Renee Boucher Ferguson

With the goal of finding common ground, assuaging fears and moving forward after the PeopleSoft acquisition, this weeks Oracle Application User Group annual conference in Grapevine, Texas brought together for the first time Oracle, PeopleSoft and J.D. Edwards users. The conference also brought some small revelations about what users can expect from Oracle in the […]

After news leaked Friday that SAP AG had hired some major talent away from its rivals, the company officially announced Monday that it has, over the past 18 months, lured more than 200 workers from the competition. The new hires span all levels of SAPs organizational chart, from senior executives to sales. The real news […]

After years of being characterized as an unmovable beast—a monolithic company and enterprise resource planning system incapable of change—SAP AG is morphing, it seems, into a mover and shaker. To this end, SAP is expected to announce a coup early next week: The hiring of several executives from rivals Oracle Corp., PeopleSoft Inc. and Siebel […]

After a relatively quiet stretch from its applications division, Oracle Corp. is again baring its teeth. The company announced Tuesday evening a new program to lure SAP AG users over to its E-Business Suite. Dubbed OFF SAP (Oracle Fusion for SAP) the program offers SAP R/3 users up to 100 percent license credit to switch […]

The BPM Forum, a consortium of businesses organized around the concept of bettering business process management, announced Tuesday the formation of a new group aimed at improving the caliber and quality of business applications. The BPM Forum launched the Software Economics Council, or SECO, and appointed a leadership committee that includes executives from BEA Systems […]

Reva Systems Corp., a small startup thats been in stealth mode for the past year, has announced an interesting concept around RFID device implementation and management. In addition to officially launching itself as a radio-frequency identification company, Reva released the details of its TAN (Tag Acquisition Network), a network-centric architecture for implementing and managing RFID […]

With initial RFID deadlines from retailers such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc. past, the fervor around the electronic tagging technology is quieting—in part because of the elusive benefits of radio-frequency identification data. The lull, however, has done little to slow investments in the technology by major software developers IBM and Microsoft Corp., both of which have […]

At Parametric Technology Corp.s annual PTC User World Event in Orlando, Fla., this week, the company will launch the next iterations of its Windchill product development and collaboration suite and Pro/Intralink data management suite. Windchill is a component of PTCs product development system. The big change with PTCs Windchill 8.0 and Pro/Intralink 8.0 suites is […]

At the Uniform Council Code Inc.s annual user conference in Grapevine, Texas, this week, WebMethods Inc. will announce new software aimed at helping retailers and suppliers better exchange, integrate and manage data points defining each product they have in common. The WebMethods Integrated Retail Solution is geared to helping users at both ends of the […]

A group of smaller, more nimble ERP companies are breaking into the hosting game in an effort to give midsize businesses the same tools that traditionally have been available only to large enterprises. This week, Mitsui & Co. Inc., in New York, the U.S. subsidiary of Mitsui & Co. Ltd., will announce the launch of […]

Reva Systems, a small startup thats been in stealth mode for the past year, announced Monday an interesting project involving RFID device implementation and management. In addition to officially launching itself as a radio-frequency identification company, Reva Systems Corp. released the details of its “TAN,” or Tag Acquisition Network, a network-centric architecture for implementing and […]

At its first Business Process Management Summit in Arlington, Va., June 6 and 7, IT research firm Gartner is taking a unique tack in educating attendees, mixing business analysts and IT professionals in the same bowl. “We found 85 percent of the [BPM] work being done is human-to-human; 15 percent is IT. The reality is […]