Dennis Callaghan

If Ed Brill doesnt keep a fire extinguisher in his office, he probably should. The Lotus Software senior manager for enterprise messaging has been putting out a lot of fires these days over parent company IBMs stated plans for Domino. The latest dust-up comes on the heels of IBMs stated plans at Lotusphere in January […]

New offerings from Siebel Systems Inc. and PeopleSoft Inc. for mobile CRM coupled with a fully-integrated suite of applications from E.piphany Inc. should give enterprises more options for extending customer relationship management to mobile devices. But whether user demand can keep up with the technology improvements remains an open question. Siebel, of San Mateo, Calif., […]

Divine Inc. is making another addition to the stable of e-business software companies it has acquired, announcing its intention Wednesday to buy once high-flying personalization and e-marketing software developer Delano Technology Corp. The deal, approved by the boards of both companies, calls for Divine to offer Delano shareholders 1.187 of its own shares for each […]

The Magic Solutions division of Network Associates Inc. will announce Wednesday two partnerships that will add new asset management capabilities to its help desk software suite and give it access to a wider company base. The company will partner with MainControl, adding that companys repository database to the Magic 7.5 service management platform. This will […]

PeopleSoft Inc. today announced an enhancement to its mobile CRM software and a new mobile synchronization engine. The 8.4 version of PeopleSoft CRM (customer relationship management), expected to ship next week, adds application modules for mobile sales and field service, along with quality management and collaborative selling. The Mobile Sales and Mobile Field Service applications […]

Siebel Systems Inc. announced today Siebel 7 Mobile, an updated suite of its customer relationship management software applications for mobile devices. Siebel 7 Mobile includes support for wireless messaging via short message service, telocator alphanumeric protocol, and simple mail transfer protocol (email) to send alerts and receive responses. It also supports wireless access to customer […]

Plumtree Software Inc. is rolling out technology that adds collaborative applications as Web services to its portal software. Collaboration Server, due this week, allows users of Plumtrees Corporate Portal software to share documents, schedule tasks and participate in discussions, company officials said. Plumtree Studio Server, also due this week, allows Collaboration Server to present documents, […]

Divine Inc., the venture capital company turned consolidator of struggling e-business software companies, on Monday released its first content management software since acquiring Eprise Corp. and Open Market Inc. last year. Divines Content Server 4.0 is an upgrade of the former Open Market product of the same name and the companys Participant Server is an […]

Convera Technologies Inc. plans to add language modules to its search technologies thanks to technology acquired as part of its purchase of Semantix Inc. late Thursday. With Semantix linguistics technology added to Convera RetrievalWare, users will be able to enter a search request in one language and receive relevant result documents in different languages. The […]

Microsoft Corp. will add application development support for its recently announced MSCRM platform to its Exchange messaging software, which should please small-to-mid-size businesses who already use Exchange and are expected to be MSCRM target customers. The customer service management applications will be designed to be extended by developers using other Microsoft technologies, according to company […]

SAS Institute Inc. announced Wednesday a definitive agreement to acquire ABC Technologies Inc., a company it had worked with for the past 18 months to develop an XML-based standard for scorecarding applications. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed though it is subject to the approval of ABC Technologies shareholders and other conditions. The deal […]

Plumtree Software Inc. is extending its portal software technology into collaboration and project management applications with the release later this month of the Plumtree Collaboration Server, the company announced Monday. The new application allows users of Plumtrees Corporate Portal software to share documents, schedule tasks and participate in discussions, company officials said. While some collaboration […]