SAP filled a gap in its analytic applications suite by buying Pilot Software, a privately-held company specializing in strategy management software. Calling the deal a “tuck-in” acquisition, SAP said in a statement Pilot’s assets will boost its ability to provide…
Article courtesy of Internetnews.com. Oracle added a new weapon to fight Salesforce.com and SAP in the battle for on-demand customer relationship management (CRM) software, acquiring software maker Telephony@Work for an undisclosed sum. Telephony@Work makes CallCenterAnywhere, a software stack that supports…
Think Oracle’s winning bid for Retek over SAP didn’t rattle the No. 1 applications maker’s cage? Think again. Reinforcing that the retail space is a fertile battleground for selling merchants’ applications, German giant SAP today agreed to buy privately held…
Looking to capitalize on the growing interest businesses have in saving paper by digitizing documents, IBM today introduced a new piece of electronic forms software. IBM Workplace Forms helps employees take corporate data, such as inventory figures, customer data or…
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Once thought of as two separate worlds, applications and database software are converging due to the increasingly distributed nature of modern computing. Bill Baker, general manager of SQL Server Business Intelligence, said the proliferation of…
Proving that it isn’t going to sit on its laurels while rival Oracle snaps up applications specialists, SAP AG agreed to acquire retail software maker Triversity for a private sum. Toronto, Canada-based Triversity is a top maker of point-of-sale (POS)…
Microsoft has created a Web services software platform to make call center operations run more efficiently and cost effectively for service providers. The Customer Care Framework decreases average call times by removing extraneous data requests and delivering more accurate information…
UPDATED: Microsoft and SAP continue to get cozier as they combat Oracle and other rivals.Using their service-oriented architecture (SOA) models as a base, the partners said they are jointly developing a new composite application that hooks SAP business process software…
SAP AG is helping utility companies leverage Web services to help them more efficiently deal with deregulated markets and new compliance issues. SAP is blending its NetWeaver application platform, loaded with business intelligence tools, to help electricity, gas and water…
PeopleSoft’s Chairman and CEO David Duffield resigned from the company on Dec. 21, just one week after PeopleSoft’s board agreed to accept Oracle’s $10.3 billion acquisition offer. According to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Tuesday, Duffield…
UPDATED: Oracle has upped its offer for PeopleSoft to $24 per share, in what it called its final bid for the elusive enterprise applications company it has been trying to acquire since June 2003. The revised offer is $3 per…
UPDATED: Citing a loss of confidence, PeopleSoft’s board of directors said it fired President and CEO Craig Conway in a unanimous vote that could have significant ramifications for the fate of the enterprise software company. The surprise announcement said PeopleSoft…
PeopleSoft has reached a blanket agreement with disgruntled shareholders who had filed class-action lawsuits in protest of the Customer Assurance Program (CAP), formed after Oracle moved to acquire PeopleSoft last June. The Pleasanton, Calif. software maker, now locked in a…
NEW YORK — Hosted delivery and business intelligence software will create surging demand for customer relationship management (CRM) applications, a Siebel executive said at during a keynote at DCI’s Customer Relationship Management Conference and Technology Showcase. Executive Vice President David…
PeopleSoft shareholders selected incumbent members for the company’s board of directors in a resounding vote, formally shutting out Oracle’s attempt to place its own members on the board. A preliminary ballot count taken at the annual meeting of stockholders showed…
PeopleSoft’s customer assurance program (CAP) could tack on an additional $1.56 billion to Oracle’s current $9.4 billion offer for the rival applications company, according to a filing with the securities and exchange commission Thursday. If the pricing devices in the…
Oracle has vowed to “vigorously challenge” the Department of Justice’s decision to block the software maker’s attempt to purchase PeopleSoft for $9.4 billion. Because such litigation will extend beyond PeopleSoft’s annual shareholders’ meeting on March 25, Oracle said it will…
UPDATE:The Department of Justice has dealt a blow to Oracle’s $9.4 billion hostile bid to purchase rival software maker PeopleSoft , saying Thursday that it would hurt competition, stymie innovation and jack up prices in the industry. Assistant Attorney General…
In what has become serve-and-volley battle to win the influential stockholders, PeopleSoft Monday begun mailing proxy materials for a critical March 25 vote. The company is encouraging shareholders to vote for its nominated board candidates and to ignore the candidates…
Oracle moved to spark interest in its latest $9.4 billion offer for rival PeopleSoft by sending a letter to PeopleSoft shareholders asking them to support its revised bid and suggested board candidates. The letter, signed by Oracle CEO Larry Ellison…
Antitrust lawyers of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) recommended against Oracle’s $9.4 billion takeover attempt of rival PeopleSoft, in what could be a major setback for the enterprise software company. In a statement, PeopleSoft said the DOJ had issued…
Oracle has ratcheted up its pressure on rival applications maker PeopleSoft by raising its cash buyout offer to $9.4 billion. The move comes as regulatory investigations to determine whether the merger would violate antitrust laws hurtle toward a conclusion. The…
