Dennis Callaghan

Xdegrees Inc. announced Monday that it has extended its Xdegrees System for secure information exchange to Microsoft Corp.s Windows Messenger and .Net Alerts platforms. The Xdegrees System, which uses Microsofts .Net My Services, previously integrated with Microsoft Outlook. In addition to Windows Messenger and .Net Alerts, Xdegrees will also support Microsofts .Net Passport, for those […]

Hosted sales force automation (SFA) services provider Upshot Corp. announced Monday an enhancement to its services that would allow offline sales forecasting. The .Net-based service, known as Offline Express, allows sales executives to update forecasts and deal information while offline. Changes can then be uploaded to the hosted service when the user is back online. […]

Microsoft Corp. announced at Comdex in Las Vegas Monday that it was making its MSN Money personal financial management service available to financial planners to be resold to their clients. Known as MSN Money Professional, the service combines .Net My Services with secure document publishing, portfolio reporting and financial content from the MSN Money Web […]

Covalent Technologies Inc. will announce Monday the general availability of Enterprise Ready Server 2.0, a Java application server used to improve the security, reliability and system management capabilities of the Apache Web server. This version of ERS is designed specifically for large organizations that would be looking to manage many Web servers and virtual hosts […]

Praja Inc. and Stratify Inc. both announced new products this week designed to help users rein in their unstructured data. San Diego-based Praja unveiled ExperienceWare 3.0, an development platform for building applications that bring together structured data, such as from transactional and business intelligence systems, with unstructured data, such as from content and document management […]

Siebel Systems Inc. announced late Wednesday a repackaging of its customer relationship management applications for homeland security. Known as the Siebel Solutions for Homeland Security, the software will seek to apply some of the lessons learned from managing customer relationships in the business world to the increasing drive to improve domestic security in the wake […]

Microsoft Corp. on Thursday announced the general availability of the Exchange Application Management Pack, an add-on to the Microsoft Operations Manager 2000 performance management tool. The new tool is designed to increase uptime and performance of MS Exchange servers by helping Exchange administrators identify and resolve issues that could affect system performance, availability and security, […]

Databeacon Inc. will announce Version 5.2 of its namesake analytics and reporting software at Comdex in Las Vegas Monday. Chief among the new features in this version is a component called Databeacon PageEnhancer API, which allows developers using Java and JavaScript to customize views of analytics in Web environments by enabling or disabling functions in […]

Cognos Inc. is planning to introduce a new event monitoring technology as part of its Cognos Series 7 release next week that company officials say will round out its business intelligence offerings. The new product, NoticeCast, monitors transactions and business events and sends alerts to users based on information theyve requested, according to company officials. […]

Praja Inc. and Stratify Inc. both announced new products last week designed to help users rein in their unstructured data. Praja, in San Diego, last Thursday announced ExperienceWare 3.0, an application development platform for building applications that bring together structured data, such as from transactional and business intelligence systems, with unstructured data, such as from […]

Lotus Development Corp. and Orbital Software Inc. have enhanced their respective knowledge management applications to make them easier to integrate with third-party software. Easier integration should help both KM applications achieve their purpose of identifying people and topics across an organization by tapping into a broader array of sources. Lotus last week began shipping Version […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. on Monday announced two new products and two upgrades in its Internet Usage Manager family. The software, targeted for enterprises and service providers, is designed to provide users with more accurate and up-to-date information on how customers use the services the organization provides. The new products include HP OpenView IUM Prepaid Data Solution, […]