Jim Wagner

For the past couple months, most of the coverage of PeopleSoft , has been about the highly-publicized attempts of arch-rival Oracle to take over the enterprise software company. But for the next few days, PeopleSoft has the chance to draw attention to other news about it as it launches new products and expands its commitment […]

In one of its biggest deals to date, Web services software developer Systinet signed Amazon.com to a multi-year deal that standardizes all the information flowing to and from the merchant’s many third-party vendors. Using the C++ programming language as a backdrop to the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP ), and using SOAP envelopes to deliver […]

The board of directors at Striva Friday agreed to the $62 million stock purchase of its mainframe data integration company to one-time customer Informatica. For the past two years, Redwood City, Calif.’s, Informatica has been a customer at Striva, selling the mainframe package as an office end manufacturer (OEM) component to its PowerConnect data integration […]

Macromedia launched its updated Studio MX 2004 to the Web developer world Wednesday, promising customizable controls and tighter cross-product integration with MX components. The new software suite was announced last month and ties together Dreamweaver MX, Flash MX, Flash MX Professional and Fireworks MX. The company also rolled out the latest Flash Player, version 7, […]

A new survey by IDC released Tuesday paints a grim picture for IT managers looking for money to meet their corporate objectives. “For the CIO, the difficulty of winning funds for projects which are not considered mission-critical will remain challenging,” said Stephen Minton, IDC director of worldwide IT markets. “More than one third of respondents […]

chinadotcom , through its subsidiary company CDC Software, on Tuesday announced the acquisition of supply chain management (SCM) software provider IMI Corp. chinadotcom took over the company after gaining a 51-percent majority stake; Palo Alto, Calif., Symphony Technology Group holds the other 49 percent. The acquisition of IMI is a proven moneymaker for chinadotcom, which […]

Officials at software giant SAP opened their 8th annual Tech Education conference in Las Vegas with the announcement two technology companies have signed up with its integration suite, NetWeaver. Siemens, the Germany-based electronics corporation, and Synopsys, an electronic design automation software company, will integrate their back-office and front-office functions into one to improve business processes. […]

Capitalizing on a bricks-and-mortar company’s desire to focus on their product, EDS landed a 10-year, $426 million outsourcing contract. Starting this week, EDS will take over the day-to-day task of global networking, global messaging and desktop/PC management for York International, a heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration company with 23,000 employees and sales in more […]

Ask any sales person within your company to give up one of their hard-earned contacts and you’re likely to meet stony silence as they look for a way to keep that information to themselves. Spoke Software only wants to help spread the sales person’s contacts, and is turning skeptics about the process into believers. Protecting […]

Veriant Systems, Inc. , announced today plans to incorporate its ULTRA customer relationship management (CRM) software into select Internal Revenue Service (IRS) support centers this year. The multi-million dollar contract signed with the IRS is the software side of a solution the government agency has been looking to address since the passage of the “Internal […]

To better stay on top of a company’s intellectual property management, SAP Wednesday announced the launched of its expanded, more comprehensive intellectual property management tool for its SAP for Media software suite. Previously, it was a module in the software company’s new mySAP Customer Relationship Management suite, before getting the makeover and enhancements. According to […]

Executives are showing signs of opening up the coffers for more spending but they’re looking towards the future, not fixing the problems of today. And that’s becoming a mixed blessing for IT staffs around corporate America. Despite a growing backlog for software application support in large enterprises, most executives are slow to beef up their […]