Renee Boucher Ferguson

Hawthorne, NEW YORK—Culminating the first phase of its effort to verticalize integration solutions for targeted industries, IBM on Monday announced 15 new middleware solutions across three industries. The software announced Monday is geared toward the energy and utilities, government and consumer products verticals. The solutions—specific to an industry problem or process—look to solve an issue […]

SAP AG has software that will enable customers to integrate the companys Business One applications with its enterprise-class offerings. The software, called Integration Scenarios for Business One, will make it easier for customers to link Business One business processes directly to MySAP and R/3 processes, a capability that was lacking when Business One was released […]

Although relative newcomers to the scene, Magic Software Enterprises Inc. and Pervasive Software Inc. are both trying to make a name for themselves with deeper integration offerings. Magic is looking to expand its 2-year-old iBolt Integration Suite by providing vertical-market templates and capabilities for broad optimization—for example, in the area of supply chain optimization, officials […]

Current and future releases of Avolent Inc.s BizCast software look to tackle some basic electronic invoicing and payment issues such as integration and modifications. BizCast 5.4, which the San Francisco-based company rolled out late last month, provides 20 new adapters for better integration between the suites billing, reconciliation and payment software and third-party back-office systems. […]

The Association for Competitive Technology, an education and advocacy group that represents about 3,000 software developers, system integrators and IT consultants, is demanding that the state of Michigan and the U.S Department of Justice immediately withdraw their lawsuit against Oracle Corp. Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox on Wednesday laid claim against Oracle of Redwood Shores, […]

E-business standards consortium OASIS, which stands for the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards, on Wednesday announced its plans to further develop an electronic business architecture. The namesake Electronic Business Service Oriented Architecture, or ebSOA, will build on ebXML and other Web services technology for its business architecture. ebXML, started by OASIS and […]

Targeting those companies that have electronic storefronts and business-to-business trading platforms for various partners and customers, IBM is readying the next iteration of its WebSphere Commerce Suite. Version 5.6, expected at the end of this month, will include a beefed-up Business Context Engine that enables users to manage relationships with their customers based on roles […]

Software developers TIBCO Software Inc., WebMethods Inc., Oracle Corp. and Microsoft Corp. are each preparing IT infrastructures to handle the flood of data thats expected to be generated by massive radio-frequency identification deployments. While the plans of each differ, many focus on the core elements of data management and integration with current database and ERP […]

Business-to-business trading hub E2open Inc. aims to overcome the technical and financial barriers to getting suppliers, partners and customers connected to electronic trading communities with its new B2B Integration Solution. The suite of software integration tools, announced last week, is geared toward making the so-called onboarding of e-trading constituents a more straightforward process, in part […]

For small and midsize companies unsure of whether to invest in a proprietary business-to-business Web site or start an auction on eBay, Kurant offers a solution. The e-commerce developer unveiled last week a partnership and integration with eBay that connects Kurants StoreSense e-commerce platform with eBays B2B MarketPlace Link site. Users with products in StoreSense […]

Webplan Corp. has developed software that promises to help manufacturers anticipate supply chain problems, review alternatives when problems arise and realign operations accordingly. RapidResponse 7.3, which the Ottawa-based company announced last week, enables users to connect to front- and back-end systems to support the flow of information across multiple sites. The upgrade includes three new […]

Technology consulting company Accenture announced today a new business process outsourcing company that focuses specifically on procurement processes. The new business line, Accenture Procurement Solutions, offers outsourced sourcing-to-settlement services to both corporate and government businesses. The idea is to offer strategic sourcing, procure-to-pay transaction processing, and supplier and contract management capabilities, coupled with services for […]