Renee Boucher Ferguson

Office automation and professional services automation software provider Automation Centre is expanding its offerings to include human resources tracking. The company will release its TrackerSuite for HR early next month. TrackerSuite for HR lowers human resource professionals workload by providing a central data management system that enables employees to self-manage information, automates the hiring process […]

Oracle Corp. and Commerce One Inc. have joined the growing number of enterprise application providers offering enhanced sourcing software. Both companies this week announced new strategic sourcing solutions that identify opportunities based on criteria other than price alone. Oracle Sourcing solution offers auction and bid functionality, request for proposal and quote, offer and counter offer […]

Lumapath Inc. and Ascential Software Corp. are looking for allies in the information asset management space to enhance their respective data integration offerings. LumaPath last week introduced its flagship data integration product, Real-Time Relevance Server, and announced that it had joined forces with Stellent Inc., of Eden Prairie, Minn., and Pivotal Corp., of North Vancouver, […]

PeopleSoft Inc. is trying to make it easier for customers to work its enterprise resource planning software into their enterprises. The Pleasanton, Calif., company next quarter will add a message broker in the 8.4 release of the PeopleTools application development environment. The broker will translate messages between disparate applications and guarantee message delivery. Version 8.4 […]

Parametric Technology Corp. this week will release a new solution for manufacturers to provide design-to-order tools to customers and partners. PTCs DDL (Dynamic Design Link), powered by the companys Windchill collaboration technology, enables manufacturers that produce products with a lot of design changes to collaborate with customers and suppliers online, using a GUI. DDL bundles […]

In an effort to simplify online collaboration and procurement, plastics e-marketplace provider Omnexus Americas Inc. last week announced an alliance with Elemica Inc., an integrated trading hub founded by 22 of the worlds largest chemical companies. Under the terms of the alliance, Atlanta-based Omnexus and Elemica will leverage the technology each has developed. Omnexus brings […]

Peregrine Systems Inc. announced this morning a new line of business focused solely on integration. The infrastructure management software developer already has IBM and BEA Systems Inc. lined up to buy the new integration adapters that its new unit will produce. Named the Integration Adapter Factory, Peregrines newest division will work on developing and supporting […]

For the first time in its quarter-century history, enterprise resource planning software maker Lawson Software is making a public offering. The St. Paul, Minn., company announced today the initial public offering of 14,000,000 shares of its common stock. Lawsons shares went off this morning on Nasdaq at $14 a share, according to company officials. Lawson […]

Finally succumbing to U.S. economic pressures, European enterprise software maker SAP AG will lay off about 7 percent of its U.S. work force. Approximately 300 employees from various divisions will be released by the end of the year, as officials here scramble to realign SAPs U.S. focus for 2002. SAP, of Walldorf, Germany, develops ERP […]

PeopleSoft Inc. will add new features to its PeopleSoft 8 e-business software platform that will allow the applications to work better in heterogeneous software environments and improve their Web services capabilities. The Pleasanton, Calif., developer next quarter will release Version 8.4 of its PeopleTools application development environment, which will include “out-of-the-box” support for SOAP (simple […]