Alibris Charged w/Intercepting Email Internet book dealer Alibris has agreed to pay a $250,000 fine after being charged with 10 counts of Internet book dealer Alibris has agreed to pay a $250,000 fine after being charged with 10 counts of intercepting electronic communications.
December 22, 1999
SAP Highlights Supply Chain Management Tools At last week's eBusiness Conference & Expo, SAP AG updated attendees on its supply chain management application, Advanced Planner and Optimizer (APO).
December 22, 1999
Boeing Expands Baan Licensing Deal On December 16, Netherlands-based Baan Co. said the Boeing Co. has signed an enterprise-wide licensing deal that could expand its use of Baan's business applications.
December 22, 1999
Windows 2000 Releases to Manufacturing - Finally Microsoft Corp. said Wednesday it finished work on its long-awaited Windows 2000 operating system (a/k/a Win2K), wrapping up a long and painful development project that also represents Microsoft's best hope of dominating Internet computing.
December 22, 1999
Hackers Will Be Out in Full Force On New Year's Eve This New Year's Eve will be a hacker's halloween party. As hackers disguise themselves, and their antics, as Y2K bugs and fixes, watch-out for problems on your network a lot more serious than incorrect date postings and outages.
December 22, 1999
Commerce One Goes High, Wide and PeopleSoft E-procurement powerhouse Commerce One creates business-to-business marketplaces in Canada and Latin America It has also launched a phalanx of portals in partnership with PeopleSoft.
December 22, 1999
Bank is First Mover in Canadian E-Commerce TD Bank of Canada has entered into a partnership with Commerce One to create an E-purchasing marketplace in Canada. As the first such endeavor, the bank hopes to capture both mind- and marketshare before the inevitable competitors crowd in.
December 22, 1999
Oracle Announces a Database Fire Sale On December 16, Oracle Corporation announced lower software and support prices for the Oracle8i database. Specifically, the price of Oracle8i Standard Edition was lowered 40% from $25 per power unit to $15 per power unit, while Oracle8i Enterprise Edition was cut 50% from $200 per power unit to $100 per power unit.
December 15, 1999
Microsoft Announces SQL Server 2000 On December 13, Microsoft Corp. announced that the next major release of Microsoft« SQL Server, currently code-named "Shiloh," would officially be named SQL Server 2000. Microsoft also revealed the features within SQL Server 2000 that will take advantage of the Microsoft Windows« 2000 operating system. SQL Server 2000 is due to ship in the first half of 2000 and is currently in beta testing at nearly 750 companies.
December 15, 1999
IBM and Deutsche Telecom Announce Plans for 100 Terabyte Data Warehouse According to an announcement by International Business Machines on Thursday December 16, 1999, IBM is working with German telecommunications services company Deutsche Telekom to assemble the largest data warehouse in the world. When complete, the warehouse will contain up to 100 terabytes of customer and call records, to be used for Customer Relationship Management (CRM) applications.
Lotus Announces Upcoming Release of ASP Solution Pack SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 26, 1999 -- At ISPCON'99, IBM's Lotus Development Corp. today announced the ASP Solution Pack, a hosted applications offering that provides a Lotus Domino- and IBM WebSphere-powered platform and a ready-to-rent solution set directly targeted at the needs of Application Service Providers (ASPs) and their small and mid-sized business customers.
December 15, 1999
Panasonic Selects Brooktrout for Voice Messaging Platform Through a strategic partnership with Brooktrout Technologies, Panasonic has acquired the necessary voice and fax technologies to saturate the market with competitively priced, unified messaging products that will strongly challenge Lucent Technologies Octel Messenger system.
December 15, 1999
Dell to Factory-Install Red Hat Linux on Servers Red Hat, Inc., and Dell Computer Corporation today extended their strategic alliance, with Dell committing to factory-install Red Hat Linux on all future and currently shipping Dell« PowerEdge« server models.
December 15, 1999
Gateway Announces Server Appliances Gateway, Inc. has announced two new Linux-based server appliances, entering a growing market with products aimed at small businesses/offices.
