Renee Boucher Ferguson

The U.S. Department of Justice Monday issued a second request to Oracle Corp. requiring more information regarding that companys bid to acquire rival PeopleSoft Inc., according to a release put out by Oracle this afternoon. The request comes from the DOJs antitrust division, which will look at the proposed merger and its possible ramifications on […]

Expanding its applications reach, Lawson Software announced Monday that its Enterprise Resource Planning apps will be available on Hewlett-Packard Co.s Intel Itanium 2-based Integrity servers this fall. HP, of Palo Alto, Calif., announced the new servers Monday. Initially customers will be able to run Lawsons 8 Series applications on the newest HP platform using the […]

Taking a performance driven approach to supply chain planning and management, software makers PeopleSoft Inc. and Optiant both released new technology Wednesday. PeopleSoft, of Pleasanton, Calif., announced the general availability of its namesake Supply Chain Planning 8.8, which utilizes a centralized data warehouse that combines planning, performance management and operational systems. At the same time […]

Product lifecycle management users and project management managers are getting a boost this week with new functionalities from Oracle Corp. At its AppsWorld London conference Oracle, of Redwood Shores, Calif., announced Tuesday the availability of its Oracle Advanced Product Catalog that expands the collaboration tools available with Oracles PLM software. The company also announced new […]

Former new and legacy application integration software maker Eco Novo Holdings Ltd. has morphed into a new company. Announced Monday, Pantero Corporation, newly headquartered in Waltham, Mass., will focus on solving data semantic integration issues that will provide applications with unimpeded access to data anywhere in the enterprise, officials said. The new software, due later […]

An important consideration when deploying BPM software is which standards to follow. There is a growing selection of languages and interfaces out there—Web Services Choreography Interface, BPML (Business Process Modeling Language), BPEL (Business Process Execution Language), WSFL (Web Services Flow Language) and Xlang—some of which are backed by competing forces. Once the standards get sorted […]

Companies today looking for the next wave of IT to squeeze more productivity out of their operations are increasingly turning to BPM software to streamline operations by knitting together business procedures. Their goal is to create a platform that weaves together processes running in different silos of technology, including ERP (enterprise resource planning), customer relationship […]

IT managers at government agencies welcomed moves by IBM and Oracle Corp. to seek a federal stamp of approval of the companies respective applications running on Linux. The Common Criteria is an independently tested set of standards used by organizations—the federal government included—to evaluate the security and assurance levels of technology products. For Linux, securing […]

NetLedger Inc., developers of the Oracle Small Business Suite software, announced Thursday a new module to help small and mid-sized businesses that rely on partners with their selling process. The Advanced Partner Center provides businesses with the ability to address partner relationship management as well as real time access to information across an organization. Thats […]

Business integration software developer iWay Software, an Information Builders company, announced Wednesday a series of technology offerings geared toward helping government and public sector organizations implement homeland security applications. IWay, of New York City, will offer accelerator software to address four security issues faced by government organizations, according to iWay officials. Those issues include bioterrorism […]