Renee Boucher Ferguson

A forthcoming set of prepackaged software integration tools from Covisint LLC aims to solve one of the nastiest tasks in business-to-business e-commerce: automating data movement across a firewall and into a companys internal fulfillment system. But whether it will meet that goal is yet to be determined. As proposed, the Covisint Site Server tool set […]

TheBrain Technologies Corp. in two weeks will release its first enterprise-level platform for marrying a front-end portal with back-end application integration. The Brain Enterprise Knowledge Platform, which will begin shipping Oct. 30, stems from the Santa Monica, Calif., companys roots in PersonalBrain, software that lets users organize Web pages, contacts, documents, e-mails and files in […]

Oracle Corp. is bolstering its supply chain management offerings with a tool that helps companies maximize inventory planning. The Oracle Inventory Optimization tool, which will announce on Monday, allows companies to evaluate their long-term inventory investment decisions by taking into consideration such factors as customer service needs, profit and strategic sourcing objectives, according to officials […]

Yantra Corp. is upgrading its order and inventory management software suite. Yantra 4.0, which will be announced Monday, is fully integrated with the Yantras dynamic business process modeling and provides new roles-based participant management, event and alert management and business performance measurement capabilities. Yantra, of Tewksbury, Mass., provides a host of multi-enterprise e-commerce offerings that […]

Acta Technology Inc. and Manugistics Group Inc. are teaming up to help companies better integrate data from disparate systems and use that data to optimize decision-making and analysis within supply chain systems. The partnership, which will be announced next week, will combine Actas core functionality of extracting data from enterprise systems and Manugistics SCM (supply […]

Facing yet another round of harmful quarter ending results, Commerce One Inc. released on Monday a revised financial outlook for its third quarter, which ended September 30. The Pleasanton, Calif., company now expects revenues of approximately $80 to $83 million, undercut by an expected loss per share in the range of $0.24 to $0.25 cents, […]

Although there is no stampede to change core business-to-business e-commerce infrastructures in light of last months terrorist attacks, some B2B exchanges are looking to beef up security measures. To foster increased security, CyberSource Corp. and Metastorm Inc. have begun adding new security features to their B2B software. Electronic payment company CyberSource last week rolled out […]

With 14 years of asset lifecycle management software development under its belt, Datastream Systems Inc. is entering the Internet Age. The company on Monday announced its Datastream 7i Web-architected platform that enables customers to migrate their client-server-based applications to a Web-based platform, in either a hosted or in-house model. The Datastream 7i product suite enables […]

The second coming of Baan Co. technology got an important endorsement from IBM on Friday. IBM, which has about 70 strategic alliances with partners across market sectors, announced Friday a strategic alliance with Invensys plc, the company that last year purchased ailing enterprise application vendor Baan. Under the deal, the two companies will jointly market […]

The slumping economy has got even the robust supply chain management sector by the tail. After the close of the stock market Wednesday, SCM software maker Manugistics Group Inc. announced a loss of $10.7 million, or 16 cents per share, for its second fiscal quarter ended Aug. 31. That compared with a net income of […]