Renee Boucher Ferguson

Amidst some initial confusion and two weeks after its proclamation that it would reduce the price of its Oracle 11i E-Business Suite, Oracle Corp. cleared the air yesterday. Sort of. Jacqueline Woods, vice president of Global Practices Pricing, said in a press conference that beginning March 31 Oracle would in fact charge a flat $4,000 […]

SAP AGs move last week to transfer business-to-business and e-commerce product development to a newly consolidated subsidiary is part of a bigger plan to make sense of an increasingly confusing portfolio. The Walldorf, Germany, software developer last week announced plans to merge its Portals and Markets subsidiaries and transfer components of its emerging B2B and […]

Most mature industries have a set of standard practices upon which every company builds its business. A group of technology and manufacturing companies calling itself the Business Internet Consortium is trying to create such standards for the architecture of business-to-business e-commerce. BIC hopes the standards it creates will be used by companies as they implement […]

Integration software vendor WRQ Inc. on Monday announced new software that it says will help users better integrate data, applications and business logic across the enterprise. WRQ Verastream 9.0 is an upgraded suite of applications designed to reuse existing applications and business logic by building interchangeable business components from enterprise sources like legacy host systems, […]

Commerce One Inc. next week will officially roll out an update of its namesake collaborative e-business software platform with an expanded suite of applications that add capabilities in the procurement, sourcing, auction and payment modules. Commerce One 5.0, available now, enables companies to communicate and work together on what Pleasanton, Calif., company refers to as […]

SAP AG announced this morning that it plans to combine its two subsidiaries, SAP Markets Inc. and SAP Portals Inc., into one company. The new company, still unnamed, will deliver integration technology and collaborative applications through the mySAP Technology offering SAP announced last fall. That technology brings together three elements for conducting business-to-business electronic transactions […]

Although revenues were down $115 million in its most recent quarter compared with a year ago, Ariba Inc. CEO Bob Calderoni is confident the business-to-business e-commerce software company is on the upswing. Revenues for Aribas fiscal year 2002 first quarter, which ended Dec. 31, 2001, were $55.3 million, down from $170.3 million for the same […]

A new hardware, software and services offering announced today combines Commerce One Inc.s e-procurement software with Compaq Computer Corp.s ProLiant servers and Global Services consulting arm. The Procurement Express streamlines the buying process for small and mid-sized companies looking for a lower cost of entry to online business-to-business transactions, according to officials from the two […]

Enterprise software providers are answering IT managers calls to ease data exchanges between their systems and those of competitors. Siebel Systems Inc., Commerce One Inc., SAP Markets Inc. and Tibco Software Inc. have each introduced products or partnerships that they said will improve the efficiency and power of communications among enterprises along supply chains. Enabling […]

ABN Amro Holdings N.V. found off-the-shelf messaging middleware-based software integration too expensive and time-consuming, so it developed its own. The international banking company built its own integration adapter technology to help fold nearly a dozen acquisitions into its IT organization. This week, the company, based in Amsterdam, Netherlands, will spin off Neogration Inc., a software […]