Renee Boucher Ferguson

Collaborative commerce software developer QRS Corp. is readying software it says will help suppliers, retailers and brand marketers better synchronize data. QRS Impact, due this week, unifies and synchronizes data, then aggregates it into a single, global repository for product information in a company. Without such synchronization, companies undertaking business-to-business initiatives often find information gaps […]

With a request filed to the Alameda County Court earlier this week, PeopleSoft Inc. is embarking on the first wave of depositions in its suit against Oracle Corp. Fending off a hostile takeover bid from Oracle launched this past June, PeopleSoft filed suit against Oracle in an effort to remedy what it says is “substantial […]

With companies maturing in their own sourcing capabilities and bringing those applications in-house, global supply management software developers find themselves in a quandary: branch out or die out. Recent acquisitions by rivals Ariba Inc. and FreeMarkets Inc. prove that there is still a breath of life in supply management software, though perhaps only through diversification. […]

Web services integration software provider Grand Central Communications—responding to a growing trend—is readying what it calls “integration as a service.” The company will announce this week Business Services Network Version 4.0, which enables users to use Web services; legacy-system standards; and newer, emerging standards such as BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) to more quickly create […]

A new portal from enterprise application integration software developer WebMethods Inc. acts as a front end to applications, business processes and other information. Along with providing security and content management capabilities that portals traditionally offer, WebMethods Portal, which became available late last month, is a composite application development environment, said company officials, in Fairfax, Va. […]

Following the consolidation in the enterprise resource planning sector this year, particularly in the midmarket, vendors are focusing their efforts on new and integrated products. PeopleSoft Inc., of Pleasanton, Calif., announced this month seven integrated offerings that combine its newly named Enterprise software (formerly known as PeopleSoft 8) with JDE 5, renamed EnterpriseOne under the […]

IBM and Microsoft Corp. are looking to help companies squeeze more value out of multimillion-dollar legacy systems by modernizing their mainframe integration offerings with new Web services and application componentization capabilities. IBM last week released Version 5 of WebSphere Host Access Transformation Services, known as HATS. The upgrade enables users to define a custom workflow […]

When faced with the need to more efficiently send bills to insurance providers, the Department of Veterans Affairs felt comfortable using commercial off-the-shelf data scrubbing software. But when it came time to integrate that software with the agencys legacy billing software, officials called in Daou Systems Inc. for help. The professional services company provides IT […]

New technology from SAP AG looks to help makers of consumer packaged goods comply with Wal-Mart Stores Inc.s requirement that its suppliers tag cases and pallets with RFID tags by January 2005. SAP is developing a middleware framework to enable companies to integrate radio-frequency identification data from reader devices with enterprise software infrastructures, whether or […]

PeopleSoft Inc. and Lawson Software Inc. are enhancing their respective enterprise application suites to add more business process modeling and management capabilities. PeopleSoft has combined some of its existing process models with a modeling tool created by J.D. Edwards & Co., which PeopleSoft acquired this summer. The result is PeopleSofts Process Modeler, which allows users […]

Covisint Inc., the company that provides business-to-business services to help automotive makers electronically communicate with partners and suppliers, on Thursday launched a new messaging service. The Covisint Connect data messaging service provides the means for a company to exchange information with partners and suppliers using XML, rather than EDI [electronic data interchange]. Connect also provides […]

Working in conjunction with Pfizer Inc. to help the medical community measure results of clinical trials, Oracle Corp. announced today the next iteration of its namesake Clinical Remote Data Capture. Version 4.5 of Clinical RDC has upgrades in a number of areas, from advances in usability to support for international trials. Pfizer, of New York […]