Electronics engineering company, Invensys, announced preliminary year end results whilst unveiling plans to focus on the development of intelligent automation systems for manufacturing processes in the petrochemical, food, power and rail industries.
Siebel Systems has sold its sales automation software to Racal Telecom. The value of the deal has not been disclosed. Racal - which is still the centre of a reported takeover bid by fellow business telco Energis - said it is trying to derive value...
The German giant has refused to comment on the specifics of the offer, but has admitted it has long been interested in acquiring an automation unit. Honeywell announced it was considering ceasing its automation activities following poor financial...
Sales force automation is hitting the PDA market after Palm and CRM giant Siebel sealed a deal to make mobile sales people more efficient. A mobile version of Siebel's sales support software called Sales Handheld 7 will be available for Palm...
But IT providers use different labels for this automation and are addressing various aspects of the overall goal. IBM is embedding automation features across its existing products, including servers, databases, middleware and systems management...
The data centre automation initiative competes with similar efforts from rivals such as IBM, with its autonomic computing plan, and Hewlett-Packard, with its Utility Data Center. Sun has already released the first N1 products, which are designed to...