Dennis Callaghan

Siebel Systems Inc. took a stab at easing application integration headaches Monday with the announcement of its Universal Application Network at its European user conference in Barcelona. The new technology, first reported by eWEEK in January, is based on Web services and XML. It adds industry-specific business processes and support from such EAI vendors as […]

The saga of another once high-flying Internet company drew to its final chapter Friday as Divine Inc. announced plans to buy Internet services company Viant Corp. Based on Divines current stock prices, the value of the deal stands at about $84 million, plus the agreement may also include the payment by Viant of a cash […]

AOL-Time Warner Inc.s efforts to extend the features and interface of its new AOL 7.0 mail-client to its Web client hit some snags this week, forcing the company to roll back the upgrade late Thursday. Since at least Tuesday, when AOL attempted to deploy the new client, known as AOL Anywhere, AOL.com users have had […]

E-learning company SmartForce plcs acquisition of collaboration software vendor Centra Software Inc. is off, after the companies mutually terminated the deal late Tuesday. First announced in January, the acquisition was expected to combine two complementary technologies: SmartForces e-learning platform, content and services with Centras Web meeting and conferencing capabilities. Perhaps the acquisition was doomed from […]

Netegrity Inc. is rolling out software to aid companies in securely managing e-business activities. The Waltham, Mass., company last week formally announced the launch of its Netegrity Interaction Server 5.1 portal server, the first of four products to be released that will comprise its Secure Relationship Management platform. Separately, Netegrity late last month made available […]

Unica Corp. is adding higher-level marketing capabilities in the next release of its Affinium customer relationship management software suite. In Affinium 4, which was introduced this morning, the company moves beyond marketing campaign management into project and brand management and marketing department planning. This version adds the Affinium Plan module, which uses a customizable dashboard […]

Business Objects SA will take a large step forward in improving its Web-based query, analysis and reporting tool when it debuts the 2.7 release of WebIntelligence Wednesday. The software, which requires only a Web browser client to query databases, access reports and perform ad hoc analysis, now supports both multidimensional and relational querying, such “hybrid” […]

Several of the collaboration technologies developed by IBMs Lotus Software division will be packaged together later this year into employee relationship management solutions, IBM officials said Thursday. The new solution sets, called the Dynamic Workplaces, will handle such activities as employee training, meetings, communications and information gathering. They will combine Lotus Sametime instant messaging software, […]

Avaya Inc. announced Tuesday at the Call Center & CRM 2002 show in Toronto that it is extending its IP network-based customer relationship management platform to midsize businesses. The new product, known as the Avaya IP Contact Center for Mid-Sized Businesses, is targeted at contact centers with from 20 to 50 customer service agents, Avaya […]

IBM announced today the latest version of its WebSphere Commerce platform, adding inventory and order management capabilities. WebSphere Commerce 5.4, which is available in two versions, is targeted at both business-to-consumer and business-to-business commerce sites. The first two customers on this version of the platform are Staples, for its StaplesLink.com B2B site, and Panasonic, for […]

Once relegated to the tech scrap heap by Hewlett-Packard Co., the OpenMail e-mail platform began its comeback Monday when Samsung SDS launched its Samsung Contact 7.1 e-mail platform, which is based on OpenMail technology. Mondays release is the first phase in Samsungs efforts to build a unified communications platform, encompassing phone, e-mail, fax, wireless devices […]

Reagan Lancaster can recite the numbers off the top of his head. There are 300 publicly traded software companies trading under $5 a share, Lancaster said. Two hundred have market capitalizations below $10 million. Forty-nine are trading below their market value. And thats not including the perhaps hundreds of privately held companies running out of […]