Symantec to snap up Veritas in $13.5bn megadeal
The largest proposed software acquisition in history is confirmed, as Symantec takes a giant leap into the enterprise software market with the acquisition of one of the industry's most respected players.
Market Development by Simon Robinson, 16 December 2004
Jinfonet unveils new embeddable reporting tool, OEM deal with Ascential
The little-known vendor of an embeddable Java-based reporting tool has inked a deal with Ascential that should raise market awareness. It has also lifted the lid on a new version – JReport 7.1.
Market Development by Krishna Roy, 16 December 2004
Univa aims to bring a Red Hat model to the Globus toolkit
Grid pioneers have founded a company to drive the Globus toolkit into commercial use by providing enterprise-class support and services to partners. It aims to bring the focus back to standards-based, heterogeneous grid computing.
Impact Report by William Fellows, 16 December 2004
Chordiant adds decision management functionality with acquisition of KiQ
The $19m purchase of the analytics-driven software firm will allow Chordiant to offer more proactive churn and risk management tools for its core financial services customers, and will also add to its telecom presence.
Market Development by Martin Schneider, 15 December 2004
HP is moving into grid computing 'rollout' phase
It will need to demonstrate real user cases and strong roles in grid industry organizations in order to suggest that it can lead in grid computing.
Market Development by William Fellows, 15 December 2004
Centennial unleashes Discovery in the service of visibility and compliance
Want to find out everything that's deployed on your network? Worried that the Business Software Alliance might audit you first? Y2K consultancy-turned-software vendor Centennial hopes its Discovery product will meet both needs.
Impact Report by Rachel Chalmers, 15 December 2004
TurboWorx heads to financial services with TSpaces-based workflow for grids
A specialist in workflow automation for life sciences, it takes its grid and cluster management technology to the financial services sector using IBM's implementation of the tuple-based Linda language.
Impact Report by William Fellows, 15 December 2004
Kana combines knowledge and business process management in latest product release
With Resolution 8.0, the company is looking to handle traditional knowledge management-based customer support, as well as offer process-centric methods for resolving customer issues. Will the combo be enough to win out in an increasingly competitive marke
Impact Report by Martin Schneider, 14 December 2004
BladeLogic's Operations Manager 6 features ESX and SuSE support
It's hard to change applications without introducing security or performance problems, but it's impossible to do business without dynamic applications. This is great news for BladeLogic and its peers in datacenter automation.
Impact Report by Rachel Chalmers, 14 December 2004
Selectica gets into contract management with $70m purchase of I-many
In an attempt to provide a system of record for purchase history that can be used instead of ERP suites, the sales configuration vendor has put together what it calls a complete suite covering order and contract management.
Market Development by Martin Schneider, 14 December 2004
GridApp aims to enable 'practical grids'
The company has decoupled hardware from databases to provide dynamic resource allocation and provisioning for clustered databases.
Impact Report by William Fellows, 14 December 2004
TeaLeaf integrates Spirent Avalanche load tester with RealiTea real user monitor
The combination should let customers create load test scenarios out of their own real user traffic, and gives a neat tweak to both capture-and-playback and load testing for Web applications.
Impact Report by Rachel Chalmers, 14 December 2004
TimesTen broadens product line for service-oriented architecture push
Originally focused on offering real-time data management support for telecom equipment providers, TimesTen's in-memory database could also form the technology basis for event-driven systems at enterprise users.
Impact Report by John Abbott, 13 December 2004
Oracle finalizes PeopleSoft takeover, commits to continued product development
It upped its offer price 10% to $26.50 per share in a deal it feels will be accretive to earnings sooner than first expected. The agreement comes as Oracle reports 57% growth in its own application business in its latest quarter.
Market Development by Martin Schneider, 13 December 2004
Snapbridge embraces open source content management with Apache Cocoon support
While positioning its XML database as a high-speed data federation engine, the company has also developed it into a Web-based publishing system and is moving it closer to an open source framework with support for the Apache Cocoon Project.
Impact Report by Krishna Roy, 13 December 2004
Sleepycat establishes office in Europe, releases Java product and XML upgrade
The company has bowed to customer pressure and added XQuery support to its XML product. In Europe, Sleepycat has more than 30 customers, but believes it can win many more.
Market Development by Rachel Chalmers, 13 December 2004
Project MegaGrid advances commercial agendas for Oracle, Dell, Intel and EMC
It's less about grids and more about marketing, at least in phase one. We'll reserve judgment until subsequent phases have emerged.
