Marc L. Songini

Ford Motor Co. is pulling the plug on a four-year-old procurement system based on Oracle Corp.'s software and switching all purchasing operations back to the mainframe applications that the newer technology was designed to replace.

Business intelligence software vendor Actuate Corp. is hitching its wagon to the open-source movement in the hope of seeing its applications get even broader acceptance in the marketplace.

Glitches during an SAP AG supply chain rollout hit computer systems vendor Hewlett-Packard Co. hard in its bottom line, and the fallout from the troubled implementation apparently led to the firing of three HP executives on Thursday.

IBM Corp. is rolling out modeling software that it boasts can deliver a bird's-eye view of complex business processes and help boost their execution.

Even as it faces declining revenues and a draining hostile takeover battle with rival Oracle Corp., PeopleSoft Inc. has signed the biggest deal in its history.

Even as it faces declining revenues and a draining hostile takeover battle with rival Oracle Corp., PeopleSoft Inc. has signed the biggest deal in its history. The software vendor announced a US$50 million deal to revamp the systems that support Mexico's Tax Administration Service, which involves 30,000 employees in 1,100 offices and up to 15 million current taxpayers.

After months of delay, business software vendor SSA Global Technologies Inc. is rolling out its next-generation, Web services-based enterprise resource planning and supply chain suite. It plans to offer the software to its far-flung customer base as a future migration platform.

Microsoft Corp. has issued an alert about incompatibility issues in its customer relationship management suite caused by installing the Windows XP Service Pack 2