Dennis Callaghan

An upgrade to e.Intelligence Inc.s namesake business intelligence software stresses its ability to look into the future, not just report on the past. e.Intelligence 3.5, which was introduced last week, provides enterprisewide analytics that focus on what-if analysis, rather than the current or historical snapshots of business performance offered by most BI vendors. A central […]

Lotus will adopt the Java 2 Enterprise Edition 1.3 platform in future releases of its platforms, Lotus chief Al Zollar said today during his keynote address at the Lotusphere 2002 users conference in Orlando, Fla. The general manager of IBMs Lotus Software division announced that said J2EE support would take Lotus to the “next level […]

Chordiant Software Inc. claimed the J2EE mantel for itself this week with the release Tuesday of its Chordiant 5 CRM suite. The customer relationship management software developer calls the new software what the first “end-to-end” CRM solution based on Java 2 Enterprise Edition. The software, targeted towards large business-to-consumer organizations, includes marketing, selling and customer […]

E-marketing platform developer Responsys Inc. announced Friday the acquisition of Web site analysis ASP, NetAcumen Inc. Terms of the deal between the two privately held hosted services companies were not disclosed. Responsys officials, in Palo Alto, Calif., said the acquisition will enable the company to integrate customer intelligence gleaned from both Web site visits and […]

E-commerce services company Digital River Inc. continued its acquisition spree Friday, announcing an agreement to buy online software store turned e-commerce software and services company Beyond.com Corp. Beyond.com filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection today as part of the deal. Minneapolis-based Digital River will acquire all of the assets and customer contracts related to Beyond.coms […]

PeopleSoft Inc. continued to buck industry trends and the economic downturn in the fourth quarter of 2001, posting an increase in revenue and profits from the same period a year ago as well as record license revenue. The Pleasanton, Calif.-based enterprise software company late Thursday also announced that it was reacquiring the research and development […]

Market-leading customer relationship management software vendor Siebel Systems Inc. endured its second straight quarter of falling revenues and income from the same period a year ago, but matched analysts consensus earnings estimates. The company reported revenues of $481.4 million, down from $581.6 million in the same period a year ago. License revenues fell even more […]

On the same day when bricks-and-mortar retailer Kmart filed for bankruptcy, top online retailer Amazon.com Inc. announced its first profit. Amazon on Tuesday declared it had turned a $5 million net profit on $1.12 billion in revenues in the fourth quarter of 2001. That exceeded even the most optimistic expectations for the Seattle-based company, which […]

IBMs Lotus software division hopes to demonstrate its commitment to lowering customers costs when it unveils a hosted version of its Sametime instant messaging server and another beta of its Notes and Domino server upgrade next week at Lotusphere. Notes users welcome moves to lower the cost of deploying and maintaining Lotus software, the theme […]

SAS Institute Inc. has signed on Inxight Software Inc. to provide much of the technology behind its forthcoming SAS Text Miner application due for release later this year, as the company makes a move into unstructured data analysis. The two companies are expected to announce an alliance agreement Monday. It will call for SAS to […]

The opportunity to add collaboration technology to its e-learning suite drove SmartForce plc.s acquisition of Centra Software Inc. Wednesday, according to SmartForce Chairman and CEO Greg Priest. Priest, in a letter to customers and prospective customers posted at the SmartForce Web site Thursday, said that the Web meeting and conferencing capabilities of Centras CentraOne suite […]

Hyperion Solutions Corp. announced Wednesday that it has entered into a licensing and reseller agreement with the Crystal Decisions subsidiary of Seagate Technology LLC. As part of the deal, Hyperion will embed Crystal Decisions Web-based query, reporting and information delivery solutions for relational and multidimensional data into Hyperions analytic platform. The combination of the technologies […]