Stories about: Software Associates

Spun off from the broader storage-resource management market, these tools monitor and report on backups across multiple vendors' backup products. In doing so, they can ease the auditing process. They create a way to implement chargeback programs for backups. They let network executives offer and verify service-level agreements for backups, and more.

SAP has announced a new CEO and managing director for Australia and New Zealand following Geraldine McBride's promotion to regional president for the Asia Pacific.

SSA Global Technologies has lately been on a buying spree of enterprise application vendors that rivals Oracle's, in deal frequency if not size. The once-bankrupt ERP (enterprise resource planning) vendor is amassing an eclectic portfolio that analysts say positions it as an emerging major player in the changing back-office applications market.

SSA Global Technologies said Monday it has purchased HR (human resources) management applications maker Boniva Software. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Unisys has appointed Andrew Barkla as managing director of Unisys Australia and New Zealand.

Microsoft sent an ominous warning yesterday to the channel that it will not tolerate pirated software sales announcing a $5,000 reward for anyone giving evidence leading to the conviction of a dealer selling pirated or counterfeit software.

VeriSign Inc. issued two code-signing certificates that have been found to be fraudulent and could be used to trick users into installing malicious code onto their computers, the security company said Thursday.

FRAMINGHAM (08/28/2000) - The district government of Washington, D.C., last week said it has been forced to scrap a US$20 million citywide payroll system that wasn't working properly. Under development since 1991 and only operational for one year, the payroll system developed by Boston contractor Business Software Associates was faulted with issuing incorrect checks or none at all to D.C. employees. The district, which had switched half of its 43,000 employees to the new system, will revert to an older one at a cost of about $5 million.

NONPROFITS ON THE WEB AND A PRAYER

IT systems can connect every corner of the globe, but IT managers are learning they have to pay attention to regional differences.

Manufacturing software vendor System Software Associates Inc. (SSA) will sell almost all of its assets to a newly formed subsidiary of Gores Technology Group, the companies said in a statement.