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Microsoft said Wednesday that it will begin partnering with a Gatineau, Quebec-based company for future development, marketing and support of its Commerce Server software for building e-commerce Web sites.

Mining and construction distributor Komatsu Australia is overhauling its application infrastructure to drive efficiency and keep pace with more modern technology.

Microsoft released a near-final version of its software for building e-commerce sites and renamed the product Commerce Server 2007, from Commerce Server 2006, although it says it will still ship roughly on time in August.

As more and more enterprises use project teams with members based in different locations and time zones -- often in different countries or hemispheres -- their need for effective electronic collaboration tools has grown dramatically. There are a number of products that aim to solve that problem, and most make at least some use of a single underlying technology.

Joseph Lacik Jr. doesn't try to measure the return on investment of his company's marketing Web site. The fact that Dallas-based Aviall was saved from financial disaster by a controversial multimillion-dollar IT project that included developing the Web site as one key element is all the return he needs to see.

BroadVision executives on Wednesday stressed that self-service is the way to maximize return on investment in e-business efforts and dramatically reduce costs.

The Web has become a critical online artery for many enterprise business activities, but the analytics applied to Web-based computing have not kept pace with the real world, multichannel environment of most companies.

Linux vendor Red Hat Inc. Monday entered the e-commerce applications fray with a package it hopes will provide medium-size businesses with all the needed ingredients to bring their businesses online.

Following in the footsteps of bigger business intelligence vendors, the niche players focusing on Web analytics are trying to reinvent themselves and bring customers the ability to analyze a variety of data sources.