Renee Boucher Ferguson

With Oracle Corp. making its “best and final” tender offer for PeopleSoft Inc. last week, representing a $3-per-share increase over its long-standing $21-per-share offer, the pressure for PeopleSofts board of directors to act is increasing. While some industry watchers contacted last week speculated that the latest offer represents an end to the 17-month-long, $9.2 billion […]

IBM is working with the leading RFID standards body to develop a technology that combines product movement data from radio-frequency identification readers with enterprise application information. EPC IS, under development by IBM and EPCglobal Inc.—the industry group governing the RFID standards and policies, in Lawrenceville, N.J.—establishes a format for how trading partners gather and exchange […]

Small and midsize businesses that are looking for an ERP solution but arent able to handle such things as cost and implementation have a new solution from SAP America Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co. to consider. SAP, of Newtown Square, Pa., and HP teamed last week to announce a hosted enterprise resource planning bundled service tailored […]

With two large anti-trust obstacles out of the way, an Oracle Corp. acquisition of PeopleSoft Inc. is rapidly shifting from a remote possibility to a likely reality. In the event of such a move, customers, analysts and company insiders are predicting a rocky road ahead for PeopleSoft customers. With nearly 100 percent product overlap between […]

After much speculation that it would raise its bid yet again, Oracle Corp. Monday morning announced its latest offer for PeopleSoft Inc.: $24 per share, up from $21 per share, or $7.7 billion. This is Oracles “best and final offer,” officials said in a press release. New terms of the amended offer stipulate that for […]

Business process management software developer Intalio Inc. on Tuesday announced new technology to help companies extend their business processes within ERP [enterprise resource planning], SCM [supply chain management] and CRM [customer relationship management] environments. The Intalio/APEX 3.0 platform is optimized for SAP AGs ERP software. It uses SAPs NetWeaver integration stack and lets users consolidate […]

New capabilities by Product Lifecycle Management software developers are driving design deeper into the fold. Aras Corp., a PLM software developer in Lawrence, Mass., announced last week the next iteration of its namesake PLM platform, Version 6.0, that takes into account the often difficult-to-measure area of product development by providing actionable metrics. The metrics are […]

PeopleSoft Inc., despite the hostile takeover bid from Oracle Corp., is pushing forward with new product releases. The company last week announced an upgrade of its EnterpriseOne applications suite that adds more than 250 enhancements, is optimized for demand-driven manufacturing companies and brings in functionality from other PeopleSoft suites. EnterpriseOne is the former J.D. Edwards […]

SAP AG has upgraded its Business One e-business suite to enable subsidiaries and small businesses to better communicate with their corporate offices running R/3. Version 2004 of Business One, announced last week, is geared toward the Walldorf, Germany, companys installed base of large enterprises, as well as small and midsize businesses, and provides a single, […]

In the midst of a civil trial in which Oracle Corp. seeks to remove several substantial barriers to its $7.7 billion hostile takeover of PeopleSoft Inc., the latters board of directors quietly extended one of those barriers. PeopleSofts board announced last week it had extended its CAP (Customer Assurance Plan) through this quarter, which ends […]