Renee Boucher Ferguson

EDI users looking for a less expensive B2B transport method may have an option with an emerging standard under consideration by the Internet Engineering Task Force. AS (Applicability Statement) 2 is a specification for dealing with business-to-business communications data that will enable companies to maintain their investment in electronic data interchange technology while getting some […]

Supply chain management software maker WorldChain Inc. will announce on Monday the next iteration of its namesake software. WorldChain 3.0 will help users move away from traditional forecast-based push supply chain approaches to pull-based models, where a company and its supply chain execute off the same customer demand signal, according to officials. Applicable for both […]

Supply chain management software maker Manugistics Group Inc. and business intelligence vendor Cognos announced an alliance today. The gist of the agreement is to deliver real-time business and customer insight that spans data warehouses and operational sources to extended trading networks, including customers, distributors and suppliers. Manugistics, of Rockville, Md., will integrate the reporting and […]

PeopleSoft Inc. is looking to play catch-up to its enterprise software competitors with new offerings designed to provide a well-rounded technology stack for integration. At its Connect user conference in New Orleans next week, the Pleasanton, Calif., company will pick up the integration mantle with the message that it, too, is an infrastructure provider. As […]

An upgrade to Lombardi Software Inc.s TeamWorks software platform is intended to move beyond the companys traditional business process management functionality by automating and monitoring business activity for unplanned or unexpected changes to normal operations. The goal of TeamWorks 3.3, which debuted last week, is to enable users to link their business processes with their […]

MarketMile LLC, the e-procurement service provider founded by American Express, is making a few changes. The company tomorrow will announce a new name, a new platform and new technology. MarketMile is nixing the name that connotes both an e-marketplace and a miles program, in favor of the new name Ketera Technologies. Along with the name […]

New tools from Blue Pumpkin Software will help companies automate and integrate their workforce processes. Enterprise workforce management software maker Blue Pumpkin, of Sunnyvale, Calif., will launch a new workforce management platform on Monday for its two application sets, Activity Manager and Advisor. The Blue Pumpkin Fusion platform looks to solve for companies two fundamental […]

GE Global Exchange Services (GXS) announced today the release of a new module that helps users connect to trading partners securely through the Internet. The AS2 module is part of the GXS Enterprise System 7.5 integration broker offering and is the software version of the Applicability Statement 2 protocol that establishes standard point-to-point connections in […]

Beefing up distribution for its portal software, IBM today announced a number of partnerships with consulting companies that will result in IBMs WebSphere Portal technology being integrated into–in many cases–vertical market offerings. Deloitte & Touche LLP, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, Sapient Corp, SBI and Co Inc. and Hitachi Ltds Experio will co-market or incorporate […]

Moving to simplify the integration of its electronic payment processing services into a Web services environment, CyberSource Corp. today announced a new native C# component. The new component, which is specific to Web service environments built with Microsoft Corp.s .Net technologies, provides businesses with faster access to CyberSources payment and fraud detection services, in addition […]