Renee Boucher Ferguson

Oracle Corp. is facing new antitrust obstacles and a potentially bigger price tag in its bid to buy enterprise software maker PeopleSoft Inc. A group of state attorneys general have formed a working group to look at the antitrust issues involved in the proposed transaction, and the U.S. Department of Justice has requested more information […]

Business process modeling software maker IDS Scheer Inc. announced Tuesday that subsidiary IDS Scheer Small and Medium Enterprises has acquired Accounting Solutions Plus Inc. A Harrisburg, Pa.-based consulting firm, A.S. Plus specializes in the implementation of enterprise resource planning (ERP) software. With the acquisition, IDS Scheer gains 70 customers and expertise in the health care […]

Oracle Corp. is shipping new product lifecycle management software offerings with enhanced capabilities for managing projects. Oracle Advanced Product Catalog expands the collaboration tools available with the Redwood Shores, Calif., companys Oracle PLM software. Oracle has also made available additions to its Project Management family of applications, which work in conjunction with the PLM software. […]

Attorneys general from a handful of states are weighing their legal options for stopping Oracle Corp.s hostile takeover bid for enterprise software rival PeopleSoft Inc. Oracle also is expecting the U.S. Department of Justice to submit questions to the company as early as today regarding the proposed acquisition. Attorneys general from California, Texas and Massachusetts […]

The U.S. Department of Justice Monday issued a second request to Oracle Corp. requiring more information regarding that companys bid to acquire rival PeopleSoft Inc., according to a release put out by Oracle this afternoon. The request comes from the DOJs antitrust division, which will look at the proposed merger and its possible ramifications on […]

Expanding its applications reach, Lawson Software announced Monday that its Enterprise Resource Planning apps will be available on Hewlett-Packard Co.s Intel Itanium 2-based Integrity servers this fall. HP, of Palo Alto, Calif., announced the new servers Monday. Initially customers will be able to run Lawsons 8 Series applications on the newest HP platform using the […]

Taking a performance driven approach to supply chain planning and management, software makers PeopleSoft Inc. and Optiant both released new technology Wednesday. PeopleSoft, of Pleasanton, Calif., announced the general availability of its namesake Supply Chain Planning 8.8, which utilizes a centralized data warehouse that combines planning, performance management and operational systems. At the same time […]

Product lifecycle management users and project management managers are getting a boost this week with new functionalities from Oracle Corp. At its AppsWorld London conference Oracle, of Redwood Shores, Calif., announced Tuesday the availability of its Oracle Advanced Product Catalog that expands the collaboration tools available with Oracles PLM software. The company also announced new […]

Former new and legacy application integration software maker Eco Novo Holdings Ltd. has morphed into a new company. Announced Monday, Pantero Corporation, newly headquartered in Waltham, Mass., will focus on solving data semantic integration issues that will provide applications with unimpeded access to data anywhere in the enterprise, officials said. The new software, due later […]

An important consideration when deploying BPM software is which standards to follow. There is a growing selection of languages and interfaces out there—Web Services Choreography Interface, BPML (Business Process Modeling Language), BPEL (Business Process Execution Language), WSFL (Web Services Flow Language) and Xlang—some of which are backed by competing forces. Once the standards get sorted […]

Companies today looking for the next wave of IT to squeeze more productivity out of their operations are increasingly turning to BPM software to streamline operations by knitting together business procedures. Their goal is to create a platform that weaves together processes running in different silos of technology, including ERP (enterprise resource planning), customer relationship […]

IT managers at government agencies welcomed moves by IBM and Oracle Corp. to seek a federal stamp of approval of the companies respective applications running on Linux. The Common Criteria is an independently tested set of standards used by organizations—the federal government included—to evaluate the security and assurance levels of technology products. For Linux, securing […]