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December 2000
December 29, 2000	PeopleSoft Delivers Oxymoron In 'Supply Chain in a Box' Users would do well to take PeopleSoft’s claims with a vein of salt and maintain realistic expectations regarding the challenges they will face in integrating their supply chains.
December 27, 2000	Big ERP Players Courting Government Agencies There has been significant activity in the public sector, with all major players winning important new federal contracts for Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). This strong government interest in ERP applications means that ERP seems to be getting some infusion from this sector at least.
December 27, 2000	Essential ERP - Its Functional Scope ERP applications are designed to optimize an organization's underlying business processes - accounting/financial, manufacturing, distribution, and human resources/payroll.
December 25, 2000	The Essential ERP - Its Genesis & Future Knowing the history and evolution of ERP is essential to understanding its current application and its future developments. Each step in the evolution of ERP is built on the fundamentals and principles developed within the previous one.
December 25, 2000	ERP Getting a New Breath of Fresh Air in Europe According to silicon.com, a leading European IT TV News Service, European companies are realizing the importance of customer oriented ERP applications and are set to dramatically increase their investment in related projects over the next two years.
December 22, 2000	Andersen Gives Yantra a Vote of Confidence Yantra and Andersen Consulting have announced a broad strategic alliance to provide supply chain solutions through PureEcommerce™, a Web-based customer transaction management solution for extended enterprises.
December 22, 2000	Ross Systems Continues To Slip, But Pledges to Fight Tooth And Claw Ross Systems' transition from ERP to e-commerce continues to be daunting. On November 14, the company announced yet another disappointing quarterly report owing to all but dried up license revenue. The company also announced how it plans to turn the tide.
December 21, 2000	Red Hat Plays 'Love You, Love You Not' with CPUs Red Hat has announced the release of Alpha Deluxe, its version of Linux for computers based on Compaq’s Alpha CPU. At the same time, the company announced it would drop support for Sun’s Sparc processor.
December 21, 2000	Talarian and NextSet Team for B2B Solutions NextSet Software has formed an alliance with EAI vendor Talarian Corporation to incorporate Talarian SmartSockets middleware technology into NextSet’s Evolution Business-to-Business platform and Internet exchange applications. This is yet another entry by an EAI vendor into the ever more crowded B2B market space.
December 20, 2000	Ten Key Legal Concerns in E-Commerce Ventures and Contracts IT managers must understand the legal issues – at least well enough to know when there is an issue. E-commerce is so new that lawyers (and the law) are having a tough time keeping up with it, but that doesn’t get the manager off the hook if something that should have been thought about slips through the cracks. Here are a few simple points to keep in mind as you work on any e-commerce project.
December 20, 2000	Logility Unveils Voyager Select For Total Landed Cost Although Voyager Select is making its debut, the product is actually an amalgam of components drawn from existing logistics applications in the Voyager suite.
December 19, 2000	Informatica Powers Siebel’s New eBusiness Analytics Siebel Systems is incorporating Informatica’s data integration platform into Siebel eBusiness Analytics 2000.3. The vendors hope to use the integrated product to consolidate data into a 'comprehensive e-business data warehouse'. Have the vendors found the e-business holy grail?
December 19, 2000	IFS Has A Magic Growth Formula; But What About Profitability? In November, IFS, a business applications vendor with headquarters in Linkoping, Sweden, reported results for Q3 2000. IFS will enter 2001 with a new product portfolio and a rapid increase in license revenue. However, profitability does not seem to be in the offing.
December 18, 2000	SAP Claims Big Gains In The Low-End Battleground SAP, traditionally regarded as too cumbersome and costly for small or midsize enterprises, has recently been announcing stellar increases in sales and acceptance of its Internet-based mySAP.com by smaller companies. We believe that the incumbent smaller vendors as well as other Tier 1 vendors should prepare for a siege.
December 18, 2000	Dell Sharpens Its Linux Focus Building on its current Linux position, Dell will start shipping Linux-based systems that use file management software from developer Eazel.
