John S. McCright

Small and mid-sized businesses looking to automate office functions got another option to evaluate as SAP AG on Thursday introduced its Business One software suite in the United States. The suite, which is in use at 1,300 companies in Europe, provides a set of basic enterprise software that promises to give managers at companies with […]

PC maker Dell Computer Corp. hopes to spread its products further across the enterprise with its first line of printers. The Round Rock, Texas, company, which is the U.S. leader in PC sales, on Tuesday unveiled four printers for large companies and consumers. A key feature of the printers, which will be manufactured by Lexmark […]

Developers NewScale Inc., Peregrine Systems Inc. and Lawson Software Inc. are rolling out enhancements to their respective corporate services management software suites. Each vendor says the enhancements will help departments that deliver internal corporate services, such as IT support or facilities management, operate with the efficiency promised by outsourced providers of similar services. NewScale last […]

IBM and Tibco Software Inc. are each readying enhancements to their application integration software to give managers access to the flow of real-time data. IBM, of Armonk, N.Y., this year will release a connector that will link its WebSphere Business Integration and DB2 Content Manager tools, said Marie Wieck, vice president of WebSphere Business Integration. […]

After years of deploying applications and databases in a willy-nilly fashion, many organizations are saddled with an IT infrastructure that looks more like a disjointed collage than a unified portrait. As a result, IT departments face huge challenges automating new business processes that tap into data and business logic residing in legacy applications. Commercial software […]

Microsoft Business Solutions, Microsoft Corp.s small business software division, on Wednesday introduced its Business Network, a hosted software offering that officials said will enable small businesses to share supply chain information with large partners. Microsoft Business Network, which the Redmond, Wash., developer announced at its Convergence 2003 user show in Orlando, Fla., allows small businesses […]

Two application integration software developers, Vitria Technology Inc. and Ascential Software Corp., last week introduced new offerings for transforming and reconciling data in financial institution applications. Vitria unveiled its SWIFTComplete solution, a business process integration tool kit that enables financial services organizations to comply with changing standards from the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications […]

SAP is beginning to put its recently unveiled NetWeaver integration technology to work for customers. At the CeBIT trade show in Hannover, Germany, this week, SAP introduced mySAP ERP, a collection of enterprise resource planning applications enhanced with the NetWeaver integration and application server platform. MySAP ERP is an upgrade for the more than 19,000 […]

Hasso Plattner, for many the face of German software giant SAP AG, is leaving the helm of the enterprise software company he founded more than 30 years ago. SAP announced Thursday that Plattner plans to leave the post of Co-CEO, which he shares with Henning Kagermann, at the companys annual meeting on May 9. He […]

Contracts are the point around which much of a companys dealings with its suppliers pivots. Buyers and vendors can spend a lot of time hammering out details about obligations and remuneration, incentives, and contingencies. But for large companies that have hundreds of contracts, making sure that suppliers adhere to contract details is often so cumbersome […]