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Market dynamics: Sarbanes-Oxley-financial storm in an IT teacup?
Jun 19, 2003 ... Event Summary The 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act, which is being touted as landmark legislation for US corporate governance and accountability that will change the way in which organizations manage their businesses. In a nutshell, SOX introduces stringent new financial reporting ...
Accrue looks for exit strategy. (BI News Review).
Jun 19, 2003 ... Officials at Accrue Software Inc, the sole remaining pure-play Web analytics software provider, has announced the possibility that the company might be put up for sale as part of its "exploration of near-term strategic options". The board of directors at the floundering Fremont, ...
SRC rolls out new performance management products. (BI News Review).
Jun 19, 2003 ... SRC Software Inc has announced a slew of new software products designed to beef-up its flagship corporate performance management (CPM) solution. Privately held SRC develops a tightly integrated suite of enterprise budgeting, forecasting, payroll and financial planning, and ...
CM vendors put content twist on Sarbanes-Oxley. (BI News Review).
Jun 19, 2003 ... Content management vendors are developing tools to help companies manage the storage and retention of records for compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. The legislation was passed in 2002 to force US companies to formally attest to internal controls and how financial management ...
Alphablox unveils version 5 of business analytics platform. (BI News Review).
Jun 19, 2003 ... Business analytics software vendor Alphablox Corp has announced the fifth major release of its namesake software platform--Alphablox 5. The company offers a "Lego-like" approach to building business intelligence applications by snapping together components (called "blox"). ...
Hyperion solutions talks performance and accountability. (BI News Review).
Jun 19, 2003 ... Breakthrough performance and accountability are the two major themes at Hyperion Solutions Corp's annual user conference, which kicked off this week at the Venetian Resort Hotel Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. In the opening general session of Solutions 2003, a 3,000-strong ...
Plumtree's new Portlet framework targets PeopleSoft data. (BI News Review).
Jun 19, 2003 ... Portal pioneer, Plumtree Software Inc, has announced the availability of a brand new portlet framework for PeopleSoft Inc's business application suite. San Francisco, California-based Plumtree says the framework will allow portal administrators to build portlets (small, discrete ...
FatWire acquires divine's content management line. (BI News Review).
Jun 19, 2003 ... Troubled content management software provider divine Inc, which recently filed for bankruptcy protection in the US, has found a buyer for at least part of its business. FatWire Software Corp, which bills itself as a developer of complementary J2EE-based dynamic content ...
Information Builders Summit 2003: WebFOCUS reloaded. (BI News Review).
Jun 19, 2003 ... Information Builders Inc drew an impressive crowd of around 800 users, partners and analysts at its Summit 2003 conference, which kicked off this week in Chicago, Illinois. To coincide with the eagerly awaited release of the blockbuster film, Matrix Reloaded, co-founder, ...
IBM beefs up analytics in DB2. (BI News Review).
Jun 19, 2003 ... IBM Corp has laid out a development roadmap that will bolster its flagship DB2 relational database platform with enhanced analytic features. The announcement has put a smile on the faces of DB2 customers at the company's International DB2 Users Group (IDUG) 2003 conference being held in ...
Crystal decisions IPO looms large. (BI News Review).
Jun 19, 2003 ... Canadian business intelligence software vendor Crystal Decisions Inc has filed an S-1 registration statement with the SEC to take the company public. But officials at the Palo Alto, California-based company remained tight-lipped about a precise timeline for any initial public offering of ...
