Renee Boucher Ferguson

IBM and Microsoft Corp. are looking to help companies squeeze more value out of multimillion-dollar legacy systems by modernizing their mainframe integration offerings with new Web services and application componentization capabilities. IBM last week released Version 5 of WebSphere Host Access Transformation Services, known as HATS. The upgrade enables users to define a custom workflow […]

When faced with the need to more efficiently send bills to insurance providers, the Department of Veterans Affairs felt comfortable using commercial off-the-shelf data scrubbing software. But when it came time to integrate that software with the agencys legacy billing software, officials called in Daou Systems Inc. for help. The professional services company provides IT […]

New technology from SAP AG looks to help makers of consumer packaged goods comply with Wal-Mart Stores Inc.s requirement that its suppliers tag cases and pallets with RFID tags by January 2005. SAP is developing a middleware framework to enable companies to integrate radio-frequency identification data from reader devices with enterprise software infrastructures, whether or […]

PeopleSoft Inc. and Lawson Software Inc. are enhancing their respective enterprise application suites to add more business process modeling and management capabilities. PeopleSoft has combined some of its existing process models with a modeling tool created by J.D. Edwards & Co., which PeopleSoft acquired this summer. The result is PeopleSofts Process Modeler, which allows users […]

Covisint Inc., the company that provides business-to-business services to help automotive makers electronically communicate with partners and suppliers, on Thursday launched a new messaging service. The Covisint Connect data messaging service provides the means for a company to exchange information with partners and suppliers using XML, rather than EDI [electronic data interchange]. Connect also provides […]

Working in conjunction with Pfizer Inc. to help the medical community measure results of clinical trials, Oracle Corp. announced today the next iteration of its namesake Clinical Remote Data Capture. Version 4.5 of Clinical RDC has upgrades in a number of areas, from advances in usability to support for international trials. Pfizer, of New York […]

Pleasanton, Calif.-based PeopleSoft Inc. on Tuesday announced the availability of PeopleSoft Healthcare Scorecard, its healthcare-performance-tracking software. The Healthcare Scorecard is essentially a dashboard that provides users visibility into a multitude of areas within a healthcare organization, including financial, clinical, operational and qualitative performance information. The scorecard comes with pre-built metrics, such as maintained-bed-occupancy rates. These […]

Enterprise cost management software provider ePlus Inc. will announce tomorrow the next iteration of its Content+ Supplier Portal software that automates electronic product catalog creation. Content+ aggregates information from a variety of vendor catalogs into an online database that lets users—suppliers and catalog managers—search items in a uniform format. The enhancements to Content+ are designed […]

ERP services provider NetSuite Inc. is readying a new technology that makes it possible for customers using its hosted enterprise resource planning software to customize their applications. The introduction this week of the NetSuite Customization capability in the companys namesake hosted service breaks the one-size-fits-all model for hosted ERP, officials said. The NetSuite service includes […]

To help customers quantify their investments in its software, PeopleSoft Inc. is rolling out a service that enables companies to measure the benefits of software education and training. ROI (return on investment) for Training, which will be announced this week and is free to PeopleSoft customers, addresses three groups: project teams doing implementations or upgrades, […]