Heather Harreld

Business intelligence vendor Cognos Inc. on Monday will announce a new Corporate Performance Management Framework designed to align business strategy with execution across the enterprise while linking people, information and decision-making processes.

Driven by enterprise demand for spending visibility, a host of business intelligence vendors are manoeuvring to leverage existing platforms with strategic sourcing-analytics packages.

MicroStrategy Inc. on Monday unveiled its new 7i consolidated architectural platform designed to allow enterprises to rapidly deploy multiple business intelligence applications.

Enterprise application provider Baan Co. NV is jumping into the supply-chain and product life-cycle management arenas with plans to tap its installed ERP base to grow business in these new product lines.

Tibco Software rolled out a new version of its portal product that integrates Web services support with Tibco

Tibco Software Inc. rolled out a new version of its portal product Monday that integrates Web services support with Tibco's workflow and business process management functionality in a move designed to allow enterprises to give users access to personalized data.

E.piphany and PeopleSoft are launching new versions of their CRM solutions

Siebel Systems is manoeuvring to enhance customer relationship management functionality for both mobile users and mobile carriers with its recent application upgrades.