Renee Boucher Ferguson

Supply-chain optimization software maker Optiant will announce tomorrow the next iteration of its PowerChain suite. PowerChain 4.0 sits on top of a companys existing Advanced Planning System and is geared to help optimize inventory based on sales and operations planning while balancing supply-chain needs. PowerChain 4.0 helps companies to support complex manufacturing environments with fluctuations […]

Further enhancing its enterprise application integration software offering, IBM announced today that it acquired all outstanding shares of business process integration software maker Holosofx Inc. Financial details of the acquisition, which closed yesterday, were not disclosed. IBM acquired Holosofx to extend its portfolio of business integration infrastructure software, officials said. Holosofxs El Segundo, Calif., operations […]

Employease Inc., which supplies human resources and benefit administration software, announced today that performance management functionality has been added to its Employease Network. The Performance Management software is pre-integrated with the companys employee self-service, manager self-service and human resources management applications. The new software is geared toward helping HR departments operate more proactively and efficiently, […]

Enterprise application integration software maker SeeBeyond Technology Corp. announced Tuesday its strategy—and new technology—to handle integration at the federal level. The Real Time Information Network for Government [RING] strategy is aligned with evolving criteria outlined by the federal Office of Management and Budget for enterprise architecture. Powered by SeeBeyonds eGate Integrator platform, RING will compliment […]

When it comes to preparing for terrorist attacks, two companies in the financial services industry, MasterCard International Inc. and the Nasdaq Stock Market Inc., are locking up their facilities and planning for the worst. MasterCard has had its disaster recovery plan in place since 1990, with continuous tests and revisions since then. Rather than compel […]

Documentum Inc. and SAP AG are rolling out tools that enable organizations to manage data and access to it. Documentum is extending its enterprise content management software with new capabilities for managing final-form content and enabling collaboration in the release this week of the Documentum 5 suite. The final-form content management technology in the upgrade […]

Ascential Software Corp. and SAP AG are rolling out tools that will enable data normalization—a key step in making Web-services-based application integration work. The next version of Ascentials DataStage data integration platform, code-named Twister, will add Web services functions to complement the metadata management and data quality assurance features in the data movement tool. Twister, […]

IBM and Siebel Systems Inc. announced today an extension to their current Global Strategic Alliance that brings IBM into the heart of Siebels Universal Application Network initiative. Conceptually, UAN is Siebels integration play. The company had originally developed a point-to-point enterprise application integration product but supplanted that with the much broader UAN initiative. UAN is […]

Private equity firm Golden Gate Capital launched a new company today focused on enabling business-to-business communities. Inovis Inc., based in Atlanta, will focus on the rapid deployment of B2B networks. The new company is a result of Golden Gate Capitals June purchase of Peregrine Systems Inc.s Supply Chain Enablement division. Cerberus Capital Management and Parallax […]

Business process management software provider IDS Scheer Inc. on Monday will announce a new tool that is designed to align business processes and enterprise systems with new standards of operational security. IDS Scheers Aris Process Risk Scout helps users to identify potential vulnerabilities in business and technical systems, and then to re-engineer business processes and […]