Ephraim Schwartz

Siebel Systems Inc. formally launched Siebel Customer Analytic Applications 7.7 and Siebel Enterprise Analytic Platform 7.7 this week at its Siebel User Week show in San Diego.

Cognos Inc. and Business Objects SA have unveiled new BI products.

IP Wireless Inc., a manufacturer of wireless wide area network (WAN) modems, announced this week a partnership with Possio AB, a Swedish maker of access points, to incorporate IP Wireless Personal Computer Memory Card International Association (PCMCIA) WAN cards inside the access point (AP).

Most companies are late into the budgeting cycle with about 90 percent of the budget allocated and locked in. But there is still that remaining 10 percent, and many companies are in, let's say, the mid-to-late point in that decision-making cycle.

As demand for standardized BI tools grows, vendors are rushing to build or buy technology to strengthen their offerings.

Consolidation in the enterprise application space appears to be picking up a full head of steam as SSA Global Technologies Inc. announced on Monday that it will acquire Baan Co. NV, a 25-year-old ERP company.

As the economy continues in its slump, there are economic forces at work that will change the way we use technology. By the way, we are far luckier than physical anthropologists, who can only pick over old bones to figure out how humans evolved. In high tech, we get to watch evolution in real time.

Microsoft Corp. has welcomed a new addition to its server family: the Speech Server.