Cathleen Moore

Building on the success of Weblogs for personal Web publishing, enterprises are starting to tap into blogs to streamline specific business processes such as intelligence gathering or to augment traditional content-and knowledge-management technologies.

Collaboration software vendor SiteScape on Monday introduced Forum Program Management, an add-on module to its collaboration software designed to track the progress of multiple projects across the enterprise.

Bowstreet Software Inc. recently rolled out a new version of its Bowstreet Portlet Factory featuring deeper integration with IBM Corp.'s WebSphere Portal, enhanced Web services support, and a new wizard for speeding the development of portlets.

Search and knowledge management infrastructure vendor Verity Inc. on Wednesday announced plans to acquire Inktomi Corp.'s enterprise search software business for US$25 million in cash.

Corporate portal vendor Plumtree Software Inc. this week at its Odyssey 2002 conference introduced a new strategy designed to beef up its infrastructure presence, taking dead aim at swatting back growing competition for the portal space from infrastructure heavyweights such as IBM Corp. and BEA Systems Inc.

ANAHEIM, CALIF. - Aiming to tame the growing complexity of enterprise messaging environments, several vendors here at Microsoft Corp.'s MEC 2002 conference introduced new tools to control and secure wired and wireless messaging.

As Microsoft Corp. lays out its messaging platform road map at the Exchange User Conference this week, competing vendors are attempting to lure Exchange customers with the promise of lower cost, less complex platforms and licensing agreements.

Looking to extend IM as a tool for enterprise collaboration, Divine Inc. and Jabber Inc. have separately rolled out updates to their IM platforms.