December 15, 2000	MicroStrategy Manages Your Customer Relationships And Its Own MicroStrategy has recently added CRM applications to its offerings. The company’s new CRM suite, eCRM7, will be generally available in December. MicroStrategy is also employing CRM concepts within its own organization to increase customer satisfaction.
December 15, 2000	Implementation Acceleration Using Integration webMethods, Inc. has released a set of Packaged Integrations — pre-built software solutions that can be used to rapidly automate common cross-application business processes. The company claims Packaged Integrations make it possible to accelerate implementation by up to 80 percent and reduce implementation costs by up to 70%.
December 14, 2000	IBI + IBM = EAI The latest entrant in the race to support IBM's MQSeries Integrator Version 2 is Information Builders (IBI) with its Middleware Technology Group's 'Enterprise Connector for MQSeries Integrator'. The product provides SQL access to over 80 different data sources, and should prove a good fit with MQSI. In addition, IBI has announced support for IBM’s WebSphere Application Server.
December 14, 2000	Symix Starts New Year Under New Name, But Old Issues Remain On November 8, Symix Systems began operating as Frontstep, and its common stock will be traded under the symbol "FSTP". However, the company’s financial performance continues to deteriorate: The company reported its third consecutive loss in Q1 2001.
December 13, 2000	Digital Business Service Providers Series: Market Overview Today’s Digital Business Service Provider (DBSP) market is a complex of interrelated services and provider capabilities. This article traces the history of the service providers, and explains how each arose at points when markets developed around particular core technologies. The historical evidence suggests something about future planning for new technologies and developments.
December 13, 2000	Prophet 21 First Quarter Revenues Suffer But Pipeline Grows Will Prophet 21’s dogged commitment to its Trading Partner Connect initiative bring it success or ruin?
December 12, 2000	Palm to Give Developers a Leg Up Palm, Inc. announced a new initiative to help designers and developers increase the quantity and speed of bringing Palm-based products to market.
December 12, 2000	Rational Emphasizes Web Site Development Content Management Web sites are very public, putting the brand and image of a company out there on the site for all to see. Companies need to be sure they have a firm grip on what website visitors see. Rational Software and Vignette Corp. have teamed up to provide a product to do just that.
December 11, 2000	From CIO to CEO? The step from Chief Information Officer to Chief Executive Officer seems like it should be simple, but few manage to take it. Sure you’ve managed a budget, engaged in strategic planning, and saved the company a bundle of money. Experience like that just gets you in the game – your ace-in-the-hole is something you didn’t train for.
December 11, 2000	Infinium Ends Its Most Challenging Year Fiscal 2000 was a difficult year for Infinium, involving a new focus shift and significant restructuring. The company enters its new year with a significantly expanded product offering.
December 8, 2000	Web Testing Has Changed the Testing Landscape Software testing vendors are forming alliances and partnerships with the vendors who actually service and support the delivery of Internet content. Thus do the realities of testing Internet applications sink in. Two instances: Mercury Interactive formed a strategic alliance with Akamai Technologies, and Segue signed NaviSite as its first Hosted Services Partner.
December 8, 2000	JuxtaComm And IBM Integrate Their Integration Products JuxtaComm Technologies has announced a relationship with IBM to provide a “universal adapter” capability by implementing the IBM MQSeries Integrator as a component of its Integration Broker Solution. What business value will this provide to customers?
December 7, 2000	Manugistics Lays Groundwork For Talus Integration This $152 million SCM vendor should make e-commerce the focus of its integration effort.
December 7, 2000	Process ERP Market Loses PRISM and Protean Wonderware is reducing the staff dedicated to the ex-Marcam PRISM and Protean products from approximately 400 to less than 100. They will also cease to offer these products, but have indicated a transition to a new product. What impact will this have on existing customers and the Process ERP marketplace?
December 6, 2000	Great Plains Unveils New E-Commerce Solution eSell is targeted at businesses looking for a quick road to the Internet.
December 6, 2000	The ASP Decision The ASP model is the latest in a long line of silver bullets that are supposed to simplify the delivery of technology’s benefits to the business world. This article provides some simple guidelines for determining if you should consider the ASP model along with thoughts on selecting an ASP.
