Stories by Cathleen Moore

Portal vendors unite behind standards

Attempting to drive real-world deployments of standardized portlets, several competing enterprise portal vendors this week kicked off an open source site designed to let customers share portlets developed according to new standards.

Microsoft releases Windows Rights Management client

Microsoft this week made available the first product in its digital rights management strategy that was announced back in February.

XMPP vs SIMPLE: The race for messaging standards

There's a race on for the future of the enterprise messaging system. The contestants are backing competing protocols for IM and presence awareness. Which standard takes home the prize may depend less on technical merits than on brute force. At the head of the competition are SIMPLE (Session Initiation Protocol for Instant Messaging and Presence Leveraging Extensions) and the open-source, XML-based XMPP (eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol). Both are currently being developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).

Messaging seeks new frontiers

Messaging vendors are rolling out low-cost e-mail systems that have been slimmed down to meet the needs of mobile and deskless workers in settings such as hospitals and factories.

XMPP rises to face SIMPLE standard

With the lure of presence-aware applications and systems dangling before them, competitors are warming up for a heated race to establish an industry standard protocol for presence awareness and instant messaging interoperability.

E-records management moves front and center

A raft of new software offerings are taking aim at the growing problem of electronic records management, which as ascended to a top priority for many enterprises in recent years as tighter corporate governance and regulatory scrutiny have increased pressure on the issue.

Messaging looks to the long term

Long deemed essential to the enterprise, messaging platforms are poised for a significant makeover as evidenced by the maturation and confluence of technologies in today’s enterprise messaging space.

Corechange adds BPM fuel to corporate portal

Enterprise portal software vendor Corechange Inc. on Monday unveiled software designed to let business users create and manage automated business processes through its Coreport portal framework.

Adobe ties documents to back-end apps

Known primarily for its desktop publishing tools, Adobe Systems Inc. is branching out to the backend enterprise, seeking to extend document-based processes to core business applications.

Messaging management takes center stage

Aiming to tame the growing complexity of enterprise messaging environments, several vendors at Microsoft's MEC 2002 conference introduced new tools to control and secure wired and wireless messaging.

Messaging vendors aim to undercut Exchange

As Microsoft lays out its messaging platform road map at the Exchange User Conference this week, competing vendors are attempting to lure Exchange customers with the promise of lower cost, less complex platforms and licensing agreements.

Divine, Jabber purse enterprise IM plans

Looking to extend IM as a tool for enterprise collaboration, Divine Inc. and Jabber Inc. have separately rolled out updates to their IM platforms.

Google pumps up search appliance

Google Inc. stepped up its enterprise search proposition on Monday with the introduction of a new hardware appliance designed for high priority, heavy traffic environments.

Lotus, Microsoft, AOL prepare IM for enterprise

Typically regarded as a consumer-oriented text chat tool, instant messaging, as well as presence-awareness technology, are making strong inroads into enterprises, emerging as critical collaboration and productivity tools.

Domino 6 to gain WebSphere muscle

Fulfilling promises made earlier this year, IBM on Wednesday will announce plans to bundle its WebSphere application server software with forthcoming versions of Lotus Domino 6, which will be formally introduced next week.