Renee Boucher Ferguson

While SAP AG rolled out a new technology stack for delivering integrated applications as Web services last week, Oracle Corp. was planning this weeks unveiling of new composite applications. SAPs NetWeaver extends the Walldorf, Germany, companys MySAP Technology platform and streamlines the development of Web services. The stack falls under SAPs new blueprint, dubbed ESA […]

Datacenter automation software provider SBB Group will launch a new company in the United States next week geared toward the job scheduling software market. Because the scheduling software industry is growing, SBB will open three U.S. offices—in New York, Denver and the West Coast—and will market the software under the company name UC4 Software Inc. […]

Enterprise software maker SAP AG is reformulating its application integration offerings and adding a Web services component. The Walldorf, Germany, company in November of 2001 made a big-splash with the unveiling of its mySAP Technology platform that, at the time, was billed as finally opening up SAPs monolithic, proprietary R3 enterprise application architecture. mySAP Technology […]

Spend management software developer Ariba Inc. announced Wednesday that it will make additional restatements to its financial results for the 2000 and 2001 fiscal years because of an ongoing accounting issue. The company said none of the changes affect its cash balances for any period. Ariba, of Sunnyvale, Calif., also announced Wednesday that it expects […]

PreCache Inc.s NetInjector middleware enables companies to extend computing capabilities to various gadgets—from cell phones and handhelds to personal video recorders and MP3 players. With NetInjector, said PreCache officials, in Bridgewater, N.J., millions of heterogeneous devices across wired and wireless networks can be connected in a near-real-time, interactive information flow. NetInjector provides a platform for […]

As e-catalogs proliferate, ePlus Inc. and Zycus Inc. are each readying software to make it easier to quantify and classify products bought and sold in business-to-business transactions. ePlus is upgrading its Content+ online catalog engine next quarter with the capability to massage classifications beyond the more than 44,000 commodity types currently available in its hierarchical […]

Intalio Inc. and Fuego Inc. are leveraging XML in forthcoming upgrades to their respective BPM software that ease not only the creation of business process models but also the execution of those models. Intalio, of San Mateo, Calif., late this month will announce Version 2.0 of its Intalio n3 Business Process Management System. The upgrade […]

Software giant SAP AG announced Friday that it split its sales force in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region. Despite news on Thursday that SAP expects better license revenues than anticipated when it reports its fourth quarter 2002 earnings Jan. 30, SAP said the move today is to improve its focus on regional markets. […]

SAP AG and Microsoft Corp. each announced new software Monday at the National Retail Federation Annual Convention and Expo in New York. SAP, of Waldorf, Germany, announced a new Web-based workforce management capability that will be part of its mySAP Retail offering. Meanwhile Microsoft announced a new BizTalk Toolkit for UCCnet connectivity. (UCCnet is a […]

Neon Systems Inc., which makes adapters for access and integration of data from mainframe and legacy systems, announced Monday a new product that provides data visibility. ShadowConsole offers application developers visibility into data for both legacy mainframe and distributed enterprise systems. Essentially, ShadowConsole is a management, monitoring and debugging tool that monitors the performance and […]

Product lifecycle management software maker Aras Corp. on Thursday announced the release of Project Innovator, a new module for the Innovator Application Suite. Project Innovator brings with it new functionality for managing design and development projects across a products lifecycle, using a phases and gates management methodology. That methodology is based on the definition of […]

CambridgeDocs, which facilitates XML-based content integration, announced Wednesday a new tool for migrating unstructured content from legacy sources. The xDoc Converter migrates unstructured data from the likes of Microsoft Word, HTML and Adobe PDF documents into any XML schema or DTD for improved search and indexing, officials said. The resulting XML can be used for […]