Ryan B. Patrick

For Mihai Strusievici, improving collaboration between business units, team members and project managers was a case of putting a new integrated IT platform on tap.

ATB Financial is banking that a new front-end for its tellers will pay off in terms of improving overall customer service.

IBM Corp. means to forge stronger bonds between its messaging and collaboration tools with updated versions of Lotus Notes and Domino, launched this week at its Lotusphere user conference in Orlando.

In the ERP market, timing can be everything. And shortly after Oracle Corp. officially announced it is now a newly merged company, SAP AG quickly countered with a new maintenance and migration service - dubbed Safe Passage - targeted at its customers that are also running PeopleSoft Inc. and J.D. Edwards & Co. (JDE) applications.

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Hewlett-Packard Co. is likely to detail additions to its Itanium 2-based Integrity server portfolio, including new virtualization software and a pay-per-use model for Windows, a first for the Palo Alto, Calif.-based firm.

Business Objects XI provides enterprise users with an integrated reporting, data integration, query and analysis and performance-management platform.