New Zealand's largest company, dairy group Fonterra, is considering outsourcing its worldwide information services functions to HCL in India.
Business software maker PeopleSoft will acquire J.D. Edwards in a stock deal worth US$1.7 billion, the companies said Monday.
Oracle announced on Wednesday the general release of E-Business Suite Release 12, a financial-information suite designed for global deployment, and unveiled postmerger applications for users of PeopleSoft, JD Edwards and Siebel products.
Local IT services company UXC has acquired Adelaide-based JD Edwards consultancy Jigsaw Services for an undisclosed sum, bulking up its skills in the software now owned by Oracle.
PeopleSoft, JD Edwards and Siebel customers have another option for Sydney-based support after SAP-owned TomorrowNow opened an office in the city.
The construction giant's AU$15 million, JD Edwards OneWorld implementation was initially intended as an upgrade to a struggling decade-old internal system but Thiess has found more than one reason to embrace a future version of the product.
Fruit juice vendor Berri is taking lessons from supply chain guru and PC giant Dell to improve its business.
Troubled metals and plumbing company the Crane Group has written down the carrying value of a new PeopleSoft enterprise resource planning system by AU$28.8 million due to "significant cost and time overruns" and is considering a claim against the vendor.
What sets J D Edwards apart from the likes of Siebel and PeopleSoft? We speak with Ian Hodge, managing director Australia/New Zealand, about the future of business software and services.
Consolidation of Oracle's business applications into a single code base has passed the halfway mark, but the company's customers won't be forced into an upgrade before they're ready, Oracle executives promised an attentive crowd of more than 400 primarily JD Edwards users at this week's Quest '06 conference in Melbourne.
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