Jim Wagner

Cashing in on Europe’s craze for all things wireless, Cape Clear Software Tuesday came out with the latest version of its software catering to mobile phone operators. So it should come as no surprise the company would tout a customer with big-time clout in the European telecom community: British Telecommunications, the largest telco on that […]

SAP executives announced Wednesday the company expects software revenues to translate to about $507 million in the third quarter and nearly $2 billion overall. And despite the sluggish economy, officials said it was U.S. sales that helped the company close with such good numbers. While some deals that should have been sealed in the second […]

Where do you want to go today? For Microsoft and Oracle , the answer to that question is simple: in the direction of small-to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Better known for its end-user Windows operating system, the Redmond, Wash., company has announced the general availability of its Microsoft Business Network, an expanded deal with Autodesk, and […]

Officials at TeaLeaf Technology, the only SAP spinoff, released RealiTea for businesses that want to track down Web site failures at the source. According to Geoff Galat, TeaLeaf vice president of product and marketing, said companies today need to focus on more than just the three- or five-nines of uptime or five-eight second load times, […]

PeopleSoft raised its revenue expectations for the second time in little over a month, as officials touted the results of the enterprise software maker’s merger with enterprise software company J. D. Edwards. As a result of improving license revenue, the Pleasanton, Calif.-based PeopleSoft expects to exceed its revenue expectations of about $590 million when it […]

With age comes responsibility, an adage the Voice Extensible Markup Language (VXML) Forum is taking to heart with the launch of a certification track to begin next year. The organization will start a pilot program today to test out the certification process — implemented by the forum’s compliance committee and executed by CT Labs — […]

Microsoft officials unwrapped Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) for Windows Server 2003 customers Wednesday. The Web-based collaboration tool, renamed from SharePoint Team Services in March, is available for Server 2003 customers today, free of charge, as an add-on component to their existing software suite. Officials call the new tool the next generation of file serving and […]

The Voice Extensible Markup Language (VXML)) Forum puts on a show every year, called SpeechTEK. Its goal: show off the latest technology in text-to-speech (TTS) and other voice technologies to improve customer call-in centers and the like. Members of the VXML Forum, a consortium of 373 companies with a vested interest in the promotion of […]

SAP developers were treated to a welcome announcement at the opening of the SAP NetWeaver Conference in Basel, Switzerland, Tuesday: the opening of the NetWeaver platform to independent software vendors (ISVs). “Powered by SAP NetWeaver” and “Certified by SAP NetWeaver” are the company’s new catch-phrases for getting developers to design, certify and market NetWeaver applications, […]

Officials at San Jose, Calif.-based NetIQ have released the latest enhancements to its management solution product line. The enhancements, released Monday, are the first announcements from the company after finishing off the revision of it board of director rolls last week. First, the company announced support for Microsoft’s Exchange Server 2003, as well as the […]

Paul Stokes needed to go shopping. Like many companies in the U.S., the chief financial officer for Indianapolis-based manufacturing company Calderon Textiles was using a rather basic enterprise software suite from a small “best-of-breed” software company to run his back-office and supply chain business. The only reason the company even bought into that software system […]

In an industry that already puts the two companies in close proximity with the other, SAP and Accenture strengthened their ties with an arrangement to marry their software and consultancy businesses in the financial community. The question is: will both remain faithful when cheating will seal the deal? Accenture and SAP are certainly putting a […]