Business Intelligence (BI)

i2 Technologies board of directors appoints Dr. Pallab K. Chatterjee to chief executive officer.

HP and EDS sign a definitive agreement under which HP will purchase EDS at a price of $25.00 per share, or an enterprise value of approximately $13.9 billion. The deal will better position HP to rival IBM in the global IT outsourcing and business process outsourcing markets. Read on to find out the details of the acquisition, plus find out what industry analysts from AMR Research have to say about it.

Candy manufacturer, Mars Snackfood, is now part of an EPA program that turns waste to energy.

The J.M. Smucker Company buys the Knott's Berry Farm food brand from ConAgra Foods in attempt to grow this market.

The transaction includes long-term strategic services agreement for banana ripening and distribution.

Kraft Foods Inc. will showcase more than 80 new food and beverage offerings for health and wellness, premium taste, quick meals and accessible snacks.

Product information management and master data management solution capabilities from FullTilt are said to complement QAD's vision.

The move toward demand-driven strategies has initiated a more strategic approach towards demand data and has precipitated the need for Demand Signal Repositories designed to manage, cleanse, normalize, aggregate, and analyze demand data to make it actionable.