Users, industry analysts, and vendors foresee the integration of wireless and back-office systems via the Web as quickly becoming the preferred way for mobile workers to do business. Unfortunately, that model usually requires a case-by-case approach that entails cobbling together solutions from several different providers.
SAP AG will be working with Palm, maker of handheld wireless devices, to develop wireless solutions for the MySAP.com Mobile Workplace environment, an official of SAP said yesterday.
While there was much buzz about e-commerce strategies at a securities industry event in New York this week, a potentially major operations problem is lurking -- the move from listing stock prices in fractions to decimals.
Integration was the byword this past week for SAP AG and J.D. Edwards & Co. as they strove to show how they can link their ERP (enterprise resource planning) applications to e-business front ends through Internet or third-party technologies.
Although most perceived SAP AG's announcement last week that it will be working closely with Commerce One as a bold move, many participants at the SAP Sapphire 2000 user conference in Las Vegas had questions about how SAP will be able to pull off what is regarded as a major integration project.
Since their start, business-to-business digital trading exchanges have been holding out the Holy Grails of better prices for buyers, more channels for suppliers, and the multiple efficiencies that are part and parcel of automation.
IBM is set to launch a global Internet business-to-business exchange for the telecommunications and electronics industries, according to industry sources.
Spending for the research and development of Baan NV's ERP (enterprise resource planning) software will not be cut and may be increased as a result of last week's acquisition of Baan by Invensys, the UK automation and controls group, said Bruce Henderson, the chief executive at the Intelligent Automation division of Invensys.
Hoping to set off a supply-chain revolution for the computer, electronics, and telecommunications industries, IBM Corp. today is launching e2open.com, a global Internet business-to-business exchange that will be underway by mid-July, said officials at IBM and the many backers of this new venture.
Since their start, business-to-business digital trading exchanges have been holding out the Holy Grails of better prices for buyers, more channels for suppliers, and the multiple efficiencies that are part and parcel of automation.
IBM Corp. is preparing to announce next week a global Internet business-to-business exchange for the telecommunications and electronics industries, according to industry sources.
More than a few ripples disturbed the ERP (enterprise resource planning) market this week as a result of SAP's strategic overhaul and the acquisition of financially troubled middle-market player, Baan Co. NV, by Ivensys PLC, a London-based automation and controls group.
SAP AG clarified this week a new path to mySAP.com for its R/3 installed base at its Sapphire 2000 user conference in Berlin, extending maintenance support for the R/3 suite and offering an additional pricing option.
A relative nerwcomer to the business-to-business exchange platform realm, webMethods Inc. is acquiring EAI (enterprise application integration) player Active Software Inc. in a $1.3 billion deal that puts webMethods on the short list of exchange integration providers.