Renee Boucher Ferguson

IBM announced Monday a $250 million investment in RFID (radio frequency identification), an emerging technology that is being mandated by the likes of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and the Department of Defense, but that has seen little adoption elsewhere. IBM has created a new RFID division, Sensor and Actuator Solutions, and has committed to amassing a […]

For the twelfth time since the whole saga began last year, Oracle has extended its tender offer for PeopleSoft. Redwood Shores, Calif.-based Oracle Corp. announced Thursday that it has extended its $7.7 billion antagonistic takeover bid for PeopleSoft to midnight Oct. 8. The previous offer was set to expire at midnight this Friday. The updated […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Based on its founding precepts of customer service, PeopleSoft Inc. has long been known as a company with terrific customer loyalty. That loyalty is in full force at this weeks PeopleSoft Connect user conference, where many customers are choosing not to dwell—at least publicly—on the looming threat of Oracle Corps $7.7 billion hostile takeover […]

SAN FRANCISCO—PeopleSoft Inc. on Tuesday announced an expanded relationship with IBM that will effectively add a middleware infrastructure layer to PeopleSofts applications. Revealed at its PeopleSoft Connect user conference here, the deal is worth some $1 billion, executives said. “It is the most ambitious, aggressive announcement from PeopleSoft and IBM, ever,” said PeopleSofts CEO Craig […]

SAN FRANCISCO—During his Connect keynote address at PeopleSoft Inc.s user conference here on Tuesday, CEO Craig Conway pulled all the heartstrings—including a round of applause for former PeopleSoft founder Dave Duffield, who was strategically sitting front-row center for the keynote. Conway wished Duffield good tidings for his birthday on Tuesday. He even told a funny […]

Despite significant RFID adoption from the biggest companies, IBM is turning its attention to the midmarket. The company announced last week at the Frontline Solutions Conference & Expo in Chicago a suite of services designed to speed the benefits of radio-frequency identification systems to industrial companies and midsize businesses. /zimages/3/28571.gifRead more here about the RFID […]

Oracle Corp. is paving the way for third-party applications vendors to offer their customers the benefits of Oracles infrastructure software without the hefty price tag. The Oracle On Demand for ISVs program, announced last week, enables the thousands of small and midsize ISVs that develop applications around Oracles E-Business Suite to sell their software as […]

At its Connect show in San Francisco this week, PeopleSoft Inc. is announcing the first upgrade to its Human Resources suite in two years. This latest 8.9 release of the companys Enterprise Suite—named after PeopleSoft acquired J.D. Edwards & Co. last summer—is focused primarily on work force performance, driving toward helping human resource professionals be […]

As the specter of an Oracle Corp. takeover hovers overhead, PeopleSoft Inc. is doing what it can to solidify its user base and help enterprises better manage its products. The company, at its PeopleSoft Connect user conference in San Francisco this week, will announce the Interactive Service Repository, a hosted repository of all the integration […]

Jan Baan, a name synonymous with one of the great ERP success stories of the 1990s, is back. And hes looking to compete with the likes of SAP AG, his former business nemesis, with a new company. Cordys Inc. develops collaboration and integration software that enables companies to create composite application frameworks. The company launched […]