John S. McCright

In its drive to assist companies facing compliance with more than 100 national and international rules and regulations, IBM on Monday rolled out three new software packages designed to ease the tracking and management of compliance-related data. The middleware is built around three principal IBM software packages—Content Manager, Tivoli and Lotus Workplace. The first, called […]

An upgrade to the SOXA accelerator software from HandySoft and Plumtree makes it easier for companies to monitor financial data that would affect their Sarbanes-Oxley Act compliance, officials said. SOXA Accelerator 2.0, which will be unveiled next week, combines HandySofts business process management capabilities and Plumtrees portal expertise. Enhanced workflow and forms capabilities roll up […]

Software updates from PeopleSoft Inc. and SAP AG enable users of their respective CRM applications to better analyze customer and constituent data for marketing and customer care activities, the companies said. PeopleSofts Enterprise CRM for Wealth Management consolidates client information from multiple sources within diverse organizations. PeopleSoft, of Pleasanton, Calif., introduced the software last week. […]

In retailing, empty shelves mean lost sales. Ocean State Jobbers Inc., a midsize retail chain, keeps its shelves stocked by keeping its supply chain full of lower-cost housewares, gardening supplies, sporting goods, toys and home décor from around the world. Keeping the goods in the pipeline means buyers must remain constantly on the lookout for […]

Major oems Hewlett-Packard Co. and IBM are offering upgraded systems, software and services targeted at the increasingly coveted small- and midsize-business customers. HP this week will roll out the second round of offerings in its Smart Office campaign targeting SMBs. The products are part of a $750 million development effort announced in the fall. At […]

Aztec Business Solutions LLP, a VAR in Carrollton, Texas, uses the hundreds of consultants it has deployed at customer sites to generate ideas for new software applications and even companies. The latest company to emerge from this VAR-based incubator is Boardroom Software Inc., which was established last fall. The company last month released its first […]

Companies looking to tie together business processes with content will get a boost from enterprise content management software releases that FileNet Corp., Open Text Corp. and Documentum Inc. will unveil this week at the AIIM conference in New York. FileNet, of Costa Mesa, Calif., will introduce TCM (Team Collaboration Manager), a Web-based application that enables […]

Veritas Software Corp. has been strengthening its utility computing offerings in the past several months through the acquisitions of three software developers: Ejasent Inc., Precise Software Solutions Ltd. and Jareva Technologies Inc. Veritas CEO Gary Bloom said he believes that his company, with its established leadership in storage management and independence from any particular hardware […]

It environments have become complex, with architectures having three or more tiers, transactional information moving on the Internet, and more complex development schemes such as Java and .Net. As a result, IT managers can be at a loss to determine where to look when a critical applications performance suffers. An array of developers are readying […]

Oracle Corp. chose a slate of candidates heavy on academics and venture capitalists to run for PeopleSoft Inc.s board of directors. The move, announced by Oracle late Friday, is the latest in the companys bid to take control of e-business applications rival PeopleSoft. Oracle, the worlds second-largest independent software company with huge database and applications […]

Softscape Inc. is looking to make administrators and human resources departments more effective with an upgrade of its human capital management software. AchievementPlus Version 9.5, which the Wayland, Mass., developer will release this week, includes features for compensation modeling, learning content management and goal management. For instance, a new Incentive Management module enables managers to […]

In these first years of the decade, manufacturing companies are increasingly looking for ways to get more out of the ERP systems they deployed in the 1990s. One way theyre doing it is by turning to independent systems integrators for complex supply chain management and supplier relationship management add-on modules. “No one wants to install […]