Renee Boucher Ferguson

Small and midsize businesses will have more hosted options to choose from this week as Oracle Corp. and development partner NetLedger Inc. jointly roll out enhanced suites. Oracle, of Redwood Shores, Calif., will release SBS (Small Business Suite) Version 8.0, while NetLedger, of San Mateo, Calif., releases its NetSuite line of applications geared for smaller […]

Metaserver Inc. this week will unveil a new version of its namesake business process integration software that has been upgraded to help users better automate existing business processes, create new ones, and integrate processes with legacy and disparate systems. Metaserver 4.0, aimed at midmarket companies, maps processes to business objectives without the need for additional […]

Oracle Corp. and its development partner NetLedger Inc. both will announce new hosted software suites for small and midsize businesses next week. Both Oracle SBS (Small Business Suite) 8.0, which is powered by software developed by NetLedger, and the new NetLedger NetSuite will provide portal views into a suite of applications geared for smaller companies. […]

Supply chain management software maker Qiva Inc., of San Francisco, will announce on Tuesday the next iteration of its Global Logistics Control System suite. Version 3.0 of Qivas GLCS is the culmination of the companys July 2001 acquisition of Capstan Systems Inc., which provided import/export supply chain software, as well as the addition of new […]

Product lifecycle management (PLM) software maker Agile Software Corp. announced Tuesday the appointment of a new president and chief operating officer. A former PeopleSoft Inc. executive, Jay Fulcher has taken on the top sales, marketing and services execution roles at Agile. Bryan Stolle, Agiles chairman and CEO, will focus on product strategy and overall corporate […]

At its MEC 2002 conference in Anaheim, Calif., Tuesday, Microsoft Corp. announced a new server product that essentially segues the company into an integration provider role. With the release of Content Management Server 2002, which gives business users the ability to publish directly from Word to a Web site and to federate content, as well […]

Enterprise resource planning software maker Lawson Software Inc. announced Tuesday an agreement with e-Business platform provider IONA Technologies PLC that will enable Lawson to develop software using IONAs platform. Specifically, the agreement gives Lawson the right to use IONAs Orbix E2A Platform products to develop Lawson retail software, which includes Lawson Merchandising—and then to market […]

Mercator Software Inc. announced today the latest point release of its namesake process integration platform, at the Gartner ROI Symposium/IT eXpo in Orlando, Fla. Mercator makes business integration software that links applications, databases, mainframes, and data warehouses. Mercator 6.7 provides a bevy of enhancements and new features to help users with their business-to-business expansion efforts, […]

Forthcoming integration software from SeeBeyond Technology Corp., TIBCO Software Inc. and Vitria Technology Inc. give more options to users in vertical industries to connect disparate applications with less expense. SeeBeyond will announce at its SeeBeyond Horizons user conference in Las Vegas this week vertically aligned, prepackaged integration solutions for makers of consumer goods and health […]

EDS PLM Solutions has introduced software to help manufacturers stay ahead of competitors in developing products. EDS PLM—a business unit of Electronic Data Systems Corp., of Plano, Texas, which makes product life-cycle management software—last week released Teamcenter High Tech Electronics, or THTE. The software provides engineers with industry-specific, configurable solutions in the form of templates […]