Author: Renee Boucher Ferguson

Microsoft’s Business Solutions group released June 18 the next iterations of two of the company’s four business application suites, GP 10 and SL 7. Both

The market for portal, business process and middleware applications rose 16 percent in 2006, according to a new report from Gartner. According to the report,

Oracle is throwing more accusations at rival SAP, amending its complaint June 1 by adding claims of copyright infringement and breach of contract. In its

Google Gears, the recently released open-source technology that lets developers create offline Web applications, is one more indication that on-demand application users are looking for

SAP AG has appointed a new chief technology officer. The company announced May 30 it has promoted Vishal Sikka to head its newly formed Office

At its first developer conference May 21 centered on Apex, Salesforce.com’s yet-to-be-released on-demand programming language, the company announced a new platform capability that will help

With Oracle’s intended $495 million acquisition of software maker Agile Software, product lifecycle management may finally have its day. PLM software, which manages a product’s

The enterprise software market is in flux, with applications vendors morphing into platform providers, service-based architecture concepts ruling development investments, consolidations dominating the marketplace and

At its annual international Sapphire user event, this year held in Vienna, SAP is stressing several themes centered on the notion of helping companies to