Renee Boucher Ferguson

SAP AG quietly acquired a small data integration software developer, Callixa Inc., several months ago that it will use as a core component of its NetWeaver platform, according to SAP officials. Callixas technology is “around helping customers with the overall data challenge,” said SAP spokesman Bill Wohl, at the companys U.S. headquarters in Newtown Square, […]

LAS VEGAS—Despite an overabundance of buzzwords and tired acronyms around service-oriented architecture, theres a definite revolution brewing in the software industry, and SAP AG plans to be at the center of it. “SAPs strategy is based on strategic assumptions that every employee in every usage model is always getting data and interacting … [eventually] getting […]

Nearly a month of IT problems plagued TIAA-CREF, one of the nations largest retirement funds, leaving thousands of pensioners with no access to their money. According to sources familiar with the matter, Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association-College Retirement Equities Fund is in the midst of a major platform upgrade gone awry. The precise technologies at […]

Verticalnet Inc., with its storied B2B past, is honing its hosted supply management offering. The company announced its Impact Sourcing offering that provides users with access to its entire XE Suite of supply management software as an on-demand service coupled with bundled support and pay-as-you-go pricing. Impact Sourcing is designed to let users focus on […]

Itemfield Inc. this week will announce a partnership with SAP AG that will result in new software capabilities for NetWeaver developers. The Itemfield Conversion Agent for SAP NetWeaver helps application developers using NetWeaver, SAPs application development and integration platform, better transform unstructured and semistructured data as well as document formats such as Microsoft Corp.s Word […]

EPCglobal Inc., which hopes to speed RFID adoption in the enterprise in the coming year, expects to see the first fruits of its namesake network early next year as users start to exchange information over software and hardware built to EPC-standard specifications. The EPCglobal Network combines radio-frequency identification technology, existing network infrastructure and EPCs (Electronic […]

To address its customers desire to have one source for product support—or more pointedly, someone to turn to if a third-party application provider goes awry—Microsoft Corp. created its Industry Builder program that provides end-user support for a select group of ISVs. As the first fruits of the Industry Builder program, Microsoft announced Wednesday five industry-specific […]

Despite confirmations from TIAA-CREF (Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association – College Retirement Equities Fund) that its IT systems are in good working order, some customers on Tuesday were still waiting for their cash, two weeks after initial issues surfaced. According to a number of e-mails sent to Ziff Davis Internet by frustrated pensioners, TIAA-CREF is […]

Many SAP AG R/3 users are finding themselves in a tight spot, with maintenance programs coming to an end and the need to relicense with the software maker to get access to newer platforms. Under the current 5-1-2 program, users on R/3 4.6C and older systems are facing either the end of their Mainstream or […]

With the release of its Dynamics GP 9.0 suite earlier this month and additional Dynamics releases expected throughout the coming year, Microsoft Corp. is well into Wave 1 of its two-wave business applications modernization plan. While it will eventually merge the code of Microsofts four ERP (enterprise resource planning) suites—which came from separate acquisitions—Dynamics also […]