IBM today announced Lotus Connections 3.0, the latest version of the company’s three-year-old enterprise social networking suite. Company officials said the update includes new social analytics features that will make it easier for users to find people within or outside…
A research paper published this week should serve as a wake-up call to those who are particularly fond of social networking sites and therefore make ideal candidates for a new breed of malware that in practice resembles something close to…
The U.S. is among the countries least inclined to embrace Web 2.0 applications such as social media and content-sharing tools to drive sales and brand awareness, according to a new survey commissioned by security software vendor McAfee. Meanwhile, businesses of…
IBM announced it will acquire OpenPages, a privately held developer of enterprise compliance and risk management software, adding yet another piece to its growing security software arsenal. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. OpenPages, based in Waltham, Mass.,…
SaaS pioneer Salesforce had no trouble exceeding analysts’ estimates in its second quarter today, posting a profit of $14.7 million, or 29 cents a share, excluding one-time charges and expenses. For the quarter, Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) recorded sales of $394…
SAP kept its word to investors and customers this week by releasing Business ByDesign 2.5, the oft-delayed on-demand enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM) suite update that could very well make or break the company’s reputation in…
German software maker SAP (NYSE: SAP) narrowly missed analysts’ estimates in its second quarter, posting a profit of 491 million euros ($638 million), or 41 cents a share, on sales of 2.89 billion euros ($3.5 billion). A survey of analysts…
Oracle is updating its Enterprise Content Management Suite 11g, unifying several key middleware components for customers looking for a comprehensive and manageable way to access, share and recall data anywhere in the organization. “People don’t have a problem creating content,”…
IBM today reinforced its commitment to what most see as the future of enterprise software with its acquisition of Cast Iron Systems, a privately held cloud-computing software and services company that aims to simplify life for companies eager to blend…
Salesforce said it will cough up $142 million in cash to acquire Jigsaw Data Corp., a privately held provider of crowd-sourced data services in the cloud. The acquisition dovetails with Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) CEO Marc Benioff’s “Cloud 2” vision, which…
Following its own tested and highly successful formula in CRM and other online software, Salesforce this week is rolling out ChatterExchange, a new marketplace for third-party developers to build, share and sell applications for the on-demand software provider’s Chatter collaboration…
Desperate to demonstrate it can deliver a worthwhile cloud-based application platform to keep pace with Google, Oracle, Cisco and Microsoft, SAP is rolling out StreamWork, an on-demand collaborative decision-making suite that lets users create and share documents, wikis and applications…
IBM wants to personalize the customer call center process with the debut of a new service that aims to match a customer with the service representative who has the most knowledge of the particular service issue or product the customer…
Business process management (BPM) software developer Pegasystems made a strategic move to broaden its product offerings with the proposed acquisition of Chordiant Software, a developer of customer relationship management (CRM) applications, for $161.5 million, company officials said. Pegasystems (NASDAQ: PEGA)…
CA on Wednesday announced that it will acquire Nimsoft, a privately held developer of IT performance and availability monitoring software, for $350 million in cash. Redwood City, Calif.-based Nimsoft’s Unified Monitoring architecture helps enterprise customers deploy and monitor public and…
SAP CEO Leo Apotheker resigned unexpectedly from his post this weekend, after the company said Apotheker and its supervisory board had reached a “mutual agreement” to not extend his contract. Apotheker, whose tenure atop the business software giant lasted just…
Shares of on-demand software provider NetSuite plunged more than 15 percent Friday as investors sold off the stock even though it posted fourth-quarter sales and earnings that were in line with analysts’ consensus estimates. NetSuite (NYSE: N) shares fell below…
Salesforce.com shareholders received an unexpected gift Monday after Silicon Valley Watcher, a tech industry blog, reported the on-demand business applications vendor recently approached merger-crazy Oracle about a possible union. The posting was then picked up by a variety blogs and…
IBM and SAP on Monday announced plans to release a jointly developed application that allows employees to access SAP’s Business Suite applications through their Lotus Notes desktop client. Code-named Atlantic, the software will let users tap into SAP’s applications for…
NetSuite on Tuesday raised the price range for its highly anticipated initial public offering from between $13 a share and $16 a share to between $16 a share and $19 a share, according to a filing with the Securities and…
VMware on Tuesday got even more validation for its virtualization software suite, thanks to a deal that will see SAP providing support for all of its business applications running on VMware’s ESX Server software. As a result of the agreement,…
SAP on Tuesday released an upgrade of its CRM 2007 software suite featuring a new user interface and support for Web 2.0 applications in the enterprise. The software is available in packaged and hosted versions and, at least for now,…
Salesforce.com shares rallied up $6.56 a share, or 13 percent, to close at $57.35, a day after the company topped analyst estimates in its third quarter and raised its full-year sales and earnings estimates. On Thursday, the provider of on-demand…
SAP finally built it. Now it’s time to find out if customers will come for Business ByDesign. The enterprise software firm on Monday took what it hopes will be a step in the right direction when it announced 13 of…
SAP on Thursday narrowly topped analyst profit estimates in its third quarter, raking in $579 million on sales of $3.44 billion. Analysts were looking for sales of $3.46 billion in the quarter, a target the German software giant would surely…
SAP on Tuesday will disclose the details of a new licensing model that it hopes will entice at least another 600,000 developers to start building new applications on its NetWeaver platform by the end of next year. Mark Yolton, vice…
A day removed from the debut of its first software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering, Business By Design, SAP on Thursday got immediate and what can only be called less-than-enthusiastic feedback from the very people it most hoped to please.SAP CEO Henning Kagermann…
SAN FRANCISCO—Saleforce.com CEO Marc Benioff kicked off the Dreamforce 2007 conference Monday by unveiling the particulars of Force.com, the on-demand application development platform the company believes will forever change the way companies develop, design and access business software applications. During…
Since it first debuted Business One back in 2003, SAP has been courting small businesses, and it continues to swing at what has proven to be, thus far, an elusive market. That may or may not change come the end…
Salesforce.com COO Phill Robinson bid adieu to the on-demand business software firm Monday to become CEO at CacheLogic, a UK-based online content delivery network company. Robinson, a 20-year software industry veteran, joined Salesforce.com in 2003 and served in a variety…