Richard Adhikari

NetSuite (NYSE: N), which offers integrated business-management suites in software as a service (SaaS) form to small and medium-size businesses, has unveiled upgrades to its CRM+ customer relationship management CRM product and NS-BOS platform-as-a-service offerings. These product refreshes focus around customer service and marketing automation. The AJAX-based CRM+ upgrades expand knowledge management, and customer service […]

Oracle has unveiled the Oracle Access Management Suite, which it says will help businesses comply with Section 114 of the Fair and Accurate Transactions Act (FACTA), better known as the Red Flag Rules. This becomes law November 1, and applies to any company that extends or deals with credit, from auto dealers to banks and […]

SAP’s planned closure of its TomorrowNow unit by Oct. 31 may not do much to help it stave off the damage stemming from Oracle’s $1 billion lawsuit. For one thing, the move may not prevent Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) from pressing on with its suit, over what it claims is “corporate theft on a grand scale.” […]

As enterprises move toward a service-oriented architecture (SOA) , a market for third-party service builders and brokers will emerge. Buyers and sellers of services will need new technologies to ensure security and build trust between them. Meanwhile, vendors will bring out more mobile SOA applications to enrich the experience of handheld device users. SOA is […]

Business Objects, which merged with SAP (NYSE: SAP) in October for $6.7 billion, has announced upgrades to two of its key products. It has unveiled BusinessObjects Edge 3.0, the latest generation of its mid-market business intelligence (BI) platform, and Crystal Reports Server 2008, the newest version of its reporting platform. Both were introduced in January […]

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) is getting a shot in the arm with an upgrade that will see it gain new enterprise search features, as well as better performance. The update to MOSS 2007 comes as part of a wider rollout of usability and performance improvements to a number of Office products. Along with MOSS […]

Oracle has maximized its PeopleSoft and Hyperion acquisitions by creating a hybrid business intelligence/performance management application. The company views it as a two-pronged attack on the market. Its Oracle Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) System is a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware. It integrates performance management applications and technologies from Hyperion, which Oracle bought in March […]

SAP will move all its customers to a more comprehensive and expensive support offering, SAP Enterprise Support, that was first rolled out to new customers in May. Existing customers will stick with their current fee rates until January 1. Customers currently pay 17 percent of their license fees for support. Over the next four years, […]

Enterprises planning to deploy Microsoft’s Hyper-V hypervisor for virtualization can now run SPARC-based Solaris applications on their x86 Windows servers without porting or recompiling, thanks to QuickTransit, a solution from cross-platform virtualization solutions provider Transitive. QuickTransit supports 64-bit distribution, so it runs on Solaris x86. Once QuickTransit has been installed, enterprises can install or copy […]

Enterprises that run applications on Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) servers can now give their mobile workers access to those applications, using Sun’s Mobile Enterprise Platform (MEP). Sun has made MEP available, a little more than two months after it put the platform out to beta at Java One in May. MEP 1.0, announced on Sun’s […]

In the latest move among business intelligence (BI) vendors as they struggle for dominance, SAP company Business Objects has teamed up with Oco. Think of it as David and Goliath playing on the same team, since Business Objects is by far the larger of the two. Both companies offer BI in software as a service […]

UPDATED: Following its introduction of on-demand authentication for Google Apps users in March, Arcot has extended its tool to Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) users. The service, available on the Force.com AppExchange portal, protects online identities and data with a combination of a transparent software credential, the ArcotID, and a password. This approach is called two-factor authentication […]