John S. McCright

As some corporations investigate streaming video communications to reduce employee travel, they are getting new options from e-StudioLive Inc. and SoftonNet Inc. e-StudioLive this week will introduce CommuniCast, an upgrade to its enterprise Webcasting system that officials said enables companies to produce and deliver multimedia presentations to employees, dealers and customers at a fraction of […]

New software from Witness Systems Inc. enables companies to monitor the customer self service pages on their Web sites. With eQuality Discover, which will be introduced on Thursday, IT managers can set up a system to record, playback and analyze individual customer sessions using a self-service Web site. Customer service and marketing managers can use […]

Ariba Inc. and Commerce One Inc. were the stars of the business-to-business world last year when seemingly every company was looking to join an industry consortium and throw up an online marketplace. Now that the fever has cooled, the two companies are hemorrhaging money, as shown by their recent earnings reports, and find themselves looking […]

Orbital Software tomorrow will roll out an upgrade to its Organik knowledge management software that officials said will enable workers involved in research and development to more effectively share their expertise. Organik 3.2 enables companies to create electronic communities in which participants can locate, capture and share their expertise through a portal or browser interface. […]

Business-to-business e-commerce platform developer Ariba Inc. took two steps this morning to get its financial house in order — it appointed a new CEO and predicted slightly better than expected fourth quarter sales. Ariba elevated Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Robert Calderoni to the post of CEO. Founder and Chairman Keith Krach had […]

Formation Systems Inc. and PLM Solutions are Web-enabling their respective product lifecycle management software suites. As a result, makers of formula-based goods, such as packaged food or plastics, will be able to automate the development and fabrication of their products not only in their companies but also with outside suppliers. Formation Systems, of Southboro, Mass., […]

Formation Systems Inc. is Web-enabling its product lifecycle management software suite. As a result, makers of formula-based goods such as packaged food or plastics will be able to automate the development and fabrication of their products not only within their own companies but with outside suppliers. Formation Systems, of Southboro, Mass., in January will introduce […]

As more businesses turn to videoconferencing out of safety concerns and as a way to cut down on travel and cost, theyre finding the technology has greatly matured since it first flirted with the spotlight a decade ago. Todays videoconferencing systems have better audio and video and enhanced compression, are easier to set up, and […]

Quovix Inc. is making the engine that powers its network of contract software developers available as stand-alone software for building collaborative communities. CommunityBuilder, which will be rolled out this week, enables companies to build online communities and manage projects that community members are working on. Members may include employees within a single company, customers, contractors, […]

OnePage Inc. and Enfish Corp. are working to enable users to better organize corporate information in their portals. OnePage last week introduced its Content Connect Studio, which allows nonprogrammers to capture data from a wide variety of data sources and publish it in an Extensible Markup Language format to various portal platforms or as a […]

IBM Mindspan Solutions seeks to strengthen the human element in online learning with new collaboration features in an upgrade to its Lotus LearningSpace e-learning platform. LearningSpace 5.0, which began shipping last week, features a customizable student interface that replaces the Java applet-based interface with one that uses dynamic HTML and Cascading Style Sheets. In addition […]

Enterprise software vendors are rolling out programs that promise a rapid return on investment for their respective supply chain software, but the jury is still out on the effectiveness of such programs. Oracle Corp. and PeopleSoft Inc., among others responding to ongoing user complaints about laborious and time-consuming deployments, are offering a second generation of […]