Stories about: G-Log

Oracle has released the first major new version of its demand management software a year after acquiring the technology through the purchase of Demantra.

When it comes to Oracle's on-demand software business, the normally outspoken vendor has tended to be somewhat reticent about how it defines both the scope and focus of its operation. Recently, however, the company has begun to talk more openly about software-as-a-service (SaaS), an approach that it sees as applicable to all Oracle offerings.

Oracle has formally rechristened the transportation management software it acquired through the purchase of Global Logistics Technologies (G-Log), the enterprise database and applications vendor announced Tuesday.

Oracle gobbles up Siebel (buuurp). Sun swallows StorageTek (slurp). Adobe feasts on Macromedia (brrrap). And let's not forget Sprint and Nextel's $35 billion hookup, eBay's purchase of Skype, the Symantec-Veritas wedding, or scores of other megabuck deals that are roiling today's enterprise market. Yep, tech companies have suddenly come down with a whopping case of the consolidation crazies. But disruption can be minimized by maintaining close contact with your vendor.

Protecting customer investments is a pervasive theme at this year's Oracle Open World, and a common motif in nearly every presentation made by senior executives of the company.

Oracle kicked off the second day of its OpenWorld user conference with an acquisition, scooping up Global Logistics Technologies (G-Log) for an undisclosed sum Oracle said Tuesday. Oracle plans to use G-Log's logistics software to boost its supply-chain management technology offerings.

Long the exclusive domain of AI (artificial intelligence) research, statistical probability analysis got its real start during World War II, when military intelligence wanted a way to predict possible outcomes. Throughout the 1950s, the field was continued by mathematicians such as John Nash, and now this complex discipline is becoming the stuff of ordinary business applications.

Global Logistics Technologies and New Meadows Venture Partners have launched SupplyLinks, an Internet-based global supply chain network, to link customers to various transportation modes and service providers through a single platform.