December 5, 2000	Epicor Delivers On Milestones, But Its Situation Remains Bleak On November 21, Epicor introduced the immediate availability of Epicor eManufacturing, the next generation of its former Vantage manufacturing solution. However, the product launch seems to have taken a toll in the company’s financial performance. On October 31, Epicor announced results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2000. Net loss for the third quarter of 2000 was $12.3 million.
December 5, 2000	Great Plains Taps The Web To Deliver Product Support Great Plains has expanded eSupport, its web-based technical support service. The new service promises to provide customers and partners with higher levels of service while increasing Great Plains’ operational efficiency. Here’s how Great Plains uses the web to augment its technical support services.
December 4, 2000	Onyx Software: CRM Vendor Battling For Viability Onyx Software is one of the few direct competitors of Siebel Systems with a solid chance at long-term success in the CRM market. A strong customer focus and a commitment to a 100% web-based architecture are just two of its critical success factors. Find out how Onyx is staking its claim.
December 4, 2000	PurchasePro Acquires Stratton Warren The $34 million digital marketplace provider is hoping to cash in on Stratton Warren's large customer base and domain expertise.
December 1, 2000	Peregrine Flies In The Face Of Conventional Wisdom The point of running a B2B service is to grab those transaction fees, right? Peregrine says maybe not.
December 1, 2000	What On Earth Is Going On With SSA? In order to avoid sinking into oblivion following its recent acquisition, System Software Associates (SSA) has recently made decisive moves to put itself back on the global enterprise business solutions map. Renaming itself as SSA Global Technologies in August was one of the moves. Will the market give it a second chance?
November 2000
November 30, 2000	Baan – What Will The Future In Invensys’ Stable Bring? Part 2: Evaluating Baan Baan, once a leading global provider of ERP software hopes its adoptive parent, Invensys, will put it back on the enterprise software applications map. However, we believe Baan’s path to full recovery will be quite thorny. Part 2 examines Baan’s strengths and challenges and makes specific bottom line recommendations.
November 29, 2000	Baan – What Will The Future In Invensys’ Stable Bring? Part 1: About Baan Baan, once a leading global provider of ERP software hopes its adoptive parent, Invensys, will put it back on the enterprise software applications map. However, we believe Baan’s path to full recovery will be quite thorny. Part 1 discusses Baan’s history and where it is headed under Invensys.
November 29, 2000	BEA Systems Has A Broad Vision For E-Business Infrastructures BEA Systems and BroadVision are forming a strategic alliance to embed BEA WebLogic Server within BroadVision One-To-One Enterprise. This powerful combination of products from acknowledged market leaders could produce an impressive e-business solution.
November 28, 2000	QueryObject Partners With Cognos On November 15, QueryObject Systems announced that it has partnered with Cognos Corporation to create and market a high-capacity analytical data mart accessible for analysis over the Internet. QueryObject will provide the back-end with its analytical data structure, while Cognos provides the front-end business intelligence solutions.
November 27, 2000	We Shall Be Giant Oracle and Citigroup bank on integrating B2B exchange and financial services. Will Bailey Building and Loan Association get into the act?
November 27, 2000	Aspen Technology Evolves Into Digital Marketplace Provider Founded in 1981 as a developer of computer-aided chemical engineering software, Aspen’s growth has resulted in a wide variety of applications for management and execution-level process manufacturing. Fiscal 2000 marked Aspen’s entry into the collaborative digital marketplace business in hopes of capturing a share of the supply chain e-business market.
November 22, 2000	Intentia Possibly Seeing Daylight Intentia hopes it is entering a new growth phase, with a new product portfolio and a rapid increase in license revenue. The company finally seems determined to expand concurrently with achieving profitability.
November 21, 2000	eLoyalty Enhances Its Field Service And Logistics Services eLoyalty, a CRM strategy and implementation consultancy, recently partnered with ServicePower to enhance its Field Service and Logistics practice. ServicePower is a small vendor that develops dispatch optimization software. eLoyalty will use ServicePower’s software to incorporate dispatch optimization and other aspects of Field Force Automation into their CRM services.
