Renee Boucher Ferguson

LOS ANGELES–A rift in the close relationship between software vendors SAP AG and Microsoft Corp. appears to be opening as both companies make product moves that encroach on the others territory. Though not joined at the hip, the relationship between SAP and Microsoft stretches back to 1993 and includes numerous joint development projects, which have […]

Online collaboration provider Need2Buy announced today it merged with hosted supply chain software maker Efinity Inc. of Aliso Viejo, Calif. The newly formed company will operate under the name RiverOne Inc. RiverOne will look to combine Need2Buys online collaboration functionality with Efinitys hosted supply chain solutions to provide what officials term “interactivity” along the supply […]

An upgrade to Haht Commerce Inc.s demand management software provides the functionality manufactures need to reduce the complexity of coordinating and managing their customer-facing business processes across channels, company officials said. With Commerce Suite 7.0, which was introduced today, manufacturers can integrate and analyze business processes between partners, distributors and customers through a portal interface. […]

Four new Web-based applications for supply chain management from McHugh Software International Inc. allow manufacturers and suppliers to square up on logistics management while collaborating on real-time orders, production and quality control testing. The suite, announced this week, is targeted for suppliers and manufacturers that have complex supply chains – ones that might include satellite […]

LOS ANGELES – Software giant SAP AG ruffled Microsoft Corp.s feathers this week by announcing that its major new software architecture will feature support for Sun Microsystems Inc.s Java. Now a source revealed that SAP is again leaning towards the Sun camp for key technologies in the Web services race. A source close to SAP […]

LOS ANGELES — SAP AG is seeking to remedy a long-standing knock against its monolithic enterprise software by introducing a new architecture that will let IT organizations more easily integrate in third-party software with its enterprise applications. The new mySAP Technology infrastructure, which was introduced this morning at the SAP TechEd 2001 conference here, provides […]

IBMs $129 million acquisition of CrossWorlds Software Inc. last week will strengthen IBMs e-business products by deepening the ties between its WebSphere application server and CrossWorlds business process integration software. CrossWorlds will also fill holes in IBMs environment for e-business EAI (enterprise application integration). The deal will close early in the first quarter of next […]

Infrastructure resource optimization software maker Peregrine Systems Inc. is once again changing its stripes. Originally a help desk software vendor and later a developer of business-to-business relationship management software, Peregrine is now adding EAI (enterprise application integration) to its offerings. San Diego-based Peregrine today introduced it Business Integration Suite, or BIS, which provides EAI functionality […]

SAP AG chief executive Hasso Plattner will unveil the enterprise software companys next big technology vision next week at its developer conference in Los Angeles. The centerpiece will be a new, more open SAP Web application server that at its core embraces Sun Microsystems Inc.s J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition). Down the road, the app […]

Genuity Inc., creator of the Black Rocket Network Services Platform for building e-business Web sites, is slashing its U.S. work force by 24 percent after announcing yesterday that it had a big loss in the third quarter. Despite posting $302 million in revenues for the quarter ended Sept. 30, the Woburn, Mass., company recorded a […]