to make it easier for customers to buy them. The Ottawa, Ontario, company announced on Tuesday the availability of a suite for SAP R/3, including analytic applications for SAP […]

Ipswitch Inc. on Tuesday will announce Version 7.1 of its iMail e-mail server, with new security and calendaring features that strengthen the softwares position as an alternative to more expensive groupware servers like Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Domino. The new version, which is targeted to the small to medium-sized business market and to service providers, […]

As enterprise content expands with the Web, so has the need to make that content better organized, easier to access and integrated with other sources. To meet this need, Documentum Inc., in Pleasanton, Calif., released last week Content Intelligence Services, which adds automated tagging, categorization and linking of content, along with pre-built departmental and industry […]

Wheelhouse Corp. is winding down its CRM services business and looking for a cash infusion to keep its fledgling software business going, the company confirmed Friday. “We certainly have cut back dramatically,” said a somber Frank Ingari, founder, CEO and chairman of Wheelhouse, in Burlington, Mass. “Were finishing all our projects and exiting that [services] […]

IBMs Lotus Software division plans to address its developers growing concerns that it is abandoning its Domino platform at the companys DeveloperWorks Live conference next week in San Francisco. Although Lotus is not expected to make any formal announcements regarding the Domino road map at the show, Lotus General Manager Al Zollar and Vice President […]

IBM announced Wednesday that its DB2 OLAP Server would support both combined multi-dimensional and relational analysis for the first time. The new 8.1 version of the product, which combines IBMs DB2 database with Hyperion Software Corp.s Essbase OLAP server, allows users to combine the multi-dimensional analysis of Essbase with the relational analysis of DB2. Previously, […]