Renee Boucher Ferguson

At its Connect 2002 EMEA user conference in Paris this week, PeopleSoft Inc. announced two new products–risk management software and a global solution for the staffing industry–as well as enhancements to its payroll software. PeopleSoft, of Pleasanton, Calif., announced Tuesday Version 8.8 of its Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) suite that is geared toward helping companies […]

Oracle Corp. plans to announce on Thursday several major enhancements to its Supply Chain Management module, which will be part of the Oracle E-Business Suite 11i Release 8 due next month. There are more than 1,000 new capabilities in the supply chain area, as well as upgrades to the E-Business Suites customer relationship management, finance […]

SAP AG is developing software that integrates the myriad pieces of bill presentment, payment and settlement—processes that to date have been addressed only in parts by banks and pure-play software makers. The Walldorf, Germany, software developer is readying new and upgraded components for its Financial Supply Chain Management software, which will provide a three-part hub-and-spoke […]

Two sets of developers are merging their software to provide application suites that enable companies to gain better visibility into the supply chain and control over supply chain events. Qiva Inc. last week announced an update to its GLCS (Global Logistics Control System) supply chain management suite that provides enterprise shippers with a dashboard for […]

Two bellwethers of the Enterprise Resource Planning software industry—SAP AG and PeopleSoft Inc. —produced a mixed bag of results in their respective third quarter earnings results, which were announced late yesterday. SAPs sales improved slightly in the third quarter compared to the same period last year to $1.67 billion, up from $1.62 billion in the […]

Supply chain management software maker i2 Technologies Inc. announced another round of disappointing earnings for the third quarter, buffeted by a number of customer wins in key verticals for the company. The Dallas-based company reported total revenues of $115 million, compared with $201 million for the third quarter in 2001. Total revenues included software license […]

At its 2002 Baan World Users Fall Workshop held in Los Angeles this week, enterprise resource planning software maker Baan announced a strategy and a means of delivering cross-functional applications that address a specific business process. Baan, a division of Invensys plc, announced both its strategy for delivering Value Applications, as well as its OpenWorldX […]

Enterprise resource planning software maker Lawson Software Inc. on Monday announced the latest point releases of its Services Automation software at EuroCUE, its European user conference held in Brighton, England. Services Automation 5.1, due to be generally available in December, comes with new applications for portfolio management, time and expense reporting, and managing work requests. […]

Legacy application integration software maker WRQ Inc. will announce next Monday the release of its Verastream Host Integrator 5.0, with the goal of helping IT departments bridge the gap between integration and application developers. Integration developers typically focus on extracting information from the legacy system, while Web developers emphasize the presentation and functionality of the […]

Microsoft Corp. last week detailed its plans to integrate its line of e-business software in an effort to make the applications more easily customizable while still feature-rich. Project Jupiter, which was introduced at the Microsoft Exchange Conference in Anaheim, Calif., calls for the development of tools that integrate Microsofts Content Management Server, BizTalk Server and […]