Renee Boucher Ferguson

Strengthening its position as an enterprise resource planning software provider in the midtier retail market, Lawson Software Inc. announced today the acquisition of English consultancy and software developer Numbercraft Ltd. Numbercraft, of Oxford, England, develops analytic applications for the retail and consumer packaged goods vertical markets. Lawson, of St. Paul, Minn., provides ERP software for […]

Earlier this week supply chain management software maker i2 Technologies Inc. announced the completion of a company audit that resulted in the restatement of company finances for the past four years. The net effect detailed in i2s audit is the companys total revenue increased in 2002 and decreased for the three years preceding that. In […]

Open-source software provider SuSE Linux AG Thursday announced an agreement with SAP AG to provide Linux support to corporate customers. Under the terms of the agreement, SuSE will work with SAP, of Waldorf, Germany, on support for those customers running SAP applications on the United Linux Enterprise Server. By joining the two companies support and […]

The term “punch-out” is making a comeback in online procurement circles. Oracle Corp., of Redwood Shores, Calif., on Wednesday announced a new online procurement feature that allows corporate buyers to browse and buy materials from online suppliers without leaving the Oracle iProcurement application. The idea behind punch-out—a standard term in online procurement circles—is to provide […]

Making headway in the fast consolidating enterprise resource planning market, software and services firm SSA Global Technologies Inc. announced Monday that it closed on its acquisition of Baan, a division of Invensys Plc., which was announced last month. Baan develops ERP applications for discrete manufacturers in the industrial machinery and equipment, electronics, automotive and aerospace […]

Popkin Software and E2open llc have rolled out software targeted to enable enterprises to more easily model and manage their business processes. Popkin, a New York-based software tools and services company, last week introduced Version 9.1 of its System Architect tool set, which includes support for the BPMN (Business Process Modeling Notation) standard. System Architect […]

Ariba Inc.s new supplier Performance Management Software promises to help companies realize their spending objectives through measurement of supplier performance and automation of supplier collaboration. Ariba SPM provides a business process in which buyers define, measure and enhance the performance of suppliers through proactive communication, collaboration and monitoring, officials said. Part of the Sunnyvale, Calif., […]

MRO Software Inc. at its user conference in Washington today announced new vertically oriented software geared toward helping the utility and transportation industries better manage maintenance, operations and repairs. MRO, of Bedford, Mass., announced the availability of its Maximo Transmission and Distribution software that tackles issues in the utility markets and Maximo 5 Transportation that […]

Software giant SAP AG announced a mixed bag of second-quarter earnings on July 17, as an up-and-coming rival trounced analyst expectations. SAP announced a profit of $240 million (219 million euro) that was about 18 percent better than the profit in the first quarter. It beat a loss of about the same size in the […]

Shareholders weighed in with a show of support for the PeopleSoft Inc and J.D. Edwards merger last night. PeopleSoft, of Pleasanton, Calif., and JDE, of Denver, announced this morning that PeopleSoft has purchased about 110 million shares, or 88 percent of the outstanding JDE shares. The company needed to close on fifty one percent of […]

In line with its preliminary earnings call earlier this month, PeopleSoft Inc. reported strong second-quarter results Thursday. The company reported license revenues of $112 million, a sequential increase of 38 percent, and total revenues of $497 million, an 8 percent sequential increase. PeopleSoft also beat its own earnings guidance for the quarter, posting 14 cents […]

Locking in the price of its J.D. Edwards & Co. acquisition, PeopleSoft Inc. announced today that JDE stockholders will receive close to $14.75 in cash or 0.8243 of a PeopleSoft common share for each JDE share. The total transaction will amount to $1.8 billion based on a per share consideration. Shareholders can also receive a […]