Renee Boucher Ferguson

Data integration software developer Contivo Inc., of Mountain View, Calif., announced Monday new tools for vocabulary management. The Contivo Vocabulary Management Solutions is designed for application implementation and integration within a couple of vertical markets, including high-tech manufacturing and petroleum and chemicals. What VMS does is provide packaged software sets that combine Contivos data modeling […]

Business commerce software and services provider Inovis Inc. announced today the acquisition of IPNet Solutions Inc., maker of supply chain connectivity software. The acquisition puts Atlanta-based Inovis in line to provide a fuller range of software and services for supplier and partner e-commerce connection and interaction. With the addition of IPNet, Inovis will expand its […]

Strengthening its position as an enterprise resource planning software provider in the midtier retail market, Lawson Software Inc. announced today the acquisition of English consultancy and software developer Numbercraft Ltd. Numbercraft, of Oxford, England, develops analytic applications for the retail and consumer packaged goods vertical markets. Lawson, of St. Paul, Minn., provides ERP software for […]

Earlier this week supply chain management software maker i2 Technologies Inc. announced the completion of a company audit that resulted in the restatement of company finances for the past four years. The net effect detailed in i2s audit is the companys total revenue increased in 2002 and decreased for the three years preceding that. In […]

Open-source software provider SuSE Linux AG Thursday announced an agreement with SAP AG to provide Linux support to corporate customers. Under the terms of the agreement, SuSE will work with SAP, of Waldorf, Germany, on support for those customers running SAP applications on the United Linux Enterprise Server. By joining the two companies support and […]

The term “punch-out” is making a comeback in online procurement circles. Oracle Corp., of Redwood Shores, Calif., on Wednesday announced a new online procurement feature that allows corporate buyers to browse and buy materials from online suppliers without leaving the Oracle iProcurement application. The idea behind punch-out—a standard term in online procurement circles—is to provide […]

Making headway in the fast consolidating enterprise resource planning market, software and services firm SSA Global Technologies Inc. announced Monday that it closed on its acquisition of Baan, a division of Invensys Plc., which was announced last month. Baan develops ERP applications for discrete manufacturers in the industrial machinery and equipment, electronics, automotive and aerospace […]

Popkin Software and E2open llc have rolled out software targeted to enable enterprises to more easily model and manage their business processes. Popkin, a New York-based software tools and services company, last week introduced Version 9.1 of its System Architect tool set, which includes support for the BPMN (Business Process Modeling Notation) standard. System Architect […]

Ariba Inc.s new supplier Performance Management Software promises to help companies realize their spending objectives through measurement of supplier performance and automation of supplier collaboration. Ariba SPM provides a business process in which buyers define, measure and enhance the performance of suppliers through proactive communication, collaboration and monitoring, officials said. Part of the Sunnyvale, Calif., […]

MRO Software Inc. at its user conference in Washington today announced new vertically oriented software geared toward helping the utility and transportation industries better manage maintenance, operations and repairs. MRO, of Bedford, Mass., announced the availability of its Maximo Transmission and Distribution software that tackles issues in the utility markets and Maximo 5 Transportation that […]