Cambridge Labs picks StayinFront
Fairfield-based StayinFront, today announced that Cambridge Laboratories has begun using StayinFront's CRM products. The products include StayinFront Visual Elk for managing and integrating all points of customer interaction; StayinFront Pocket Elk, the full-featured Windows CE-based version of Visual Elk, StayinFront Panorama, a powerful data analysis and decision support tool; and StayinFront Campaign Management and support services. StayinFront makes enterprise-wide customer relationship management (CRM) applications, decision support tools and eBusiness systems and a major provider of CRM applications to the pharmaceutical sector. Cambridge sells pharmaceutical products, particularly in therapeutic areas.
Software by Bay debuts tax software
Parsippany-based Software by Bay released a new tax software product, Offer in Compromise v2.52, which it says simplifies the preparation and submission of an Offer in Compromise to the Internal Revenue Service. Offer in Compromise includes a help button for each line of each form; the latest National, Housing and Transportation Standards; and the ability to calculate the minimum offer amount using the IRS s own methodology, among other features. Software By Bay also released a new Web-based Information Security Education (WISE) training program. The program is a series of interactive, self-paced courses to help companies and their employees increase their increase their knowledge of ongoing internal and external security breaches and attacks, and the defenses available to protect against them.
ICICI Infotech unveils Orion10
Edison-based ICICI Infotech, a maker of end-to-end IT solutions, released Orion10. Orion, the company's ERP product, has been deployed by over 500 clients globally including Glaxo SmithKline, Panasonic, Pioneer, Schlumberger, Goltens, Techdata, and Canon. The Orion10 upgrade includes new functionalities meant to facilitate shorter transaction time, faster ROI and seamless interaction and collaboration with customers, business partners, employees and vendors.
Telcordia works with Steleus on wireless project
Piscataway-based Telcordia Technologies Inc., a maker of telecommunications software and services, will jointly market wireless products with Westford, Mass.-based Steleus, a maker of network traffic monitoring products for telecommunications service providers. The two companies will offer carriers a pre-integrated, network monitoring solution to provide critical network, service and customer-related information.
NJIT computer scientist receives IBM award
A computer scientist at Newark-based New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has received a $19,000 award for his innovative use of IBM software.
Barry Cohen, Ph.D., an assistant professor of computer science who has taught at NJIT for three years, has been recognized for coming up with a new application for IBM's Eclipse. Cohen has devised a way to use Eclipse to teach computer science courses. He plans to use the prize money to train teaching assistants to help with the courses and to write a manual. Cohen describes Eclipse as "a workbench for anything and everything--you can plug in any tool."
IBM built the Eclipse software for its own in-house use, and then later decided to open-source it, he said. NJIT is a public, scientific and technological research university enrolling more than 8,800 students.
Info-Cop Software works with Maryland police
Several departments in four Maryland counties have created a shared information system built on Newark-based Info-Cop's wireless software solution. Agencies in Wicomico, Dorchester, Worchester and Somerset Counties have deployed the Info-Cop system for real-time access to local, state and federal crime databases over a wireless network. This is the first time agencies in this area have shared the same system, allowing for real-time information exchange between departments.
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