Oracle will wait longer than expected to hear whether its bid for PeopleSoft is acceptable. The European Commission has put its in-depth investigation into the hostile takeover attempt on hold to request additional information from the database and applications vendor,…
In a sign that on-demand computing is starting to vault from theory into the applications realm, IBM said it has teamed with Siebel Systems on a new hosted customer relationship management (CRM) software service that customers can deploy at the…
NEW YORK — Cognos took the wraps off of ReportNet, a new business intelligence (BI) software reporting tool geared to launch the Burlington, Mass. vendor into competitive company with several vendors who have recently acquired such capabilities. Cognos CEO Ron…
Enterprise applications maker Siebel Systems settled a class-action lawsuit Tuesday for $900,000 and took steps to make sure it doesn’t put itself, or shareholders, into like situations with the creation of corporate governance initiatives to provide better guidance to the…
With confusion swirling around the enterprise applications space caused by Oracle and PeopleSoft’s battle for the No. 2 slot, Siebel Systems showed that it felt the reverberations caused by that conflict Tuesday by announcing a 67 percent drop in second-quarter…
PeopleSoft surprised the industry Wednesday when it said preliminary results for the second quarter beat the average Wall Street estimates of earnings-per-share by one to two pennies — all in the face of a hostile takeover bid from rival Oracle…
NEW YORK — PeopleSoft Chief Executive Officer Craig Conway Thursday said his company will guide the market for enterprise applications into a new era where business software is Web-based and automated, and middleware will be rendered nearly obsolete. Conway spoke…
PeopleSoft and J.D. Edwards Monday have amended their merger agreement to speed up the deal in the wake of Oracle’s $5.1 billion hostile takeover bid of PeopleSoft.The boards of both companies, who believe the new deal will allay customers’ fears…
J.D. Edwards filed a $1.7 billion suit against Oracle and its two top executives in state courts in Colorado and California Thursday — the same day that Peoplesoft formally rejected Oracle’s unsolicited $5.1-billion bid.In its lawsuit, J.D. Edwards is claiming…
Besieged by a hostile $5.1 billion takeover bid by Oracle last week, PeopleSoft late Tuesday cancelled its plan to seek a temporary restraining order to slow Oracle’s advances. Oracle said Pleasanton, Calif.’s PeopleSoft had advised it June 9 that it…
In a hostile takeover bid that could reverberate across the software industry, database giant Oracle offered to purchase all outstanding shares of enterprise application company PeopleSoft for $5.1 billion in cash. The bid comes just days after PeopleSoft moved to…
When PeopleSoft moved to acquire rival J.D. Edwards Monday, it marked the latest in a series of mergers between software vendors, but it also jogged the competitive landscape in the market for selling business application software to customers.Analysts said that…
PeopleSoft Monday agreed to buy J.D. Edwards & Co. for $1.7 billion in stock, a move that shakes up the market for business applications software. The deal makes PeopleSoft the second-largest business software provider to Germany-based leader SAP as PeopleSoft…
Customer relationship management concern Salesforce.com Thursday introduced a new offering that bundles its CRM software with Microsoft’s Outlook e-mail software without having to rely on additional server integration. The San Francisco firm said the Outlook Integration solution lets sales and…
Commerce One is turning over a new leaf. Quiet for awhile, the Pleasanton, Calif. concern Monday embarked on its new Web services strategy with the release of a software integration platform it hopes to sell to enterprises looking to put…
BEA Systems Monday plans to unveil the latest version of its WebLogic Platform, which company representatives claim will help it vault “two generations of technology ahead” of the competition. The San Jose, Calif.-based software maker will draw the curtain on…
IBM enhanced its WebSphere Business Integration software portfolio Monday, adding the modeling and monitor assets of its Holosofx acquisition from last September to make it more attractive for the enterprise. Business integration software combines various functions — such as customer…
IBM and Siebel Systems Tuesday expanded their relationship to ensure that Siebel’s customer relationship management software works more closely with Big Blue’s WebSphere platform. An IBM spokesperson told internetnews.com the deal is good for three years, to the tune of…
Looking to bolster its balance sheet, embattled Homestore Tuesday agreed to sell its ConsumerInfo.com unit to Experian for $130 million in cash. The WestLake Village, Calif. real estate firm’s division provides consumers credit information online and will no doubt be…
What’s that saying about not being able to keep a good thing down? Napster Inc. — the embattled peer-to-peer file sharing concern shut out by the record industry and courts for gross copyright infringements — is creeping its way back…
Redmond, Wash.’s Microsoft Corp. and Chicago-based online auction and marketplace uBid Tuesday penned a broad alliance to improve services to attract more customers to the MSN network. The deal, for which financial terms were not disclosed, means that uBid, a…
Long-time partners Sun Microsystems Inc. and e-business software maker PeopleSoft Inc. Wednesday embarked on a new global alliance aiming to place PeopleSoft’s customer relationship management (CRM) products in Sun’s Solaris 8 operating environment and Java-based platforms. The strategic deal between…