Dennis Callaghan

Microsoft Corp.s Microsoft Network Internet service has been chasing America Online Inc. for several years now for dominance in Internet access services. Next Thursday, the company is due to release Version 7 of MSN, just nine days after yesterdays release of AOL 7.0. With this new version, MSN moves to a high-speed broadband service for […]

Informatica Corp., best known for its data warehouse building software, plans to launch an all-in-one business intelligence solution by early next month. The company, which began a move into analytic applications in late 1999, will announce at its Informatica World 2001 users conference in San Francisco next week an integrated enterprise analytics suite that it […]

Internet banking software pioneer S1 Corp. is readying a J2EE-based application server platform that improves the interoperability of its software. S1 Enterprise Platform 1.0 will be the foundation for S1s transactional, collaborative, sales and service applications for the financial services industry, officials said. The platform, due Nov. 30, will provide the presentation layer for S1s […]

UpShot Corp. last week made available a hosted sales management application that combines partner relationship management with sales force automation capabilities. Dubbed Extended Relationship Management, or XRM, the Web-based application brings together a companys internal and external sales channels so sales executives can monitor and forecast sales across all business channels, improve collaboration among teams […]

Alphablox Corp. announced Monday the latest version of its namesake software that extends analytics to the application server layer. Thanks to integration partnerships, Alphablox 4 allows the companys analytic infrastructure to be embedded into systems and applications powered by IBMs WebSphere and BEA Systems WebLogic Web application servers, enabling users to access information in real-time. […]

While many companies are blaming declining revenues and increasing losses on fallout from the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Vignette Corp. may have the strongest stake to that claim. The software developer launched the latest version of its content management software, Vignette V6, on Sept. 11. In fact, the launch event had actually been originally planned […]

Microsoft announced Thursday morning an update to its Windows Messenger real-time communications client that will allow PC users to make phone calls from their computers, via participating service providers. The update will be available Oct. 25 in Windows XP versions of Messenger. Messenger supports audio and videoconferencing, application sharing, online collaboration and instant messaging. The […]

IBM began the consolidation of its portal product lines under one unified offering Tuesday with the introduction of the WebSphere Portal. WebSphere Portal represents the unification of existing IBM portal technology, including WebSphere Portal Server, WebSphere User Experience and Lotus K-station. The new portal offering is divided into three tiered solution packages: — WebSphere Portal […]

Intraspect Software Inc. has enhanced its collaboration management software with integration and performance improvements. Intraspect 5, which was announced this week at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., adds support for Java 2 Enterprise Edition and for Oracle Corp.s namesake database and Microsoft Corp.s SQL Server database. Previous versions used only an embedded […]

A $51 million investment by Microsoft Corp. in Groove Networks Inc. likely paves the way for more integration of Grooves peer-to-peer collaboration software into Microsofts own collaborative applications and other technologies. The investment, announced Wednesday, gives Microsoft a minority stake in Groove and made up the lions share of a $54 million funding round for […]