Ceridian sells SourceWeb division

Bloomington-based Ceridian Corp. sold its SourceWeb division, which makes payroll software, to RSM McGladrey Employer Services Inc. in Alpharetta, Ga.

Ceridianis a human resources outsourcing company. The company said the SourceWeb initiative had hurt its profitability in 2003 and 2004, but expects the sale to improve earnings profitability starting in 2005.

SourceWeb was a small part of Ceridian's overall business, accounting for $7 million of Ceridian's $1.3 billion in revenues in 2004.

Inetium buys Marco Software Group

Minneapolis-based technology consulting company Inetium Inc. announced the acquisition of Marco's Software Solutions Group. Marco is a St. Cloud based technology and office furniture company.

Inetium services are focused in the areas of IT planning, networking, infrastructure, portals, customer relationship management, customized business application development, and now business accounting solutions.

Evolving Solutions becomes Data Domain reseller

Data Domain of Palo Alto, Calif., said Minneapolis-based Evolving Solutions, Inc. joined its corps of reseller business partners.

Data Domain makes enterprise data protection products. Evolving Solutions is an open systems technology integration and professional services firm.

The agreement means Evolving Solutions will market, distribute, service and sell the Data Domain family of products, including the DD200 and its Replicator add-on software package.

Centerfield,upgrades iSeries toolset

Rochester-based Centerfield Technology Inc. announced new functionality and features to their iSeries toolset, delta/TRACKER, including five SOX-compliant reporting options.

Configured as a plug-in to iSeries Operations Navigator, delta/TRACKER now has 41 distinct data collection/reporting features that are both customizable and actionable. Customers can buy one or all of the existing 41 reporting features.

Mariner Software to sell journal product

Mariner Software, a Minneapolis publisher of applications for the Macintosh computer, signed a deal to distribute MacJournal from California-based Dan Schimpf Software.

The software, developed by Dan Schimpf, lets users maintain electronic journals and publish online blogs. Mariner will sell the product through its Web site, marinersoftware.com for about $30.

Mariner already sells word processing and spreadsheet programs that compete with Microsoft Corp.'s Office suite and similar products

Ayamom unveils monitoring Web site

St. Paul-based Ayamon has developed a Web site where companies can find professional monitoring solutions.

The site (www.findnetworkmonitoring.com), allows visitors to find companies that provide outsourced network monitoring services using the power and flexibility found in open source monitoring packages such as Nagios, OpenNMS and Zabbix.

Visitors can search for monitoring providers using criteria such as cost, monitoring software used, types of services offered and geographic location of monitoring hardware.

RemotePipe teams with Charter

St. Louis-based broadband company Charter Communications Inc. teamed up with Minneapolis-based RemotePipe, Inc. to enable Charter High-Speed Internet Service customers to have both dial-up and wireless Internet access while traveling.

Using RemotePipes' IP Roamer wireless fidelity service, residential and commercial customers of Charter High-Speed Internet Service will have national and international remote access to the Internet and corporate networks.

With IP Roamer client software, a user enters a username and password to access multiple globally-aggregated IP networks from leading providers, including Level 3 and Sprint, for coverage extending to some 150 countries.

Charter and RemotePipes will co-brand the IP Roamer service and share revenue.

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