November 21, 2000	Infrastructure Management Wunderkind Divides And Integrates Peregrine Systems divides its focus by creating two business groups. It integrates its strengths by making two product lines work together. And the sum on the bottom line isn't too shabby.
November 20, 2000	So You Want to Outsource Your Messaging? One of the primary benefits of outsourcing is the initial negation of 'up-front' costs associated with the implementation of a production system.
November 20, 2000	Geac Lives By Acquisitions; Will It Die By An Acquisition? After a slew of acquisitions in the past, which have had varied outcomes, Geac seems to be grooming itself to become an attractive acquisition target. This is the conclusion to be drawn from a tumultuous period since the company reported a loss-making quarter and subsequent back-to-back speedy departures of two CEOs.
November 17, 2000	Manhattan’s Footprint Grows With Intrepa Acquisition Manhattan Associates acquires Intrepa LLC for $30 million. The result is a coupling of warehousing and distribution solutions.
November 17, 2000	Plumtree Fuels Growth With New Corporate Portal Product Plumtree Software recently released Plumtree Corporate Portal 4.0, a new version of its portal product with a significant number of new “gadgets” and increased functionality to allow constituents outside the organization to view relevant information. Plumtree’s partnership development has led to a sophisticated portal product with support for many business applications.
November 16, 2000	NetGenesis Predicts The Future From Mouse Trails NetGenesis recently released NetGenesis 5, a suite of web analytics applications that do more than report simple web statistics. NetGenesis claims that its new suite can provide actionable insight into the behavior of surfing customers.
November 16, 2000	SAP Q3 Results Cause Mixed Reactions On October 19, SAP announced its results for Q3 2000, in which revenues rose 27% and net income increased 96% over the same period last year. However, bear in mind that SAP’s export figures have been bloated to a degree by currency effects, namely a recent favorable exchange rate between dollars and Euros . Even without that effect, 17% revenue growth in the US is much less compared to recent reports from its direct competitors, which should indicate a possible loss of market share.
November 15, 2000	Knosys "in the Kno" With ProClarity 3.0 Analytical Platform Knosys, Inc. announced on November 6, 2000 that version 3.0 of its ProClarity® Analytical Platform and OLAP client are now available. The products were developed for Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services, so ProClarity is completely tied to Microsoft software. In addition, Knosys has announced a partnership to collaborate with integrated enterprise and eBusiness applications vendor Epicor on development of a portal-based business intelligence solution. Epicor focuses exclusively on the mid-market.
November 15, 2000	Gates Previews Pen-Based Computer Microsoft chairman Bill Gates used Comdex to present his next hardware solution, a pen-computing tablet-sized PC code named, amazingly enough, the Tablet PC.
November 14, 2000	E-Procurement Is Not Electronic Purchasing - Part II Three minutes of labor from purchase requisition to invoice payment; fully executed due diligence; commitment authorization and no delays. That is the promise of e-procurement and the potential is there for the taking - but not without risk. Extensive preparation is necessary and full integration with related business processes is essential to realize the full value from an e-procurement investment.
November 14, 2000	Fourth Shift Tightens Belt To Weather The Drought Fourth Shift has been marking time. While Q3 2000 was almost breakeven due to a rigid cost curbing exercise, the unnerving fact is the 24% license revenue decline compared to a year ago.
November 14, 2000	SPSS Has A New ShowCase On November 7, 2000, SPSS announced that they have signed an agreement to purchase ShowCase Corporation. The company sees a large part of its future in the analytical CRM market, and will use ShowCase to bolster staff and expertise levels.
November 13, 2000	E-Procurement Is Not Electronic Purchasing - Part I Three minutes of labor from purchase requisition to invoice payment; fully executed due diligence; commitment authorization and no delays. That is the promise of e-procurement and the potential is there for the taking - but not without risk. Extensive preparation is necessary and full integration with related business processes is essential to realize the full value from an e-procurement investment.
November 13, 2000	Let’s Be Frank: It Was A Very Good Quarter For E-Procurement The word 'profitability': is being bandied about as some e-procurement vendors show continued growth.
