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While the economy is improving as a whole, the business software market is lagging behind, prompting several analysts to lower expectations Tuesday for such bellwether companies as IBM, Microsoft, and […]

FileNet Corp. plans to announce Tuesday the $10 million cash acquisition of eGrail Inc., a Web content-management company based in Bethesda, Md. EGrail's development, sales, and professional-services workers will add […]

FileNet Corp. this week is shipping an application framework that adds workflow and integration tools to the company's content-management software. Brightspire, which sells for a starting price of $150,000, comprises […]

IBM and Sun Microsystems this week will unveil Java technology to complement emerging Web-services standards for integrating apps into business portals. If widely adopted, the technology would replace many proprietary […]

Photoshop and Acrobat maker Adobe Systems Inc. (ADBE-Nasdaq) last week said earnings for its first quarter ended March 1 fell nearly 29% year over year, to $49.8 million. Revenue declined […]

SAP says it will target small and midsize businesses with the acquisition of TopManage Financial Solutions. It plans to incorporate the Israeli vendor's financial, logistics, purchasing, analytical, and customer-relationship management […]

Intel (INTC-Nasdaq), a barometer of the health of the high-tech industry, on March 7 narrowed its first-quarter projections. In its midquarter business update, the chipmaker projected revenue between $6.6 billion […]

Two enterprise-integration application vendors are introducing software packages designed to let midsize companies easily move data between business applications running on a variety of platforms. Tibco Software Inc. this week […]

Integration, a core component of any application infrastructure, is especially critical for health-care and financial companies trying to meet significant new regulations and initiatives. Sensing lucrative sales, application integrators are […]

You might think incoming IBM chairman Sam Palmisano would be a tough act to follow, but Francis Ford Coppola, the Academy Award-winning director of The Godfather trilogy and Apocalypse Now, […]

Emerging speech-technology standards could give a boost to an industry hampered by proprietary software and hardware. The World Wide Web Consortium is backing VoiceXML and XHTML; Cisco Systems, Intel, Microsoft, […]

Sun Microsystems president Ed Zander decided that honesty was the best policy last week as he fielded questions in the three-day marathon that was Sun's annual financial analyst conference in […]

Ariba Inc. and Commerce One Inc. reported losses for their most recent quarters, though both companies say they'll benefit from an expected upturn in the software market. Ariba (ARBA-Nasdaq) cut […]

The concept sounds perfect: Engineers in different locations use the Web to work together on designs in real time. But some find that the effort to make real-time connections work […]

Like so many other software categories, channel-relationship management products are dragging through this recession. The software is designed to unite sales and supply-chain initiatives, but few potential buyers see a […]

Cape Clear Software Inc. plans to upgrade its Web-services tools this month. Aiming for ease of use, its environment for building Java-based Web services is modeled along the familiar lines […]

Changes are already in the works for the euro, which was widely adopted in Europe Jan. 1. Euro notes already have holograms, metal strips, and other features to foil counterfeiters. […]

Automakers and their dealers have always had a credibility problem with Internet car shoppers. Most consumers who do research on the Web before buying a car go to independent sites […]

Herman Miller Inc. is betting that when it comes to custom-designed office furniture, a picture is worth a thousand words. The $2.2 billion maker of office furnishings will soon test […]

Motorola has become chummier with Israeli partner and telecom-startup Surf Communications Solutions. Motorola, along with Giza Venture Capital, recently led a second round of funding that raised an additional $21 […]

Several universities have flipped the switch on high-speed networks to speed online collaboration. In separate projects, Indiana University in Bloomington, Purdue University in West Lafayette, and Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis […]

Click Commerce Inc., a maker of E-commerce software for Windows, plans to ship an upgrade of its application suite next month that supports the Microsoft.Net platform. Click Commerce 4.3 uses […]

Startup Advanced Reality Inc. this week will launch its first online collaboration product, designed to radically simplify the user experience. Presence-AR, based on a peer-to-peer architecture, lets people collectively view […]

Just what is RFID? And how does it work? The basic components of a radio-frequency identification system are an antenna, a transceiver, and a transponder, commonly called an RF tag. […]

