Renee Boucher Ferguson

Lawson Software Inc. and SAP AG are sharpening up their respective enterprise software suites to facilitate collaboration among users both inside and outside the enterprise. Lawson, at its CUE 2002 user conference in San Antonio, Texas, on Monday, introduced its Services Automation Suite, which lets managers in collaboration-intensive service businesses automate their work from beginning […]

Europes largest software company, SAP AG, announced first quarter earnings today that matched its expectations, but still showed a marked decline in license revenues. For the three months ended March 31, revenues for the enterprise software developer increased 9 percent over the same period last year, to 1.66 billion euros ($1.48 million), versus 1.52 billion […]

Baan is pushing forward in its efforts to remake itself as a product lifecycle management software developer with the introduction of new software and services designed to build bridges between production and sales. Today at its inForum 2002 user conference in Rome, Baan rolled out the iBaan for PLM (product lifecycle management) suite, the next […]

i2 Technologies Inc. is regrouping on the news of the loss of two top executives yesterday and a poor earnings report today. CEO Greg Brady resigned his post and Tom Cooper, executive vice president of Americas Sales, announced his intention to leave the struggling supply chain management software maker. Sanjiy Sidhu, founder and chairman of […]

An upgrade to Oracle Corp.s Small Business Suite, announced last week, brings the software up to speed with the companys E-Business Suite for large enterprises in its ability to give executives a sharper picture of a companys financial state. SBS 7.7, unveiled at Oracles AppsWorld user conference here, features a new Executive Dashboard that is […]

With the stream of earnings warnings that software vendors have been issuing over the last few months, one might think that enterprise customers are getting nervous and worrying that their primary technology providers will cut back on service or development. Slower sales and reduced earnings at many software developers have translated into budget cuts and […]

Integration software developer Tibco Software Inc. will roll out at the Delphi Enterprise Portal and Web Services seminar next week version 4.0 of its ActivePortal product. The upgraded 4.0 platform leverages Tibcos EAI (enterprise application integration) capabilities with a new feature, called Integration Designer, that makes it possible for Tibcos portal to talk to about […]

Business-to-business e-commerce network provider GE Global eXchange Services has upgraded its enterprise platform. With the Enterprise System 7.5 e-Commerce Visibility Manager, announced this week, GXS is bringing business process capabilities to a new level, according to officials in Gaithersburg, Md. The latest iteration of GXSs data integration broker incorporates BPI (business process integration), which allows […]

Oracle Corp.s message to its customers is clear: The company is here to help. The implication is that customers need it. With the resounding message at last years Oracle AppsWorld of Come to us for everything, and well get you most of what you need when we get to it, Oracles Chairman and CEO Larry […]

Integration and customer relationship management are converging. IBM and Siebel Systems Inc. announced Monday plans to combine IBMs CrossWorlds integration software with its Universal Application Network, which Seibel also announced Monday. The Universal Application Network consists of a business process library, a business process design tool and an integration server. IBM CrossWorlds essentially provides business […]