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IBM shook up its Web conferencing strategy adding a hosted option by acquiring WebDialogs and expanding its on-premise presence and conferencing platform Sametime.

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The town of Whitby recently implemented a geographic information system (GIS)-based customer relationship management (CRM) system to integrate the array of municipal services it offers its citizens.

Oracle Corp. has finally shipped the newest version of its Oracle Collaboration Suite, two years after the software's last major update and more than a year after its intended release date.

Executives from the Dallas-based company also outlined vision for what they called the closed-loop supply chain, a combination of technology and processes that allow customers to cut costs, boost supply chain efficiency and help them resolve glitches with on-the-fly workarounds.

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Microsoft Corp.'s forthcoming Office 2003 suite offers enterprises a promise few vendors or analysts are willing to support.