Renee Boucher Ferguson

Closing in on its mySAP Technology Platform vision, SAP Portals Inc. on Thursday announced the next iteration of its portals infrastructure. A central tenant of the mySAP Technology vision, laid out at parent company SAP AGs Tech Ed conference late last year, is to create an infrastructure where people, information and processes can be combined. […]

InterCept Inc., which provides banking software to community financial institutions, this week announced a major expansion in its merchant processing operations. The Norcross, Ga.-based company will acquire the assets of Internet Billing Company Ltd, known as iBill, a transaction processing software maker based in Ft Lauderdale, Fla. Separately, InterCept also plans to acquire Electronic Payment […]

Big names in software and services, including IBM, SAP AG, Electronic Data Systems Corp. and Parametric Technology Corp. are making partnerships to round out their respective PLM offerings. IBM and SAP announced today at the National Manufacturing Week tradeshow in Chicago the joint delivery of Product Lifecycle Management services. The announcement is essentially a strengthening […]

An upgrade to WebMethods Inc.s namesake EAI platform, due at months end, will feature a new suite of workflow software. The WebMethods Workflow Platform, part of WebMethods Integration Platform Version 4.6, is based on technology that the Fairfax, Va., enterprise application integration software vendor acquired last year from IntelliFrame Corp. In addition to the workflow […]

A new breed of EAI tools promises to provide an easier method for integrating business processes within and among companies in vertical markets. Enterprise application integration software coming from IBM, WebMethods Inc., TIBCO Software Inc. and Vitria Technology Inc. defines repeatable steps in specific industry processes. Standardizing on these steps can help an IT shop […]

Two developers of supply chain management software, Manugistics Group Inc. and i2 Technologies Inc., are readying software for automating processes along the chain of companies engaged in product service and support. Manugistics last week announced its SPM (Service and Parts Management) suite designed to help aftermarket service providers and maintenance and repair operations better synchronize […]

Enterprise software giant SAP AG is targeting a number of vertical industries with an enhanced version of its mySAP SCM software suite. The supply chain management software upgrade, which SAP introduced this morning at the CeBIT 2002 trade show in Hannover, Germany, includes industry-specific functionality for enhanced planning capabilities in the high-tech, automotive, chemical, pharmaceutical, […]

SeeBeyond Technology Corp. announced Thursday that it will work with Compaq Computer Corp. as a business partner on Compaqs NonStop server-based Zero Latency Enterprise initiative. As a result, SeeBeyond will work with Compaq to port its e*Gate Integrator solution to the Compaq NonStop platform. Compaqs ZLE is a transaction-oriented offering that provides a single, integrated […]

Supply chain management software makers Manugistics Group Inc. and i2 Technologies Inc. are readying new software for automating processes along the chain of companies engaged in product service and support. Manugistics on Tuesday announced its new SPM (Service and Parts Management) suite designed to help after-market service providers and MRO (maintenance, repair and overhaul) operations […]

Six months after the terrorist attacks on the United States, government offices and integration software makers are showing some progress in their work to close the information loop among agencies at the federal, state and local levels. Tibco Software Inc., for instance, is readying tests of its new Intelligence Analyst Framework, a hub-and-spoke EAI (enterprise […]