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Siebel to Expand Beyond Customer Analytics

Siebel may be taking a page from Microsoft Corp.’s strategy book, leveraging its market-leading customer relationship management application stack to expand into a larger market—enterprise business intelligence.

Best Practices: Five Tips for Managed Security Outsourcing

Yankee Group’s recommendations for getting the most from managed security outsourcing

Microsoft Notches CRM Milestone

Microsoft Corp.’s first-generation customer relationship management (CRM) product may not have caught on like wildfire, but it’s certainly seen uptake in line with the software giant’s expectations.

Intel and SAS Target Mobile Enterprise

Intel and SAS Institute are combining their products and marketing efforts to target the mobile enterprise.

Dangerous Blended Attacks Increase, Symantec Says

Payload and speed make them especially dangerous; eight best practices for resisting their impact

State Department Blames Welchia Virus For Shutdown

Visa applicants left high and dry as government database hit with virus

IBM Announces Largest Mainframes Ever, Extends On/Off Capacity On Demand

IBM announces new z990 mainframes, a rebate offer, On/Off Capacity On Demand for Linux, revamped Parallel Sysplex, and increased tech support spending



Compuware Updates Application Testing Tool

QACenter gets on-the-fly parameter testing, drag-and-drop reporting on canned metrics

The Good (Software) Times Have Rolled

Pricing pressures and fewer selling opportunities mean the days of high growth and high profit are gone forever.

Linux No Threat to Microsoft Dominance—Yet

IDC study shows Linux market share has grown at the expense of other operating environments.

IT Spending Shifts To Business Continuity, Services; Linux Not In The Picture, European Survey Shows

A new survey of future European IT spending plans shows Linux is nowhere on CIO radar screens.

IBM and EMC Cooperate on Support and Fast Copy Utilities

Big Blue is planning to share technical data needed to allow EMC to work with FlashCopy, Peer-to-Peer Remote Copy, and Extended Remote Copy functions.

NetIQ Upgrades Exchange Monitoring Tools, Offers Web Monitoring

AppAnalyzer 3.0 creates e-mail audits in line with new regulations

IBM adds Windows, AIX, AS400 to Existing Linux Hosting Services

Big Blue takes hosting business to the next level

Lunar Backups—True Off-Site Storage?

The moon may soon be home to your backup files

Q&A: Securing the Door as Important as Securing the Data

Organizations regard the intersection of physical and electronic security—holistic security, if you will—as the end goal

Q&A: Actuate, Acquisitions, and the State of Enterprise Reporting

The company talks about product shortcomings, multilingual support, and Excel-like report creation

XML/A: Truly Portable OLAP Getting Closer

A single API for exchanging analytical data between OLAP clients and servers—regardless of platform or language—is part of the promise found in a draft specification called XML/A.

IT Dissatisfied with ERP Systems

Survey of 100 senior managers shows highest level of customer satisfaction with PeopleSoft, worst with Oracle

Siebel’s CRM OnDemand Gives Customers a Choice

Company announces second foray into hosted CRM