Heather Harreld

Companies with deep roots in extracting data from host and legacy systems for Web applications are moving to expose data from this

PeopleSoft Inc. on Monday will announce the next generation of its portal offering that will include support for Web services and an intelligent context mechanism designed to link user behavior to business processes.

Continuing to exert leverage via its installed base in back-office systems, PeopleSoft will unveil four new vertical customer relationship management applications.

BI (business intelligence) companies are maneuvering to boost their analytic solutions so users spanning the enterprise can leverage data for corporate performance goals.

Business intelligence companies are manoeuvring to boost their analytic solutions so users spanning the enterprise can leverage data for corporate performance goals.

Much of the potential promise of Web services lies in the notion of componentizing business processes and tying them together with Web services into new applications that the IT department can whip out almost as soon as a business user comes up with a new idea.

MicroStrategy on April 22 unveiled its new 7i consolidated architectural platform designed to allow enterprises to rapidly deploy multiple business intelligence applications.

In what could be a harbinger of future systems integrator deals, KPMG Consulting Inc. has partnered with Iona Technologies PLC in a deal designed to leverage Web services to ease EAI (enterprise application integration) woes.