Siebel Systems' fast-growing analytics business "was going to be my secret ticket back to the promised land," Siebel Chief Executive Officer (CEO) George Shaheen said Monday in a discussion with journalists, during which he expressed a few pangs of regret over Oracle's US$5.9 billion takeover deal for control of Siebel.
Siebel Systems used its CustomerWorld show this week in Boston to launch a host of product updates and preview forthcoming ones. Among the show's highlights:
A taped message from Oracle Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Larry Ellison greeted attendees at Siebel Systems' Monday kickoff for its annual user show, a conference shadowed by Siebel's deal last month to sell itself to former rival Oracle for around US$5.9 billion.
Plumtree Software this week began rolling out a major new version of its portal software product line, including new bundling options, broader platform support and a new stand-alone product the company intends as the first in a line of customized industry applications.
Analytics and planning software maker Hyperion Solutions recently began shipping Hyperion System 9, a comprehensive overhaul that marries Hyperion's business intelligence (BI) and financial management applications into one user interface.
One month after closing its acquisition of Intranets.com, WebEx Communications is launching an updated, rebranded version of Intranets.com's hosted collaboration software suite, a move aimed at expanding WebEx's share of the SMB (small and medium business) market before Microsoft conquers the space.
Oracle scooped up another small technology maker on Friday, announcing its acquisition of Finnish open-source database technology developer Innobase OY. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
PeopleSoft's dramatically ousted former chief executive officer (CEO), Craig Conway, is taking a small step back into the CRM software market -- and another jab at his nemesis, Oracle. Hosted CRM (customer relationship management) provider Salesforce.com said Thursday that Conway will join its board of directors, effective immediately.
Siebel Systems released an updated version on Monday of its Professional Edition, a lower-cost version of its CRM (customer relationship management) software aimed at the midmarket.
Bowing to market realities, Microsoft will begin working with an ideological foe -- open source development and services company JBoss -- in an effort to optimize interoperability between JBoss' middleware and Microsoft's Windows Server software.
Bowing to market realities, Microsoft said it will begin working with an ideological foe, open-source development and services company JBoss, on optimizing interoperability between JBoss' middleware and Microsoft's Windows Server software.
Oracle CEO, Larry Ellison, took pains during his Wednesday afternoon OpenWorld keynote address to emphasize the important role he expects Siebel Systems's hosted, subscription CRM OnDemand service to play in Oracle's product lineup once Oracle's deal to acquire Siebel closes.
Oracle kicked off the second day of its OpenWorld user conference with an acquisition, scooping up Global Logistics Technologies (G-Log) for an undisclosed sum Oracle said Tuesday. Oracle plans to use G-Log's logistics software to boost its supply-chain management technology offerings.
Siebel Systems Chief Executive Officer George Shaheen shared the stage with a group of Oracle executives Monday at Oracle's OpenWorld conference, a tableau Oracle President Charles Phillips joked that attendees likely never expected to see.
For one longtime PeopleSoft customer, last year's Oracle takeover came at a particularly awkward time: the Center for Remote Enterprise Systems Hosting (CRESH) based in South Dakota, was in the process of spinning out from Dakota State University, and was about to sign the first commercial contract for its hosted PeopleSoft applications services.