December 15, 1999
Compaq and Samsung in Deal to Save Alpha Compaq Computer Corp. and South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. are planning to announce Monday a preliminary agreement to spend $500 million to advance the manufacturing and marketing of Compaq's 64-bit Alpha microprocessors and computer systems.
December 15, 1999
J.D. Edwards Closes Out Millennium on an Up Note On December 1, J.D. Edwards & Company surprised Wall Street by returning to profitability in the fourth quarter, a sign the market may be turning around for J.D. Edwards as companies wrap up Y2K fixes and turn to implementing new software again.
December 15, 1999
Aspen Technology Signs Pact with PWC Aspen Technology, Inc. recently announced a strategic alliance with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP that will help link Aspen's process simulation, control and supply chain management applications to ERP.
Peregrine Hatches an "e-" Peregrine Systems announced its Get.It! solution suite for the company Intranet. Peregrine's first self-service solution is corporate e-purchasing, and uses Commerce One's MarketSite.
Concur's Customers Can Network Now Following the path of other E-procurement vendors, Concur announced a purchasing network for large companies. At the same time, Concur announced that its entire suite of products, including access to its purchasing network, will be available to small and mid-sized companies as an outsourced, Web-based product.
December 13, 1999
Dynamic Ariba Trades Up Ariba Inc., a leader in electronic purchasing systems for the Internet, has acquired Trading Dynamics, a maker of applications that support business-to-business trading.
December 8, 1999
Informix to Acquire Ardent Software-Another Vendor's Attempt at End-to-End Data Warehousing Informix« (NASDAQ: IFMX) and Ardent Software (NASDAQ: ARDT) today announced that they have reached a definitive agreement to combine their operations in a transaction valued, on a fully diluted basis, at approximately $880 million, based on the closing price of Informix common stock on November 30, 1999. The combination creates a $1 billion company in open software infrastructure for what Informix refers to as the "i.Economy". Ardent's components and solutions will continue to be marketed independent of the underlying database technology.
December 8, 1999
Oracle Gets SAP'ed by IBM SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced an agreement to expand their global sales, marketing and development relationship. As part of this agreement, the two companies will work together to provide expanded choices for customers that wish to implement mySAP.com and IBM's DB2 Universal Database on a variety of hardware platforms. Following in the footsteps of Siebel, SAP has abandoned Oracle and is standardizing on DB2 UDB as its preferred platform. The deal is estimated at $400 million in sales annually.
Bristol Technology Ships Win-to-Lin Migration Tool Bristol Technology, Inc. has announced shipment of its Windows-to-Linux application-migration tool. Bristol's Wind/U for Linux product, which began shipping Tuesday, enables developers to compile Microsoft Win32 API and Microsoft Foundation Class source code directly on Linux, and create native, desktop and server-based Linux applications, according to Bristol.
December 8, 1999
The "S" in SAP Doesn't Stand for Security (that goes for PeopleSoft too) During the course of product evaluations for a customer, the Technology Evaluation Center has uncovered a potential security hole in SAP R/3's three-tier architecture. SAP has revealed that they expect the database or third party products to handle security between the application server and the database server. If the client does not take these extra measures, the master password for the SAP database instance travels over the network in the clear, and can be captured. PeopleSoft has the same issue.
SAP Finds CRM Partner for Marketing Tools On December 6, SAP revealed it had entered into a partnership with Recognition Systems Group of the United Kingdom to add marketing-planning and campaign-management features to its customer-relationship management suite.
December 8, 1999
Pronto ERP 'Coming to America' On November 29, Pronto Inc. announced its presence in North America, entering the ERP market with a complete breadth of offerings. The new company is a subsidiary of Australian based Prometheus Software Developments Pty. Ltd., a leading Far Eastern Internet and e-commerce enabled ERP provider.
December 8, 1999
Industri-Matematik Posts 2Q00 Loss But Sells CRM Industri-Matematik 2Q00 revenues decreased 21% over the same period last year. More alarming is a four-year decline in license revenues, a trend that IMI hopes to reverse with its new suite, VIVALDI, and IBM.
December 8, 1999
Cap Gemini Eyeing Ernst & Young Business Unit French integrator Cap Gemini has announced that it may buy the business consulting division of Big 5 firm, Ernst & Young. The deal would create an $8.5 billion global consulting giant.
