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Leader: ERP consolidation matters
Leader A few years back, when Oracle was making its audacious bid for PeopleSoft, which had in turn only just bought an ERP rival in the form of JD Edwards, regulators knew as much and scrutinised the deal closely. [30 May 2007]
View from Stanford: 'Offshoring works for us'
Comment It has outsourced a wide range of work for its internal administration systems to Indian IT services company Infosys - including maintenance and support of Oracle and PeopleSoft applications and databases - in a deal worth about $5m this year. [21 Nov 2006]
Oracle - how to make friends and influence people
Comment Oracle may still be digesting a raft of big-name acquisitions - from PeopleSoft to Siebel - but, suggests Dawn Kawamoto, the future for the software giant is all about developing partnerships to carve itself a very large piece of a really big pie. [25 Oct 2006]
The Consultant CIO: Gordon Lovell-Read, CIO, Siemens
Comment In this case Lovell-Read slung out a "crappy" PeopleSoft-based HR system and brought in SAP. The consultant CIO has extensive general management experience, usually in one sector, across a range of functions including sales, operations and IT and... [22 Sep 2006]
Leader: What Flash Larry's latest deal means
Leader Ellison already had his eye on PeopleSoft at that time and will have been aware that while there was appeal to owning PeopleSoft and Siebel, the deal for the former could prove problematic and drawn out while the latter would still be there when... [13 Sep 2005]
Why are Oracle and SAP fighting over Retek?
Comment Its products largely overlapped with Oracle's, but PeopleSoft supplies software to thousands of multinational companies that Oracle sought as clients. Oracle pursued PeopleSoft, the rival it acquired in January, for that reason. [10 Mar 2005]
Leader: Closure at the end of the calendar year?
Leader There was the weighty marriage between US mobile operators Nextel and Sprint and Oracle finally getting its way with PeopleSoft, another enterprise software vendor. And while it's great to see the Oracle-PeopleSoft deal put to bed - whichever way... [23 Dec 2004]
Leader: What Symantec-Veritas deal tells us
Leader The Oracle-PeopleSoft deal was also rubber-stamped this week. Much has already been said about the Symantec-Veritas marriage given that it has been telegraphed over the past week. But it is not only its size - $13.5bn - or the expectation of a wave... [16 Dec 2004]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Hosted software - it's back
Comment Some big vendors of business applications such as SAP, PeopleSoft and Siebel sell their products on multiple software platforms, so the purchaser has some decisions to make. The rebirth of software-as-a-service is challenging the traditional... [10 Dec 2004]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: The politics of enterprise applications
Comment The ongoing battle for the ownership of PeopleSoft, coupled with a deal recently between that vendor and IBM, highlights one of tech's fiercest areas. Both PeopleSoft and IBM have touted the announcement as "the most significant enterprise... [01 Oct 2004]
Inside SAP: A vendor dossier
Comment It is now over 30 years old and has grown to employ over 30,000 staff, leading a pack of US vendors that contains Oracle, PeopleSoft, Siebel and a large chunk of Microsoft. And while Microsoft is a big backer of NetWeaver, seeing common ground with... [10 Sep 2004]
Acronym soup: The fate of ERM, SRM... and more
Comment PeopleSoft has split its relationship management enterprise software components into three different databases and data models: human resources; CRM and partner relationship management (PRM); and supply chain, including supplier relationship... [08 Sep 2004]
Boardroom Despatches: Know when to quit
Comment But look at its big news of the past 12 months, the bid for PeopleSoft. We're used to the idea of a crusading business leader whose strength is tied to never giving up. But, argues columnist Rene Carayol, such a hard-headed approach can often be... [28 Jul 2004]
Leader: Is CRM a zero sum game?
Leader Could it be that there's only so much revenue to slosh around, that a Salesforce.com, a Siebel and others such as Microsoft, Oracle, PeopleSoft and SAP cannot all grow at the same time, that they are in what economists call a 'zero sum game'? [23 Jul 2004]
Investors want answers from Microsoft
Comment More broadly, software industry watchers will be looking to the Microsoft report as a possible bright spot in what has been a tough quarter, marked by earnings warnings from Siebel Systems, BMC Software, PeopleSoft and Veritas Software, among others. [22 Jul 2004]
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