Renee Boucher Ferguson

A torrent of Web site postings to social networking site Digg, along with several quickly erected blogs, reflect a data center migration gone badly awry, leaving thousands of Hostway customer Web sites in the dark. Hostway Web hosting customers have posted reports that their Web sites and back-office applications have been offline for as long […]

Resistance to RFID Lingers Despite Successes”> Alien Technology announced July 30 that one of its customers, textile producer Griva SpA, has realized a 30 percent return on investment of its implementation of Aliens RFID tag and reader system—not in real dollars but rather in time management savings and increased traceability of fabric rolls. The week […]

As part of SAPs core platform strategy geared toward its large enterprise customers, the company released a second enhancement package July 31 that amounts to the next go-round of upgrades for the companys ERP suite. The upgrades to the enterprise resource planning offering, SAP ERP 6.0 (formerly MySAP ERP 2005), include functionality that can be […]

OpenMFG, the open-source enterprise resource planning company best known for its manufacturing capabilities for small and midsize companies, is expanding its horizons. The company will announce July 31 a new name and a new suite of software that combines ERP, accounting and CRM (customer relationship management) functionality using an open-source model. The goal with OpenMFG—now […]

A not-for-profit joint venture that includes a handful of RFID technology vendors and academia representatives has been set up to encourage the worldwide adoption of Electronic Product Code technologies. Specifically, the group is looking for wider adoption of LLRP, or Low-Level Reader Protocol, a standard to help networked RFID (radio-frequency identification) readers interoperate. The lack […]

iUpload is changing about as fast—and as much—as any Web 2.0 company can be expected to change. The company, which develops a social networking platform geared toward enterprises, is announcing July 23 a new name, new executive roster, new funding, new corporate headquarters and a new platform. iUpload, which boasts a fairly hefty customer list—The […]

Despite preliminary reports earlier in the week that SAP would record disappointing software license sales for its second quarter, the company handily tromped expectations July 19, reporting an 18 percent increase in software sales, a jump led by European purchases. On SAPs European home turf, software sales rose by 22 percent, a comeback from July […]

SAP executives were in what can only be described as a giddy mood during the companys July 19 conference call with press and analysts to discuss SAPs earnings report for the second quarter of 2007. They also provided a fuller picture (sans any actual technical details) of the companys long-anticipated midmarket suite. Code-named A1S, the […]

Salesforce.com announced July 16 that its Summer 07 release—the 23rd generation of its on-demand customer relationship management software—will be available to users in August. While the latest iteration brings several important upgrades, including a point-and-click tool that lets users add formulas to workflow and the ability for developers to deploy multiple sandboxes, the bottom line […]

The use of RFID technology is branching out beyond closed-loop supply chains, according to a report released July 17 by ABI Research. However, the report concedes, most RFID pilots and implementations are still compliance based. In its 2007 Annual RFID End User Survey, ABI Research polled more than 175 companies in an online survey to […]