More Data is Going to the Cleaners WESTBORO, Mass., November 29, 1999 - Ardent Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: ARDT) today announced a strategic partnership with Firstlogic, Inc., the developer of i.d.Centric data quality software that helps companies cleanse and consolidate data in database marketing, data warehousing, and e-business applications. Under the partnership agreement Firstlogic will develop and support a link between its customer data quality tools and Ardent's DataStage Suite.
December 1, 1999
Microsoft Goes Their Own Way with Data Warehousing Alliance 2000 Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) today announced that 47 applications and tools from 39 vendors throughout the industry have qualified for Microsoft« Data Warehousing Alliance 2000. Alliance members and partners are committed to delivering tools and applications based on the Microsoft Data Warehousing Framework 2000, an open architecture based on the open standards and services built into the Windows« 2000 operating system, Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 and Office 2000.
December 1, 1999
Dell Jumps Into Internet PC Arena Dell Computer Corp. has announced that it is taking orders for its new Webpc, Dell's first product from its Web Products Group, and its first foray into the growing market of Internet appliances.
Industrial & Financial Systems, IFS AB: Thriving on Product Flexibility and Incremental Deployability IFS was one of the first ERP vendors to incorporate concepts of component technology and a high-level of integration with both its own and other vendors' components, all providing for flexibility, modularity and ongoing post-implementation system agility and incremental deployment. The Company supports most of the IT industry-accepted middleware standards and is well poised for future technological developments and requirements.
December 1, 1999
Surf's Up at Akamai Akamai has unveiled a killer IPO in a mere 14 months. Its innovative product called FreeFlow delivers website content at stellar speeds. Will it be able to deliver revenue at the same speed it can deliver content?
E-Mail Enabled Groupware Through implementing a "Universal Inbox" a user is theoretically able to access his or her messages from anywhere at anytime, increasing productivity and driving down associated operating costs.
December 1, 1999
Altrec Takes E-commerce to Extremes Altrec is a startup E-commerce website that takes aim on the upscale outdoor recreation market. In this interview Altrec's CTO discusses the initial technology decisions on which the company's infrastructure is based.
December 1, 1999
Ariba Hopes to Spark Chain Reaction Two recent partnership announcements, with InterWorld and Siebel, reveal how E-procurement wunderkind Ariba thinks about the future of electronic purchasing.
December 1, 1999
Engage AudienceNet Brings Users the Ads They Want To See Engage has introduced a new product that delivers ads to users who are most likely to be receptive to them. AudienceNet relies on data collecting, proprietary algorithms and old-fashioned direct marketing savvy to increase clickthrough rates.
December 1, 1999
Great Plains: Strong Channel and Microsoft focus for Dynamic(s) Growth Great Plains has established very strong branding and penetration within the Small-to-Medium Enterprises (SME) segment of the ERP market, with a large and loyal customer base and a uniquely developed, extensive partner channel within the industry. A long presence on Microsoft's platforms ensures that R&D money has been spent on enhancing product functionality in accordance with the voice of customers and/or the market trends.
December 1, 1999
QAD Reports Third-Quarter--Revenue Rises 56 Percent On November 23, QAD Inc. reported that its total revenue for the third fiscal quarter ended October 31, 1999, rose 56 percent to $56.7 million, from $36.4 million in the same quarter last year. License revenue was $20.6 million, an increase of 21 percent compared with $17.1 million in the prior-year period. Excluding non-recurring tax charges totaling $1.3 million, QAD reported a net loss for the third fiscal quarter of $3.2 million, or $0.11 diluted loss per share. Including the $1.3 million of non-recurring tax charges, QAD's net loss for the third quarter was $4.5 million, or $0.15 diluted loss per share. This compares with last year's
December 1, 1999
ERP Packages For Midsize Firms in the Works Two vendors of enterprise resource planning (ERP) software for midsize companies, Epicor Software Corporation and QAD Inc., are gearing up to deliver new e-commerce applications.
