Renee Boucher Ferguson

Just about a year after Salesforce.com unveiled its AppExchange application marketplace, the company is announcing an e-commerce engine to back it up. Sort of. Salesforce.com announced Dec. 12 its strategy and vision for AppStore, the monetization of the AppExchange marketplace that the company plans to release in a phased rollout throughout 2007. “This is really […]

SAP is looking to an aggressive midmarket push to help triple its customer base over the next four years and stave off competition from the likes of Oracle and Microsoft. In his keynote speech Dec. 4 at the companys annual analyst conference here, Shai Agassi, president of SAPs Product and Technology Group and a member […]

SAP is placing a winner-takes-all bet on service-oriented architecture for itself and its customers, according to company executives. At its annual analyst event in Las Vegas Dec. 4 and 5, SAP executives discussed the companys progress since it began its SOA journey in 2003 with the introduction of its Enterprise Services Architecture, the transformations its […]

LAS VEGAS—At its annual TechEd event here in September, SAP AG announced that it would stabilize its MySAP ERP suite for the next five years. The plan: Rather than release a major upgrade every couple of years—pretty much the tradition in the software industry, one that requires a major investment to stay current—SAP said it […]

A battle brewing in the business applications market is boiling down to two sides: on-premises versus on-demand software. Salesforce.com, an on-demand vendor in San Francisco that racked up $500 million in revenue in the third quarter of fiscal 2007, is looking to better delineate its integration strategy by announcing Nov. 27 ApexConnect, a family of […]

Microsoft and SAP are rolling out the latest edition of Duet, the joint software application the two companies developed to enable users to access SAP business processes through Microsoft Office applications. The two companies announced Version 1.5 of Duet Nov. 16 at Microsofts TechEd IT Forum show in Barcelona, Spain. Version 1.5, targeted for release […]

There is a battle brewing in the business applications market, and its boiling down to two sides: on-premises versus on-demand software. With Salesforce.com, the poster child for on-demand software, racking up a half-billion dollars in revenues for its fiscal 2007 third quarter, its clear the on-demand sector is gaining ground. To better delineate its integration […]

At the Microsoft TechEd: IT Forum in Barcelona, Spain, Microsoft and SAP announced Nov. 16 the next edition of Duet, the joint software application the two companies developed to enable users to access SAP business processes through Microsoft Office applications. Version 1.5 of Duet, targeted for a summer 2007 release, will include tools for configuring […]

Marc Benioff, Salesforce.coms chairman and CEO, had much to crow about during the companys Nov. 15 fiscal third quarter 2007 earnings call. The company announced record customer increases, record earnings and a cash flow of more than $30 million. It also achieved its goal to become the first on-demand software company to reach $500,000 annual […]

On Dec. 1 the Federal Drug Administration is expected to lift its stay on its Prescription Drug Marketing Act, which mandates that wholesale pharmaceutical distributors show a paper or electronic “pedigree,” or trail, for every drug that touches their company by 2007. The upcoming mandate comes as no surprise to the manufacturers, distributors and retailers […]