Renee Boucher Ferguson

Oracle laid out its product-information management strategy Tuesday with the introduction of its Oracle PIM Data Hub, software that enables users to cull, clean and synchronize product data from various applications, including non-Oracle-based ones. “We designed this product to really be able to work in heterogeneous environments—legacy, best-of-breed and the Oracle E-Business Suite of applications—with […]

Spend management software developer Ariba Inc. has made a name for itself with its Supplier Network, an e-business hub that has 110,000 buyers and suppliers electronically transacting business. Now the company is taking the network mainstream. Ariba will announce at its Live user conference in Orlando, Fla., this week that under its Supplier Connectivity Program, […]

Integration software developers are preparing upgrades to their middleware offerings, which are focused on improved business-process functionality tempered with ease of use. IBM, TIBCO Software Inc., Jacada Ltd. and others unveil their new wares at Gartner Inc.s Application Integration and Web Services Summit in Los Angeles this week. IBM, of Armonk, N.Y., is announcing Version […]

With the use of RFID technology taking hold in the enterprise, software vendors are rolling out a slew of new offerings designed to help manufacturers and suppliers get up and running quickly with radio-frequency identification programs, while recouping some of their investments. At last weeks RFID Journal Live conference in Chicago, supply chain management and […]

As IBM and Global Exchange Services Inc. digest their respective PIM software developer acquisitions, they are working to integrate the new functionality and help users better synchronize external data—and get new products to market quicker. IBM, which acquired Trigo Technologies Inc. a little more than a year ago, announced earlier this month the latest iteration […]

A small data integration company is developing an innovative way to track business process transactions as they move across a network. Cast Iron Systems Inc., a 4-year-old company with about 36 customers, offers an integration router that can be an add-on to major EAI (enterprise application integration) systems. The Cast Iron Application Router provides a […]

Business process management is becoming the new EAI, or enterprise application integration, as integration software developers jump into the process management arena as the next big frontier. Magic Software Enterprises and BEA Systems Inc. have plans on the table for new process management capabilities that build on their existing integration suites. Magic, based in Israel, […]

Business-to-business integration software developer Sterling Commerce and business process management software provider MetaStorm Inc. are adding more functionality for process integration—a key area as companies look to collaborate electronically. Sterling Commerce, a subsidiary of SBC Communications Inc., announced this week its Gentran Integration Suite 4.0, which enables users to map and integrate business processes with […]

Things had come to a boil for American Italian Pasta Co., which has 1,500 retail items, a private label and a retail customer base that includes most major U.S. grocers. Facing a mandate from its top retail customers, such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Wegmans Food Markets Inc., to synchronize product data through standards body […]

The message was clear during Ziff Davis Medias Sarbanes-Oxley compliance eSeminar held Wednesday: Dont wait to get your (IT) house in order for compliance, lest your company executives wind up in jail. “If youre in IT management, you really need to look at the ramifications because failure to comply with some mandates under the Sarbanes-Oxley […]