SAP's TomorrowNow offers third-party support for businesses that use PeopleSoft software.
Last month Anthony Scott, the chief technology officer for General Motors, had executives from Oracle, Microsoft, PeopleSoft and other software houses in for a reaming.
And Workday's co-CEOs are Aneel Bhusri and Dave Duffield, who used to run software maker PeopleSoft, also bought by Oracle.
Nelson's belief in NetSuite's Web approach flies contrary to what Oracle has done in cobbling together software from PeopleSoft, Siebel and others.
David Duffield , the retired founder of software maker PeopleSoft, and his wife bought a miniature schnauzer from a breeder in 1986.
Workday, the personnel and payroll software from PeopleSoft founder David Duffield, taps Flex's smooth interface to let managers easily pull staffers from one project to another.
Bhusri talked to product developers and in November told the board PeopleSoft needed to develop new software on the Web.
SAP, a German software firm, and PeopleSoft, an American one, are now offering standard ways of organising and delivering administrative office work.
Dave Duffield is a serial entrepreneur and the creator of PeopleSoft, a successful business-software firm swallowed by Oracle in 2004 after a hostile bid.
Like PeopleSoft, Workday provides HR management software.
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Worse yet for BrassRing, PeopleSoft, the king of human resources software, has developed a program that competes with BrassRing and in one year has scooped up more than 400 customers.
Like any other third party practice the SAP division holds a maintenance contract on behalf of customers in which it is allowed to maintain the software of a rival like PeopleSoft.
Workday, a red-hot enterprise software company started by former PeopleSoft execs David Duffield and Aneel Bhusri, has filed confidentially with the SEC for an initial public offering, Reuters reports, making use of a provision of the JOBS Act that allows companies to keep financial details private during the early stages of the registration process.
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Along with SAP, PeopleSoft and Oracle form the triumvirate in a market for corporate enterprise software that hasn't been expanding.
He cofounded the new firm with John Leach (also of Blue Martini as well as founder of Incite Retail) and Gene Davis ( worked at NASA, Blue Martini, ClioMusic, SeeSaw Networks, PeopleSoft and Red Pepper, all previous Zweben ventures, plus Fogbreak Software and Tealeaf technologies).
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As well as the big firms, there are plenty of private producers of HR software, such as Silicon Valley Workday, founded by ex-PeopleSoft executives, which filed for an initial public offering recently.
The Justice Department told the court that the Oracle-Peoplesoft merger would eliminate one of only three big suppliers of auditing and human resources software in the US, hampering competition.
The App is only available for use in San Ramon right now but thanks to the help of a Bay Area billionaire, who reluctantly sold his company, PeopleSoft, to Oracle in 2004, and now is the founder and CEO of enterprise software firm WorkDay, fire stations across the country will be able to customize it for their areas.
Following PeopleSoft's warning, Morgan Stanley cut its earnings estimate for the provider of enterprise application software to 13 cents per share from 20 cents.
The billionaire founder of PeopleSoft has come out of a second retirement to build a new company called Workday that sells software big companies can access over the Web to run most of their important back-office functions such as payroll, personnel, asset-tracking and financials.
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