Baan unveiled a new platform and a new suite of applications Tuesday as part of its continuing efforts to support a real-time enterprise to manage collaboration between people and applications to allow companies to be more responsive to business change.
Supply-chain execution vendor Vcommerce rolled out a new distributed order management system on Thursday that is designed to trounce supply-chain obstacles such as back orders and delayed shipments by providing heightened supply-chain visibility.
Business Intelligence Company Hyperion Solutions announced in the US a strategic OEM and reseller agreement to embed Web-based query, reporting and information delivery solutions from Crystal Decisions for relational and multidimensional data into Hyperion's platform.
SAP AG markets on Wednesday officially announced its new SRM (supplier relationship management) product, designed to manage supplier interactions to boost enterprise competitiveness and profitability.
Hampered by integration and cultural issues, most enterprises are still waiting to reap benefits from business-to-business exchanges, according to a new US study by Giga Information Group and Booz Allen Hamilton.
Gartner Group Inc. has removed Ariba Inc. from its "problem watch" list after the company addressed some product quality issues and rolled out a strategic sourcing product.
Oracle will soon be offering an e-procurement hosted solution designed to be rolled out in 30 days to encompass the full range of a company's purchasing.
Hewlett-Packard (HP) and SAP AG have teamed up to offer supply-chain management solutions to large enterprise customers, the companies announced Wednesday.
IBM and i2 Technologies will offer a joint software-and-services solution for SRM (supplier relationship management) for the high-tech sector, the companies announced this week.
Existing Ariba customers should minimise their investment in the company's e-procurement solution, and potential customers should select that solution only if they are protected from fallout from a possible Ariba acquisition, according to a Gartner Group report scheduled to be released this week.
IBM and J.D. Edwards have formed a global alliance to jointly sell and market collaborative commerce solutions to the public sector and wholesale distribution markets, the companies announced yesterday.
After hovering near bankruptcy last year, Baan is waging a comeback as major customers opt for upgrades, buoying the company to report its first profitable quarter after nine consecutive quarters of operating losses.
With Monday's announcement that Ariba will acquire Agile Software in a stock swap valued at $US2.5 billion, Ariba is making it clear that it wants to marry business-to-business (B2B) commerce to collaboration for a single, unified platform for B2B trading, an analyst stressed.
The concept of transmitting conversations over the Internet has attracted a lot of attention over the past year - if not a lot of business. But a similar concept, with another whole range of benefits, is also emerging: faxing over the Internet.
