From: "Swisher, Bob" <bswisher@ou.edu>
To: "'it-fyi@listserv.ou.edu'" <it-fyi@lists.ou.edu>
Subject: it-fyi: InformationWeek Daily 02/09/99
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 13:36:17 -0600
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1) Top Stories:
- CA Acquisition Continues Services Buildup
- SAP Teams With Dun & Bradstreet
- PeopleSoft To Expand Performance-Management Offering
- Cisco, Motorola Team On Wireless Internet Development
- Lotus Unveils Project-Management Software
2) Tech Stocks: A retreat among Internet stocks couldn't stop the rest
of the heavily traded technology sector from going up Monday. With a
volume of 888 million, the Nasdaq rose 31.30 to 2404.92. The Dow fell
13.13 to 9291.11, while the S&P 500 gained 4.37 to close at 1243.77.
3) Calendar: The InformationWeek Daily Overused Word Of The Day is
"solution." As in "Internet solution," "storage solution," or "solution
providers." Gosh, we thought a solution comes from mixing two liquids
together, or addressing a problem. Looking for a textbook solution to an
application integration problem? Check out these upcoming conferences.
TOP STORIES
________________CA Continues Services Buildup_______________
Computer Associates has entered into an agreement to buy its fourth
services company since last April, when CA's hostile takeover bid for
Computer Sciences Corp. failed. Since then, CA has launched a more
moderate acquisition strategy to build up its services arm.
The acquisition of Computer Management Sciences Inc., for a cash tender
offer worth about $435 million, will bring 900 employees into the CA
Global Professional Services unit, for a total services workforce of
more than 3,000 employees. CMSI, in Jacksonville, Fla., provides
application development, outsourcing, and consulting services. CA says
the deal will accelerate the delivery of products built around CA's
Unicenter TNG and Jasmine technologies. CA plans to expand CMSI's
national network of systems development centers to Europe, Asia, South
America, and other regions
around the world.
The deal follows close on the heels of two other recent services
acquisitions. In November, CA purchased LDA Systems Inc., a 300-employee
firm in Ohio, and in December, the software company bought Aventura
Systems ASA, a Norwegian company specializing in electronic commerce.
-- Bruce Caldwell with Amy K. Larsen
***For more on CA, check out: "CA Acquires Antivirus Product For
Unicenter"
http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19990115S0006
_____________SAP Teams With Dun & Bradstreet_____________
SAP introduced a product yesterday that will let customers integrate
business information from Dun & Bradstreet directly into the SAP R/3
software suite. The product, called D&B for R/3, promises to
automatically pass credit, supplier, and purchasing information from a
D&B database into R/3. SAP officials say the product offers many
potential benefits to customers, including the ability to identify bad
debts at an early stage and make better and faster risk-management
decisions.
Gabriele Hecken, a senior manager of global sales operations at Nortel
Networks, says she is intrigued by the product. "It could reduce time
spent on overnight updates and also ensure more accurate data," she
says. Currently, Nortel manually extracts customer entries from SAP and
matches them with data in the D&B database. It then replaces that
customer entry, which now includes such information as credit history,
product data, and other data, into the SAP system. The whole process is
cumbersome and susceptible to error.
Release 1.1 of D&B for R/3 supports SAP R/3 releases 3.1 and 4.0. The
product will be available at the end of March. Pricing information was
not disclosed. -- Tom Stein
___Cisco, Motorola Team On Wireless Internet Development___
Cisco Systems and Motorola Inc. will jointly spend $1 billion over the
next four to five years to build a wireless Internet service network
platform that will deliver data, voice, and video, the companies
announced yesterday. Other wireless companies, including AirTouch,
Cellnet, Nextel, and Sprint PCS, will support the effort.
The new architecture will let wireless carriers offer IP services, such
as virtual private networking, that let remote users connect to each
other and their company offices. It will also enable wireless carriers
to build unified messaging services that let wireless-phone users send
and receive E-mail and faxes while talking on the phone.
