Renee Boucher Ferguson

The ongoing battle between PeopleSoft Inc. and Oracle Corp. is simmering just below the boiling point. In the fight to see if Oracles hostile bid for PeopleSoft will be successful, both companies have filed suit against one another, the U.S. Department of Justice is in the midst of a potential antitrust investigation, and the European […]

Confident it has a firm grasp on the resources necessary to execute the $7.5 billion hostile takeover bid for PeopleSoft Inc., Oracle Corp. decided two weeks ago to lower the amount of its credit line from $5 billion to $1.5 billion. A document filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission by Oracle, based in Redwood […]

For global manufacturers, the distance between the business and the customer can seem ever-expanding. Unilever Home and Personal Care, North America, part of the Unilever Group, is no exception. The more the maker of such food and personal consumer goods as Hellmans mayonnaise and Dove soaps expanded the business, the more strained time to market […]

PeopleSoft Inc.s new financial software promises to help users, primarily chief financial officers, more effectively comply with federal regulations and meet profitability demands with enhanced visibility. With Enterprise Financial Management Version 8.8, PeopleSoft focused on best-practice enhancements, providing analytic capabilities in the Cash Management module that provide users with a real-time view of cash positions […]

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 […]