Renee Boucher Ferguson

Oracle is adding to the core functionality of its E-Business Suite of enterprise applications through a partnership with MasterCard International. The companies last week announced that they will integrate transaction data from E-Business Suite with MasterCards Oracle-based global data repository to help companies simplify transaction data reconciliation. The integration will provide improved travel, expense and […]

NetSuite Inc. is bolstering its suite of hosted applications with new components designed to reach to the core of a companys business. Version 10 of NetSuites namesake suite of services, which the company unveiled last week, includes upgrades to core business automation areas such as purchasing, order management, order fulfillment and revenue recognition, officials said. […]

Emptoris Inc. has upgraded its namesake supply management procurement software with a sourcing platform that unifies the companys products. Emptoris Version 5, which the Burlington, Mass., company rolled out last week, promises to integrate the components of Emptoris online procurement system—spend analysis, negotiation, supplier performance management, contract management, decision support and compliance tracking. With the […]

PeopleSoft Inc. announced Wednesday that it settled the dispute with shareholders over its controversial Customer Assurance Program. The program entitled some customers between two and five times their license fees in the event of a takeover by another company that did not support PeopleSoft products for a specified amount of time. The Customer Assurance Program […]

NetSuite, the company that makes Oracles Small Business Suite and offers its own package of enterprise resource planning (ERP) software for the small and midmarket sector, is moving upstream by adding core functionality. NetSuite Inc. on Thursday will announce version 10 of its namesake suite, which offers upgrades to its core ERP products in areas […]

Midmarket companies using SSA Global Technologies enterprise resource planning and other software may have it a little easier with integration issues. IBM and SSA Global Technologies Inc. on Monday will announce an alliance in which SSA will standardize all of its applications on IBMs middleware—including the namesake WebSphere Portal, WebSphere Business Integration, WebSphere Application Server—and […]

Answering the long-asked question of whether Microsoft Corp. will testify in the U.S. Department of Justices much ballyhooed case against Oracle Corp., the Justice Department released Tuesday night its witness list, and it included the software giant. The Justice Department will call Microsoft to the witness stand to support its claim that Oracles proposed—and hostile—takeover […]

SAP AG wants customers to begin moving to a service-oriented architecture, and to help them along, the enterprise software developer is developing the tools that will make it all possible. SAPs Enterprise Services Architecture will help users rapidly respond to changing business needs and innovate quickly without changing core processes, said SAP CEO Henning Kagermann […]

Product manufacturers rushing to comply with Wal-Mart Stores Inc.s mandate that they use radio-frequency identification technologies by next January are contending with evolving standards for moving RFID data through their IT environments. For example, the RFID tags that transmit inventory and other data through the supply chain are still an emerging technology. To lead customers […]

NEW ORLEANS—In his keynote address Thursday before a packed auditorium at SAPs Sapphire user conference here, SAP co-founder and chairman Hasso Plattner did what he does best: look at the what-ifs and wonderment of application development. A self-described developer at heart, Plattner brought up the notion of how a company such as SAP AG innovates […]