Renee Boucher Ferguson

Supply chain software developers Adexa Inc. and Optiant Inc announced a partnership Thursday that combines both companies core offerings into a single product for sales, inventory and operations planning. Optiants inventory optimization software, PowerChain Inventory, will be incorporated with Adexas Sales, Inventory & Operations Planning, or SOIP, offering to optimize supply chain inventory management. Adexas […]

Drake Certivo Inc., a company that provides standards implementation acceleration software and services for supply chain and trading partner network optimization, on Thursday announced its expanded suite of test products. The Jump-Start Solution Suite is a set of tools, services and processes designed to support implementation compliance for trading partners through the companys RosettaNet Ready […]

While SAP AG rolled out a new technology stack for delivering integrated applications as Web services last week, Oracle Corp. was planning this weeks unveiling of new composite applications. SAPs NetWeaver extends the Walldorf, Germany, companys MySAP Technology platform and streamlines the development of Web services. The stack falls under SAPs new blueprint, dubbed ESA […]

Datacenter automation software provider SBB Group will launch a new company in the United States next week geared toward the job scheduling software market. Because the scheduling software industry is growing, SBB will open three U.S. offices—in New York, Denver and the West Coast—and will market the software under the company name UC4 Software Inc. […]

Enterprise software maker SAP AG is reformulating its application integration offerings and adding a Web services component. The Walldorf, Germany, company in November of 2001 made a big-splash with the unveiling of its mySAP Technology platform that, at the time, was billed as finally opening up SAPs monolithic, proprietary R3 enterprise application architecture. mySAP Technology […]

Spend management software developer Ariba Inc. announced Wednesday that it will make additional restatements to its financial results for the 2000 and 2001 fiscal years because of an ongoing accounting issue. The company said none of the changes affect its cash balances for any period. Ariba, of Sunnyvale, Calif., also announced Wednesday that it expects […]

PreCache Inc.s NetInjector middleware enables companies to extend computing capabilities to various gadgets—from cell phones and handhelds to personal video recorders and MP3 players. With NetInjector, said PreCache officials, in Bridgewater, N.J., millions of heterogeneous devices across wired and wireless networks can be connected in a near-real-time, interactive information flow. NetInjector provides a platform for […]

As e-catalogs proliferate, ePlus Inc. and Zycus Inc. are each readying software to make it easier to quantify and classify products bought and sold in business-to-business transactions. ePlus is upgrading its Content+ online catalog engine next quarter with the capability to massage classifications beyond the more than 44,000 commodity types currently available in its hierarchical […]

Intalio Inc. and Fuego Inc. are leveraging XML in forthcoming upgrades to their respective BPM software that ease not only the creation of business process models but also the execution of those models. Intalio, of San Mateo, Calif., late this month will announce Version 2.0 of its Intalio n3 Business Process Management System. The upgrade […]

Software giant SAP AG announced Friday that it split its sales force in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region. Despite news on Thursday that SAP expects better license revenues than anticipated when it reports its fourth quarter 2002 earnings Jan. 30, SAP said the move today is to improve its focus on regional markets. […]