Renee Boucher Ferguson

In an effort to provide more functionality for enterprise customers looking to build large-scale applications, business logic automation software maker Versata Inc. announced Thursday an upgrade to its namesake application suite. Versata Logic Suite 5.5 combines business logic and process automation to create and manage business logic for enterprise applications. The upgrade supports the latest […]

NEEDHAM, Mass. – Parametric Technology Corp. next week will release a new solution for manufacturers to provide design-to-order tools to customers and partners. PTCs 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. […]

In an effort to simplify online collaboration and procurement for customers, plastics e-marketplace provider Omnexus Americas Inc. announced on Tuesday 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. […]

Versata Inc. is moving its departmental business process automation suite into the enterprise. Versata Logic Suite 5.5, which will ship this week, provides four new areas of functionality for enabling enterprise customers to specify business logic and integrate with third-party software when building Web-based applications. Logic Suite delivers a visible specification of key business requirements, […]

Quovadx Inc. and iWay Software have introduced software to enable companies to integrate their business processes with those of business-to-business trading partners. Quovadx, an integration software company that focuses primarily on the health care and entertainment fields, last week announced two products to further B2B integration. The QDX BPMS (Business Process Management System) is a […]

EAI software vendors IBM, Tibco Software Inc. and SeeBeyond Technologies Inc. are extending their offerings to include Web service brokering tools. Each currently is readying software that it said will reduce the number of steps it takes for a developer to present business processes as Web services. Until now, these companies enterprise application integration software […]

LumaPath Inc., a data integration startup, on Monday introduced its flagship data integration product, Real-Time Relevance Server, and announced that it had joined forces with two companies, Stellent Inc. and Pivotal Corp. The Real-Time Relevance Server automatically delivers structured and unstructured data content and presents it to users in real-time. It does this by unobtrusively […]

Information asset management software maker Ascential Software Corp. has acquired Torrent Systems Inc. for $46 million in cash. Torrent, of Cambridge, Mass., makes parallel processing infrastructure software for the development and execution of data warehousing, business intelligence and analytical applications. Combined, the two companies will provide solutions for high-end data integration, officials said, when announcing […]

With the suspected adoption of Web services and a consolidation underway in the enterprise applications integration space, the industry is morphing fast. Two EAI vendors, Tibco Software Inc. and webMethods Inc., are taking steps to differentiate their integration technology with Web services offerings. Tibco, known for its bus architecture middleware, will announce on Monday its […]

In an effort to help application developers at small and mid-sized companies automate their business processes, NetLedger Inc. on Tuesday announced a slew of new tools specifically branded for users of Oracle Corp. applications. The new tools include smbXML, an XML-based integration technology that helps developers exchange business information with the Oracle Small Business Suite, […]