Renee Boucher Ferguson

FrontRange Solutions Inc., which develops both customer relationship management and IT service management software, announced Friday it has been acquired by Francisco Partners. Francisco Partners, of Menlo Park, Calif., is a technology investment fund. It has agreed to acquire all of FrontRanges outstanding shares for about $200 million. FrontRanges CEO Michael McCloskey said in a […]

/zimages/1/118813.jpg Oracle Corp. announced late Thursday afternoon its latest CFO and co-president, Greg Maffei, is leaving the company after a mere four months on the job. Maffei, a veteran of Microsoft Corp., where he managed the companys $35 billion cash and strategic investment portfolio, took the place of Harry You, who left the top CFO […]

SAP Public Services Inc., a division of SAP, on Monday filed a formal complaint with the U.S. Government Accountability Office regarding the ECSS contract. SAP, it seems, doesnt believe the Air Force did its due diligence before awarding the bid to Oracle. “SAP firmly believes that the Oracle proposal does not reflect the best value […]

NetSuite Inc., which develops hosted enterprise resource planning and customer relationship management software, is partnering with a little-known company for an interesting capability. The San Mateo, Calif. based NetSuite announced Tuesday a partnership with Five9 Inc. that will enable NetSuite users to make phone calls from within an application—a function that would appeal primarily to […]

With the adoption of SOAs moving beyond pilot stages, underlying Web services standards are also maturing. The e-business standards consortium Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards is working on two initiatives to promote service-oriented architectures, based on business process development and messaging security. OASIS last week announced that Capgemini Group donated to the […]

TIBCO Software Inc. announced last week the acquisition of Velosel Corp., a buy that moves the company into the master data management realm and adds to its capabilities in two vertical industries: retail and consumer goods. Velosel, founded about five years ago by Neeraj Gokhale, enables companies to create a master definition of their data […]

SymphonyRPM Inc., which develops business analytics software, will announce Monday that it has upgraded its namesake development platform to include new reporting and collaboration capabilities. The upgrades to SymphonyRPM make it easier for business users—from the shop floor to the office—to create reports without having to tap IT expertise, and to model what-if scenarios that […]

Tibco Software Inc. announced Monday the acquisition of Velosel Corp., a buy that moves the company into the MDM (master data management) realm and adds to its capabilities in two vertical industries: retail and consumer product goods. Velosel, founded about five years ago by Neeraj Gokhale, enables companies to create a master definition of their […]

Moving forward with its technology integration of PeopleSoft Inc., a company it acquired earlier this year, Oracle Corp. announced Tuesday upgrades to its namesake Advanced Planning and Scheduling software, compliments of PeopleSofts supply chain software. By combining functionality from Oracle APS and the PeopleSoft modules, Oracle is able to better address manufacturers—particularly in the process […]

Oracle Corp. announced Tuesday that it is responding to a second request for information from the U.S. Department of Justice regarding its intended $5.85 billion acquisition of Siebel Systems Inc., which is expected to be complete in early 2006. The request for information is in compliance with the Hart-Scott Rodino Act, a piece of legislation […]

Reva Systems Corp., a newly launched RFID networking company, announced its Tag Acquisition Processor last week, an offering that amounts to a rack-mounted, standards-based device for managing facilitywide radio-frequency identification readers. The Reva TAP, which supports both current readers and the upcoming Generation Two readers, manages RFID readers at the system level. It provides a […]

Sterling Commerce announced at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando, Fla., last week the first fruits of its Multi-Enterprise Services Architecture that takes on supply chain functionality. Visibility Manager, part of the Dublin, Ohio, companys Collaboration Network for business processes, lets users have better insight into transactions that IT systems perform with partners. The software provides […]