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Siebel Systems has pre-announced sales that vastly surpassed its own and Wall Street's expectations: It said it expects to report fourth quarter revenue of US$469 million -- a 30 percent to 38 percent increase from its last forecast, and a 20 percent rise from the same quarter a year ago. License re...

NetSuite has introduced more than 30 vertical applications that were developed by partners using the company's latest integration tool, the NetFlex Applications Program. An integration platform, NetFlex was introduced almost a year ago to help customers connect the NetSuite application to third-part...

SAP is redoubling its efforts to grow its piece of the mid-market enterprise suite space by introducing 39 new industry and micro-vertical versions of its mySAP All-in-One application. These new apps have been developed by SAP partners around the globe in such industries as biotechnology, plant cons...

Microsoft has posted sample code and technical guidance for an internal project it has been working on for more than a year that integrates Outlook with Siebel CRM using Visual Studio tools in Office. More of an approach than a product or even a complete code, Project Elixir has been watched closely...

Asia Pacific is still the dominant locale for contact-center outsourcing, new figures from Frost & Sullivan confirm. The number of contact centers in the region totaled more than 21,360 in 2004 and is expected to grow at a compound annual rate of 9.1 percent to reach 39,247 by the end of 2011, a...

After two days of consideration, Onyx Software rejected CDC's unsolicited offer to buy a majority stake in the company. "Onyx is not for sale, and we consider the matter closed now," Robert Craig, director of analyst and public relations, told CRM Buyer. On Wednesday, CDC, a Hong Kong-based company ...

The home-based customer care market -- a small but quickly growing niche of the contact center industry -- could triple by 2010 to 300,000, according to a new report by IDC. "Current estimates put the number of home-based agents at 112,000, so that is a strong growth rate," Stephen Loynd, senior ana...

Hong Kong-based CDC has made a bid for majority control of Onyx Software, after providing institutional shareholders with information on the proposed structure of the merger and the synergies it believes will result. CDC went public with its desire to make the acquisition late last year, after tryin...

First it was manufacturing, then IT. In 2006 -- despite the recent stem-cell controversy in South Korea -- the biotech industry is likely to continue to outsource research and development, as well as other activities, to science parks and contract firms in Asia. In brief, groundbreaking stem-cell an...

The holidays are over, but retailers are still waiting for the holiday shopping season to end. Increasingly, consumers are opting to give gift cards instead of actually buying an article of clothing or an electronic gadget. This is good news for retailers hoping to drive up modest margins. When rede...