Renee Boucher Ferguson

Business-to-business collaborative e-commerce software vendor Agile Software Inc. is upping the ante for direct procurement with three new direct materials sourcing modules. The three solutions, announced Monday, fall under Agiles Product Sourcing rubric and are used for direct materials sourcing that provide visibility into a products DNA, so manufacturers can mange the ongoing cost of […]

Mapics Inc., which provides collaborative enterprise applications for midmarket manufacturers, on Monday announced the availability of its new Mapics ERP module for IBMs iSeries platform. The release provides a suite of Java-based enterprise resources planning applications that enables manufacturers to share information in real time with remote and mobile users. The specific applications provide functionality […]

Tibco Software Inc. is looking to cash in on the movement of enterprise application integration software into the mainstream with the next release of its flagship product. The EAI software developer will announce on Monday ActiveEnterprise 4.0 that is designed to help companies tap into emerging technologies like Web services, integrate the latest applications with […]

German software giant SAP AG is finally feeling the effects of the slumping U.S. economy. SAP on Thursday announced third quarter financial results that showed respectable earnings but flat operating income and declining software license revenues. In the quarter ended Sept. 30, SAP revenues rose to about $1.5 billion — 16 percent more than the […]

WASHINGTON – The fact that two of the terrorists involved in last months hijackings and attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were on an FBI watch list and yet were not flagged by the airlines, airline security or others is a point not lost on government officials. Now former security officials from […]

Commerce One Inc. announced after the close of the market Monday that amid declining revenues it cut almost half of its work force, or about 1,300 jobs. The company, based in Pleasanton, Calif., currently employs about 2,800 people. Its consulting operations will be particularly hard hit. Commerce Ones restructuring announcement fueled further speculation that SAP […]

Verizon Communications Inc., the regional phone company serving much of the Northeastern United States, suffered a huge hit to its operations as a result of the terrorist attacks that felled the World Trade Center towers last month. In the wake of the attacks, a data tracking and analysis tool from Infragistics Inc. was rushed through […]

Invensys Plc., the company that last year purchased ailing ERP software developer Baan Co., has laid out its product road map for the comeback of Baan software. Applications and connectivity tools from the former enterprise resource planning developer are being transformed for use in business-to-business e-commerce. Baan fell into financial straits three years ago. Now, […]

A forthcoming set of prepackaged software integration tools from Covisint LLC aims to solve one of the nastiest tasks in business-to-business e-commerce: automating data movement across a firewall and into a companys internal fulfillment system. But whether it will meet that goal is yet to be determined. As proposed, the Covisint Site Server tool set […]

TheBrain Technologies Corp. in two weeks will release its first enterprise-level platform for marrying a front-end portal with back-end application integration. The Brain Enterprise Knowledge Platform, which will begin shipping Oct. 30, stems from the Santa Monica, Calif., companys roots in PersonalBrain, software that lets users organize Web pages, contacts, documents, e-mails and files in […]

Oracle Corp. is bolstering its supply chain management offerings with a tool that helps companies maximize inventory planning. The Oracle Inventory Optimization tool, which will announce on Monday, allows companies to evaluate their long-term inventory investment decisions by taking into consideration such factors as customer service needs, profit and strategic sourcing objectives, according to officials […]

Yantra Corp. is upgrading its order and inventory management software suite. Yantra 4.0, which will be announced Monday, is fully integrated with the Yantras dynamic business process modeling and provides new roles-based participant management, event and alert management and business performance measurement capabilities. Yantra, of Tewksbury, Mass., provides a host of multi-enterprise e-commerce offerings that […]