Renee Boucher Ferguson

Arzoon Inc., FreeMarkets Inc., Zeborg Inc. and Zycus Inc. are rolling out products and partnerships that are designed to make online procurement more effective and easier to manage. Arzoon last week announced it would marry its Life family of logistics resource management products to Tibco Software Inc.s ActiveEnterprise integration software to facilitate real-time access to […]

Despite notable gains in stability through point releases over the last 20 months, bugs in Oracle Corp.s 11i suite of Web-based e-business applications are eroding users confidence in the product. Compounding the problem, some IT organizations are finding that Oracles solution for fixing those bugs—the “Family Pack,” which patches dozens of known bugs at once—often […]

SAP Portals Inc. on Thursday announced it had signed up no fewer than 10 partners to work with when adding new technology and content to its software solutions. These partners are working essentially as sales and marketing channels to establish the San Jose, Calif., companys Enterprise Portal and Business Intelligence platforms in the growing portals […]

IBM and Enigma Inc. will announce an integrated product on Tuesday that will allow original equipment manufacturers to gather relevant after-market information through a portal-like interface. Enigmas software takes information that is useful to OEMs customers, normalizes it in an XML repository, then adds hyperlinks to branded sites. The offering will come under the heading […]

Making further inroads in the health care vertical market, Mercator Software Inc. announced Wednesday a partnership with ProAct Technologies Corp. The agreement calls for Mercators Integration Broker software to become part of ProAct Connector, with the result being the an easier integration of ProAct applications with customers human resource systems. The ProAct HR and Benefits […]

Moving forward with its YOUcentric application integration, J.D. Edwards & Co. announced Tuesday the availability of two new applications, OneWorld Customer Self-Service and Supplier Self-Service. The Denver company also announced an upgrade to its current portal offering. The new Web-based self-service applications enable customers and suppliers to help themselves to specific information stored in JDEs […]

J.D. Edwards & Co. early this month began shipping a product demand forecasting module for its Advanced Planning 4.0 suite. The Demand Consensus module provides users of the companys Advanced Planning, OneWorld and WorldSoftware enterprise software suites with flexible, collaborative forecasting capabilities that enable them to design supply chain production schedules in fluid demand environments, […]

The growing trend to marry business process modeling to Web services is extending business-to-business integration beyond simple transactions between companies. Major vendors of EAI (enterprise application integration) software, such as Tibco Software Inc., SeeBeyond Technology Corp. and Microsoft Corp., are quickly adding XML-based Web services capabilities to their software to make business process integration easier, […]

E-sourcing application upgrades from FreeMarkets Inc. and Zeborg Inc. let companies more easily manage online procurement, according to officials from the two developers. FreeMarkets today introduced QuickSource 4.0, which enables companies to expand their market reach through added capabilities for handling multiple languages, multiple currencies and customized time zones, according to officials in Pittsburgh. The […]

Marrying integration software with logistics automation technology, Tibco Software Inc. and Arzoon Inc. will announce an alliance next week that facilitates real-time access to logistics information. The partnership will bring together Tibcos ActiveEnterprise integration software with Arzoons LIFE family of Logistics Resource Management products. The alliance is aimed at making communications and data sharing easier […]