November 10, 2000	PeopleSoft – Again A Force To Be Reckoned With? PeopleSoft is back with a vengeance! During its users conference, Connect, which took place in Los Angeles on October 22-26, it unveiled a slew of new products in its bid to maintain the current turnaround momentum. Earlier, on October 17, PeopleSoft announced impressive financial results for Q3 2000.
November 9, 2000	J.D. Edwards – A Collaboration Thought Leader Or A Disguised ERP Follower? Part 2: Evaluating J.D. Edwards Like most of its peers, J.D. Edwards is hoping to rebound by focusing on Internet collaboration and extended-ERP applications. The company has also differentiated itself from competitors by embedding Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) into its OneWorld product. While J.D. Edwards' move into the EAI arena is indisputably risky, we commend its determination to bite the bullet and include integration systems into the core product offering. However, we also believe that managing this large application portfolio, much of which involves partnering or extensive integration and customization, will be cumbersome. Part 2 presents an evaluat
November 9, 2000	Another Type Of Virus Hits The World (And Gets Microsoft No Less) A number of anti-virus vendors, including Trend Micro and Computer Associates, have warned of a virus with a new approach. It is known variously as QAZ.TROJAN or QAZ.WORM, and was officially renamed to W32.HLLW.Qaz.A in September. The virus enters via unprotected shared drives and usually replaces the Notepad.Exe application, although there have been occasions where Notepad was not the victim. The virus then provides a backdoor to outside intruders, giving them in effect remote control over the computer that has been infected. This analysis contains some suggestions to protect your machines.
November 8, 2000	J.D. Edwards – A Collaboration Thought Leader Or A Disguised ERP Follower? Part 1: About J.D. Edwards Like most of its peers, J.D. Edwards is hoping to rebound by focusing on Internet collaboration and extended-ERP applications. The company has also differentiated itself from competitors by embedding Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) into its OneWorld product. While J.D. Edwards' move into the EAI arena is indisputably risky, we commend its determination to bite the bullet and include integration systems into the core product offering. However, we also believe that managing this large application portfolio, much of which involves partnering or extensive integration and customization, will be cumbersome. Part 1 presents an overview
November 8, 2000	Quantum Snaps Off Its NAS Group Quantum Corporation, recently acquired by Maxtor, will divest itself of its server appliance subsidiary, renaming it Snap Appliances, Inc. Snap Appliances will now attempt to compete on its own in the growing Network-Attached Storage market.
November 8, 2000	Now Andersen, Tomorrow Accenture, They’ve got a lot of Selling to do In compliance with the August arbitrator’s report on the conflict between Arthur Andersen and Andersen Consulting, the consulting firm has announced its new name to be Accenture. It wants this new identity to fully brand it in the marketplace, a task we think will be harder than Accenture admits.
November 7, 2000	Aspen’s Step Backward in the First Quarter Part of Familiar Dance First quarter results tend to be Aspen Technologies’ weakest of the year and 1Q 2001 is no exception. There are signs that suggest the process manufacturing enterprise software vendor is taking pains to break the cycle.
November 7, 2000	Did Sagent Technology Pull the Old 'Pump and Dump'? Sagent Technology has been hit with a class action complaint for violation of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. According to the complaint, company officers misrepresented Sagent’s 1999 and 2000 sales prospects to give them time to sell over $8 million of their own stock. The officers sold their stock at prices as high as $27.875, but after the true revenue projections were revealed, the stock dropped as low as $7-7/32. Interestingly, both the Vice President of Sales and the Chief Financial Officer resigned after they received their millions of dollars in proceeds.
November 6, 2000	Data Mining: The Brains Behind eCRM Data mining has emerged from obscure beginnings in artificial intelligence to become a viable and increasingly popular tool for putting data to work. Data mining is a set of techniques for automating the exploration of data and uncovering hidden truths.
