Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire County Councils have selected Fujitsu Services to provide what is believed to be the first enterprise resource planning (ERP) shared service in local government.
Oracle has said that corporate customers have delayed investing in new software owing to the turmoil in the financial markets, which led to revenue growth lower than expected, according to a Financial Times report.
Scotland's Bruichladdich Distillery Company has invested £200,000 in an ERP system developed for food, beverage and pharmaceutical manufacturing industries to help manage its complex supply chain and support planned expansion.
Premier Decorations, an importer of Christmas decorations and Halloween products, has selected the HighJump Warehouse Advantage platform to boost operations at its distribution warehouse in Wrexham.
Share trading exchange Turquoise, funded by nine investment banks, will next month finish a pan-european trading platform that has taken only six months to develop using off-the-shelf software.