John S. McCright

Software upgrades from three developers—Intersperse Inc., Pegasystems Inc. and Comergent Technologies Inc. —will help companies manage the IT infrastructure that keeps their business processes moving, officials from the companies said. Intersperse this week will make available Version 2.0 of Intersperse Management Framework Enterprise Edition, which enables IT architects and developers in corporate environments to discover, […]

Many companies are trying to remain flexible in this uncertain economy by reducing staff and using outsourced services. But buying contract labor, consulting and other services requires a high degree of contract and pricing configuration, which is more complex than simply buying widgets from a catalog. Often, several departments and outside vendors are involved each […]

Software rollouts from SAS Institute Inc., Kubi Software Inc. and Documentum Inc. are the latest examples of how collaboration tools are increasingly gaining value as integrated parts of enterprise applications. SAS, of Cary, N.C., next month will roll out Version 2 of its SAS Drug Development platform with new collaboration capabilities. The software, which aids […]

IT spending may be down, but competition to lure exhibitors and IT managers to industry trade shows is way up. Jupitermedia Corp. and legendary conventioneer Sheldon Adelson each have plans to launch trade shows that will run concurrently in Las Vegas next November with Key3Media Group Inc.s Comdex. The news came to light as Los […]

Enterprises looking to extend employee-to-employee collaboration beyond e-mail are getting new technology from Groove Networks Inc., Ipswitch Inc., IBMs Lotus Software division and Automation Centre Inc. Groove last week debuted its latest flagship workgroup collaboration platform, Groove Workspaces 2.5, and a Web services tool kit, Groove Web Services. Workspaces 2.5 adds capabilities for users to […]

Spending on information technology may be down, but competition to lure exhibitors and IT managers to IT trade shows is way up. Jupitermedia Corp. and renowned conventioneer Sheldon Adelson each have plans to launch new trade shows that will run concurrently with Key 3Media Group Inc.s Comdex Fall 2003 in Las Vegas next November. The […]

Punch Networks Corp. this week will begin shipping Version 4.0 of WebGroups, an Internet-based file-sharing and collaboration service. The upgrade extends the services file collaboration capabilities by adding a new access option for nonmembers, an embedded MP3 player, a slide-show player, thumbnail views of folders and personalization enhancements, according to officials at Seattle-based Punch. Version […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. last year regained the lead in worldwide sales of PCs from Dell Computer Corp., according to separate reports released earlier this month by market research companies Gartner Dataquest Inc. and International Data Corp. The battle played out against the backdrop of an overall increase in sales of PCs last year. Some 132.4 million […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. in 2002 regained the lead in worldwide sales of PCs from Dell Computer Corp., according to separate reports released Thursday by market research firms Dataquest Inc. and International Data Corp. The battle played out against the backdrop of an overall increase in the sales of personal computers last year. Some 132.4 million of […]

Crystal Decisions Inc. on Wednesday will release version 9 of Crystal Enterprise, its business intelligence and information delivery platform. With it, the Palo Alto, Calif., company is intimately linking analysis and reporting capabilities in an effort to press its case that Crystal software should be considered a fundamental part of an enterprises IT infrastructure. Officials […]

Mir3 Inc., which last month launched InlogicNow, a free version of its two-way notification service, this quarter will introduce a fuller-featured version for the enterprise. InlogicPro enables corporate managers to keep in touch with employees and allows employees to keep in touch with one another and with customers through a rules-based notification engine that connects […]

Mir3 Inc., which last month launched INlogicNOW, a free version of its two-way notification service, this quarter will introduce a fuller-featured version for the enterprise. INlogicPRO enables corporate managers to keep in touch with employees and lets employees keep in touch with each other and with customers through a rules-based notification engine that connects myriad […]