AS USERS RUSH to the digital marketplace, they are looking to the major ERP (enterprise resource planning) players to provide direct application hosting services, which is adding new fuel to the highly competitive realm of ERP.
At a time when most business leaders envisioned dollar signs as they watched the emergence of Internet-based, business-to-business trading exchanges, BASF AG's Karl Grupp saw an omen for his company's digital future instead.
When General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co., and DaimlerChrysler AG agreed last week to create a single Internet exchange from two existing ones, the implications were that an archetype for Internet-based trading of goods and services had come to the forefront of the global e-commerce market.
Siebel Systems Inc. is going mobile with Siebel Wireless, a WAP (Wireless Access Protocol) browser for the Siebel 2000 CRM (customer relationship management) package to be released this spring.
Oracle Corp. today took a major step forward in the world of wireless computing, unveiling here plans for a wireless Internet portal for consumers that is supported by a new wholly-owned subsidiary, OracleMobile.com.
In its critical e-business push, struggling packaged application vendor Baan will bring front and centre its Web-based, thin-client product configuration package for sales and CRM (customer relationship management).
WITH ITS ACQUISITION of Sterling Software Inc., Computer Associates International Inc. (CA) has significantly added to its e-business infrastructure strategy. But the company will face challenges in sorting out the integration of its accumulated product lines and cultures, industry analysts said.
Octane Software Inc. is making its Octane 2000 offering available as a hosted application to those customers who need rapidly deployed CRM (customer relationship management) services but lack the IT infrastructure to implement them.
Last week's $4.2 billion merger between Kana Communications Inc. and Silknet Software Inc. serves as further proof that the market for CRM (customer relationship management) is large enough to support vendors providing integrated solutions as well as those offering specialized products.
A quiet race is under way to provide a real-time or a near real-time, high performance infrastructure for the Internet-based trading exchanges that are cropping up daily.
IN AN EFFORT TO CURB "rogue buying," Chase Manhattan and Deloitte Consulting are forming a dot-com start-up targeting Fortune-1000 companies that need to streamline their indirect procurement costs.
In an effort to curb "rogue buying," Chase Manhattan and Deloitte Consulting are forming a dot-com start-up targeted at Fortune 1,000 companies that need to streamline their indirect procurement costs.
The RosettaNet XML-based supply chain management standards for IT manufacturers passed their first hurdle last week with eConcert Readiness Day, fueling speculation that the methodology of this effort could be cloned in other vertical markets, given significant buy-in from major players.
AS EXPECTED, Cisco Systems and Tibco Software announced Monday that they will be working closely to build intelligent networks that combine publish/subscribe technology with IP multicasting.
DIVERSIFIED, MULTINATIONAL industrial behemoth Cargill will be setting up a worldwide supply chain and global links for employees through the combined use of J.D. Edwards software and Ariba's B2B (business-to-business) platform and network services.