November 6, 2000	Cognos Unveils CRM Solution Cognos, one of the largest business intelligence and on-line analytical processing vendors, has announced an aggressive customer relationship management initiative to supply the extensive interactive reporting, analysis, and scorecarding functionality needed to leverage the data supplied by products like Clarify and Siebel. Cognos considers an effective CRM system to be a 'must-have' application in today’s click and mortar economy. In addition, they have joined the Siebel Alliance as a premier partner.
November 6, 2000	Lawson Software Expands Vertically As Well On October 12, Lawson Software announced the formation of a new vertical market initiative for the telecommunications industry, its sixth and newest vertical market. On October 9, Lawson Software announced 'the best quarter of contracting activity in the company's 25-year history'.
November 3, 2000	ROI Systems Catching Up With e-Commerce ROI Systems continues with its practice of cautious new technology adoption. On October 10, it announced the offering of XML-based EDI for its customers.
November 3, 2000	i2 Third Quarter Results Are The Usual Story i2 Technologies completes another stellar quarter. Does success ever become boring?
November 2, 2000	CRM Vendors Cash In On The Financial Services Industry Last year’s deregulation of the financial services industry changed the competitive pressures on banks, brokerages, and insurance companies. Firms in this industry have been forced to expand and reorganize their offerings around the customer rather than around products. This makes a perfect case for CRM, and leading vendors are enhancing their offerings to take advantage of the opportunities. Find out how Siebel, E.piphany, and Broadbase are staking their claim.
November 2, 2000	IBM Aims Renamed UNIX Server at Sun In the latest phase of its campaign to unseat Sun as the dominant Internet server brand, IBM has released a slew of performance benchmarks for its 'eServer pSeries' UNIX server.
November 1, 2000	Great Plains’ Latest Product Offering — Ready to Stampede the SME Market? Great Plains announced during its Stampede 2000 annual partner meeting significant extensions to its product offering. The following is our view of Great Plains’ latest announcements and its strategic direction.
November 1, 2000	GE GXS: Part and Parcel of B2B Exchange General Electric’s GXS provides the infrastructure for a new digital marketplace. The announcement sheds light on the possibility that GXS can leverage its traditional infrastructure business into a lead position within the new economy.
October 2000
October 31, 2000	Hubspan is in Suppliers’ Corner Founded in June, Hubspan helps suppliers connect to a buyer-centric B2B world.
October 31, 2000	Great Plains' eEnterprise Solution 'N Sync with Microsoft's New Platforms Great Plains announced that its eEnterprise solution scales considerably better on Microsoft SQL Server 2000 in comparison to Microsoft's SQL Server 7.0.
October 30, 2000	Optum’s ConnectStream: First the Pieces Now the Glue Optum bolsters its collaborative product TradeStream with integration help from webMethods.
October 30, 2000	Tempest Creates a Secure Teapot Tempest Software has announced the release of TMS (Tempest Messenger System) version 3.1.1. The product allows suppliers and customers to query corporate databases without any direct access to the actual web or database servers. A firewall is placed between the Internet and the internal systems and the firewall is configured to allow no incoming traffic. This product should prove to be a great annoyance to hackers everywhere.
October 27, 2000	Logistics.com Becomes Transportation Service Provider For Commerce One Logistics.com’s transportation capabilities give Commerce One ammunition against i2 Technologies.
October 27, 2000	ETrade Ignores Private Security Warning, But Public Hullaballoo Gets Response ETrade was notified about a cookie vulnerability in August, but the correction wasn't made until after the problem became public.
October 26, 2000	Navision Executes At a Slower Pace In September, Navision Software released its annual report for fiscal 2000, which ended on June 30, 2000. The company continued to increase its market share and product offerings while remaining constantly profitable. However, the net income has declined 25% compared to fiscal 1999.
October 26, 2000	AC Ventures and SOFTBANK Venture Capital Announce GameChange Drawing from the extensive experience of its parents AC Ventures and SOFTBANK, GameChange claims it has the success formula for taking an idea from an entrepreneur's presentation slides to a standing company with a customer base. They claim to be able to make this transformation in as little as six months.
