Denise D'Onofrio

Total solutions provider Cereus Technology Partners, Inc. and integrated e-solutions and ASP Eltrax Systems, Inc. announced today that they have signed a definitive agreement to merge, creating a Full Service Provider (FSP). Both firms are based in Atlanta and pursue similar market opportunities with complementary business strategies. Cereus is led by Steve Odom, former Chairman […]

NightFire Software, Inc. today introduced its hosted service NightFire BandwidthExpress.com. BandwidthExpress.com will allow Web brands to offer their users high-speed Internet access services like DSL. This venture capital funded company was founded two years ago by a team of executives from the communications software industry. “We are a software company that is focused on products […]

Personalized Web page applications supplier Homepage.com announced today that it secured $48 million in a mezzanine financing round. Led by parent company idealab!, the contributors to this round also included new investors Jump Investors and Robertson Stephens affiliates, as well as J.&W. Seligman , Moore Capital Management and idealab! Capital Management. The company intends to […]

B2B e-commerce solution provider Clarus Corporation yesterday unveiled ClarusNet, an offering of trading services designed to empower any B2B trading platform. Launched yesterday at the Clarus eC Leadership Conference in Orlando, the company believes ClarusNet will fill an existing gap in the B2B marketplace. ClarusNet will provide open trading services for critical trading service: Supplier […]

File storage/backup company SkyDesk, in a move that will expand its portfolio to embrace more complex application formality, acquired software company SharedPlanet. This acquisition will enable SkyDesk to broaden its range of service offerings. In addition to assisting in the development of superior technologies by providing its customers with increased feature functionality and access to […]

Holding the top rank in order of priority of the various announcements made by Sun Microsystems (SUNW) this week is news of SunTone Certification and Branding Program’s growth. Announced at Supercomm, the overall membership of SPs, ISVs and NEPs for the program has surpassed the 300 mark. According to the company, the number of companies […]

Of interest to big ASPs and ISPs as well as being an offering for enterprises, Hewlett-Packard Company, Cisco Systems. Inc. and Software.com announced this week the three teamed up to deliver a Unified Communications (UC) solution. The UC solution will enable service providers to increase customer satisfaction and revenue stream by delivering a broad range […]

ASP FutureLink Corp. yesterday bombarded the market with announcement surrounding various additions to WorkForceIQ.com, its hosted education application portfolio. These announcements come just under a month after FutureLink’s last big announcements. (see related ASP-News story, FutureLink Stays in the News, May 10th, 2000). FutureLink Corp. is adding the Element K (formerly ZD Education) to WorkForceIQ.com. […]

ASP Agilera yesterday unveiled its Extended Enterprise (XE) (TM) and Extended Platform (XP) (TM) offerings. XE and XP provide Agilera customers and its technology partners with Agilera’s Enterprise View(TM), a customizable browser-based interface providing access to Agilera’s portfolio of enterprise solutions and seamless integration to non-hosted internal systems and other ASPs. According to the company, […]

The TriZetto. Group, Inc. today announced the introduction of Erisco’s Facets System using TriZetto’s HealthWeb Internet application. The system was completed in a six-week period, allowing the integrated HealthWeb product to be immediately available to all Facets customers. “An Internet-enabled solution of this caliber can take several months to implement, yet the collaborative effort between […]

Planet Intra announced a partnership with Data Processing Sciences Corporation (DPS) last week, providing its customers with Planet Intra’s instant Internet solution. The Internet solution will be hosted by Planet Intra and co-branded, providing Data Processing Sciences Corporation with a more complete set of solutions for their customers. “We’re quite proud to have DPS hosting […]

LivePerson this week announced it will offer an ASP model based on a multi-lingual interface, allowing LivePerson clients worldwide to provide real-time help to their online customers. “We recognized early on that succeeding globally meant providing users with a product that perfectly fit their language and culture,” Robert LoCascio, chief executive officer and founder. Language […]