The two companies say they have been working on the specification for
more than a year, and they are inviting others to comment on it when
they publish a white paper in May. They expect carriers to roll out
services based on the architecture by year's end. -- Mary E. Thyfault
____PeopleSoft To Expand Performance-Management Offering____
In an effort to give its customers a more robust suite of analysis
tools, PeopleSoft Inc. will announce today that it will integrate an
analytical engine from Information Advantage Inc. into its suite of
enterprise performance-management software. MyEureka!, Information
Advantage's relational online analytical processing system, will be
embedded into the entire suite of PeopleSoft's enterprise
performance-management software. The suite -- the first pieces of which
were launched last week -- is designed to help companies analyze the
stores of data generated by their enterprise resource planning systems.
Applications in the suite include the Enterprise Warehouse,
Activity-Based Management, and, for the financial industry, Funds
Transfer Pricing and Risk Weighted Capital. Before the end of the year,
PeopleSoft will release several more analytical applications, including
PeopleSoft Balanced Scorecard, which helps organizations align their
activities with strategy.
The deal between PeopleSoft and Information Advantage will let users of
the enterprise performance-management applications run real-time queries
against the Enterprise Warehouse for intensive analysis, says Tom
Patterson, PeopleSoft director of marketing. PeopleSoft will offer an
integrated system that includes MyEureka! in the fourth quarter. --
Beth Davis
***For more on performance management, check out: "Performance
Management: Powered Planning"
http://www.informationweek.com/717/17iupow.htm
_________Lotus Unveils Project-Management Software_________
Lotus Development Corp. yesterday took the wraps off a new Web-based
collaboration tool that the company says will help small- to
medium-sized businesses use the Internet to work with geographically
removed co-workers and partners.
QuickPlace is a teamware application that users install, set up, and run
to handle communications on projects that have a limited duration. With
limited infrastructure requirements that Lotus says consist of each
user's having a browser-enabled PC, QuickPlace functions as a mechanism
for whiteboarding and other collaborative activities.
Companies can either sign up to use the application through an Internet
service provider or purchase and run it as part of an intranet or
extranet. End users don't have to run Lotus Notes to use QuickPlace, but
if they do, they can tie in Notes R5 features such as the headlines
page. -- Amy K. Larsen
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TECH STOCKWATCH (brought to you by the InformationWeek 100)
Symbol.....Company.......Close Price....Change...........%
Yesterday's Winners:
LGTO...Legato Systems......52-9/16......+6-13/16......+14.9%
FORE...Fore Systems........16-1/2.......+1-1/8.........+7.3%
BEAS...BEA Systems.........15-1/16........+7/8.........+6.2%
IM.....Ingram Micro........30-7/8.......+1-5/8.........+5.6%
CATP..Cambridge Technology..32-1/8......+1-11/16.......+5.5%
Yesterday's Losers:
YHOO...Yahoo...............158-5/8......-14-1/8........-8.2%
EDS....EDS.................45............-3-1/8........-6.5%
PSQL...Platinum Software...10-1/16........-11/16.......-6.4%
AMZN...Amazon.com..........109-1/8.......-6-3/4........-5.8%
OMKT...Open Market.........14-3/8..........-3/4........-5.0%
These results are based on the InformationWeek 100, a select sample of
influential technology companies. For updated stock quotes of the
InformationWeek 100, visit http://www.informationweek.com/stocks
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o Feb. 22-25, Integrated Enterprise Applications '99, Renaissance
Resort, Orlando, Fla.: Push your applications "solution" across business
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o March 23-26, Middleware: Developing and Integrating Enterprise
Applications, Hilton and Towers, Chicago: Apps coming together like oil
and water? Maybe the answer's in the middleware; phone 978-470-3880 or
visit http://www.dci.com/middleware/
o June 28-30 Catalyzing the Extended Enterprise: Clicking With Your
Customers, Hyatt Regency, San Francisco: Integrate apps so they can help
solve your external customers' problems, too; phone 800-945-6382 or go
to http://domino.metagroup.com/newweb.nsf/web/events
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