October 25, 2000	Symix Systems Front-Steps Into Greener e-Commerce Pastures Like many of its peers, Symix Systems, one of the leading mid-market enterprise applications vendors, has been making a big push into the e-commerce market. A new Symix subsidiary called Frontstep, which was formed in January 2000, has been actively rounding out its e-business product and strategic consulting service offerings through acquisitions, internal development and partner relationships. These products and services are still sold under the Symix brand name, however, at the expense of Symix reporting losses for the last two quarters.
October 25, 2000	eMachines to Ship Appliance eMachines, the computer company that made its name on low-priced desktop models, has stepped into the Internet appliance ring with its 'MSN Companion' system.
October 25, 2000	Texas Instruments Tells War Stories At i2 Planet This year at i2’s Planet conference, Texas Instruments reviewed lessons learned during their 3½-year i2-SAP implementation.
October 24, 2000	What’s Up with Computer Associates? In a series of radical moves, Computer Associates appears to be trying to re-direct its gargantuan operations. After missing its numbers in the first calendar quarter (CA’s 4th fiscal quarter), its stock was down 59% at one point.
October 24, 2000	i2 Will Come Out Ahead In Kmart Deal While many retailers acquire advanced technology for their supply chains in order to stay ahead of competition, Kmart is doing it just to stay in business.
October 24, 2000	Technology Hardware Maintenance-Acquiring and Managing Cost Effective Service Hardware maintenance can represent a significant information technology cost, but options for managing that cost exist. If you analyze hardware maintenance from an enterprise perspective, you will identify those options and ensure the cost-effective delivery of those services.
October 23, 2000	What’s in a Name? Hewlett-Packard, following a path recently trod by IBM, has decided to maintain a single 'e-PC' product name, eliminating the e-Vectra and e-Brio names.
October 23, 2000	Has SAP Found Magic Formula (One) To Learn The Ropes Of Marketing? SAP is responding to the changing Internet marketplace in a multiplicity of ways. First, by restructuring to develop flexibility; then, by forming key partnerships and alliances to put content behind its extensive advertising campaign for mySAP.com, which started in full force on September 22. Will racing’s Formula One help SAP overtake Oracle’s high-flying marketing machine?
October 20, 2000	IBM Server Line Redrawn IBM has continued its renaming binge, moving from PCs to servers.
October 20, 2000	Clarus –Sprinting or Going the Distance? Clarus Corporation has announced new capabilities and a whole handful of product adoptions. Is the news uniformly good? We think cautious optimism is best.
October 19, 2000	J.D. Edwards Touts Leadership in Collaboration and Flexibility -- There Seems to be Some Notable Functionality Too In its major comeback attempt J.D. Edwards has been playing the card of system openness and interconnectivity, some of the key principles of the Internet economy. On October 2, the usually laid back vendor hosted a glitzy show in New York City for the official launch of the highly publicized Xe version of its flagship OneWorld software package. While the launch emphasized flexibility, we noticed the system had some remarkable functionality
October 19, 2000	Now the Minnows are Eating the Minnows In a transaction valued at approximately $15 million, DataMirror Corporation has announced that it has completed the acquisition of assets and assumption of certain liabilities of Constellar Corporation. Both companies have been small niche players in the data warehousing market, Constellar being almost exclusively Oracle-based, and DataMirror concentrating on the IBM AS/400. The goals appear to be increased access to capital for Constellar, and a foothold in the Oracle market for DataMirror.
October 18, 2000	i2 Technologies Lives Life In The Fast Lane i2 Technologies is the largest and fastest growing vendor of supply chain management software with $751 million in revenue over the last twelve months and a 105% average growth rate over the last five years. Fueled by a powerful sales and marketing machine and aggressive strategies for corporate development and acquisition, i2 will maintain its lead through the end of 2000 and beyond.
October 18, 2000	Onyx Thinks ASP Opportunities Are A Gem Onyx Software is a CRM vendor that competes in the mid-market. Onyx considers implementation risk, implementation time, and distribution strategy to be significant competitive variables. The result is a clearly defined ASP strategy that emphasizes forging quality relationships with a few ASPs.
