Natasha Gray

In its first announcement since joining forces with the ASP Industry Consortium (ASPIC), announced the five winners of the second annual ASPire awards yesterday at the Internet World Fall 2001 conference in New York City. The ASPire awards, which honor best practices in the ASP industry, were due to be announced in October but according […]

Securing another customer for its hosted delivery platform, Cupertino, Calif.-based Jamcracker, Inc., today announced a strategic partnership with e-business solutions firm Unisys Corp. . Under the agreement, Unisys will resell Jamcracker Enterprise and expand its ability to help its customers access, manage, integrate and support Web applications from any source. “By reselling the Jamcracker branded […]

In a move that defies shaky market conditions and bolsters the ASP industry Lawson Software the St. Paul Minn.-based enterprise ASP today announced the initial public offering of 14,000,000 shares of its common stock at a price of $14.00 per share. The company offered 13,675,000 shares and selling shareholders offered 325,000 shares. The common stock […]

In a move that makes a clear distinction between its application service provider (ASP) services and Research and Development (R&D) investment, Corio, Inc. , the San Carlos, Calif.-based enterprise ASP, today announced the formation of a new division, Corio Technologies. The focus of the new division, to be headed by Parmeet Chaddha as Senior Vice […]

International consulting giant, KPMG Consulting, Inc. , announced today it will expand its Enterprise Solutions offering by including Siebel Employee Relationship Management 7 (Siebel ERM 7), a property of e-business software application provider, Siebel Systems, Inc. A key component of Siebel 7, Siebel’s seventh major release of its eBusiness software, Siebel ERM 7, is designed […]

Branching out into European territory, Web security services firm, McAfee.com , today announced the launch of localized versions of its security software for the United Kingdom and Germany with each Web site formatted in the country’s native language. “The issue of computer security has become a global concern,” says Atri Chatterjee, vice-president, worldwide marketing, McAfee.com. […]

InteQ Corp. the Bedford, Mass., provider of IT infrastructure management services, today announced the appointment of Maureen Ellenberger as its new CEO, while InteQ’s co-founders, Santhana Krishnan and Yash Shah, will continue in key positions with the company. As CEO, Ellenberger, who met with the firm in October, will draw on her software development, IT […]

Furthering its commitment to the provision of Web Services, webMethods, Inc. , a provider of integration software, Friday announced it would offer enterprise customers capabilities for integrating, managing, and maintaining Web Services. The company is providing this functionality in its latest version of the webMethods integration platform, which is designed for what it calls Global […]

In a move that strengthens its commitment to open development environments, Merant, the Hillsboro, Ore.-based provider of enterprise change management (ECM) technologies yesterday introduced Eclipse.org, an open community of development tools providers. As member of the Eclipse.org board of directors and a founding partner with IBM, Merant has contributed to Eclipse.org open source technology by […]

Enterprise software vendor J.D. Edwards and Unisys , a provider of e-business solutions, jointly announced yesterday the formation of a strategic alliance combining J.D. Edwards OneWorld, its collaborative business applications with the Unisys e-@ction Enterprise Server ES7000. J.D. Edwards says that combining the flexibility of its software applications used for collaboration on supply chain management, […]

BEA Systems, Inc. , the San Jose, Calif.-based provider of application infrastructure software and Andersen, the integrated professional services firm, today announced a strategic alliance to speed-up the deployment of WebLogic, BEA’s standards-based e-business platform. Andersen will provide Built-on-BEA solutions and leverage WebLogic’s commerce, portal, integration and Web Services capabilities to help companies looking to […]

Adding to its existing portfolio of media customers, Salesforce.com, the San Francisco, Calif.-based provider of online customer relationship management (CRM) applications, announced today that national newspaper USA Today, a division of Gannett Co. Inc. , will use saleforce.com for its international CRM needs. With a circulation of approximately 2.3 million and availability in 60 countries, […]