While many industries have turned to information technology to boost labor productivity and lower the costs of doing business, many retail banks are awaiting the payoff following an era of big investment in technology. That’s the thrust of a new…
BroadVision Monday says it has inked an OEM deal with the Medical Solutions division of German-based Siemens . The agreement allows for even more distribution of the Siemens’ Health Enterprise Dashboard. The platform is a online healthcare solution built upon…
Securing another customer for its hosted delivery platform, Cupertino, Calif.-based Jamcracker, Inc., today announced a strategic partnership with e-business solutions firm Unisys Corp. . Under the agreement, Unisys will resell Jamcracker Enterprise and expand its ability to help its customers…
Novell Inc. (NASDAQ:NOVL), the Provo, Utah-based provider of eBusiness solutions today announced an agreement with TIBCO Software Inc. (NASDAQ:TIBX), to bundle Novell’s identity management software Novell eDirectory, with the TIBCO ActivePortal 3.5 platform. The bundling will allow TIBCO to enable…
While nearly every business would claim that the information it gathers about its customers is a mission-critical, strategic asset, many don’t treat this “asset” accordingly. Most customer data is left lying around in different systems, and in various stages of…
For days, consumer and privacy advocates have been bracing themselves to deal with the details of the new Federal Trade Commission (FTC) privacy agenda, which was widely expected to roll back the perceived privacy-friendly agenda of the commission under the…
BEA Systems Inc. signed product integration deals with business portal provider Epicentric Inc. and Fundtech Ltd., which sells e-payment and Internet banking solutions. That was the good news. Financial details were not disclosed for either deal. The bad news? Salomon…
Escher Group, a Cambridge, Mass., provider of peer-to-peer messaging and data management software for post offices, has opened a new United Kingdom office. “We have relocated to a larger facility and have increased our staff to meet the needs of…
In the realm of customer relationship management (CRM) software, partnerships are key. That’s why Palo Alto, Calif.-based Octopus says it is working with Vitria Technology (NASDAQ:VITR) to enhance its CRM tool, known as Meta Applications. The joint venture is a…
Consumer electronics retailer Best Buy Co., Inc. will gain customer service enhancement via Informatica Corporation’s PowerCenter data integration platform. Best Buy currently maintains more than 1.6 terabytes of data in a single database and performs data integration operations on 250…