Renee Boucher Ferguson

Enterprise resource planning software developer Infor Global Solutions announced Thursday the acquisition of Formation Systems, for an undisclosed sum. Both companies are privately held. Formation Systems Inc. develops product lifecycle management software for process manufacturing companies. It focuses primarily on the food and beverages, home and personal care, and specialty chemical industries. Infor, based in […]

With the new, new “Project Green” under way, Microsoft Corp. is tapping its Windows SharePoint Services platform for additional functionality for its Microsoft Business Solutions suite. The Redmond, Wash., company is building out functionality across its MBS product suite—which includes Great Plains, Axapta, Navision, Solomon and Microsoft CRM—that will enable users to leverage WSS prebuilt […]

Integration software provider WebMethods Inc. has teamed up with Neon Systems Inc. to bring together the WebMethods Fabric business process integration suite with Neons Shadow RTE mainframe integration suite, released last week. As a result of the partnership, enterprises will have the ability to leverage their mainframe data as Web services in a services-based framework, […]

Lawson Software Inc. is modernizing its architecture by adding support for IBMs WebSphere and bolstering integration capabilities. The company will announce this week the latest release of its Lawson technology platform, Version 8.1.0, as it looks to move toward an SOA (service-oriented architecture), according to officials. By standardizing on WebSphere, Lawson aims to give users […]

A group of 20 companies that develop RFID-based products—chips, tags, labels and readers—have formed an intellectual property licensing consortium to ease the pain increasingly associated with both hardware and software development. The goal of the group is twofold: to offer an efficient patent management system for those companies applying for a radio-frequency-identification-based patent and to […]

Siebel Systems users will soon be able to deploy their applications on an open-source platform—a move that brings more credibility to the open-source movement among business applications providers. Siebel Systems Inc. of San Mateo, Calif., announced an expanded partnership with infrastructure provider Novell Inc. at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in San Francisco. Under the […]

Supply chain execution software developer Manhattan Associates announced Thursday its intent to acquire Evant for about $50 million in cash. Evant Inc., based in San Francisco, develops supply chain planning, execution and replenishment software. Manhattan Associates Inc., based in Atlanta, Ga., develops a suite of software called Integrated Logistics Solutions that includes modules for distributed […]

Attendees at LinuxWorld this week in San Francisco are getting a good look at open source integration backed by the big guys. IBM announced support services for ASF (Apache Software Foundation) Geronimo application server, the idea being that big companies will have a greater comfort level adopting an open source application server if its backed […]

Neon Systems Inc. announced on Wednesday new software that adds a Services Oriented Architecture framework to the companys mainframe integration capabilities. Neons Shadow RTE (Real-Time Enterprise) takes a page out of traditional application integration software by providing an enterprise service bus approach to mainframe integration— and a single architecture for accessing legacy data in a […]

A group of 20 companies that develop RFID-based products—chips, tags, labels and readers—announced an intellectual property licensing consortium Tuesday to ease the pain that is becoming increasingly associated with both hardware and software development. The goal of the group is twofold: to offer an efficient patent management system for those companies applying for an RFID […]