Renee Boucher Ferguson

PeopleSoft Inc. and collaboration software vendor Agile Software Corp. announced on Thursday an alliance to provide product lifecycle management (PLM) software. Under the terms of the agreement, PeopleSoft will develop integration points between its supply chain management and customer relationship management software to Agiles suite of product chain management applications. The two companies will collaborate […]

Microsoft Corp. announced on Tuesday it has reached an agreement to acquire Navision, a Denmark-based e-business software company. Microsofts acquisition is valued at approximately $1.3 billion and is structured as a stock and cash purchase, based on an offer to shareholders of U.S. equivalent $36.83 per share. Once the acquisition is complete, Navision, of Vedbaek, […]

Amid concerns of accounting impropriety raised by independent auditor KPMG, Peregrine Systems Inc. CEO and CFO resigned Monday morning. Steve Gardner, chairman of the board and CEO, and Matt Glass, CFO, executive vice president of finance and also a director on Peregrines board, relinquished their positions after the audit committee of the board was authorized […]

PeopleSoft Inc. announced last week the next generation of its Enterprise Portal software, with two new components, including an Intelligent Context Manager component and Web services integration. ICM provides the ability to predict a next step in the context of a business process, as well as the ability to push content to specific users, based […]

As funding to pay for President Bushs grand IT Homeland Security plan nears, federal agencies are getting a handle on how to link their extensive infrastructures. Poised to aid in this effort are integration software developers, many of which are tailoring offerings specifically for the government. Iona Technologies Inc., of Dublin, Ireland, will announce next […]

Manugistics Group Inc. on Monday bought privately held Western Data Systems, a company known for its asset optimization software. The announcement came the same day Manugistics released version 7 of its namesake platform. With revenues last year of $28 million, WDS brings software that provides asset optimization for complex service and parts management processes, as […]

The first in a series of announcements around Web services, GE Global eXchange Services said Wednesday that it is offering Web services transaction capabilities for small and midsize businesses. The new capabilities are designed to help such businesses more easily integrate with the GXS trading network, as well as to other large e-marketplaces. GXS added […]

Manugistics Inc., a supply chain management software provider, is honing a new message of Enterprise Profit Optimization that combines SCM and supplier relationship management with pricing and revenue optimization. At its Envision 2002 user conference in San Diego next week, Manugistics will announce a strategic alliance with Avolent Inc., of San Francisco. Avolent offers electronic […]

While most companies today may be comfortable deploying small Web services inside the enterprise, moving outside the firewall is another issue. Tibco Software Inc. is addressing the security and complexity concerns of deploying Web services externally with the next generation of its ActiveExchange platform ActiveExchange 3.0, which will be announced on Monday and is available […]

With the goal of providing offline access to disconnected portals, BackWeb Technologies Inc. announced today the second generation of its ProactivePortal Server. With the launch of ProactivePortal 2.0, BackWeb is also formally launching itself as a company. The 2.0 version provides offline access to applications and information aggregated through a companys portal or extranet. ProactivePortal […]

At its Leadership Summit 2002 in Las Vegas this week PeopleSoft Inc. worked to relay the message that the time is now for the real-time enterprise. Two points resonated at the conference: first, companies have to integrate business processes and second, business processes need to be moved to the Internet and exposed to business and […]

Lawson Software and SAP Ag are sharpening their respective enterprise software suites to facilitate collaboration among users inside and outside the enterprise. Lawson, at its Conference and User Exchange in San Antonio, last week introduced its Services Automation Suite, which lets managers in collaboration-intensive service businesses automate their work from beginning through completion and measurement […]