New Era, known as Neon, makes e-commerce applications, a rapidly growing category of business software.
SAP offers good-enough CRM programs as part of its suite of business software.
— who had spent most of his career at SAP, the giant German maker of business software.
Usually the company focuses on selling licenses to bundles of business software products.
Business Objects, a maker of business software, agreed yesterday to buy the closely held Crystal Decisions for about $820 million.
D. Edwards, a smaller maker of business software, is valued at $1.75 billion in a combination of cash and stock.
For the managers in charge of business software sales for I.B.M. in the 1990's, the answer was pretty embarrassing.
Only sales of business software, a relatively small source of revenue for the technology giant, increased significantly.
At around the same time, SAP unveiled Business ByDesign, an online version of the company's array of business software, aimed at medium-size businesses.
EMC executives also dismissed speculation that the company would spin off its majority stake in VMware, a rapidly growing maker of business software, early next year.
The Descartes Systems Group, a provider of business software, has acquired Ottawa-based ViaSafe, a private company that develops secure electronic logistics services for global traders.
