Renee Boucher Ferguson

Reeling from a slumping economy and the inability to predict and substantially close sales, Manugistics Group Inc. is realigning its supply chain management software development focus. After reporting sinking sales and a net loss in its most recent quarter late last month, Chairman and CEO Greg Owens said the company will focus on products for […]

Enhancements in an upgrade to Microsoft Corp.s BizTalk Accelerator for RosettaNet address companies demands for speedier business-to-business trading software implementations, more flexible change management options and support for standards, Microsoft officials said. BizTalk Accelerator for RosettaNet 2.0, which began shipping late last month, fulfills the demands by enabling users to develop, administer and test B2B […]

J.D. Edwards & Co. is working to make it easier for IT managers to extract information from the companys namesake ERP applications and to automate business processes. JDE this week will unveil Demand Planning 4.0, a collaborative application module that works with JDEs Demand Consensus software to enable users to forecast across the supply chain. […]

NetLedger, the small and mid-sized business [SMB] arm of Oracle Corp., announced today it named a new president and CEO to help the company grow its business. Zach Nelson, former chief strategy officer at Network Associates Inc. was named to the second-tier spot. Nelson left Santa Clara Calif.-based Network Associates in 2001. Prior to that […]

Enterprise application integration software maker SeeBeyond Technology Corp. today announced disappointing preliminary results for its second quarter, ended June 30. The company, based in Monrovia, Calif., expects to report second quarter revenues in the range of $32 to $34 million, down from the prior quarters $40.4 million in revenues. Earnings per share are expected to […]

Supply chain management software maker i2 Technologies Inc. announced today preliminary results for its second quarter, ended June 30th. Dallas-based i2 expects to report total revenues of $117 million to $120 million for the quarter, down from last quarter and the same quarter last year. The company expects license revenue to be $25 million to […]

Acta Technology Inc. and IBM are developing directory integration tools that should enable enhanced data accuracy and security—both critical issues to companies looking to use Web services for business-to-business collaboration. Acta this week will announce it has embedded Web services capabilities into its ActaWorks extraction, transformation and loading tool, which provides directory or metadata integration, […]

Nexprise Inc. last week rolled out a library of customizable business process applications for discrete manufacturers and Nprocess Platform, which the applications run on. The applications are tailored to specific business processes, such as engineering change notices, and allow manufacturers to quickly automate their paper-based processes, according to officials. The library consists of a number […]

Oracle Corp. and Mercury Interactive Corp., an enterprise software testing and application performance management vendor, announced today the availability of a starter kit that should help companies improve initial deployments and upgrades of Oracles E-Business Suite. The Test Starter Kit is based on Mercurys Interactive Technology that consists of reusable test plans and scripts developed […]

Enterprise application integration software developer SeeBeyond Inc. announced today the launch of its European Demonstration Center that will showcase Siebel Systems Inc. Universal Application Network. Siebel in April announced its UAN, which brings together its CRM (customer relationship management) technology with leading integration vendors to provide an integration solution for Siebel customers. The new demo […]

Beleaguered software maker Peregrine Systems Inc. is in more hot water. The San Diego, Calif.-based company announced today that NASDAQ intends to delist Peregrines stock at the opening of business on July 5. To stop the delisting, Peregrine must request a hearing before the NASDAQ Listing Qualifications Panel. Peregrine officials said in a press release […]

Working hard to garner further industry support for RosettaNet, Microsoft Corp., with the Gartner Group, a research firm out of Boston, Mass., surveyed 18,000 suppliers to find out what some of their basic needs are in moving forward with a RosettaNet implementation. The results are wrapped into Microsofts BizTalk Accelerator for RosettaNet 2.0, to be […]