Rx-Connect, a wholly owned subsidiary of $11.5 billion health-care provider PacifiCare Health Systems Inc., is testing a Microsoft.Net-based application framework from WebPutty Inc. to manage connections to several thousand doctors' […]

While big-league IT vendors play a game of one-upmanship in the emerging Web-services market, a host of smaller companies are selling a new breed of application-integration tool. A number of […]

The Internet's failure as a sales channel for many online retailers not only drove numerous dot-coms out of business but also forced a slew of software and service companies to […]

Disintermediation is a boring word that got people really excited during the heyday of the dot-coms. It referred to the Internet's ability to cut middlemen out of the sales process, […]

Hewlett-Packard is giving its application server away. A version of HP Application Server 8.0 is now available for free download from the vendor's Web site, but companies that want support […]

IBM's $129 million acquisition of CrossWorlds Software Inc. should reassure customers about the smaller vendor's long-term direction while boosting IBM's application-integration capabilities. The companies said last week that IBM would […]

BroadVision Inc. is enhancing its content-management system to include a new document-workflow engine and an XML repository that can deliver content in multiple formats, including HTML, PDF, and Word. The […]

George Muller, CIO for Imperial Sugar Co., doesn't care how technology is marketed. So when SilverStream Software Inc. pitched Web services as the technology of choice to build an extranet […]

Chrysler is borrowing technology from its sister company, Mercedes-Benz, to benefit cell-phone users. The U.S. unit of DaimlerChrysler AG says it will offer vehicle technology that will let drivers operate […]

SCI Systems Inc., a manufacturer of electronic components, believes the key to reducing inventory costs is better forecasting. To help it reduce the amount of on-hand inventory, the company has […]

General Motors Corp. is communicating with some of its largest suppliers through online auto exchange Covisint, giving a potential boost to the unprofitable marketplace founded by the carmaker and competitors […]

Like a long-married couple, one-time partners Ariba Inc. and i2 Technologies Inc. are starting to look a lot alike. Both vendors see revenue declining as the economy forces companies to […]

Agile Software Corp. will fill a critical gap in its product-development data-management software with a module to let field workers use a Web browser to access updated information from manufacturers […]

Commerce One Inc. (CMRC-Nasdaq) is making slow progress redefining itself as a supply-chain vendor-and the IT spending slump isn't helping. Last week, it warned that quarterly sales will be as […]

IBM next month plans to ship portal software that leverages its strengths in application integration while incorporating collaboration software from its Lotus Development Corp. The offerings include WebSphere Portal Enable, […]

Software and services that let businesses collaborate with suppliers, partners, and customers continue to lure investors. Citadon, a San Francisco company that offers project collaboration and management services for the […]

United Parcel Service Inc.'s ability to deliver orders became a matter of life and death on Sept. 11. The company's UPS Logistics Group dug into supply-chain inventory and reprioritized shipping […]

Business applications can make a company more efficient and responsive to customers, but they also generate huge amounts of unstructured data trapped in nearly impregnable silos. For example, customer-relationship management […]

The unprecedented security lockdown That shuttered U.S. airports and grounded all planes following the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington on Sept. 11 crippled an already ailing airline industry. […]

For two transplant patients at the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle, lady luck came in the form of Alaska Airlines exec Keith Loveless. The VP of legal and […]

The drive for market share through increased customer satisfaction is revving up among automakers and their suppliers. Although they're adopting technology and business practices that are transforming the auto industry, […]

In the wake of last Tuesday's terrible events, calls for greater scrutiny of computers and electronic communications for signs of illegal activity are already being heard. The ease with which […]

A small West-coast manufacturer says it could reap big benefits if the promise of new online workflow software pans out. Startup fuel-cell developer Metallic Power Inc. has begun testing a […]

Engineers at Corning Inc.'s specialty materials division have a name for its manufacturing execution system: the data jail. Once information on products or processes gets in, it's hard to get […]

Signing a contract is only the beginning of a business deal. Tracking a contract for up-selling opportunities, to generate early renewals, or to ensure that customers don't get extra services […]

PeopleSoft Inc. has bought a content-management software company to help its users manage catalogs online, directly challenging E-commerce platform vendors such as Commerce One Inc. and Ariba Inc. The purchase […]