Renee Boucher Ferguson

Business process integration software maker Sierra Atlantic announced a partnership today with WebMethods Inc. to provide manufacturing customers with business process integration solutions. Sierras packaged integration software – called Application Networks – enables business processes to flow amongst enterprise applications. The companys SCM [supply chain management] and CRM [customer relationship management] software will sit on […]

Hoping to increase companies ability to quickly and inexpensively integrate small numbers of trading partners, Microsoft Corp. announced Monday Partner and Standard editions of its BizTalk Server 2002. The new editions are designed to help the tens of thousands of small trading partners that have not been able to integrate with outside partners because of […]

J.D. Edwards & Co. plans to offer its CRM applications running on the Linux operating system on IBM servers with IBM middleware. JDE and IBM announced the new customer relationship management offering jointly this week at the Focus 2002 JDE user conference, in JDEs hometown, Denver. The first application for the open-source operating system is […]

Peregrine Systems Inc. announced today it found a buyer for its Supply Chain Enablement unit and signed a loan and security agreement. Although its accounting remains in shambles and the company will have to restate three years of financial reports, Peregrine secured a $50 million loan with Foothill Capital Corp., an administrative agent for Ableco […]

Joining the ranks of IBM, Vitria Technology and Tibco Inc., Mercator Software Inc. will announce Thursday the release of its new Starter Pack integration software for vertical markets. Mercator, of Wilton, Conn., architected its Starter Pack software for health care, financial services and ERP [enterprise resource planning] connectivity to manufacturing, retail and distribution. However, Mercators […]

Two mid-market ERP [enterprise resource planning] developers, J.D. Edwards & Co. and Baan, are bolstering their software suites with new and enhanced business-to-business capabilities. JDE, at its user conference in Denver this week, announced an update to its Demand Consensus module, collaboration enhancements to its Product Distribution Planning module and a new Tactical Network Optimization […]

Q-link technologies inc. later this month will launch software that adds a Web services component to its business process management software. Q-Process Action Component, or Q-PAC, for Web services will enable corporate developers to take any Web service and automatically write it into a business process without coding, company officials said. The idea is that […]

SAP AG is striving to convince core enterprise resource planning customers that its the company to turn to for business-to-business initiatives, from internal integration to external collaboration. At the core of that effort, announced at the Sapphire user conference here last week, is the companys Cross Applications, a new breed of software that aggregates and […]

IBM announced new integration software today that is designed to help vertically oriented companies integrate core business processes. WebSphere Business Integration for industries software addresses specific business process integration requirements for the automotive, electronics, insurance, retail/distribution and telecommunications industries. The software streamlines business transactions and internal operations, IBM officials said, cutting back on some of […]

Parametric Technology Corp. announced today a major upgrade of its Pro/Engineer MCAD software with hundreds of enhancements. Chief among the upgrades in Pro/Engineer Wildfire is a completely new user interface that simplifies the geometry modeling process through graphical previews that replaces dialogue boxes with a less obtrusive dashboard feature, according to officials at the Needham, […]