eOn announced the immediate availability of Business Connect, a business-class VoIP service offering tailored specifically for small businesses. Business Connect is a hosted business class telephone service alternative to traditional telephone systems or expensive Centrex services from traditional telecommunications solution providers.

Oracle announced the launch of its Oracle Enterprise Taxation Management software suite. Oracle Enterprise Taxation Management is a commercial off-the-shelf software solution that enables tax and revenue authorities to optimize revenue collection.

Although 50 percent of alliances and partnerships fail to meet objectives, no analytical technology has been available -- until now -- to assess the efficacy of these arrangements. AllianceAnalytics announced the release of the software, Partner Value Optimizer (PVO), for generating business intelligence and analytics data to evaluate and optimize the full range of partnerships and alliances.

Clarabridge introduced its Content Mining Service (CMS), a software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering of commercialized text mining. In addition to being able to purchase and internally deploy Clarabridge's Content Mining Platform (CMP), enterprise customers can now gain the same business benefits by using CMS, Clarabridge's hosted service via the Internet, on a subscription basis..

Callidus Software announced that Safety-Kleen has selected Callidus Software's SPM software solutions. Safety-Kleen is implementing Callidus TrueComp Manager, TrueInformation and TrueResolution software modules to improve the company's sales performance, and align sales compensation with corporate business objectives.

Exstream Software announced that Achmea is implementing the company's Dialogue enterprise document automation software across 16 business units to streamline document creation processes and provide value-added communications for its customers.

Vignette's Web solutions are helping NASA engineers and scientists connect and share information online, as the federal agency designs its next generation of space vehicles for the Constellation Program.

Pegasystems announced it has signed a technology alliance agreement with IDS Scheer to promote an integrated solution based on the award-winning SmartBPM suite and the market-leading ARIS platform from IDS Scheer.

Nottinghamshire County Council has selected the rostrvm Contact Centre application suite as the foundation of its new Customer Service Centre.

Sage Software announced that Qqest Software Systems has achieved a return on investment from its customized Sage SalesLogix CRM and Sage MAS 90 ERP implementation. Qqest experienced a 28 percent revenue increase upon initially deploying Sage SalesLogix and integrating it with Sage MAS 90 ERP.