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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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

Eclipse to get wiki and CRM boost

New collaboration tools and members from the hosted CRM community await attendees at the Eclipse Foundation's annual conference. 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 »

Open source take-up booming in APAC

Open source accounts for between 25 and 70 percent of all software in Australian, Chinese, Indian and Korean companies, according to a recent IDC survey. Read more »

Oracle signals 'no change' in CRM strategy

Oracle has unveiled its strategy to deal with the integration of its Siebel business with the customer relationship management operations of Oracle, PeopleSoft and J.D. Edwards. The key message is "no change." Read more »

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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 »

Red Hat and JBoss: No turning back for open source

Red Hat's acquisition of JBoss is one step toward what many consider inevitable: the creation of open source companies that rival the clout of entrenched software-providers. 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 »

Top 14 development integration trends for 2004

Take a look at what META Group is saying on integration and development strategies research trends for 2003/2004. 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 »

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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 »

Mono a Mano

David McAmis [blogs:theneteffect] -- While the world has been heralding the release of Visual Studio.NET 2005, another project on the back-burner has been bubbling along. 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 »

Think Wiimote to engage users?

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- Nintendo's Wii remote control proves that bigger, faster, and louder aren't necessary to build the best experience for end-users. 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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    The punching and counterpunching continued in the ongoing web browser development bout. Each time one browser closes a feature gap, a new feature appears in one of the others -- how we ever put up with the years of browser stagnation, I'll never know. Read more »

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