Renee Boucher Ferguson

Microsoft is working on a not-so-secret project, code-named Albany, that will amount to an online, on-demand office productivity suite to compete with the free online Google Docs applications, sources have confirmed to eWEEK. While the details are sketchy and Microsoft officials have declined to comment on the subject, analysts and media reports suggest that Project […]

One day after it reported a 21 percent increase in its fiscal third quarter 2008 software revenues to $4.2 billion, Oracle announced yet another acquisition, albeit a small one. The company announced March 27 that it has entered into an agreement to acquire the e-TEST product suite from Empirix, a company that provides voice and […]

There is a storm brewing in the online behavioral-advertising world, where consumer clicks are tracked and tabulated to help online advertisers better target promotional messages. At this point, the argument boils down whether the rapidly evolving industry that makes its money advertising to people surfing the Web-and by figuring out exactly which ads those people […]

Pervasive Software, a 20-year-old data management and integration software vendor, is betting that its older, legacy technologies will give it an edge in a crowded “in the cloud” integration platform market. Pervasive’s DataCloud platform, announced March 25, taps the company’s flagship tool kit, the Pervasive Data Integrator, which performs a number of functionalities that really […]

During the Watergate scandal that eventually toppled President Richard Nixon, confidential source “Deep Throat” advised two enterprising Washington Post reporters to “follow the money” to uncover the scandal’s ringleaders. Now MAPLight.org, a small, not-for-profit company, is developing a database and application mashup that will allow the public to follow another money trail-the connection between campaign […]

On the tailwinds of Sun Microsystems’ Network.com and Amazon.com’s EC2, grass-roots startup DigitalRibbon is looking to start a revolution in trading computational resources in the cloud. The concept: Build a virtual marketplace where big suppliers of computational power-mammoth computing entities like the National Center for Supercomputing-can put their excess computing resources up for sale to […]

Technology stocks are sustaining substantial losses in the current economy, particularly in the on-demand sector, which is down about 30 percent year-to-date, according to one stock index. But the state of the economy could be good news for SAAS (software as a service) vendors if a simple premise holds true: that companies really do save […]

At its annual Conference and User Exchange, held March 18-20 in Las Vegas, Lawson Software introduced a new Smart Office user interface, a Human Capital Management suite and an upgraded traceability engine for process manufacturers. But perhaps the most interesting news is what’s buried in the company’s new functionality-the use of Lawson’s Landmark application development […]

10 Cool CRM Developments By Renee Boucher Ferguson 10 Cool CRM Developments – Students of CRM The Bronx Lab School- 10 Cool CRM Developments – Come to Kassel The Kassel region in Germany uses SugarCRM as a social networking platform to attract businesses, tourists and potential residents. The site won the Most Innovative CRM Deployment […]

Lawson Software announced March 17 that it has acquired the product lifecycle management division of Freeborders, a developer of retail and apparel lifecycle management software. While the acquisition strengthens Lawson’s PLM capabilities in two key vertical markets for the company, it also raises the question, Will PLM finally have its day in the enterprise? PLM […]