Renee Boucher Ferguson

At its Leadership Summit 2002 in Las Vegas this week PeopleSoft Inc. worked to relay the message that the time is now for the real-time enterprise. Two points resonated at the conference: first, companies have to integrate business processes and second, business processes need to be moved to the Internet and exposed to business and […]

Lawson Software and SAP Ag are sharpening their respective enterprise software suites to facilitate collaboration among users inside and outside the enterprise. Lawson, at its Conference and User Exchange in San Antonio, last week introduced its Services Automation Suite, which lets managers in collaboration-intensive service businesses automate their work from beginning through completion and measurement […]

As the nations second-largest bottler implemented a supply chain automation system to streamline its operations and better manage production, it discovered that most of its inventory and transaction data was inaccessible to the software it deployed, Manugistics Group Inc.s Supply Chain Management suite. The solution for Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated, known as CCBCC, was to […]

Ariba Inc., PeopleSoft inc. and B2eMarkets Inc. are enhancing their respective procurement applications to enable better collaboration along supply chains. The applications will be able to open up communication with suppliers, enhance collaboration inside and outside the firewall, and get a better grip on costs by consolidating spending, the developers said. Ariba, of Sunnyvale, Calif., […]

Collaboration software maker MatrixOne Inc. and Cimmetry Systems Inc. announced on Monday an OEM agreement that will result in enhanced visualization and collaboration capabilities for design engineers and suppliers. Cimmetry provides visualization software for the engineering, manufacturing and electronics markets that integrate with document management, workflow, product data management (PDM) and enterprise resource planning systems. […]

Enterprise resource planning and e-business software maker PeopleSoft Inc. met analyst expectations Thursday as it cut costs to shore up slow demand for its software. PeopleSoft announced Thursday its first quarter earnings, which ended March 31. Total revenue for the Pleasanton, Calif., company was $483 million, down 6 percent from $541 million for the same […]

Unexpectedly beating analysts expectations by a penny and moving into the black for its second quarter, Ariba Inc. today posted a pro forma net income of $1.1 million, or 0 cents per share. Ariba was expected to lose 1 cent a share on sales of $55.3 million, according to Thomson Financial/First Call forecasts. License revenues […]

Automotive exchange provider Covisint Inc. penned an alliance with Requisite Technology Inc. Thursday that will drive supplier on-boarding into buy-side e-procurement systems. Covisint will integrate Requisites eMerge content management system into its exchange engine. eMerge allows suppliers to maintain control of their catalog content and buyers to be more efficient in getting to market. The […]

Making a bit of noise on the otherwise quite online exchange front, business-to-business retail e-marketplace provider WorldWide Retail Exchange LLC on Tuesday announced a new logistics suite and a strategic alliance. WWRE rolled out its WorldWide Trade Logistics (WTL) suite. The software automates global supply chain trade logistics operations into one centralized location by bringing […]

Baan is pushing forward in its efforts to remake itself as a product life-cycle management software developer with the introduction of new software and services designed to build bridges between production and sales. Last week at its InForum user conference, Baan rolled out the iBaan for PLM suite, the next version of its iBaan OpenWorld […]