Renee Boucher Ferguson

E-procurement software developer Verticalnet Inc. has acquired Atlas Commerce Inc., a provider of strategic sourcing applications and software for private business-to-business exchanges. In a deal valued at about $24 million, Verticalnet, of Horsham, Pa., early this week announced that it had acquired all outstanding Atlas securities in exchange for about 14.3 million shares of Verticalnet […]

Automation Centre Inc. is expanding its Tracker office and professional services automation offerings to include human resources tracking. TrackerSuite for HR, which will be released this week, is designed to lower HR professionals workloads by providing a central data management system that enables employees to self-manage information. Patrick Graupp, human resources administration manager at Sanyo […]

Enterprise software provider J.D. Edwards & Co. has enhanced its supply chain management suite with new planning capabilities. Advanced Planning 4.0, which began shipping in December, enables manufacturers to optimize their supply chain networks by extending collaborative capabilities to trading partners, according to officials. As part of the rollout of AP 4.0, Denver-based JDE in […]

Covisint LLC, the auto industry e-marketplace backed by such heavyweights as DaimlerChrysler, Ford Motor Co. and General Motors Corp., is making decisive standards moves to improve efficiencies for its members. The Southfield, Mich., company will announce during the first week of January that it has aligned with the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information […]

Supply chain and revenue and pricing optimization software maker Manugistics Group Inc. announced its fiscal third quarter earnings after the close of the market Thursday. The company posted a total revenue decrease for the quarter of $1.3 million, or $68.7 million total revenue, down from $70.0 million for the third quarter last year. Software revenues […]

Data integration platform provider Acta Technology Inc. announced Wednesday that it has combined its extraction, transformation and loading technology (ETL) with Business Objects SAs Application Foundation technology to enable businesses to develop real time data integration between the back office and Business Objects applications. Business Objects, of San Jose, Calif., provides business intelligence software that […]

Two global consulting and services firms, EDS and PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, announced an alliance Tuesday that should be good news for SAP AG customers. With SAP growing its customer base, EDS, of Plano, Texas, and PricewaterhouseCoopers, of New York, penned a global alliance to provide companies with installation, delivery and maintenance of SAP software. The pair […]

Enterprise resource planning software provider J.D. Edwards & Co. on Monday announced new advanced planning software. The new Advanced Planning 4.0 suite is a significant upgrade on JDEs current supply chain suite, which includes modules for network optimization, demand planning, production and distribution planning, order promising and production scheduling for discrete and process manufacturing. As […]

Peregrine Systems Inc., a developer of infrastructure management software, last week announced it is extending its application integration business with a new unit focused solely on integration. Named the Integration Adapter Factory, Peregrines newest division will develop and support industry-standard adapters for application server and enterprise application software. IBM, of Armonk, N.Y., and BEA Systems […]

With Web services looming ever larger on the horizon, the application development and EAI camps are jockeying to make their platforms preeminent in the space. Coming from the application development side, BEA Systems Inc. is readying new tools and a simplified architecture that it said will make it easier for non-programmers to develop Web services. […]