Baan's decision to create a separate customer relationship management (CRM) subsidiary could further erode its credibility and viability as an enterprise resource planning vendor, according to analysts.
Two high-profile CIOs - Bob Bruce at Allmerica Financial Corp. and Robert Rubin at Elf Atochem North America Inc. - have resigned, in part because of upcoming changes that are in the works at those companies.
It may pale in significance compared with the antitrust decision handed down on Monday. But Microsoft Corp. today said it won at least a small legal victory this week - over Sun Microsystems Inc.
Lockheed Martin Corp. can automatically capture information on how the business processes supported by its SAP R/3 system are set up. But analyzing their effectiveness isn't nearly as easy.
Oracle Corp. has started shipping supply-chain planning software that's expected to play a central role in the online exchanges it's setting up with the Big Three automakers and users in other industries.
Suddenly, SAP AG and other top enterprise resource planning (ERP) vendors are deciding that they might not be able to develop complete integrated suites of business applications on their own after all.
Capping off a busy week in its effort to recover from six straight quarters of losses, Baan Co. NV today said it has completed a sale of its Coda accounting software unit to a U.K. vendor for $49.3 million.
Setting the stage for a possible spin-off of the Aurum Software Inc. unit it bought with great fanfare three years ago, struggling Baan Co. NV today said it's creating a separate customer relationship management (CRM) subsidiary.
PeopleSoft Inc. yesterday said it plans to get into the business of setting up Internet-based trading exchanges for users - but not with its own software.
Since December, Ace Hardware Corp. has launched supply-chain collaboration projects with four manufacturers, in an effort to cut costs and improve its ability to fill product orders from retail stores that use the Ace name.
Osram Sylvania Inc., a lighting manufacturer in Danvers, Mass., plans to be one of the first users to install pieces of SAP AG's new customer relationship management (CRM) software this spring.
Baan Co. NV today said another member of its supervisory board has resigned, making him the third board member to give up a seat this month.
Lawson Software Inc. is dropping plans to develop its own CRM (customer relationship management) applications and will now resell Siebel Systems Inc.'s sales, service and marketing software instead.
Osram Sylvania Inc., a lighting manufacturer in Danvers, Massachusetts, this spring plans to be one of the first users to install pieces of SAP AG's new customer relationship management (CRM) software.
SAP AG and Oracle Corp. are both changing their business-application release strategies, in dueling attempts to provide users with more unified software packages.