Marc L. Songini

Faced with sagging new license revenue for its business applications, Oracle Corp. this week plans to expand its efforts to ease user headaches related to installing the latest version of the software.

Faced with sagging new license revenue for its business applications, Oracle Corp. this week plans to expand its efforts to ease user headaches related to installing the latest version of the software.

IBM Corp. late this year plans to deliver DB2-based data integration software that will let IT managers link data throughout their systems without needing to collapse the information into a single data warehouse.

Corporate users who were hoping that Microsoft Corp. would put its promised customer relationship management applications under their Christmas trees this year are going to have to wait for a later delivery.

Corporate users who were hoping that Microsoft Corp. would put its promised customer relationship management applications under their Christmas trees this year are going to have to wait for a later delivery.

Faced with frozen or declining budgets, IT managers still have to find ways to use technology to help create "performance-driven" companies

Data analysis software vendor Hyperion Solutions Corp. recently said that it's developing functionality that will provide a virtual corporate memory to end users who need to examine historical business data.

PeopleSoft Inc. plans to announce an upgrade of the data warehousing software that's part of its new application integration suite, adding Web services support in a bid to make it easier for users to connect to applications from other vendors.