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Crystal Reports 2008 Gains Some Pizazz
Thanks to Flash and Flex integration, reports from Business Objects' flagship product will be a lot snazzier and more interactive. (Oct 18, 2007)

Access Your Medical Records Anywhere, Anytime
After talking about it for six years, Microsoft is finally delivering on the promise of users' medical records 'in the cloud.' (Oct 12, 2007)

IBM Mashes Up Enterprise Apps
Big Blue now has a starter kit for companies that want to integrate Web 2.0 features with their core business applications. (Oct 11, 2007)

Microsoft Getting Serious About SaaS for the Enterprise
Exchange and SharePoint receive a SaaS makeover as part of Redmond's nascent 'software-plus-services' push. (Oct 4, 2007)

Adobe Buzzes into the SaaS Fray
Buzzword purchase puts the company squarely in competition with Microsoft, again, and Google, too. (Oct 3, 2007)

Want More 'Fabric' With Your SOA?
A little of this app, a little of that: IBM adds software 'fabrics' to its Service-Oriented Architecture offerings. (Oct 2, 2007)

HP Offers Packaged Approach to BI, Compliance
HP wants to make life easier for CIOs looking for a soup-to-nuts solution in one package. But it won't come cheap. (Oct 1, 2007)

DEMO Time: Let's Demo Till You Drop
Twice annual industry confab features a first look at the latest technology and Web services. (Sep 27, 2007)

Trilog Extends SaaS Tentacles To Project Management
Now that everyone has seemingly found religion with the Software-as-a-Service model, upstarts like Trilog Group are moving beyond CRM to get some of that SMB cash. (Sep 26, 2007)

Microsoft's PerformancePoint Server Makes Summer Deadline
Redmond releases its new business intelligence tool, plus ships two service packs for other technologies, before the official arrival of Fall. (Sep 25, 2007)

SAP: A1S Is 'Business ByDesign'
The software giant details its first on-demand, hosted business application service targeting, at least for now, small- and mid-sized companies. (Sep 24, 2007)

IBM Stages a Symphony with Microsoft in Mind
Will IBM's new suite of office apps finally push Microsoft Office out? (Sep 21, 2007)

Force.com: The Future of the Industry?
CEO Marc Benioff tells Dreamforce 2007 attendees his company's new development platform has Salesforce.com feeling and acting like a startup again. (Sep 20, 2007)

BEA's Real-Time 'Genesis' Debuts
CEO Alfred Chuang talks up the transformative virtues of the company's next-generation SOA business application platform. (Sep 19, 2007)

SAP A1S Subscription Service Set for Debut
After spending nearly two years and about half a billion dollars to develop it, the enterprise software giant's A1S product is ready for primetime. (Sep 19, 2007)

May the Force.com Be With You
Salesforce.com seeks to take its on-demand model to the next level with Force.com, its new on-demand application development platform. (Sep 18, 2007)

Can Open Source CRM Compete?
While some might think the deck is stacked against open source CRM, SugarCRM's John Roberts is out to prove them wrong. (Aug 29, 2007)

Lotus Notes and Domino 8 Shifts Toward Web 2.0
Beyond its bells and whistles, the latest version of Big Blue's e-mail and collaboration software portends a shift in its enterprise strategy. (Aug 20, 2007)

Trend Micro Touts New Security SaaS
The anti-virus vendor's SecureCloud SaaS solution will put the firm in competition with Microsoft and Google. Pass the slingshot. (Aug 2, 2007)

EMC Documentum Embraces SOA, Eclipse
The information systems provider augments its enterprise content management with Web services and the Eclipse IDE. (Aug 1, 2007)