During the German portion of their SAPPHIRE conference, SAP has been doling out service awards. One of the software companies happy to make the cut is ClickSoftware Technologies, a workforce management and service optimization solutions provider that was given an ERP Executive Best of SAPPHIRE NOW Award. Specifically, ClickSoftware was recognized in the Best Green […]
Most companies will go to great extents to revamp their images, and UNIT4 Agresso is most certainly one of those companies. Earlier this month, they announced they had completed a company name change in the US: they went from Agresso North America to UNIT4 Business Software. The change stems from a decision to rally under […]
Recently at the SuiteCloud 2010 event, NetSuite made a number of announcements regarding a number of deals they’ve recently linked with major SI, accounting and outsourcing firms. Genpact, the GE spinoff, has made a big splash over the years bringing back office BPO (business process outsourcing) to the world. It was announced that Genpact will […]
As we’ve mentioned here before, the battle between NetSuite and SAP for cloud-ERP dominance has been a lengthy, and very one-sided one. NetSuite made its name selling business software products on the Software-as-a-Service model, while SAP is historically all about the legacy systems. The latter vendor has come under fire for their lack of cloud […]
When it comes to cloud-based ERP offerings, we’re used to hearing about how NetSuite generally excels while SAP is playing the catch-up game. Which makes it a bit strange that Consona only recently announced that their entire business-software suite (from ERP to CRM) would be available on a cloud-based service model, and never got any […]
The traditional sentiment of what it takes to implement enterprise resource planning (ERP) and similar large, complex packaged applications is that it’s a big, lumbering, exhaustive process. Standard procedures such as installation, configuration, testing new systems and then moving them into production can take enormous time and effort, and software changes often just layer on […]
Small and Mid-Sized businesses (SMB) have very specific needs for enterprise resource planning (ERP) software. Due to their sizes and resources, SMB’s need full ERP capabilities without complexity or high costs. Vendors are now stepping up their solutions to provide SMB-specific software with promises of a quick return on investment (ROI). ERP vendors are finally […]
It goes without saying that a lot of SAP-related news has to do with their cloud-based ERP offerings, or lack thereof. Thankfully, their SAPPHIRE conference last week gave us something else to talk about—like how they’ll be competing with Oracle on yet another level: in-memory database appliances. A software giant’s business is never done, it […]
SAP covered three basic segments at their SAPPHIRE conference last week: on-premise, on-demand, and on-device product strategy. And while the on-demand end news was largely speculative and related to plans for future products, they did announce a virtualization partnership with Cisco, EMC, and VMware’s Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) coalition. The VCE was formed in 2009, […]
Microsoft would love for us to believe that SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 are so completely superior to Google’s Apps offerings that businesses would be foolish to adopt Apps over a Microsoft-centric solution. In the past, Microsoft users haven’t really been compelled to take on their desktop offerings, and while Office 2007 was excellent, many […]