Renee Boucher Ferguson

PeopleSoft Inc. on Thursday announced that it has inked the biggest deal yet in its 17-year history. Mexicos Tax Administration Service (SAT) last week signed a $50 million, two-year contract with PeopleSoft to have its federal tax collection and investigation systems rewritten onto a single PeopleSoft platform. SATs tax system sits on 66 databases across […]

Oracle on Wednesday announced the first set of upgrades to E-Business Suite Version 11i.10, which include a number of functional enhancements to its SCM (supply chain management) module. Following industry efforts to add lean manufacturing, globalization and compliance features, Oracle Corp. focused on those areas with the 11i.10 upgrade. Oracles supply-chain enhancements aim to make […]

The Integration Consortium is developing a repository of software interface specifications that IT departments can tap into to ease development of enterprise integration architectures. The ICs GIF (Global Integration Framework) Repository will contribute to the groups goal of improving formal mechanisms for large-scale application integration projects, said IC officials. IC, formed in 2001, includes Oracle […]

The U.S. Department of Justices effort to block Oracle Corp.s proposed $7.7 billion takeover of PeopleSoft Inc. is in the hands of U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker, who heard final arguments in the trial late last month. While Walkers decision in the case, which is expected no sooner than next month, will end one skirmish […]

Brunswick Corp., a company that makes bowling balls, boats and billiards, is also in the technology game. WDI, the development division of Brunswick New Technologies, on Monday announced the release of Redberri 6.0, middleware geared toward helping companies establish service-oriented integration platforms. Redberri connects with legacy systems and converts data from one format to another […]

Standards are essential to the foundation of any digital connection. But when it comes to integration of internal and external systems in the enterprise there can be too much of a good thing industry insiders say. Recently, however, a number of industry groups announced they will link up to make better sense of the growing […]

Pointing to Oracle as the elephant in the room during sales calls—and in virtually every transaction the company had this past quarter—PeopleSoft Inc. expressed disappointment with its second-quarter results, as well as its hopes for the future. The Pleasanton, Calif.-based company recorded second-quarter license revenues of $130 million and total revenue of $647 million. PeopleSoft […]

Despite the fact that many companies are barely in the planning phases with RFID (radio frequency identification) pilots, an RFID systems company has been acquired for $238 million. Symbol Technologies Inc. on Tuesday announced plans to acquire Matrics Inc., which designs and manufactures EPC (electronic product code)-compliant RFID systems. The acquisition of Rockville, Md.-based Matrics […]

Integration software developers are introducing new ways to help manufacturers associate RFID data with products, then tie that information into back-end systems and EPCglobal Inc.s standardized network. To help companies meet mandates from the likes of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and the Department of Defense, Global Exchange Services Inc. is working on products, due next year, […]

Responding to an increasingly hesitant U.S. customer base, SAP AG reported Thursday a 14 percent increase in its net income as customers moved over from such companies as PeopleSoft Inc. and Siebel Systems Inc., officials said. PeopleSoft, of Pleasanton, Calif., is fighting the battle of its life, fending of a $7.7 billion hostile takeover bid […]

E-commerce software maker Comergent Technologies Inc. is beefing up its Web-based suite of applications to encompass an SOA (service-oriented architecture) approach. The company on Tuesday announced the next iteration of its E-Business System, which adds more XML formatting and a message broker, among other enhancements. With the 6.4 SOA release, users can utilize any type […]

Three months after buying Trigo Technology Inc., IBM is putting the finishing touches on a middleware offering based on Trigos product information management technology, as well as a road map for the technology going forward. The WebSphere Product Center software, which IBM will announce this week, provides the ability to manage and synchronize product information—critical […]