Renee Boucher Ferguson

Adriel Lares has a lot to think about. Since joining 3PARdata in 2001, he has led the companys treasury, debt and financing activities, including equity rounds for $32 million and $30 million last year. At the same time, the company is growing fast, creating metrics and processes Lares needs to keep on top of. As […]

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security agreed to a pilot program with Washington state that could offer an alternative to the requirement that all U.S. citizens traveling between the United States and Canada (and other Western Hemisphere territories) present a valid passport—some of which will be the new RFID-chipped ePassport. But the pilot program will […]

Shai Agassi is leaving SAP AG to tackle climate and energy issues in Israel and not as a result of Oracles recent lawsuit against SAP, or SAPs two missed quarters in fiscal 2006, according to SAPs chairman, Hasso Plattner. Rather, according to Plattner, Agassis departure stems more from the fact that SAPs board extended Henning […]

On the heels of an explosive law suit from Oracle and two quarterly earnings misses, SAP AG announced on March 28 a major executive reshuffling that includes the resignation of Shai Agassi, the executive board member in charge of application development as president of the Product and Technology Group. The company also announced Leo Apotheker, […]

At the annual RFID World conference in Dallas, a number of tag and reader manufacturers announced new products that include EPC Generation 2 tags designed for broadband, case-and-pallet applications; high-speed, tag-programming capabilities; and new wireless functionalities. The upgrades come as more companies and organizations such as NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) look to RFID […]

SAP plans to vigorously defend itself against Oracles lawsuit alleging “corporate theft on a grand scale” and it will continue offering services to customers through its TomorrowNow subsidiary, according to a March 23 statement released by the company. /zimages/4/28571.gifClick here to read more about the lawsuit. “SAP will not comment other than to make it […]

A little more than one week after Convergence, Microsofts big annual user conference that highlights the companys Dynamics brand of ERP and CRM software, Microsoft quietly made some changes in the Business Solutions executive lineup. Satya Nadella, corporate vice president of Microsoft Business Solutions, and effectively the leader of the Microsoft Dynamics group that includes […]

Just two months after its Winter 07 release that brought Apex perhaps the worlds first on-demand programming language (or at least a preview of the code), Salesforce.com announced March 19 its Spring 07 release that brings another nifty new gadget for users. With the Winter 07 release, Salesforce announced AppSpace, a sort of mySpace portal […]

Leading up to Sapphire, its big annual user conference in Atlanta next month, SAP announced March 19 the April availability of more than a dozen standards designed to help both IT and business process experts wrangle the practice of designing and executing business processes. At the same time, the company announced a new preconfigured support […]

SAP AG announced March 15 at CeBIT another sweeping set of initiatives around its mid-market software, including service-oriented architecture versions of its SAP All-in-One suite released by partners, and the development of a Governance Risk and Compliance network and GRC Executive Advisory Council. But SAP is not delaying A1S, its most important mid-market release this […]