Data & Analytics

Since the term ASP (application service provider) went out of style a couple years ago, a lot of HSVs (hosted software vendors) have washed up on the rocks.

One of the desires companies have when investing in large corporate intranets is to use them for e-learning. In most cases this is not a difficult task since content management can be driven from the top.

ORLANDO, FLA. - At the annual Lotusphere conference here this week, third-party vendors unwrapped a bevy of tools designed to bolster management and performance of messaging products from IBM Corp.'s Lotus Software.

At the annual Lotusphere conference here this week, third-party vendors unwrapped a bevy of tools designed to bolster management and performance of messaging products from IBM Corp.'s Lotus Software.

In the past, the benefits of grid computing have mainly been reaped by academic and research institutions, however IBM Ltd. announced Monday the availability of its new grid computing solutions to help companies in other sectors maximize their computing processing power.

Art Technology Group Inc. and Unica Corp. each enriched their online CRM packages, both with an eye toward helping companies more effectively relate to customers. ATG will soon make ATG 6 available, and Unica made Affinium 5 available recently.

InterSystems Corp., a provider of database systems, will make its CACHE database available for Mac OS X early next year.

Business Intelligence (BI) is baby-stepping its way to maturity and several vendors are eager to see where it will lead the enterprise.