Renee Boucher Ferguson

Integration and messaging software providers IBM and TIBCO Software Inc. announced Wednesday that they are joining Cisco Systems Inc.s IIN initiative that aims to do what it says: add more intelligence into networks. Ciscos Application-Oriented Network, announced this week at its Networkers 2005 conference in Las Vegas, is the third part of the companys four-phased […]

To help users suss out pertinent information, some enterprise application integration developers are adding new capabilities to their software. Vitria Technology Inc. will announce this week a new ResolutionAccelerator Business Process Application—part of Vitrias family of process-centric integration applications—which lets companies automatically manage exceptions in business processes at the system and human level. /zimages/5/28571.gifClick here […]

SAP AG announced Wednesday the acquisition of Lighthammer Software Development Corp., an Exton, Pa.-based company that develops manufacturing intelligence and collaboration software. The terms of the deal were undisclosed, but SAP officials said the acquisition is expected to be completed next month. Lighthammers employees are expected to remain in their Exton headquarters and operate under […]

Oracle Corp. plans to couple business intelligence and adaptive business process capabilities to applications in the next generation of its product suites. John Wookey, Oracles senior vice president of application development, detailed the companys philosophy on application development at Oracles Application User Group conference in Grapevine, Texas. The philosophy will be implemented starting with E-Business […]

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 […]