Renee Boucher Ferguson

NCR, which offers hardware and software solutions around RFID, from customer relationship management software to bar-code scanners, announced April 10 it has acquired IDVelocity. IDVelocity, based in Greensboro, N.C., develops RFID infrastructure and process management software. The terms of the deal were undisclosed. NRC believes that it is the ability to transform RFID data and […]

Business Objects, which develops business intelligence software, is getting into the on demand business. The company announced April 10 that its ubiquitous Crystal Reports software is available as a service, Named crystalreports.com, the service is essentially an on-demand report-sharing platform that lets users connect to data sources and share information. Users first have to choose […]

ORLANDO, Fla.—At its CUE user conference here the week of April 10, officials of Lawson Software emphasized the companys focus on service-oriented architecture for the midmarket. The company announced April 10 its first SOA-based application, Lawson Strategic Sourcing, which is built using service concepts and designed to be deployed in a services-based architecture. Its also […]

ORLANDO, Fla.—With its latest application suite, Lawson 9, on the market since March and the acquisition of Intentia expected to close April 24, Lawson Software laid out its product road map through 2008—or the foreseeable future in software years—at its annual CUE user event. On April 10 Lawson, during the first day of its two-day […]

With business intelligence garnering more headlines and enterprise attention, software vendors are getting in the mix with less-than-traditional offerings. Two companies, one an open-source provider, the other an ERP (enterprise resource planning) provider, are announcing new BI software, each available in a different model. Pentaho, which develops open-source BI software, will announce April 11 the […]

Salesforce.com, which provides on-demand customer relationship management software, suffered another service outage April 6—one that lasted a good portion of the day, according to users who have contacted eWEEK. The outage began shortly after 8 a.m. PDT on April 6 and continued sporadically throughout the day, leaving users unable to access their Salesforce.com applications for […]

Linda Dillman, a woman who has rock star status in the IT industry, particularly among RFID aficionados, has been reassigned. The former CIO of Wal-Mart Stores, Dillman will become executive vice president of risk management and benefits administration at Wal-Mart, the company announced April 5. Dillmans colleague Rollin Ford, previously executive vice president of logistics […]

While there are no exact release dates to pin a formal announcement on, a Salesforce.com spokesperson confirmed April 6 that the company is in development with an SAP AG integration module, based on code the company uses in its application hosting service. The work stems from a recent addition to the Salesforce.com executive team, according […]

As Oracle waxes eloquent about Fusion Middlewares platform uptick—the company announced April 4 that 30,000 customers are using Fusion Middleware—and SAP AG gears up for its yearly Sapphire user conference, customers are still largely in the dark about imminent technology changes at both companies. A recent report by IT research firm Forrester Research of Cambridge, […]

Honing its software compliance skills, SAP announced April 3 the acquisition of Virsa Systems, a privately held company that develops enterprise risk management software. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Founded in 1996, Virsa has an interesting pedigree. Its investors include SAP Ventures, the investment arm of Walldorf, Germany-based SAP AG, Kleiner Perkins Caufield […]