Natasha Gray

Xevo Corp., the Marlborough, Mass.-based provider of service management software, today announced that it has signed a contract with BT Ignite, BT Group’s international broadband and solutions business, for the supply of its XevoWorks service management software. The deal will enable BT Ignite to automate its provision of Microsoft Exchange 2000 to its online business […]

Continuing a successful few weeks in acquiring new businessEDS , the Plano, Texas-based provider of strategy, implementation and hosting services, today announced a three-year contract to provide California’s Welfare Client Data System Consortium with a digital learning program to deliver training to more than 25,000 social service agents. Using CalWORKs Information Network (CalWIN), a system […]

EDS , the Plano, Texas-based provider of hosting services and Captura Inc., which delivers total expense management services, today announced an alliance to offer their clients an expense management solution designed to boost employee productivity and reduce the cost of employee expense management. Under terms of the agreement, EDS will provide application hosting, systems integration, […]

In a move that will help advance its position in the delivery of Web services, Sun Microsystems Inc. today announced an agreement with Bowstreet, the Web services platform provider, to integrate Bowstreet’s Web services development and assembly platform, the Bowstreet Business Web Factory with Sun ONE, Sun’s vision architecture product to enable the development and […]

New research released today from IT market research firm IDC identifies the top U.S. application infrastructure providers (AIPs), according to their 2000 U.S. service revenues. In its latest study, IDC reports that the U.S. market for AIP services was $1.11 billion in 2000 and it estimates it will grow to approximately $9.37 billion by 2005. […]

In its latest report, INT Media Research, a division of INT Media Group, Inc. yesterday announced its key findings for the application service provider (ASP) industry. The report titled: ‘2002 ASP Industry Insight: The Rise of the Provider Web’ offers an insight into what direction successful ASPs will take in 2002 and report that there […]

The Global MSP Network (GMN), the association for Managed Service Providers, Friday disclosed preliminary results of its sales and marketing survey. The organization, which is focused on the advancement of the outsourced management service provider (MSP) channel, initiated the original research in October, 2001 to identify key MSP trends and support its MSP members with […]

Adding to a growing list of healthcare customers, Salesforce.com, the San Francisco, Calif.-based provider of online customer relationship management (CRM) software, today announced that SonoSite, Inc. , an international manufacturer of hand-held ultrasound equipment, has deployed salesforce.com’s online CRM solution across its global operations. A customer since March, 2001, SonoSite has implemented Salesforce.com’ integrated sales […]

Xevo Corp., the Marlborough Mass.-based provider of service management software for service providers, today announced the appointment of Michael Dering as president and chief executive officer. Dering, who has also been appointed to the company’s board of directors, will take over from Hal Chapel, Xevo’s founder and chairman, who stepped in as acting CEO in […]

Digex, Inc. , the Laurel, Md.-based managed hosting provider for business, today announced it is expanding its managed security products by introducing a new high-speed firewall offering. This new firewall appliance is designed to provide Digex clients with a reliable security infrastructure, while managing large volumes of business transactions. According to Digex, the addition of […]

Software giant Oracle Corp., Tuesday announced the launch of the Oracle Small Business Suite Education Program, powered by NetLedger. The program is designed to help instructors complement their classroom business curriculum with the Oracle Small Business Suite Web-based accounting and business management solution and aims to make it easier for students to learn how to […]

Meeting analysts expectations, software giant Oracle Corp. , today announced second quarter revenues of $2.4 billion and net income of $549 million. Earnings per share of $0.10 compares with $0.11 in Q2 last year. Second quarter operating margins were 35 percent versus 36 percent last year. New software license sales were down 27 percent, while […]