Dennis Callaghan

IT Factory Inc., one of the most prominent business partners and developers for both Lotus Software and Microsoft Corp. has undergone a financial restructuring that has forced it to sell off its North American assets. The financially troubled software and services company, best known for its Lotus Domino and Microsoft Exchange application development toolkits , […]

Novell Corp. on Thursday announced the availability of Service Pack 2 for Novell Portal Services 1.0, with the chief new feature being the addition of AltaVista Co.s search engine. The AltaVista software works in tandem with the Novell eDirectory to provide secure search capabilities based on users business context giving portal users access to the […]

Microsoft Corp. today made available a second service pack for its Exchange 2000 messaging server that mainly provides enhancements to Outlook Web Access. Exchange 2000 SP2 adds multiple- day displays, including views of discontinuous days, to the Outlook Web Access calendar. It also adds meeting reminder pop-up windows, mailbox search capabilities and the ability to […]

Enterprise content management software vendor Documentum Inc. is looking to make a move into digital asset management with the acquisition of the privately held Bulldog Group. Terms of the acquisition, which was announced late Monday, were not disclosed. Bulldogs software is used to manage multimedia content, such as video and audio, in addition to image […]

While basking in the glow of increased business this holiday season as terrorism-wary customers shy away from malls, many online retailers are dealing with expanded oversight by the Federal Trade Commission. The FTC made headlines last year by levying $1.5 million in fines on commerce sites that failed to meet their advertised shipping promises during […]

SAS Institute Inc. has added new supplier ranking capabilities and enhanced spend analysis and scorecard capabilities in a new version of its Supplier Relationship Management application. SRM is used to provide business intelligence on a companys suppliers and procurement activities so that the company can better manage its supplier relationships. Version 2.2, released today, features […]

Advanced Reality Inc., a start-up that evolved from a genomics research project, plans to launch a new peer-to-peer platform next month that will embed collaborative capabilities in existing applications. The new product, called Presence-AR, allows users to share applications, ranging from Excel spreadsheets to imaging applications, without altering the source code of the application. Advanced […]

Sagent Technology Inc. will have to restate its revenues for the first nine months of the year after discovering that nearly $5 million worth of sales orders were forged, the business intelligence software developer reported late Wednesday. The forged sales orders were all attributed to one sales person selling to government agencies out of the […]

Computer Associates International Inc. extended its rebranding efforts to its business management products Wednesday with the announcement that it has realigned its portal and business intelligence software under the CleverPath name. CleverPath is one of three new CA brands, joining AllFusion for application lifecycle management and Advantage for application development, integration, enterprise reporting and “industrial-strength” […]

Two software companies targeting the small business market, Interact Commerce Corp. and Actinic Software Ltd., on Tuesday both announced tighter integrations between their products and Intuit Corp.s Quickbooks small business management software. Interact Commerce announced the availability of Act! Link, which allows its Act! contact management software application to share sales contacts, invoice status and […]

Calendra Inc., a French company specializing in directory content access and management software, has established a beachhead in North America, the company announced last week. Calendra, which develops the CDM (Calendra Directory Manager) software, has set up sales offices in Herndon, Va., and San Francisco. It plans to target Fortune 500 and Global 2000 enterprises, […]

Application development software startup MagnetPoint Inc. is readying a Java-based application development framework for building Web services. The framework, due next week and called MagnetStudio, will be positioned as a possible alternative to Microsoft Corp.s .Net Alerts. It will be used to build Web services for messaging applications, including e-mail, voice mail, instant messaging, presence […]