Heather Havenstein

Companies still relying on spreadsheets and other piecemeal financial planning and budgeting methods are the targets of a trio of new packages designed to provide an enterprise view of financial performance.

The new framework and tool will allow users to add customized modeling that could, for example, layer regulatory policy enforcement to the generic tools planned for Visual Studio 2005 Team System.

Version 6 of the WebSphere Application Server can detect system outages and ensure that transactions are handed off to another server to quickly restore processing operations and minimize the financial impact of downtime, according to Big Blue.

Version 6 of the WebSphere Application Server can detect server outages and save and process Internet transactions to minimize the financial impact from downtime.

SAP AG is maneuvering to bolster its NetWeaver platform as a viable alternative to competing application development environments with a new program to court Java and .Net developers.

SAP AG is manoeuvring to bolster its NetWeaver platform as a viable alternative to competing application development environments with a new program to court Java and .Net developers.

Cyclone Commerce Inc. this week will roll out a new suite of applications designed to allow enterprises to capture real-time content from transactions flowing outside the organization.

Vendors in the BI (business intelligence) arena are maneuvering to empower end-users with the ability to customize analytic applications in an effort to meet evolving business needs.