John S. McCright

Companies looking to tie together business processes with content will get a boost from enterprise content management software releases that FileNet Corp., Open Text Corp. and Documentum Inc. will unveil this week at the AIIM conference in New York. FileNet, of Costa Mesa, Calif., will introduce TCM (Team Collaboration Manager), a Web-based application that enables […]

Veritas Software Corp. has been strengthening its utility computing offerings in the past several months through the acquisitions of three software developers: Ejasent Inc., Precise Software Solutions Ltd. and Jareva Technologies Inc. Veritas CEO Gary Bloom said he believes that his company, with its established leadership in storage management and independence from any particular hardware […]

It environments have become complex, with architectures having three or more tiers, transactional information moving on the Internet, and more complex development schemes such as Java and .Net. As a result, IT managers can be at a loss to determine where to look when a critical applications performance suffers. An array of developers are readying […]

Oracle Corp. chose a slate of candidates heavy on academics and venture capitalists to run for PeopleSoft Inc.s board of directors. The move, announced by Oracle late Friday, is the latest in the companys bid to take control of e-business applications rival PeopleSoft. Oracle, the worlds second-largest independent software company with huge database and applications […]

Softscape Inc. is looking to make administrators and human resources departments more effective with an upgrade of its human capital management software. AchievementPlus Version 9.5, which the Wayland, Mass., developer will release this week, includes features for compensation modeling, learning content management and goal management. For instance, a new Incentive Management module enables managers to […]

In these first years of the decade, manufacturing companies are increasingly looking for ways to get more out of the ERP systems they deployed in the 1990s. One way theyre doing it is by turning to independent systems integrators for complex supply chain management and supplier relationship management add-on modules. “No one wants to install […]

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 […]