December 1, 1999
Descartes Evolution Yields Revenue Growth But No Profits Descartes Systems Group recently announced its financial results for the third quarter ended October 31, 1999. Revenues were $10.5 million, an increase of 7% over last quarter, but a decrease of 16% from the same period last year. Descartes attributes the renewed revenue growth to its successful evolution into a provider of customer fulfillment network optimization software. In contrast to its revenues, Descartes posted a net loss of $4 million, suggesting that it has not yet fully recovered from an acquisition spree in 1997 and 1998.
November 1999
November 29, 1999
Freeware Vendor's Web Tracking Draws Curses The free cartoon character cursor provided by Comet Systems Inc. tracks and stores the web visits of millions of people. This potential privacy issue was discovered and announced by the same security consultant who discovered, in March of 1999, that Microsoft Windows was inserting unique serial numbers into many documents created within Office 97 programs like Word and Excel.
Microsoft Throws in the Towel in the Instant Messaging Wars REDMOND, Wash. (Bloomberg) - Microsoft Corp., the world's largest software maker, has stopped linking its instant messaging system with America Online Inc.'s instant electronic-mail program, the companies said.
November 24, 1999
Sun to "Community Source" Almost Everything Sun Microsystems Inc. is working towards eventually "community sourcing" as much of its software as possible, according to company Co-founder and Chief Scientist Bill Joy.
November 24, 1999
eMachines Considering Internet Appliance eMachines, Inc., is considering a foray into the "appliance" market. This adds to the number of vendors offering products in this new and growing market segment.
November 24, 1999
Brio Technology Enters the ETL Market Brio Technology (Nasdaq: BRYO) today announced Brio.Impact 4.0, an upgraded version of the industry's first analytic application designed specifically for revenue optimization. Available immediately, Brio.Impact 4.0 includes an integrated extraction, transformation and loading (ETL) capability.
November 24, 1999
Key Product Delays Take a Toll on Oracle Users Amid the hoopla of strong earnings projections and a record-high stock price, Oracle Corp. is letting the release of a pair of highly touted applications slip-prompting possible user defections and problems down the road.
Logility Surges on Second Quarter Earnings Announcement Logility, Inc. recently announced its financial results for the second quarter and six months ended October 31, 1999. In spite of the Y2K marketplace malaise, Logility reported a 60% increase in total revenue over the same period last year. Profits fell comfortably in positive territory at $0.07 per diluted share. Wall Street reacted ecstatically to the news, which caused Logility's stock price to more than double on Tuesday.
November 24, 1999
Deloitte & Touche Alliance with SynQuest Largely Symbolic Deloitte & Touche recently named SynQuest, Inc. a preferred advanced planning and scheduling (APS) partner. Under the terms of the agreement, Deloitte & Touche will provide supply chain redesign services in implementations of the SynQuest supply chain suite of e-business applications.
November 23, 1999
Connect to Sport Calico Label Calico Commerce purchased E-commerce old-timer ConnectInc.Com to offer complete business-to-business capabilities.
November 17, 1999
Sterling Software Sees the Light with Eureka:Intelligence Sterling Software, Inc. (NYSE: SSW) announced general availability today of its new EUREKA:Intelligence product, a 100% Java, Web-Based Integrated, Query, Analysis and Reporting tool that allows users to easily query, manipulate and format data for personal or shared use. EUREKA:Intelligence is suited for large, distributed organizations that require general purpose analyses reporting requirements for a large portion of business users.
November 17, 1999
Oracle8i Release 2 - Ready to Storm the Web On November 15, Oracle Corp., announced the pending availability of Oracle8i Release 2, the follow-on to Oracle8i, the most rapidly adopted database product ever released by the company. To date, more than 5000 "Dot Coms" and other enterprises are using Oracle8i. Additionally, over 800 Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) have developed applications and tools optimized for Oracle8i data warehousing and online transaction processing features since the product's release in March 1999. The new release has expanded analytical data warehousing functions, native support for Java2 and performance and management enhancements.
November 17, 1999
Intel Invests in eSoft - "Lintel" Continues to Grow Intel has invested in eSoft, a maker of Linux-based servers for small businesses, the chip giant's fourth Linux investment. Intel will help the company develop software for Linux servers designed to be used on the Internet.
