Dan Muse

Looking to help online retailers better identify, track and target customers, WebSideStory Inc., a San Diego-based ASP that specializes in Web analytics, today announced the launch of HitBox Commerce v3. The new version is designed to provide more business intelligence by allowing retailers to track commerce activity on multiple Web sites and from multiple channels. […]

Web services, utility computing and an increasing emphasis on strategic outsourcing will drive the still-evolving $2.7 billion market market for managed hosting, according to META Group Inc. , a Stamford, Conn.-based research firm. The findings come from a METAspectrum evaluation for the managed Web hosting outsourcing market announced today. This market, META Group reports, includes […]

Microsoft’s Server 2003 slogan “Do more with less” must be music to the ears of service providers for whom automation and efficiency is a way of life. “This is very significant for service providers,” Pascal Martin, Microsoft’s general manager of platform and application hosting, told ASPnews. “They have large IT infrastructures and complex commercially available […]

“We have achieved the EBITDA profitability we have all been targeting,” Corio’s chairman and CEO George Kadifa said yesterday in a conference call with analysts and the press. Kadifa was referring to the company’s first quarter of 2003 financial results in which the San Carlos, Calif.-based enterprise ASP reported an EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, […]

When private-label ASP Apptix announced the launch of version 4.0 of TECOS, its service automation and management platform, in late March, it promised to expand its portfolio of on-demand applications beyond Microsoft Exchange (see Apptix Expands On-Demand Service Management Platform). Less than a month later, the Sterling, Va.-based service provider is already making good on […]

Looking to attract a larger corp of developers, Macromedia today announced the Macromedia Flash MX Data Connection Kit. The goal of the development tool is to make it easier for Flash applications to integrate with a wide range of data sources such as XML documents, databases, application servers and Web services. The kit includes Macromedia […]

At a time when every job opening generates a flood a applicants, how can recruiters ensure that the top candidates don’t get lost in the commotion? Yahoo! thinks it has the answer with its Hiring Gateway. Announced today, the Yahoo! Resumix platform is designed to help both hiring managers and recruiters work more efficiently and […]

In the Web-based sales force automation (SFA) and customer relationship management (CRM) market, Salesnet is the last of the big three to announce an offline version. Salesforce.com announced its offline product more than a year ago and Upshot officially unveiled its offline capabilities last May. However, while Boston-based Salesnet may be the last to take […]

For telcos and ISPs, Web hosting is a low-margin, highly competitive market. To wring profits out of the small and medium-size enterprise (SME) sector, automation and efficiency are key. Looking to help large telcos and ISPs achieve those goals, Sitepak, a Montreal-based software provider that specializes in Web hosting services, today announced the release of […]

Looking to allow organizations and e-commerce companies to offer customized messages to users, Web-based ASP Atomz today announced the launch of Atomz Alert, an online application designed to deliver e-mail content alerts to Web site visitors. Atomz Alerts, is “the next step in our suite,” Steve Kusmer Atomz CEO told ASPnews and is aimed at […]

There was a time when companies specializing in ASP and application management services weren’t exactly rising stars in the IT services industry. But the times they are a changin’. According to two reports released recently by IDC, the worldwide markets for application management services and software as a service (SaaS) are not only healthy, they […]

Ensim Corp., a hosting automation software provider, yesterday announced the availability of Ensim WEBppliance Pro for Linux, a control panel aimed at hosting providers that focus on shared, reseller and small business customers. The new version is designed to offer a higher level of security, reporting, ease-of-use and extensibility. Ensim WEBppliance Pro, Steve Dauber, vice […]