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    SAP uses support, price to push mySAP

    Posted January 28, 2004 - 2:34 pm

    SAP AG is nudging customers of its flagship R/3 enterprise software to migrate quickly to its newest version, mySAP ERP, with some financial incentives -- and a warning that maintenance service for the aging enterprise application will end by 2009.

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    Microsoft fixes Word 2003 glitches

    Posted January 28, 2004 - 11:37 am

    Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday released an update for Word 2003 to fix several glitches in the word processing application that was introduced in October last year as part of Microsoft's Office System launch.

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    Customers eye Workplace warily

    Posted January 28, 2004 - 11:24 am

    While IBM Corp.'s Lotus software group blazes ahead with its Workplace vision, the company still has work to do to convince some of the Lotus faithful that the new architecture makes as much sense for them as it does for IBM.

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    Microsoft launches SQL Server Reporting Services

    Posted January 27, 2004 - 11:24 am

    Microsoft Corp. has added reporting capabilities to its SQL Server 2000 database, rounding out its business intelligence platform with a feature long sought by some of its customers.

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    LOTUSPHERE: Lotus stakes its future on Workplace

    Posted January 26, 2004 - 3:47 pm

    Executives from IBM Corp.'s Lotus software unit used the opening presentations Monday at Lotus' annual user show in Orlando to sketch out the strategy behind IBM's year-old Lotus Workplace platform, and to reassure users that IBM won't abandon its core of Lotus users building on the Notes/Domino architecture.

  • SAP woos SMBs

    Posted January 24, 2004 - 5:36 pm

    SAPs new Business One products are geared toward smaller businesses; within the first year, the product boasts 2,500 customers and 420 business partners. The pundits are fairly optimistic about the company

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    SAP delivers bullish outlook for 2004

    Posted January 22, 2004 - 2:22 pm

    For the first time in nearly two years, SAP AG executives offered a bullish outlook for business software sales in 2004, pointing to a general recovery in global IT spending.

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    SAP sees 10 percent sales growth in 2004

    Posted January 22, 2004 - 10:37 am

    SAP AG expects software sales to increase 10 percent in 2004 as businesses resume IT spending after an investment pause of more than two years, the company said Thursday as it announced its fourth-quarter results. The Walldorf, Germany, vendor said it sees clear signs that enterprises have begun to pick up the pace in software investments.

  • Rumble in the CRM jungle

    Posted January 21, 2004 - 11:15 am

    Newcomer Salesforce.com is set to make its first annual profit, following revenue growth from $5 million to $66 million since 2001. As the company continues to invest heavily (65% of revenue!) into sales and marketing, it aims to unseat the traditional market favorite, Siebel Systems.

  • New SBA rule boon for small IT VARs

    Posted January 21, 2004 - 11:01 am

    The new category,

  • Consumer electronics companies woo women as they spend more on technology

    Posted January 19, 2004 - 11:47 am

    Apparently consumer electronics companies have been ignoring the ladies, as they cater to the large-screen TV, football-watching, NASCAR dads. According to a recent industry survey, almost 75% of women reported being ignored, patronized or offended by those selling electronics. Those who continue to dis

  • Boom coming, IBM e-commerce chief says

    Posted January 19, 2004 - 11:35 am

    E-commerce is growing and posed for more growth, led by new entrants to the market from the smaller and medium-sized businesses.

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    Mozilla 1.6 releases

    Posted January 16, 2004 - 6:04 pm

    Mozilla, the open souce offshoot of the Netscape project, has just been updated to 1.6. The open source browser project has gone through a number of twists and turns, but still keeps putting out new releases.

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    Salesforce.com links with Microsoft Office

    Posted January 15, 2004 - 10:00 am

    Salesforce.com Inc. has created a plug-in for Microsoft Corp.'s Office that allows users to import data from the Salesforce.com online CRM service into Word, Excel and Outlook, the company said.

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    IDC: Software vendors get cozy with integrators

    Posted January 13, 2004 - 10:36 am

    Enterprise software vendors and systems integrators are looking to form stronger relationships in order to meet customer needs, according to a new report released by research group IDC.

  • How do small e-tailers deal with the Internet sales tax?

    Posted January 12, 2004 - 10:29 am

    First of a two-part series addressing Internet tax legislation, accounting responsibilities and complications arising from the separation of buyers by state tax requirements. A variety of smaller companies relying on e-commerce relay their own experiences.

  • 2003's top trends in IM

    Posted January 8, 2004 - 6:20 pm

    While security was a big problem in the public instant messaging space in 2003, there were some high points. Strides were made this year in linking enterprise instant messaging systems to other applications in the workplace raising the return on investment and IM deployments.

  • Get your IM in shape: A workplace guide for 2004

    Posted January 8, 2004 - 5:59 pm

    If you haven't honed your instant messaging (IM) etiquette yet, here's your chance to brush up on some of the basics.

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    Business Objects draws post-merger Crystal roadmap

    Posted January 8, 2004 - 2:31 pm

    Business information software company Business Objects SA announced a roadmap for integrating its own products with those of Crystal Decisions Inc., which it bought last July.

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    SAP studies changes in core products

    Posted January 8, 2004 - 2:22 pm

    German business software giant SAP AG is moving ahead with a project designed to analyze its core enterprise products and, if necessary, tweak or even overhaul one or more in a move to reduce development costs at its end and integration costs for customers.

  • Alternative office suites

    Posted January 8, 2004 - 2:01 pm

    Review of productivity and office application suites that can be used instead of Microsoft

  • IBM, Microsoft square off to court smaller businesses

    Posted January 7, 2004 - 2:15 pm

    The race is on, and the spending is big

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    IM emerges from the shadows

    Posted January 5, 2004 - 2:55 pm

    While it's no secret that IM has been criticized for being intrusive, an increasing number of companies, including PeopleSoft Inc., IBM Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc., are starting to rely on IM for business communications and have standardized on a particular application in the process.

  • Intuit's QuickBooks 2004

    Posted December 28, 2003 - 11:02 pm

    QuickBooks offers some useful new features for 2004. In particular, its industry-specific versions and new services really shine.

  • Top software for 2003

    Posted December 28, 2003 - 10:31 pm

    Here are software titles that have made the biggest impression over the past 12 months, according to this annual review. The Windows platform remains the top choice for PC users but some little known utilities also make the list.
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