Renee Boucher Ferguson

Enhancing its suite for better usability, Oracle Corp. announced today the next iteration of its namesake Small Business Suite software. A number of enhancements have been added to Oracles SBS 7.6 to help companies manage online key business functions like accounting and finance, sales and service and employee management, Oracle officials said. The suite includes […]

Culminating the integration of technology acquired last year, WebMethods Inc. will announce the general availability of a new platform at the end of March. The WebMethods Workflow platform will be introduced with version 4.6 of WebMethods namesake Integration Platform, to be announced at the end of next week. In addition to the workflow capability, the […]

Online auctioneer and e-sourcing software maker FreeMarkets Inc. said in court documents earlier this week that its competitors are stealing its ideas. FreeMarkets filed patent infringement lawsuits against B2eMarkets, Procuri Inc. and Purchase Pro.com Inc. The suits, which were filed in U.S. District Court in Delaware, allege that B2eMarkets, Procuri and Purchase Pro are infringing […]

Honing in on very specific issues within vertical markets, Tibco Inc. will announce next week four new integration solutions–two developed in-house and two through partners. Aimed at the utilities, financial services, oil and gas, and high-tech markets, the new integration software is designed to make integration more accessible to mainstream markets and target specific customers. […]

NEW YORK – Shortly after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, U.S. government officials in Washington began talking about the desperate need to integrate systems and agencies. Six months to the day after the attacks, enterprise application integration software maker webMethods Inc. will have an office in place that it […]

IBM and American Express Co. have joined forces to tackle online business expense reporting. The two giants announced an agreement today to jointly develop a Web-based expense reporting and reconciliation tool designed to reduce the cost of managing everyday business expenses, according to officials at American Express, in New York. The application, dubbed the American […]

With purchasing managers facing the prospect of a second year of tighter corporate budgets, developers Verticalnet Inc., PeopleSoft Inc. and Ariba Inc. are each readying software that they said will enable their customers to better manage spending. The goal is to enable companies to more closely tie the process of finding sources of raw goods, […]

A new electronic hub created by Alterna Technologies Group Inc. promises to go a ways in helping corporate clients save time and money in connecting to and transacting business with regional and international banks. Alterna Bank Information Exchange, or ABIX, sets up EDI (electronic data interchange) connections among corporations, institutional clients and their banks by […]

Peregrine Systems Inc. is quietly shopping around its BRM unit, including much of its supply chain offerings, and getting back to its roots: infrastructure management software development. At its Synergy user conference this week in San Diego, Peregrine will announce two infrastructure management products that officials said will enable customers to reduce the cost and […]

Collaborative application vendor Agile Software Corp. announced earlier this week the next version of its Product Chain Management software. The Agile 8.0 Product Chain Management solution is made up of three separate suites: Product Sourcing, Product Collaboration, and Product Sourcing and Improvement. In its sum total, the PCM suite is designed to manage products through […]

Moving forward with its strategy for an open Product Lifecycle Management software system, Electronic Data Systems Corp. announced a couple of key partnerships this week at the Darateck 2002 Summit in New York. PLM software aims to reduce the time it takes to get a product to market, improve its quality and sharpening the marketing […]

IBM is making further inroads into business-to-business online transaction processing through a partnership with MarketMile LLC and an expanded WebSphere Business Partner initiative. The IBM and MarketMile partnership, announced last week, will enable customers to quickly reap the benefits of e-procurement by tracking and managing indirect spending, IBM officials said. As part of the agreement, […]