Kevin Newcomb

Small-biz ASP NetLedger Inc. and Oracle Corp. today announced a strategic partnership that will bring online accounting to small businesses. As a result of this partnership, NetLedger has become the first and the only accounting-based small business solution available as a direct link from Oracle.com. “Oracle truly believes the Internet is reshaping big business, small […]

Management Services Provider AppGenesys today (Oct 30) announced that BlueLight.com has selected its SiteStress service to stress test BlueLight.com’s full online shopping site, which launches today. The SiteStress service will drive concurrent visitor tests, simulating peak loads, through BlueLight.com’s application and database servers. “This holiday season, consumers are going to have incredibly high expectations for […]

Internet messaging infrastructure provider Critical Path Inc. (Nasdaq:CPTH) today (Oct 30) announced the general availability of InJoin Directory Server 3.1. With a new web-based directory agent, the Web Data Manager (WebDM), IDS 3.1 allows easier access to directory-based information from a wider group of people. By allowing users within an organization to modify their own […]

Just nine months after launching a development initiative with Compaq Computer Corporation and Microsoft Corp. aimed at building the industry’s most advanced managed web and application hosting services, Digex (Nasdaq:DIGX) Wednesday (Oct 25) unveiled myDigex, a new interactive client portal providing resource monitoring and management, advanced provisioning features. “We’re giving customers a new face, a […]

Andersen Consulting and Jamcracker Inc. today announced they have forged a partnership that includes a go-to-market alliance as well as a significant investment by AC Ventures, the venture capital unit of Andersen Consulting, which has taken an equity stake in Jamcracker. In addition, Jamcracker has become a client of Andersen Consulting. As part of the […]

Marlborough, Mass-based infrastructure ASP Xevo Corporation today announced its international expansion with the opening of a European subsidiary located in Sophia Antipolis, France, to support ASPs in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Additionally, Pascal Paccaud, a former Shiva and Intel vice president, recently joined Xevo as VP of EMEA to lead Xevo’s European-based […]

PeopleSoft Inc. (Nasdaq:PSFT) today launched PeopleSoft 8 CRM, a suite of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) applications for eBusiness that combines a pure internet architecture with CRM Analytics. By integrating PeopleSoft’s CRM and Supply Chain applications, PeopleSoft 8 CRM has been designed to effectively deliver the first company-wide eBusiness solution built on a single architecture. PeopleSoft […]

Interliant Inc. (Nasdaq:INIT) today announced its first customer for PeopleSoft’s Version 8 web-based solutions. InterGen, an international power-generation firm, signed a five-year agreement for Interliant’s INIT HR solution, which provides hosted access to PeopleSoft’s Internet-based HRMS application. Interliant also will provide business process outsourcing, specifically payroll and payroll tax processing services, for InterGen’s U.S. employees. […]

Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ:ORCL) this week (Oct 17) announced the 12 founding partners in its initiative for Oracle9i Application Server Wireless Edition, unveiled Oct 2. Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, eCal, GoAmerica, iXL, LPG Innovations, MapInfo, OracleMobile, Portal Software, Trintech, 24/7 Media, SignalSoft, Vignette and Xmarc have all joined up with Oracle’s Wireless Partner Initiative, created […]

eTrue, whose biometric authentication service is outsourced over the internet, announced Tuesday (Oct 17) at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo that it has partnered with fingerprint authentication technology provider Veridicom Inc. The relationship establishes Veridicom as eTrue’s Preferred Partner for the fingerprint authentication component of eTrue’s ASP service. eTrue uses its own TrueFace technology for the face-recognition […]

E-business application supplier Vignette Corp. (Nasdaq:VIGN) announced this week (Oct 17) that it has joined the Oracle (Nasdaq:ORCL) Wireless Partner Initiative. Vignette’s V/5 Content Management Server and its V/5 Lifecycle Personalization Server will be integrated with Oracle 9i Application Server Wireless Edition to provide a comprehensive wireless portal solution. “Vignette’s participation in our Wireless Partner […]

Integration platform provider CrossWorlds Software Inc. (Nasdaq:CWLD) announced today a partnership with European eBusiness ASP Aspective to offer Aspective’s customers a comprehensive integration solution as part of its hosted applications services. Using CrossWorlds, Aspective’s customers will be able to integrate hosted applications with their own core business processes and existing applications. Aspective will provide CrossWorlds’ […]