Jim Wagner

Fujitsu Wednesday unveiled strides in its business integration offerings, announcing a strategic partnership with Oracle . The deal was consummated through one of Japan-based Fujitsu’s subsidiary companies — Fujitsu Siemens Computers, a joint partnership of Fujitsu Limited and Siemens AG — and comes a day after the release of the latest version of Interstage, which […]

IBM officials announced Wednesday a raft of new products to bolster its content management portfolio, tailoring its software to companies large and small. The software giant is bolstering its content management software to address the many changes that have happened in the past year to corporate America, most of them revolving around the legal requirements […]

Riding a wave of momentum sparked by interest from Wall Street over consolidation in the enterprise software industry, Open Text announced Tuesday its intent to purchase German content manager IXOS. The stock buyout, for either $10.46 an IXOS share or .2610 of an Open Text share, comes at a time when many companies are looking […]

Standing under the shadow of the Eiffel Tower at OracleWorld Paris, Corel officials showed off their XML application working with the Oracle 10g database. Getting unstructured information, such as Web content, to work on an XML front-end is usually the task of a company’s Web and XML programmers to develop; with XMetaL 4, Corel’s signature […]

Several years ago, Monster.com came to prominence from among a crowd of other job search Web sites. This time around, it wants to build a name for itself among the many online professional networking Web sites, announcing Monday the launch early next year of a similar service. To do it, the Maynard, Mass., company has […]

Hearing that analysts had found 60 percent of enterprises still had non-relational information stored on networks, IBM went out and bought up a company that could convert that legacy information. On Tuesday, Big Blue officials announced the acquisition of Santa Clara, Calif.-based CrossAccess Corp. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Officials expect the […]

BEA Systems, Inc. , is launching new policy manager tools designed to help companies tighten up who gets to go where in the digital enterprise. Called WebLogic Enterprise Security, the software does not address viruses, cracker break-ins or other security issues but instead focuses on the centralized authentication policy manager created by CrossLogix, an enterprise-wide […]

Infrastructure integration software maker webMethods announced Monday the acquisition of The Mind Electric and DataChannel, two critical parts of the company’s enterprise service-oriented architecture (ESOA) goal. The company also finalized the buyout of the Dante Group, a business intelligence software product. In all, webMethods expects the three acquisitions to cost around $32 million. The founder […]

In the TV show “Seinfeld,” George Castanza bemoans the collision of two worlds — his personal and romantic — and the havoc that ensues. But one Web portal company sees the collision of two different worlds, in this case the Java and .NET worlds, as a good thing. To that end, enterprise Web platform company […]

Services procurement and management software developer Elance Monday announced the availability of the latest version of its supply control tool for the corporation. Called SPM version 4, the package is designed in order to deliver greater controls and efficiencies over its previous edition, like a built-in change-order process for suppliers. Although the biggest suppliers need […]

With the launch of the 2003 upgrade to its renowned productivity suite less than two weeks away, the Redmond, Wash., giant has stepped up its marketing efforts by unveiling strong partner support of the various components of Microsoft Office Systems. At its Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans, Microsoft officials announced that hundreds of […]

With the Tuesday release of Siebel Enterprise Analytic Platform 7.7, customers now have an easier time making the intelligent choices. Officials at Siebel Systems, Inc. , say the latest version wrings more competitive advantage for its customers, while making it easier to control the functions that bring the business intelligence and analytics. Analysts from some […]