November 17, 1999
Sony Picks Palm OS Sony announced plans to build new Palm OS-based hand-held gadgets that could allow people to view videos, listen to music and organize information, thereby shutting out Windows CE.
November 17, 1999
Here Come the "Information Appliances" The hot products at Comdex 99 are expected to be in the up-and-coming area of "information appliances", which we expect will show significant growth in the coming years.
November 17, 1999
SAP Details CRM Plans On November 9, SAP outlined its Customer Relationship Management plans in preparation for its product delivery next month. In December the company is expected to launch a telesales application and Internet portal that it hopes will lay the foundation for the full CRM suite rollout early next year.
November 17, 1999
Geac Metamorphosises JBA Into Gear, but Cuts 20% of Staff On November 12, Geac Computer unveiled its plan to turn its UK-based JBA Holdings acquisition into a new division, dubbed Gear, that will focus on the midrange enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications market.
November 17, 1999
AspenTech Launches e-Business InitiativeFinally Aspen Technology recently announced its e-commerce initiative, Aspen e-Business, which is the first in a planned series of business-to-business e-commerce applications. As part of the initiative, AspenTech will partner with business-to-business application vendor Extricity Software, Inc. to deliver e-commerce solutions. Though Aspen lags behind other enterprise application software vendors in e-commerce offerings, recent business restructuring efforts and its hold on the process manufacturing segment may lead to success.
November 17, 1999
EXE Latest Vendor to Join IBM Supply Chain Club IBM and EXE Technologies today announced a global strategic relationship in which the two vendors will provide supply chain customers with integrated solutions that will help them transform into e-businesses. These solutions will be initially targeted to customers in the automotive, consumer packaged goods, electronics, retail and wholesale distribution industries. In addition, EXE and IBM announced that Pep Boys, a large automotive products retailer in the United States, and Metro Richelieu, one of Canada's largest grocers, are the first customers to take advantage of this relationship.
Life-sciences E-commerce Supplier Grows Chemdex is a provider of business-to-business procurement for the life sciences industry. Leveraging the strength of its recent IPO, the company is expanding its abilities to integrate with other vendors and to launch new customers quickly. Recent partnerships to support these initiatives include Ariba, Concur Technologies and IBM.
November 15, 1999
Security Snafu at NetBank Online internet bank NetBank suffered an embarrassing security exposure late last week when a customer discovered he had access to more funds and information than his own.
November 11, 1999
Oracle is Word One at Ford Ford Motor Company and Oracle Corporation announced the formation of the AutoXchange, an integrated electronic procurement supply chain to be created and run as a joint venture.
Corel and PC Chips to Accelerate Mass Desktop Deployment of Linux Corel Corporation today announced its first major Linux(r) OEM alliance, which will see its Linux operating system, Corel(r) LINUX(r), bundled with every computer motherboard package shipped worldwide by the PC Chips group of companies.
November 10, 1999
NEC Pulls Packard Bell PCs in US Japan's NEC Corp. plans a restructuring of its U.S. Packard Bell NEC unit that will result in layoffs of about 80 percent of the unit's staff, the departure of senior management and its withdrawal from the U.S. retail personal-computer market.
November 10, 1999
CheckPoint & Nokia Team Up to Unleash a Rockin' Security Appliance In a partnership with Checkpoint, Nokia takes its Internet Appliance and throws in Firewall-1. The Nokia IP330, IP440, and IP650, the first highly-available firewall and VPN appliance line, is poised to wow the market with its all encompassing feature set.
November 10, 1999
Informatica Conforms to Metadata Standard Informatica Corporation (Nasdaq: INFA), a major extract/transform/load tool vendor, today announced the general availability of MX2 1.6, the latest version of its Metadata Exchange (MX2) application programming interface (API). Informatica bills MX2 1.6 as the first object-oriented metadata exchange facility to support XML, a text-based programming language standard for integrating and managing bi-directional metadata exchange.
