John S. McCright

WALTHAM, Mass.—Small and mid-sized businesses have many good options to get robust customer relationship management (CRM) capabilities from hosted service offerings, but presenters at a Yankee Group forum here on Monday said that differences do exist and are important. Speakers at the Boston-based Yankee Groups SMB (Small and Medium Business) Forum stressed the traditional benefits […]

Sybase Inc. and IBM are looking to arm the un-wired world with database products that manage the flow of data to wireless devices and enable richer presentation of data on those devices. As a result, both companies are promising to improve the productivity of mobile workers by giving them access to the latest data. Sybase, […]

SAP AG is working on a variety of developer technologies designed to make its notoriously difficult-to-program enterprise software easier to configure and customize and, as a result, faster and less expensive to modify. The next iteration of the companys NetWeaver integration offering will include enhancements in its application server, data warehouse, integration engine and portal […]

Software from two developers, IQNavigator Inc. and Adexa Inc., is providing enterprises with more tools for managing costs. IQNavigator early next year will begin shipping Version 6.0 of its namesake services procurement platform, which provides companies with tools for managing the process of finding employees with an eye toward improving quality and lowering costs. A […]

IT managers who use IBMs DB2 Everyplace database management system for mobile applications are pleased with the enhancements introduced in Version 8 of the product, which was released this week. The upgrade, which is heavy on features designed to be attractive to developers, will improve the productivity of mobile workers by giving them access to […]

IBM and Microsoft Corp. have previewed new tools they said will make developers more productive when creating applications for upgrades to their respective DBMSes. Microsoft, at its Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles late last month, gave developers a sneak peak at “Yukon,” a version of its SQL Server database due in the second half […]

Incumbency is as powerful in the IT business as it is in politics. Proof of that can be seen in the way that the Tufts-New England Medical Center, known as NEMC, has approached its compliance with the federal HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) regulations. NEMC last year brought in Perot Systems Corp., of […]

Data management vendors BMC Software Inc. and Quest Software Inc. are both rolling out tools to make it easier to manage IT environments that include databases from a variety of vendors without adding database administrators. BMC this week will announce DBXray for DB2, a component for its SmartDBA console that adds the capability to manage […]

Ixiasoft Inc.s XML content repository is being upgraded with new replication, version control and document security features to make it more attractive to large enterprises. The Montreal-based company this week will unveil Version 3.0 of Textml, a native XML database that stores, indexes and retrieves XML data for use in multichannel publishing and content repurposing. […]

Ixiasoft Inc.s XML content repository, called TEXTML, is being upgraded with new replication, version-control and document-security features to make it more attractive to large enterprises. “Originally we envisioned this would be used by small and mid-range applications, but it has actually been deployed in large-scale enterprise deployments,” said Ixiasoft CEO Philippe Gelinas. Montreal-based Ixiasoft next […]

Oracle Corp. has rolled out a security infrastructure that bundles new and existing authentication offerings into the 10g database and application server. OIM (Oracle Identity Management), due by years end, brings together components that previously were scattered across Oracles offerings. Featured is an LDAP directory, Web single-sign-on capabilities and an authority for issuing public-key infrastructure […]

IBM is using its partnership with Microsoft Corp.s Visual Studio operations to bring out products that compete head on with Microsofts SQL Server group. Big Blue on Monday will roll out new developer tools to simplify and automate creation of .Net applications that run on the companys DB2 as well as on other database management […]