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EDS embraces newest Siebel applications

Siebel Systems will announce Monday that the first company to complete installation of its latest customer relationship management system is IT services giant Electronic Data Systems. Read more »

Salesforce hits 500,000-user milestone

CRM company Salesforce.com has reported good figures for the second quarter of 2006 that topped analysts' expectations, and revealed that its subscriber base has topped 500,000 for the first time. Read more »

SAP and Microsoft tune up for Duet

SAP and Microsoft on Tuesday announced "Duet" as the name for a joint project to bring their respective flagship products closer. Read more »

Salesforce.com wants customers to use the force

Salesforce.com is trying to persuade its customers to use its hosting platform, called force.com, to serve up their online applications, but even the company's leaders admit that most people still view it simply as a hosted CRM platform. Will its rebranding and development strategies help it to turn the corner? Read more »

Microsoft readies business applications update

Microsoft plans to release a new version of its business-management applications next month that includes a bevy of new features, including customer extranets and personalised business reports. Read more »

SugarCRM launches project-planning application

Three years after establishing itself as one of the first specialist CRM vendors running its software on Linux, SugarCRM has launched into the project-planning market. Read more »

SaaS unsuitable as core platform for businesses

Despite the cost savings software-as-a-service (SaaS) promises to provide, some businesses believe the on-demand delivery model is not suitable as a platform for core enterprise-class applications. Read more »

Salesforce.com Googles its CRM suite

Salesforce.com and Google have announced they will jointly offer Google Apps integrated with Salesforce.com's CRM (customer relationship management) applications. Read more »

Duet makes music in ANZ

Two weeks before the official launch and customers in Australia and New Zealand have already signed up for Duet, Microsoft and SAP's jointly developed software which connects mySAP ERP and Microsoft Office products. Read more »

Open-source firm polishes interface with AJAX

SugarCRM plans to release an updated application suite next month, as the open-source business software company eyes new product areas Read more »

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Features (22)

Using trouble tickets as development feedback

While development teams get plenty of feedback from sales, one frequently untapped source is customer service. Find out how to bridge the gap. Read more »

Higher intelligence

Business Intelligence software gives managers the tools to draw from many data sources and take a snapshot view of their company's performance. Why are BI vendors defying the industry trend and continuing their stellar growth? Read more »

Ask Chuck: Application Design

This week Chuck responds to a Builder Australia member's question on suggested application design in a .NET environment. Read more »

Performing text calculations in FileMaker

FileMaker, long considered a toy by -serious" developers, is ideal for rapid development and includes many tools to help build useful apps fast. Read more »

Build Web applications without writing code

This article gives an overview of Iceberg -- a tool for building Web application without writing code. Read more »

Open source's integration problem

Sometimes it takes Microsoft to notify the open source community that for all the great things we've done, we sometimes fall short. One area that open source had traditionally failed in was in stitching together an end-to-end solution... Read more »

Disruptions in the software fabric

COMMENTARY -- According to a recent Gartner report, companies such as Oracle, SAP and Microsoft need to deliver more modular, bite-sized chunks of functionality, which would allow customers to update systems with more flexibility and speed. It's not exactly a new revelation. Read more »

Work around XForms' lack of browser support

XForms offers a way to implement Web forms, but most browsers don't support it. Use the Java Framework and Chiba to process server side XForms. Read more »

Introduction to EJB

The concepts behind Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) are not new, but they may appear daunting. Here is an introduction to EJB from Builder.com. Read more »

The seven deadly sins of integration

Software that is open, approachable and agnostic enables customers to cut costs and increase revenue and business opportunity. Does "on demand" fit that bill or is it just the next fad? Read more »

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Google to allow third party code in Gmail?

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- According to executives from the company, Google are preparing to open Gmail to developers outside the Googleplex labs. Read more »

In a world of Goliaths, who's got a stone?

David McAmis [blogs:theneteffect] -- It seems like it is that time of year again... the days are getting longer, the weather is getting a bit warmer and the top-tier software vendors are on a buying spree. Will you get lost in the shuffle? Why not support your local software developer! Read more »

Mercantile Mashups

Chris Duckett [blogs:betaliving] -- Making mashups for a living is a web developers dream - it may be closer than you think. Read more »

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    In this week's roundup we see that continuous whining can get results, Linux users get 64-bit Flash and Moonlight previews, the latest in the Yahoo/Microsoft relationship and Senator Conroy ducks and weave in Senate Question Time. Read more »

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    Despite the recent employment axe hitting Sun the company has pushed out a new release of its Netbeans open source IDE with an eye to appeal more to Web developers. Read more »

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    Attending last weekend's BarCamp in Sydney, it was hard to escape the conclusion that a certain "dot-com bust" flavour had seeped into the kool aid previously being drunk by Australia's web 2.0 and early stage start-up sector. Read more »

    -- posted by Renai LeMay

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