November 10, 1999
Sybase and MicroStrategy Team on Vertical Market Portal Applications "EMERYVILLE, Calif., Nov. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Sybase«, Inc. (Nasdaq: SYBS) today announced a comprehensive, multi-year licensing, technology and service agreement with MicroStrategy Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR). The alliance offers customers MicroStrategy's Intelligent E-Business software coupled with customer relationship management (CRM) and business performance management (BPM) applications. Under the terms of the partnership, Sybase will embed and re-market MicroStrategy Intelligent E-Business Platform for the Industry Warehouse Studios (IWS) offerings."
November 10, 1999
Oracle Buys Carleton Corporation to Enhance Warehouse Offering "REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., and MINNETONKA, Minn., Nov. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Oracle Corporation (Nasdaq: ORCL) and Carleton Corporation (Nasdaq: CARL) today announced that the two companies have signed a definitive merger agreement for Oracle to acquire Carleton, an early innovator of data quality and mainframe data extraction software". The offer values Carleton shares at $2.45 a share, which is less than the stock's closing price on Monday of $2.56.
French Government awards ERP contract to Peoplesoft On October 29, The French government awarded PeopleSoft the first contract of its Accord Mission - a project to integrate computing across all state departments.
November 9, 1999
E-commerce Grass Getting Greener Two recent studies on the growth of business over the Internet agree that growth is still strong. The studies contain information about infrastructure growth and development costs as well as E-commerce revenues.
November 8, 1999
Baan Releases New Supply Chain Products November 2, 1999 05:30 PM BARNEVELD, Netherlands and HERNDON, Va., Nov. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Baan Company N.V., a global provider of enterprise business solutions, today announced the release of two major new additions to its Supply Chain Solutions suite: Baan Supply Chain Solutions Planner 2.0 for factory planning, and Baan Supply Chain Solutions Order Promising 1.0 for order acceptance. The two solutions provide advanced supply chain and logistics capabilities that enable manufacturing professionals to increase throughput, reduce inventory, improve supply chain visibility, and improve response time and service levels to customers.
IBM and SynQuest Sign AS/400 Pact New Orleans, APICS, 1999- SynQuest and IBM today announced an advanced planning and scheduling e-business software solution for IBM AS/400e servers. The SynQuest solution for AS/400, expected to be available during the first quarter of 2000, is SynQues
November 3, 1999
MAPICS Reports Solid Profitability Despite Dismal Fiscal 1999 4% Growth On October 27, MAPICS, Inc. reported revenues and net income for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended September 30, 1999. For fiscal 1999, total revenues amounted to $134.7 million compared with $129.7 million in fiscal 1998. Net income for the year totaled $13.2 million, or $0.62 per share (diluted), compared with $18.7 million, or $0.81 per share (diluted) in the prior year.
November 3, 1999
Intentia Americas Gains Momentum with 10 New Deals Inked During Last Two Weeks On October 29, Intentia Americas announced that the company has acquired 10 new customers for its Movex Enterprise Application suite during the last two weeks of October. This new business provides both substantial licensing and services revenue to start Intentia Americas fourth quarter.
November 3, 1999
Intel Throws its "Red Hat" into Linux Ring Red Hat said that Intel plans to make Red Hat Linux software available on powerful server computers designed to run websites.
TurboLinux Clusters One More Step Taken TurboLinux Inc. debuted its anticipated TurboCluster Server, starting at $995 for two-node clusters. The product will scale to cluster 30 Intel-based servers.
November 2, 1999
Building Niches A sampler of recent niche E-commerce websites.
November 2, 1999
President Proposes Security of Medical Records President Clinton has announced plans to ensure the privacy of patient medical records. This initiative will prove to be extremely expensive, and will pose a number of technology challenges. How can vendors get a piece of the pie? Who will administer the security of such a large infrastructure development and what products will be used? What organization is best positioned to evaluate the products such a project may require?
November 2, 1999
Webtime Now Legal A court ruled illegal a one-year restriction that would have prevented an employee from working for a competitor.
