Renee Boucher Ferguson

In a joint statement filed Aug. 28 by SAP and Oracle—a requirement for the upcoming Sept. 4 case management conference to kick off Oracles legal claims against SAP—both companies make their initial arguments to the United States District Court, Northern District of California, San Francisco Division. Not surprisingly, SAP is seeking a speedy resolution to […]

Data integration software vendor JuxtaComm Technologies has filed suit in a Texas court alleging patent infringement. The case names a number of high-profile software companies, including Microsoft and IBM. JuxtaComm is alleging that the companies in question—which include a number of prominent business intelligence and application integration companies—have infringed its patent for a system that […]

Next weeks taxi strike is still on and it will coincide with one of New Yorks bigger events of the year: Fashion Week. Bill Lindauer, a spokesman for the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, said the group, which represents about a quarter of the citys 44,000 licensed cabbies, confirmed on Aug. 28 that despite a […]

SugarCRM, a company that develops both an open-source and proprietary blend of Customer Relationship Management software, announced earlier this week the beta release of the next iteration of its software. The Sugar 5.0 beta, released August 27, introduces new capabilities that appeal to developers and less technical users, including the ability to build custom modules, […]

The New York Taxi Workers Alliance is scheduled to meet with Mayor Michael Bloombergs office to discuss cab drivers demands that the Taxi and Limousine Commission cancel its mandate that all city cabs be equipped with Global Positioning System links. Bill Lindauer, a spokesman for New York Taxi Workers Alliance [NYTWA] confirmed that representatives from […]

The message from the New York Taxi Workers Alliance [NYTWA], a group representing New York Citys taxi drivers, is clear: Stop GPS [global positioning systems] in New York cabs or well strike. The Alliance, which represents about 10,000 New York cabbies, held a press conference outside Penn Station August 23 to announce a city-wide 48-hour […]

IBM and business intelligence software developer Cognos have teamed up to create a package of software and hardware aimed at the financial services industry. The Cognos-IBM Risk Adjusted Profitability Blueprint, announced Aug. 22, is geared toward helping companies—mainly banks—better integrate risk information with revenue and expense planning data. The goal: to help banks maximize risk-adjusted […]

Microsoft is set to launch a portion of its business intelligence technology platform, PerformancePoint Server 2007, at an event in New York on Sept. 20. The second piece to Microsofts BI technology triad, SQL Server 2008 (code-named Katmai), is scheduled to ship in the second quarter of 2008. The companys third major tech component, Office […]

Workdays ERP -Like Software Gains Financials Beta”>Workday, with the beta release Aug. 20 of applications like payables, receivables and general ledger, now offers a more complete suite of ERP-like software that includes Human Capital Management and core finance and accounting software. Workday, pitched as the “un-ERP” (enterprise resource planning) company that produces ERP-related software, in […]

Steve Cakebread, Salesforce.coms CFO, has been promoted to the position of president and chief strategy officer—a reversal from previously announced plans. Salesforce.com announced in June 2006 that Cakebread would retire at the end of last year. At some point Cakebread quietly changed his mind, and will now lead the companys charge into international markets, officials […]