Market Development by William Fellows, 10 December 2004
Intelligenxia is another text analytics company vying for opportunities
The company has about a dozen customers in vertical markets, but the market for text analytics is already starting to look a bit crowded with companies at a similar stage.
Impact Report by Nick Patience, 10 December 2004
Cognos unveils first fruits of Frango acquisition in new release of planning tools
Having acquired Swedish reporting and financial consolidation firm Frango in September, the BI behemoth has announced Cognos Controller 2.3 plus a fresh version of its Enterprise Planning Series tools and new performance management templates.
Impact Report by Krishna Roy, 10 December 2004
Relicore launches Clarity 4.0 for IT service configuration management
The new product has extra support for companies with datacenters distributed around the world plus a new set of APIs, but its big advantage remains its ability to monitor changes in real time, Relicore says.
Impact Report by Rachel Chalmers, 10 December 2004
Neon is now focused exclusively on mainframe-SOA integration
It bought InnerAccess. IBM bought CrossAccess. There's no new application development in the mainframe market, but plenty of green-screen opportunity. It's a two-horse race.
Market Development by William Fellows, 10 December 2004
Siebel rounds out SMB plan with changes to sales force and channel network
After developing products geared to small to medium-sized businesses over the past year, Siebel has realigned operations to better execute in the sector. Will it be enough to play against PeopleSoft and SAP midmarket designs?
Market Development by Martin Schneider, 9 December 2004
Notiva looks to automate collaboration in the retail sector at the cash level
The company's financial supply chain management suite aims to synchronize data between retailers and manufacturers at the point of payment. Will Notiva be able to win out against core RFID and global data synchronization projects?
Impact Report by Martin Schneider, 9 December 2004
Oracle targets the midmarket, data hubs and new verticals as core growth strategies
The company has a threefold strategy to win new business, especially those firms currently not using Oracle applications. The next year will also bring the expansion of its data hub initiative, a core part of its customer acquisition plans.
Impact Report by Martin Schneider, 8 December 2004
WRQ is acquired by Francisco Partners as it reaches 'key inflection point'
The veteran terminal emulation and mainframe host integration firm sees its founder retire as it looks toward service-oriented architectures. Competitors Attachmate, Neon Systems and NetManage are moving along much the same lines.
Market Development by John Abbott, 8 December 2004
Cassatt comes out from under the covers
The startup believes it stands at the intersection of commodity software (SOA) and commodity hardware (Wintel/Lintel), which its software will manage, measure and dynamically respond to.
Impact Report by William Fellows, 7 December 2004
Oracle's latest CRM developments focus on analytics-driven sales and service
Sales and support upgrades, both wrapped up with the company's packaged analytics tools, highlight the CRM enhancements to 11i.10. Will Oracle be able to regain momentum in the application space?
Market Development by Martin Schneider, 7 December 2004
Digital Evolution launches XML VPN device based on Flamenco Networks technology
Barely two months after acquiring the assets of Flamenco Networks, the company has distilled its technology into what it says is the industry's first XML virtual private network in a box.
Market Development by Rachel Chalmers, 7 December 2004
Aduva pitches lifecycle management for Linux with latest OnStage release
Its core technology is built around a dependency-mapping knowledge base that installs and automatically configures Linux OS components and applications. It works with multiple Linux distributions and servers.
Impact Report by John Abbott, 6 December 2004
Edge Dynamics enters pharmaceutical space with commerce optimization suite
The formal launch of its product adds intelligence and automation to the order process, but the company also plans to tackle compliance and supply chain issues.
Impact Report by Martin Schneider, 6 December 2004
Avaki adds Eclipse-based modeling tool to its data integration framework
Continuing to pursue the market for enterprise information integration aggressively, the company has launched the second release this year of its eponymous data integration framework, which came from the world of grids.
Market Development by Krishna Roy, 6 December 2004
Open Text has multiple acquisitions to integrate while also shifting platforms
Its acquisition pace slowed during 2004, but it still has a lot of integration work to do, concurrent with a fundamental platform shift that will make 2005 a crucial year for the content management and collaboration company.
Impact Report by Nick Patience, 3 December 2004
Opsware pays $33m for Rendition Networks' device automation technology
The datacenter automation company fleshes out its network capabilities with this acquisition, paving the way for its planned expansion into full utility computing.
