Cathleen Moore

Enterprises seeking relief from the rising volume of spam and viruses got more help this week as several vendors rolled out tools and services designed to thwart e-mail-based attacks

Bowstreet Inc. this week launched its Enterprise Portal Solutions, a set of portal-based composite applications designed to bolster employee, partner, and customer productivity.

Traction Software Inc. this week rolled out Traction TeamPage and Communicator 3.5, an updated version of the company's enterprise Web log software.

Enterprise IT executives attending this week's Gartner Symposium ITxpo in Orlando, Fla., got a peek at several forthcoming products for security, CM (content management), wireless, and SOAs (service-oriented architectures).

Trilog Group Inc. this week rolled out an integrated J2EE development framework designed to let IBM Corp. Lotus Notes developers use their existing skills for J2EE development projects.

Under the shadow of government regulations IT must comply with, a host of ECM (enterprise content management) vendors are blending previously stand-alone RM (records management) capabilities into their CM and compliance recipes.

Aiming to help an enterprise's Web site customers better help themselves, new tools from Kanisa Inc., Atomz Corp., and Endeca Technologies Inc. build on core search technology to offer guided customer self service and guided Web commerce search.

Two upstart software vendors are aiming to break ground in knowledge management (KM) by giving workgroups and end users more control of how information is gathered and shared.