Renee Boucher Ferguson

To help companies better comply with regulatory requirements, Oracle Corp. announced Monday an upgrade to its namesake Treasury software. Oracle Treasury, part of the 11i 9 upgrade, facilitates the Treasury Departments oversight of a companys banking and financial market activity, automatically computing interest and book journal entries for bank transactions. Part of Oracle Financials, the […]

Discuss This in the eWEEK Forum Oracle Corp is making further inroads into China. The company announced today the opening of its second China Development Center in Beijing and the opening of its China Business Development Unit in Shanghai. The goal is to work more closely with local partners in developing software on Oracles technology […]

As with many other software developers, Ascential is adding 64-bit computing and expanded grid-enabled capabilities as well as continued development towards a service-oriented architecture. To this end there are three product initiatives that Ascential will focus on over the next 24 months. Code-named Trinity, Hawk and Rhapsody, the products will be in released in 2004 […]

Manugistics Group Inc. is taking on the supply chain—from a different perspective. The company announced yesterday at its enVISION2003 user conference in Washington, D.C., a new grid architecture for distributed supply chain processes. Today, Manugistics announced software to both secure and synchronize supply chain data. Manugistics Emergency Planning and Simulation software provides a framework for […]

As part of its effort to reach the SMB (Small and Midsized Business) sector, IBM is fast gathering software development partners to augment its middleware, database and other offerings. IBM and Intentia International AB announced today an expansion of their relationship that will bring ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) software to SMB customers. As part of […]

At its user conference in Washington D.C., today, Manugistics Group Inc. announced a new architecture that helps companies break down complex planning processes into more manageable distributed processes. Manugistics SWARM architecture enables the synchronization of its supply chain management software and underlying hardware. By doing that, planning and optimization processes can be distributed across hardware […]

Data and application integration capabilities are essential when an enterprise wants to model and manage its business processes. InterSystems Corp. and Fujitsu Software Corp. look to provide those capabilities with their respective software platforms. InterSystems, in Cambridge, Mass., this week will introduce its Ensemble platform, which incorporates an integration server, an application server, an object […]

Microsoft Corp. and Sterling Commerce Inc. are offering banks and financial services companies new connectivity and messaging options when using the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications SWIFTnet network. Microsoft, at the Sibos conference in Singapore last week, announced its BizTalk Accelerator for SWIFT, which provides integration with legacy systems through a fairly comprehensive set […]

EAI [enterprise application integration] software developer WebMethods Inc. announced today a partnership with Composite Software, of San Mateo, Calif., to license and resell its software. Composite, headed by WebMethods former CTO, Jim Green, develops EII [enterprise information integration] software called Composite Information Server, designed to collect data from a variety of sources and feed it […]

PeopleSoft Inc. had a mixed bag of results in its third-quarter earnings announcement this morning. The enterprise software developer reported total revenue of $624 million, which beat its earlier hints that sales would be $575 million to $590 million. License revenues were reported at $160 million, exceeding preliminary guidance of $135 million to $150 million. […]