Renee Boucher Ferguson

Despite the perception that the software integration market is strong even in this down economy, leading application integration developers webMethods Inc., Vitria Technology Inc. and SeeBeyond Technology Corp. are anticipating heavy quarter-ending losses. WebMethods, of Fairfax, Va., Thursday morning released preliminary results for its second fiscal quarter, which ended Sept. 30, that suggest losses will […]

As the enterprise application integration space continues to heat up, adapters become a crucial part of getting companies enterprise software connected to that of external partners and suppliers. Middleware developer Tibco Software Inc. and Infosys Technologies Ltd. announced a strategic alliance Wednesday that will call for Infosys to build a slew of EAI adapters for […]

As in other industries, those in the transportation business use hundreds of different software applications to communicate with suppliers and partners. As a result, integrating those apps to facilitate internal and external communication can be a bear. Logistics.com Inc., which provides hosted software for shippers and carriers in the transportation industry, this week introduced its […]

Ariba Inc., the former Wunderkind of business- to-business e-commerce that has fallen on hard times, is looking to right its ship with a new line of direct procurement software. The company last week tried to put less-than-flattering events behind it—the loss of CEO Larry Mueller after one quarter in office, poor first-half financial results and […]

Companies integrating applications both inside and outside their firewalls will soon be able to do so through two new portals. Established middleware vendor Tibco Software Inc. and relative newcomer Kinzan Inc. are each providing portal interfaces to their respective back-end integration technologies. Tibco, of Palo Alto, Calif., this week will begin shipping its Tibco ActivePortal […]

A group of developers looks to move companies business-to-business e-commerce efforts beyond merely conducting online transactions. IBM, Click Commerce Inc., Agile Software Corp. and Cyclone Commerce Inc. are each working to bring B2B collaboration to more enterprises with new software and services. IBM, of Armonk, N.Y., last month rolled out Version 5.1 of its WebSphere […]

Electronic Data Systems Corp. launched the fifth arm of its business Monday — PLM Solutions, which combines the technologies of recently purchased Unigraphics Solutions and Structural Dynamics Research Corp. The pooled resources of Unigraphics and SDRC — suppliers of product development, data management and collaboration software and services that fall under the product lifecycle management […]

Integration appliance provider CommerceRoute Inc. is taking another step toward simplifying integration with its release Monday of the Syncx 6150 Integration Appliance that interfaces directly with SAP AGs enterprise resource planning systems. CommerceRoute, of Emeryville, Calif., manufactures network appliances that translate and standardize data between disparate systems, applications and databases. SAP, based in Walldorf, Germany, […]

Theres no stampede to change business-to-business e-commerce and collaboration systems in light of this months terrorists attacks, although some technology observers say increased security should be undertaken. One new service to help do this comes from electronic payment company CyberSource Corp. The company on Monday will announce its Export Compliance service that helps B2B and […]

Professional service organizations are getting new collaboration and integration capabilities from professional services automation vendors Automation Centre and CascadeWorks Inc. Automation Centre, of Tucson, Ariz., will announce TrackerOffice 2.1 next week at Microsoft Corp.s Exchange & Collaborative Solutions 2001 conference in Orlando, Fla. Also next week, San Francisco-based CascadeWorks will announce the third generation of […]