Renee Boucher Ferguson

Oracle Corp. faces mounting obstacles in its bid for enterprise application software rival PeopleSoft Inc. as more agencies look into the proposed hostile takeover and as PeopleSoft ratchets up its legal defense. Canadas Competition Bureau has launched antitrust investigations that come on the heels of the U.S. Department of Justices continuing inquiry and an effort […]

Software developers Lombardi Software Inc., WebMethods Inc. and Cast Iron Systems Inc. each are rolling out products to make it easier for companies to integrate business processes. Lombardis TeamWorks 4 platform will ease the difficulty of understanding the new information that business processes spin off by providing access to that data. In addition, the upgraded […]

As companies seek simpler ways to unify inward-facing business processes and outward-facing business-to-business IT processes, vendors are converging EAI and data integration technologies. Companies including Ascential Software Corp. are uniting the two sides of the integration equation: enterprise application integration for linking business processes inside and outside an enterprise and ETL (extraction, transformation and loading) […]

Enterprise resource planning software developer PeopleSoft Inc. announced Monday a new suite that combines some older technologies. The Workforce Performance Solutions suite is made up of PeopleSofts Enterprise Portal and HRMS Portal Pack, Enterprise Learning Management, eDevelopment and some components of its Human Resources application. What WPS does is enable users to tie together all […]

SSA Global Technologies Inc. announced Monday plans to acquire supply chain execution software developer EXE Technologies Inc. SSA, of Chicago, provides enterprise resource planning software for manufacturing and the public sector. Under the terms of the agreement a subsidiary of SSA will merge into EXE, of Dallas, Texas. The cost of the transaction amounts to […]

Moving just out of the red and into the black, i2 Technologies Inc. announced Thursday its final results for the second quarter, ended June 30. Dallas, Texas-based i2 reported break-even earnings on per-share basis for the second quarter, versus a loss of $2.18 per share for the same quarter last year. However, the supply chain […]

Upping the ante in its fight against a hostile takeover bid, PeopleSoft Inc. announced late Tuesday it expanded its lawsuit against Oracle Corp. by filing an amendment to its compliant filed in June in a California Superior Court. The amendment alleges “extensive new facts about Oracles managements ongoing acts of unfair trade practices, including its […]

Agile Software Corp. said today it completed its acquisition of Eigner, a privately held product lifecycle management software maker. Under the terms of the agreement announced earlier this month, Agile issued 1,795 shares of common stock and paid nearly $3 million in cash for all Eigners outstanding shares. “We are pleased that we completed the […]

Agile Software Corp. will extend the reach of its PLM software to new vertical markets with its acquisition of Eigner US Inc. Agile provides supply chain management and product lifecycle management software to the electronics, high-tech, life sciences and consumer products industries. Eigner makes PLM software for the automotive, industrial equipment, aerospace and defense vertical […]

Epicor Software Corp. and Inovis Inc. have both sought out partners to enhance the way enterprises connect their IT systems with those of their trading partners and customers. Business-to-business collaboration software maker Epicor last week announced a partnership with eB2B Commerce Inc. that looks to make it easier for trading partners to connect electronically. eB2B, […]