Dennis Callaghan

A report from Jupiter Media Metrix Inc. indicated that traffic at online shopping sites was up 50 percent this past holiday season over the same period in the year 2000. The New York-based market research firms Holiday 2001 E-Commerce Series study, released today, said that on average 51.3 million unique Web patrons visited online shopping […]

E-commerce service provider Digital River Inc. continued its acquisition spree Friday by buying the FreeMerchant.com subscription base from Network Commerce Inc. Minneapolis-based Digital River paid $875,000 in cash for the approximately 3,000 FreeMerchant.com customer subscriptions it is acquiring. Network Commerce may also receive a share of the revenues generated by the FreeMerchant.com customers over the […]

New software and service offerings in the pipeline from DYS Analytics Inc., GFI Software Ltd. and Gordano Ltd. promise to help e-mail system administrators get a better handle on their mail systems, specifically dealing with traffic management, security and remote access. DYS Analytics will release Version 4 of its Email Control for Lotus Domino at […]

Business intelligence software developer Business Objects SA today announced that it has acquired one of its partners, privately held information delivery software developer Blue Edge Software, for $6 million in cash. Blue Edge, based in Leeds, England, develops the Info-Portal information delivery tool, which is designed to deliver custom reports to large numbers of end […]

Meridien Research Inc. announced Wednesday that spending on CRM software in the financial industry should remain flat for the next two years, sure to be bad news for the many struggling software companies in the CRM space. The Newton, Mass., firm, in a report titled “CRM Spending Update: Hitting a Wall or Taking a Time-Out” […]

Business Objects SA earlier this month announced a Web services API designed to bring disparate information sources together. The business intelligence software developers new API, known as the Web Services SDK (Software Development Kit), enables developers to build extranets that link organizations with the rest of their value chains by integrating data from their disparate […]

A shakeup could be in the works at struggling e-commerce software vendor Firepond Inc. after the company announced late Thursday that Chief Financial Officer Paul McDermott was stepping down. McDermott is leaving to “pursue other opportunities,” according to a company press release, though he is expected to stay on to see the company through an […]

Cognos Inc. on Thursday reported flat revenues and net income for the third quarter on a year-to-year basis, but company officials chose instead to site sequential growth in this era of diminished expectations. The Ottawa, Canada-based company saw revenues fall slightly from the same period last year, from $124.6 million to $124.2 million. Net income […]

Siebel Systems Inc. on Thursday announced that 20 industry-specific versions of its Siebel 7 suite of e-business applications are now shipping, 30 days after Siebel 7 first shipped. These include applications for seven new vertical industries: wireless communications, media, oil and gas, medical products, chemicals, retail, and travel and hospitality. Other verticals covered include financial […]

J.D. Edwards & Co. released Tuesday the first version of its customer relationship management software since completing the acquisition of CRM vendor YouCentric Inc. last month. This release, known as CRM Version 1.1, includes tighter integration with the J.D. Edwards OneWorld enterprise resource planning applications through the companys Extended Process Integration technology. The front- and […]

Business Objects SA on Wednesday announced the availability of BusinessObjects Application Foundation 2.5, the latest version of the companys developers framework for building analytic applications. The move comes a day after Business Objects announced that it had joined the UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery and Integration) project, claiming to be the first business intelligence software vendor […]

PeopleSoft Inc. announced the third release of its business analytics module Monday, just four days after acquiring the technology of bankrupt Calico Commerce Inc. The new analytics software, PeopleSoft 8.3 Enterprise Performance Management, includes three new applications: Business Planning and Budgeting, Customer Behavior Modeling, and Workforce Planning. Business Planning and Budgeting, included in PeopleSofts Financial […]