Renee Boucher Ferguson

PeopleSoft Inc. is delivering on a promise to ease application integration headaches of enterprises that deploy the companys software in combination with applications developed by SAP AG and Oracle Corp. The Pleasanton, Calif., company will roll out the first phase of the integration plan this week in its PeopleSoft CRM 8.8 Productivity Release, which includes […]

Enterprise resource planning software maker Best Software announced today that two of its products are newly integrated. Best, of Austin, Texas, announced the general availability of a new integration between its Abra Suite for human resources and payroll, and the MIP Fund Accounting product line, including MIP Fund accounting for nonprofit organizations and MIP Government […]

Homing in on its business process integration strategy, Vitria Technology Inc., of Sunnyvale, Calif., will announce next month new software aimed at extending the capabilities of health care adjudication systems. With easily modified business rules and processes to automatically repair pended claims, the Vitria:SmartClaims offering helps end users to manage complex, dynamic rules specific to […]

Earlier this week Microsoft Corp.s Business Solutions division announced new functionality for the Microsoft Business Portal that extends Enterprise Resource Planning applications to provide more options for human resource professionals and employee self service. The Business Solutions divisions Business Portal is a Web-based portal application for two of Business Solutions ERP products, Microsoft Great Plains […]

Oracle Corp. faces mounting obstacles in its bid for enterprise application software rival PeopleSoft Inc. as more agencies look into the proposed hostile takeover and as PeopleSoft ratchets up its legal defense. Canadas Competition Bureau has launched antitrust investigations that come on the heels of the U.S. Department of Justices continuing inquiry and an effort […]

Software developers Lombardi Software Inc., WebMethods Inc. and Cast Iron Systems Inc. each are rolling out products to make it easier for companies to integrate business processes. Lombardis TeamWorks 4 platform will ease the difficulty of understanding the new information that business processes spin off by providing access to that data. In addition, the upgraded […]

As companies seek simpler ways to unify inward-facing business processes and outward-facing business-to-business IT processes, vendors are converging EAI and data integration technologies. Companies including Ascential Software Corp. are uniting the two sides of the integration equation: enterprise application integration for linking business processes inside and outside an enterprise and ETL (extraction, transformation and loading) […]

Enterprise resource planning software developer PeopleSoft Inc. announced Monday a new suite that combines some older technologies. The Workforce Performance Solutions suite is made up of PeopleSofts Enterprise Portal and HRMS Portal Pack, Enterprise Learning Management, eDevelopment and some components of its Human Resources application. What WPS does is enable users to tie together all […]

SSA Global Technologies Inc. announced Monday plans to acquire supply chain execution software developer EXE Technologies Inc. SSA, of Chicago, provides enterprise resource planning software for manufacturing and the public sector. Under the terms of the agreement a subsidiary of SSA will merge into EXE, of Dallas, Texas. The cost of the transaction amounts to […]

Moving just out of the red and into the black, i2 Technologies Inc. announced Thursday its final results for the second quarter, ended June 30. Dallas, Texas-based i2 reported break-even earnings on per-share basis for the second quarter, versus a loss of $2.18 per share for the same quarter last year. However, the supply chain […]

Upping the ante in its fight against a hostile takeover bid, PeopleSoft Inc. announced late Tuesday it expanded its lawsuit against Oracle Corp. by filing an amendment to its compliant filed in June in a California Superior Court. The amendment alleges “extensive new facts about Oracles managements ongoing acts of unfair trade practices, including its […]

Agile Software Corp. said today it completed its acquisition of Eigner, a privately held product lifecycle management software maker. Under the terms of the agreement announced earlier this month, Agile issued 1,795 shares of common stock and paid nearly $3 million in cash for all Eigners outstanding shares. “We are pleased that we completed the […]