Renee Boucher Ferguson

In the race to web-enable enterprise applications, PeopleSoft Inc. took a step forward this month with the release of PeopleSoft 8 CRM, which completes the Web enablement of its enterprise resource planning suite. The cornerstone of the release, made at the PeopleSoft Leadership Summit here, was the introduction of an HTML-based architecture that lets users […]

As application developers add their own integration capabilities to their products, one integration specialist is fighting back with a novel approach to help customers build exchanges and link business processes with partners. WebMethods Inc., of Fairfax, Va., this week will announce the availability of WebMethods Partner Connect, a software and services offering that focuses on […]

With e-procurement competitors Ariba Inc. and Commerce One Inc. stumbling over earnings reports, Oracle Corp. is pressing its advantage by offering a fast implementation of its software for e-procurement of indirect goods. Oracle will announce this week its Procure-to-Pay in 30 Days service, a hosted solution for streamlining the entire procurement process in a month. […]

A general push to shrink the time it takes to get a product to market is being slowed by the difficulty most manufacturers have in electronically sharing design data with suppliers. Newport News Shipbuilding Corp. orchestrates the design, building and repair of U.S. Navy ships by trading stacks of paper in person, faxing specifications and […]

Seebeyond technology corp. and CommerceFlow Inc. are each taking a stab at providing quick-integration tools for suppliers looking to link to multiple business-to-business channels. SeeBeyond this week will introduce Version 4.5 of its eBusiness Suite, which adds support for Java2 Enterprise Edition to its integration software. This support enables customers to invoke Enterprise Java- Beans […]

The new project resource management application from Oracle Corp. provides software designed to help companies better manage their human capital. The PJRM application, which began shipping late last month, enables organizations to manage staffing, scheduling and rates for mobile workforce groups such as consultants. The application also performs matches against a skills database to find […]

Large public marketplaces, once the domain of online business-to-business transactions, are being supplanted by smaller, private exchanges that put single businesses at the hub of their own B2B world. Such private trading networks, as they are called, offer increased collaboration with suppliers and a deeper view into the supply chain and as such are poised […]

Consumers have long had an option to pay bills online. Developers have also produced software for presenting and paying business-to-business bills online, but uptake has been slow. Now software developers such as Princeton eCom Corp., Metavante Corp. and Direct Insite Corp. are stressing integration and analysis capabilities of their EBPP (electronic bill presentment and payment) […]

PeopleSoft Inc. will move deeper into the business-to-business and data analysis territories this week with an upgraded supplier relationship management suite. Version 5.21 of its SRM suite, due this week, is expected to enhance supplier collaboration by enabling corporations to manage relationships all along the supply chain, from design and sourcing through planning and procurement, […]

WebMethods Inc. is readying a new version of its business process management middleware that links applications and transactions not simply across the enterprise but across business-to-business networks, as well. The extension of the WebMethods Integration Platform, which the Sunnyvale, Calif., company will introduce next month, ties existing enterprise applications and extends them to databases, data […]