Renee Boucher Ferguson

Formation Systems Inc. is readying an update to its process automation software that allows customers to automate far more manufacturing processes than are currently possible. Optiva 4.5, due this fall, includes a new application for project management. It also features upgrades to strategic sourcing and compliance applications that could reduce manufacturing errors and costs for […]

IBM announced today that it will attempt to migrate potentially thousands of customers, in what its calling an unprecedented effort. The company will look to migrate thousands of customers who use IBMs AS/400 “Green Screen” applications to its newer eServer iSeries technology. The mainframe-class partitioning technology of the eServer allows small and mid-sized businesses to […]

Business process application provider NexPrise Inc. on Thursday announced a strategic alliance with Science Applications International Corp. Under the terms of the agreement, NexPrise and Science Applications, known as SAIC, will jointly deliver business applications, systems engineering and integration services, primarily within the high-tech, aerospace and design industries. The applications will focus on engineering design […]

Strategic sourcing software maker Ariba Inc. posted third-quarter earnings today that showed quarterly revenues plummeting 30 percent, buffeted by an inching over the profit line. Excluding charges, Ariba earned 1.9 million in the third quarter, compared with a loss of $26.1 million in 2001. The companys first and only profit until now was posted in […]

Expanding its footprint in content integration, Venetica Inc. today announced that application infrastructure software maker BEA Systems Inc. will make Veneticas Content Provider for BEA WebLogic Portal generally available to WebLogic customers. WebLogic Portal is BEAs portal framework software that provides companies with portal development, management, deployment and integration services. The deal with Venetica, of […]

Enterprises looking to automate their supply chains may be forced to tap several smaller developers, as the major software makers that once promised end-to-end supply chain software cut back on development. Supply chain software providers i2 Technologies Inc., SAP AG and Manugistics Group Inc. each reported gloomy financial news last week and scaled back development […]

A couple of standards backed by BEA Systems Inc., SAP AG and Sun Microsystems Inc. should make it easier for companies to transact business with partners using Web services. Together, WSCI (Web Services Choreography Interface) and BPML (Business Process Modeling Language), introduced late last month, should provide business analysts and software engineers with a view […]

Software development and EAI [enterprise application integration] vendor Skywire Software LLC, announced today the next iteration of its Object Manager, version 3.4. Object Manager software provides functionality for SAP AGs systems, including management, client comparison and backup and recovery functionalities. With the release of 3.4, Skywire has added enhancements to the labor-intensive, manual process of […]

Network Associates Inc. will announce on Monday its Peregrine-to-Magic Migration Program that provides a migration path to the companys Magic help desk software for customers using Peregrine Systems Inc.s service desk management products. Peregrines AR System for Tivoli is an integration product that enables the Peregrine Remedy Help Desk or custom help-desk applications based on […]

Blaming the slumping economy and, to a larger extent, the ongoing accounting crisis in the U.S., German enterprise software maker SAP AG this morning announced disappointing results for the second quarter. Earning were in line with the preliminary results that SAP issued last week, when company officials warned they would not meet earlier projections of […]