October 17, 2000	Is Baan Showing Signs of Life After Death? On September 20, Baan, an ERP vendor recently believed to be deceased, won its first new contract since being acquired by Invensys. The British Defence Aviation Repair Agency (DARA) has placed a large order for the complete Baan enterprise solution. Will the market witness Baan rising like a phoenix from the ashes?
October 17, 2000	Demantra Secures More Venture Financing The willingness of private equity firms to divert precious capital to Demantra speaks well for the company but is also a strong vote in favor of CPFR.
October 16, 2000	i2 e-Business Strategy Services Not For Everyone Companies that know what they want in terms of Internet capabilities might benefit from eSOA, but others should give it a wide berth.
October 13, 2000	DoubleClick Merger Good News For Privacy Advocates? DoubleClick agreed to purchase NetCreations in a stock exchange valued at $191 million. NetCreations is the leader in ethical direct mail advertising. DoubleClick’s policies have led to protests and front-page news. How will a marriage between these two kids from different sides of the tracks work out?
October 13, 2000	Informix Decides to Start Analyzing Websites Informix, a leader in data warehousing and business intelligence software, has developed an application named i. Decide Web Success that promises to provide dot-coms and clicks-and-mortar organizations with a database independent platform for analyzing their web data.
October 12, 2000	Microsoft Kills a Flock of Birds with One Stone Microsoft announces it is buying nearly 25% of the common shares of archrival Corel. Aside from giving Corel a much-needed infusion of funds, what does it mean?
October 12, 2000	Commerce One Selects Entrada Software For Affiliate Program The product-centric paradigm upon which its latest incarnation is founded gives Entrada an edge over the usual names in enterprise manufacturing software.
October 11, 2000	Provia Software Rises To The Challenge Provia stands apart from its peers in the enterprise software industry by claiming that behind every one of its installations is a satisfied client.
October 11, 2000	frontpath Announces Mobile Internet Appliance Continuing the onslaught of 'Internet appliances', S3 subsidiary frontpath announced its first product, called ProGear. Unlike most current appliances, this mobile unit is business-focused and aimed at selected vertical markets.
October 11, 2000	Candle Releases New Command Center App for IBM MQSI 2 IBM has announced a four-year, $200 million investment to attempt to make it more cost effective and easier for companies to manage data on IBM S/390 enterprise servers. The proposed solution is a new Candle Corporation product with a GUI front-end that can track message flow, queue times, and other metrics. Is this yet another example of IBM leveraging technology through partnerships instead of always trying to roll their own, as Oracle has done?
October 10, 2000	Oracle – How to Disappoint Analysts by Doubling Profits In September Oracle Corporation, the largest database provider and one of the largest providers of software applications for e-business, announced record results for Q1 of its fiscal year 2001. Why weren’t analysts more enthusiastic about the 42% growth of the applications part of its business?
October 10, 2000	They Know When You Have Gas A deal with the American Petroleum Exchange will allow members to have “up-to-the-minute” inventory data on their petroleum storage tanks.
October 10, 2000	Walker Propelled by Winds of Change Walker Interactive is putting itself through a transformation. Its goal is to bring integrated eBusiness to its very demanding customers.
October 9, 2000	Syncra Systems Helps Kimberly-Clark Clean Up Though other software vendors market CPFR tools, Syncra System’s vendor neutrality makes it stand apart.
October 9, 2000	Ross Systems Ends Year On a Sour Note and Braces Itself For Survivor’s Game Ross Systems’ transition from ERP to e-commerce has been a harrowing experience during the last 18 months. On September 14, the company announced yet another disappointing annual report and a consequential radical restructuring.
October 6, 2000	Will Oracle’s Freebie Shot Hurt (Or Only Graze) Siebel? Oracle will not rest until it comes close (or even overtakes) Siebel in the CRM market. Its latest gimmick from its bag of tricks was the recent launch of the OracleSalesOnline.com system, which allows businesses to use Oracle's SFA software for free. However, any additional CRM components users might need will not be free…
October 6, 2000	Enterprise Intelligence Tools Tame Business Knowledge Glut Skila, Inc. is applying advanced eKnowedge tools to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device industries. It’s the kind of offering every knowledge worker wants to have.
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