Renee Boucher Ferguson

Focusing on the sell side of business-to- business transactions, E2open LLC is gearing its integration software toward helping companies rapidly integrate with customers and partners. The company last week began shipping its E2open B2B Integration solution, a managed package that includes the necessary software, hardware, hosting, operations, services and support to enable a company to […]

Among the challenges the U.S. Department of Homeland Security faces is connecting the IT systems of the 22 agencies under its umbrella. Tasked with making that happen is DHS CIO Steve Cooper, who last week laid out a plan for rationalizing the departments more than 300 back-office applications, 1,000 servers and 1,000 telecommunications circuits in […]

p>Former CTO Jim Green left a high profile post at WebMethods Inc. last year to launch his own company in the Silicon Valley startup tradition—with cash from a handful of private investors, venture capitalists and bankers. Just over a year later, Greens company, Composite Software Inc., of San Mateo, Calif., on Monday announced its first […]

BEA Systems Inc. on Monday announced an infrastructure and partner ecosystem for security. WebLogic Enterprise Security is a cross-enterprise application security infrastructure that provides security services to applications—authentication, authorization and auditing, for example—through native integrations, plug-ins and partnerships with security vendors, according to officials of the San Jose, Calif., company. BEA announced partnerships with VeriSign […]

Enterprise application integration software developer WebMethods Inc. announced Monday the acquisition of two companies in the service-oriented architecture and portal markets, as well as the completion of a third acquisition in the business activity monitoring market. WebMethods, of Fairfax, Va., this morning acquired The Mind Electric Inc., for its Web services platform; DataChannel Inc., for […]

The Department of Homeland Security, launched in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, is faced with quite a challenge: Connecting the IT systems of the 22 agencies under one umbrella. CIO Steve Cooper this week laid out a plan for rationalizing the departments more than 300 back-office applications, 1,000 servers and 1,000 telecom […]

The enterprise resource planning market may be looking up as vendors announce quarterly results and licensing figures. Following on the heels of PeopleSofts results, German software maker SAP AG Wednesday announced preliminary third-quarter revenues that bodes well for the beleaguered software industry. SAP, of Waldorf, Germany, said its license sales would likely come in at […]

PeopleSoft Inc. Tuesday announced the acquisition of JCIT International Inc.s Demand Flow software at the 2003 APICS International Conference and Expo in Las Vegas. JCITs Demand Flow follows the lean manufacturing methodology, which follows the precept that companies need to be able to support change while eliminating waste and reducing operational costs. The Demand Flow […]

At a human resources technology summit tomorrow Oracle Corp., of Redwood Shores, Calif., will announce new and upgraded software. The two main upgrades to Oracle HRMS suite include a Contingent Labor Management module and enhancements to the existing Performance Management module. Until now Oracles human resources applications have been focused on tracking and managing a […]

New software from Microsoft Corp. is extending some of the automation capabilities of high-end business software to midsize manufacturers. The companys Microsoft Business Solutions division will announce this week that it is adding PLM (product lifecycle management) and demand forecasting capabilities to its Great Plains, Navision and Axapta business software suites. MBS will also make […]