Market Development by Rachel Chalmers, 3 December 2004
Ex-service provider Coradiant offers real user-experience management in a box
Its single-appliance approach distinguishes the company from software-only competitors in real user monitoring, while its emphasis on individual sessions sets it apart from vendors of service-level management hardware.
Impact Report by Rachel Chalmers, 3 December 2004
CRM vendor Entellium has developed a quasi-open source development strategy
The company seeks to create a more versatile yet highly commercial development platform with a community building vertically focused extensions. Will the concept prove the better alternative to Salesforce.com's sforce platform?
Impact Report by Martin Schneider, 3 December 2004
Aspect Communications bundles its call center products for first suite release
The company has created Uniphi Suite, which incorporates its call distribution, IVR and CTI tools, integrated with its WFM product. With an eye toward the channel, it looks to tap hybrid IP and legacy switch call centers as customers.
Impact Report by Martin Schneider, 2 December 2004
DataMentors moves into database marketing through smartFocus partnership
Having spent most of its six-year history providing data-quality software and services to midmarket firms, the company has now expanded its focus into marketing applications by partnering for campaign management and data-mining applications.
Market Development by Krishna Roy, 2 December 2004
Vivisimo revs its information-clustering technology for enterprise market
The company has added its own search engine to its enterprise offering and has revamped its website, which is both a marketing vehicle and revenue generator.
Market Development by Nick Patience, 2 December 2004
Resilient embodies entrepreneur's third attempt at automating business processes
Industrial process automation is a quagmire that has swallowed many startups, including Jonathan Hare's last two. Will the third time be the charm?
Impact Report by Rachel Chalmers, 2 December 2004
Microsoft lifts the lid on business intelligence features in SQL Server 2005
Code-named Yukon, SQL Server 2005 will include a makeover of its ETL engine and new versions of Analysis Services and Reporting Services that take it into the end-user tools market.
Impact Report by Krishna Roy, 1 December 2004
Bowstreet builds three suites around Portlet Factory and WebSphere Portal Server
The company has narrowed its focus and laid out a roadmap based on its portlet expertise and close relationship with IBM.
Market Development by Rachel Chalmers, 1 December 2004
Surado beefs up its back-office integration products with new QuickBooks link
The CRM vendor aims to reduce integration time between QuickBooks and its suite by 80%. But will the value proposition play well against vendors like NetSuite and Best Software?
Market Development by Martin Schneider, 1 December 2004
DecisionPoint packages SAP integration in new Financial Performance Management release
Key to release 11 is an ETL tool for integration of SAP R/3 data, which provides more opportunity for its data warehousing, ETL, reporting and analytic stack to compete in SAP shops. Linux support and an Excel front end also feature for first time.
Impact Report by Krishna Roy, 1 December 2004
Axonwave picks health insurance to demonstrate value of text analytics
Having decided in 2003 that a vertical focus was needed in order to succeed, it chose to work with early adopters in the health insurance industry. The move demonstrates that unstructured text analytics is starting to gain acceptance in the market.
Market Development by Nick Patience, 30 November 2004
Convergys releases new e-learning tool for large, distributed sales teams
The Sales Readiness offering denotes a continued services-heavy play on the part of the vendor, but it has call center implications, and at the heart of it is sales force effectiveness.
Market Development by Martin Schneider, 30 November 2004
Corigin plans FICON bridge to open up IBM's mainframe, storage installed base
The data integration specialist has struggled to establish itself, despite an innovative approach that eliminates the expensive 'mainframe to open systems' data movement process. A pending new product could unlock access to a wider audience.
Impact Report by Simon Robinson, 30 November 2004
Hewlett-Packard debuts Automation Manager to support 'desired state' IT
The company has integrated bought, built and existing technologies for Automation Manager, feeding into the broader goal of dynamically linking business and IT.
Impact Report by William Fellows, 30 November 2004
DataPower claims substantial growth in XML security, performance and management
It says its custom FPGAs strike the right balance between expensive but fast silicon and cheaper software on commodity boxes. The company's executive team includes M&A specialists, but buyers have made themselves scarce.
Impact Report by Rachel Chalmers, 30 November 2004
Grid middleware company Axceleon sees HP deal as key to restarting business
It has refocused its EnFuzion distributed resource manager for use by enterprises and hopes to attract venture capital on the back of new customer wins through the HP deal.
Market Development by William Fellows, 29 November 2004
Pilot Software continues its reinvention in performance management
An industry veteran that has survived several new parents to become independent once again, the company is now in its second year of peddling performance management products.
Impact Report by Krishna Roy, 29 November 2004
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