John Pallatto

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison claimed that his company is a “strong No. 2” to SAP in the ERP applications business and has the product strategy in place to outgrow its archrival. Ellison made his comments on March 20 as Oracle reported third-quarter financial results for fiscal 2007 that showed the company generated revenue of $4.4 […]

Microsoft was smart to shelve “Project Green,” its quixotic effort to horizontally integrate its enterprise resource planning suite through brute force recoding of what had been a collection of disparate accounting, financial and customer relationship applications. Microsoft realized that it would have taken far too long and been far too risky to rewrite what had […]

Microsoft customers and partners will get their first detailed look at the upcoming Dynamics Live Customer Relationship Management service during Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmers Keynote on March 14 during the Convergence 2007 conference in San Diego. Microsoft will demonstrate its hybrid approach to software as a service by showing Dynamics Live CRM running on-stage in […]

Informatica is expanding the software as a service concept from the enterprise applications sector into the data infrastructure realm with the March 8 introduction of its on-demand data integration service. Informaticas On Demand Data Replicator will enable Salesforce.com customers to replicate the corporate sales and marketing data currently hosted on the Salesforce.com servers and move […]

Oracles $3.3 billion acquisition of Hyperion Solutions, a specialist in the field of corporate performance management, has set the fox among the chickens in the broader business intelligence market. This has long been a relatively quiet and sometimes prosperous sector of the enterprise software market, where the corporate acquisitions have been far less costly and […]

Google gained a major new ally in its campaign to extend its applications and information services deeper into the enterprise with IBMs Feb. 28 announcement that it has integrated Google Gadgets with its WebSphere Portal. Customers who use WebSphere Portal to build corporate Web sites will have access to more than 4,000 Google Gadgets, which […]

Google is smart to play coy about whether its online business application bundle is aimed at cutting into Microsoft Offices dominance on the enterprise desktop. It has a lot of work to do yet before an online suite like the newly introduced Google Apps Premier Edition can seriously challenge the solid position of Microsoft Office […]

After months of testing, Google is ready to see whether businesses large and small are ready to pay to use its online suite of basic business applications, including spreadsheets, e-mail, word processing, calendars and instant messaging. Google, which has steadily transformed itself from a search engine pioneer into a data access, Internet advertising and business […]

Seeking to bolster the performance management capabilities of its analytic applications, SAP on Feb. 20 announced that it has acquired privately held Pilot Software of Mountain View, Calif. Pilot Software has a 20-year history in the development of business analytics and online analytical processing. It specializes in developing applications that enable C-level executives to set […]

NetSuite introduced new e-commerce management features to its on-demand business application suite that company officials said provide all the tools midsize companies need to manage their Web sales and marketing. One of the key features lets the Web marketers integrate the NetSuite e-commerce features with eBays online auction site, enabling them to sell their wares […]