Renee Boucher Ferguson

The resignation of TomorrowNows top management raises questions about the companies viability as well as about the prospects for all other companies that provide third party support for enterprise class business applications. SAP announced Nov. 19 that Andrew Nelson, the founder and CEO of the beleaguered subsidiary, has resigned, bringing several top managers with him. […]

Analysts were sounding a cautious note about Salesforce.coms future earnings potential just a day after CEO Marc Benioff predicted his company would achieve a $1 billion run rate in 2008, a goal he has been talking about since 2006, In its third quarter 2007 earnings report on Nov. 15, Salesforce.com beat estimates Wall Street estimates […]

San Francisco—Oracle paid particular attention to building out business intelligence and enterprise performance monitoring capabilities when upgrading its Fusion Middleware offering, according to Thomas Kurian, senior vice president of server development technologies at the company. Fusion Middleware 11g, the next iteration of Oracles integration platform, is currently in its fourth beta cycle. BI and EPM […]

SAN FRANCISCO – During his Nov. 14 keynote address at OpenWorld, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison presented a wide-ranging look at the companys upcoming Fusion Applications, providing more details about the applications makeup than has seen in the past. But in his presentation, and later during a question and answer session with audience members, Ellison may […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Oracle officials are wrapping their applications strategy around three themes. The companys customer choice message comes as no surprise to anyone thats followed Oracles acquisition strategy since it bought PeopleSoft in 2005. It was then that Oracle offered unlimited support for its acquired applications. Likewise, Oracles applications roadmap delineation is nothing new. The company […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Oracle plans to integrate “Enterprise 2.0” features into its Fusion Middleware as a way to further differentiate this software platform from its competitors products. Oracles move to deliver Enterprise 2.0 functionality in Fusion was disclosed by Thomas Kurian, Oracle senior vice president, in his keynote at the second day of Oracle OpenWorld conference here. […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Gone, for the moment, at least, is the pulse and presentation of glitz and glam that was so prevalent in past years at Oracle OpenWorld. This years conference at Moscone Center seems to be more about calm reassurance than pumping up the future. While questions surrounding Fusion Middleware – and Oracles potentially pending acquisition […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Oracle is providing additions to its Application Integration Architecture that allow customers to integrate application components to create composite applications and extends the architectures capabilities to partners. Oracles AIA (Application Integration Architecture) Foundation Pack, introduced Nov. 12 during the opening day of its annual OpenWorld conference here also adds communications industry flavored integration packs […]

New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer wants his state to implement what hes calling the most secure drivers license in history. The initiative would enable the state to comply with the federal governments controversial identification mandates and document the million or so illegal immigrants currently living in New York. However, it may be technology rather than […]

A year after its inception, Workday finds itself in a bit of a bind, albeit a bind that companies love to find themselves in. The on-demand ERP [enterprise resource planning] company landed an enterprise-class customer faster than it thought possible, and has had to add functionality to keep up. Workday turned on its services Nov. […]