Renee Boucher Ferguson

Commerce One Inc. late Tuesday announced that sales were down dramatically in the second quarter compared with the same quarter last year, and introduced a major product upgrade. The business-to-business software developers revenues for the quarter that ended June 30 totaled $27.8 million, compared with $101.3 million for the same quarter last year, and $31.8 […]

E-business and enterprise resource planning software maker PeopleSoft Inc. reported second quarter earnings today that, while positive in comparison to competitors, showed an $11.4 million drop in income over last year. PeopleSoft posted net income of $36 million for the quarter, or 11 cents per share, versus a profit of $47.4 million, or 16 cents […]

Sales were down and losses remained large in the second quarter at supply chain management software maker i2 Technologies Inc. Still, when the company announced second quarter earnings late Tuesday the results fell in line with preliminary projections made two weeks ago. i2 reported total revenues for the quarter ended June 30, of $120 million, […]

Product lifecycle management software maker PTC announced third quarter results this morning that met analysts expectations of a pro forma loss of 2 cents per share. The Needham, Mass., company reported revenues totaling $182.5 million for its fiscal third quarter, which ended June 29. That compared with revenue of $230.7 million for the same period […]

Enterprise application service provider Corio Inc. this week will announce the release of iSRVCE 1.0, an integrated software environment for managing and automating IT-based business processes. The San Carlos, Calif., companys software acts as a portal to corporate business processes, enabling a single point of management for service-level agreement reports, technology assets, knowledge management projects, […]

Oracle Corp. and Microsoft Corp. are enhancing their respective business automation software suites for small companies to bring them closer to the capabilities already available to large enterprises. Both companies are readying upgrades that make it easier to import and export data from third-party applications and add features for vertical industries. Version 8 of Oracle […]

Aerospace and defense business-to-business trading company Exostar announced Monday the next iteration of its e-sourcing platform, SourcePass 5.0. Officials of the Herndon, Va., company said the new version makes it easier for customers to conduct B2B transactions by accommodating a wider range of services, including direct and indirect materials procurement of simple or complex lots, […]

Just seven days shy of its official earnings release, enterprise software maker SAP AG announced yesterday that it expects to post a second quarter net loss and will not meet its previous forecast of a 15 percent rise in sales for the full year. Rather, SAP expects to report a net loss of about $232 […]

E-Procurement service provider MarketMile LLC announced today the acquisition of spend analysis software maker Aentropy. While specific terms of the deal were not disclosed, officials said the acquisition will take effect immediately, with MarketMile purchasing all of the shares of Aentropy in exchange for an unspecified amount of MarketMile stock and cash. Ruby Sahiwal, co-founder […]

Automated data integration vendor Contivo Inc. announced plans today to bundle its namesake Analyst software with BEA Systems WebLogic Integration 7.0 module. Analyst is the front end to Contivos Enterprise Integration Modeling Solution, while WebLogic 7.0 is part of BEAs WebLogic platform that unifies application development and integration. Analyst has been part of both the […]