November 1, 1999
Hershey's Halloween Nightmare All Too Common for Supply Chain Implementations On October 25, Hershey Foods Corporation announced a sharp decline in revenue and earnings for its third fiscal quarter ended September 30, 1999. Consolidated net sales were $1.07 billion compared with $1.22 billion for the third quarter of 1998. Net income for the third quarter was $87.6 million, or $ 0.62 per share-diluted, compared with $107.5 million, or $ 0.74 per share-diluted, for the third quarter of 1998. Hershey Chairman and CEO Kenneth L. Wolfe blamed the poor showing on problems encountered since July, when the company switched over to new systems for customer service, warehousing and order fulfillment.
November 1, 1999
Marcam Solutions: Shifting its Focus to MES The envisioned integration with Wonderware's FactorySuite 2000 will allow Protean users to solve shop floor problems with all production data collected and made instantly available. We believe that within the next 4 years Marcam will gradually shift its focus to plant integration and operations applications, while de-emphasizing its financial and order management components and relying on interfaces with other ERP vendors.
November 1, 1999
Advanced Planning and Scheduling: A Critical Part of Customer Fulfillment The face of business is rapidly evolving from traditional brick-and-mortar facades to electronic ones. While web businesses spend considerable effort in polishing Internet front ends with sophisticated graphics and animation, they must also give attention to back end fulfillment operations. Invisible to consumers, these operations encompass networks of manufacturers, warehouses, and distributors that shoulder the burden of filling orders and delivering products. Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) offers powerful tools for addressing the challenges presented to these networks by e-commerce.
November 1, 1999
QAD Inc.: The Art of Vertical Focus QAD is competitive in ease of global multi-site implementation and quality of global service and support. However, QAD's financial position has eroded significantly over the last 18 months, and organizations evaluating QAD products should exercise moderate caution and consider existing functionality only until the Company regains a consistent, profitable financial position.
November 1, 1999
Legal Considerations in E-commerce Doing business on the Internet can involve some tricky legal issues. This article will help you understand the kinds of information you need to provide to your attorney to get the best possible advice on setting up your new Internet business.
November 1, 1999
Counting Website Traffic Knowing how many people visit your website can help you improve the site and increase revenues. Counting them can be easy or accurate, but not both.
November 1, 1999
PeopleSoft on Client/Server and Database Issues To address questions for a TEC customer, we interviewed PeopleSoft's Michael Daniels. The conversation covered issues in the areas of client/server architecture and database management as they relate to the PeopleSoft Enterprise Resource Planning suite of products.
November 1, 1999
SAP's Dr. Peter Barth on Client/Server and Database Issues with SAP R/3 To address questions for a TEC customer, we interviewed Dr. Peter Barth, Technology Marketing Manager for SAP AG in Walldorf, Germany. The conversation covered issues in the areas of client/server architecture and database management used by the SAP R/3 Enterprise Resource Planning suite of products.
November 1, 1999
Lucent's Octel for Microsoft Exchange Lucent's Octel unified messenger uses a text-to-speech conversion engine for transmitting e-mails over a standard telephone line.
November 1, 1999
How To Mitigate Holiday Cybercrime Shop.org, and the Boston Consulting Group, reported that sales during the 1998 holiday season grew by 230 percent. With today's tools, just about anyone can throw up a professional looking website, and make claims about tight security. How can you protect yourself from fly-by-night internet sites, and malicious cyber sleuths who are ready and waiting to "sniff your password and credit card information while transaction is in process? There no way to mitigate every single riskhowever common sense can do wonders helping eliminate e-tail dangers. It pays homework before shopping online.
November 1, 1999
Network Engines, Inc. - Double the CPUs for Web Serving Network Engines, Inc. is a leading vendor of extremely thin rackmount servers used in the rapidly growing area of web serving. In this note, we examine the company and its outlook.
October 1999
October 29, 1999
The Rise or Fall of Internet Advertising Is the Internet advertising industry about to crash? Some pundits think so. Researchers and entrepreneurs aren't so sure
October 27, 1999
Sagent Technology Reports Strong Growth Business Wire - October 21, 1999 - Sagent Technology, Inc., (NASDAQ: SGNT) announced its financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 1999. Revenue for the quarter increased 117% to $10.0 million, from $4.6 million in the third quarter of 1998. Net losses for the 1999 nine-month period were $970,000, compared to a net loss of $11.7 million in the same period last year.
