Ellen Messmer

For decades, corporations have been using supply-chain management (SCM) software to plan product purchases or sales, and...

The Bank of Montreal next month will launch a hosted business-to-business application that will let its North American corporate customers purchase goods from suppliers and pay for them online using the MasterCard International Inc. procurement card.

The Bank of Montreal next month will launch a hosted business-to-business application that will let its North...

PeopleSoft Inc. announced a Web-enabled upgrade to its enterprise resource planning suite last month that will spare customers the chore of distributing proprietary client software to end users.

Established vendors and security start-ups announced their latest products and services last month for network intrusion-detection and outsourced security management.

Cisco Systems Inc. is going after customer-contact centres and unified messaging markets with its new Internet Communications Software Group.

While Cisco Systems Inc. in April took the wraps off a new line of low-end, low-cost remote-access VPN and firewall gear for small to medium-sized businesses, the company has left users without a common way to manage it all.

A year into their struggle to start an on-line business-to-business exchange with suppliers, the Big Three automakers last week came up with a name for the venture