Hosted applications provider Salesforce.com Tuesday took the wraps off of a new developer’s tool kit for making Internet-based business apps. Dubbed “sforce,” the company says the platform lets software engineers use the tools they love when writing programs. The reason…
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…
The first phase of Microsoft’s ‘Jupiter’ e-business Web services suite went to beta Monday bearing the new designation BizTalk Server 2004. Described by Microsoft as the first major milestone in “delivering an integrated, interoperable, modularized, extensible, and secure e-business solution…
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…
This is the third column in a series aimed at that frequently asked question: What should I measure for my online business? Parts one and two focused on e-commerce, where revenue is unanimously considered the most critical metric, and online…
This year’s award for the most obvious marketing campaign goes to PeopleSoft for its new Total Ownership Experience (TOE) initiative. If it weren’t for the fact that the problems PeopleSoft wants to address — complexity in the implementation and use…
What Is Channibalism? “Channibalism” is a basic fear felt by many executives and managers that one channel, or line of business, will steal business away from another. There are two facets to this fear: one tied to fears of consumer…
Even consumers with several years of experience online continue to cite security and privacy features as a key factor in the decision to spend online, according to a new study by MasterCard International, lending weight to recent analysis suggesting financial…
A major factor and inhibitor to successful customer service has long stemmed from internal disconnect between departments, functions, and systems. While communication between departments has always been a bottleneck, communications between their respective systems has often been a cap, usually…
In a move that may prove to be a harbinger of the future of software-as-a-service, Web-based ASPs Atomz and WebSideStory today announced an alliance to focus on integrating Web site search, content management and Web analytics. “It’s the shape if…