SAP’s on-demand ERP (enterprise resource planning) suite Business ByDesign “is not a fantasy,” CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe said during a press conference last week. Snabe was addressing quiet thoughts of attendees at the Sappire conference in regards to Business ByDesign’s postponed product roll out back in 2008. SAP originally hoped to have 10,000 customers and […]
At Sapphire Now, SAP talked a bit more about Sybase and its focus for on-premise, on-device and on demand systems. James Governor, co-found of Redmonk, says that SAP is throwing out the seeds to see what flowers. There has been a huge change in the development culture and SAP is a doing a lot of […]
Many of the big players of enterprise software like SAP, originated as niche solutions for large corporations, focused on manufacturing, financial management, HR and the like. It has been 30 years since the inception of ERP and now they are defined by their ability to manage every internal and external resource of an organization. Since […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
After following business software news for a while, we’ve noticed a predominant trend. Business solutions providers have their ‘heads in the clouds’. Meaning, software companies are focusing their attention on cloud-computing, on-demand solutions. Recent acquisitions in the ERP industry show that companies are realizing the value of expanding their cloud-based solutions. CDC Software Corporation recently […]
Machine shops and other small- and mid-sized manufacturers have much to gain and learn about information management. Considering that many of these shops have a small number of employees and only a few who may need to keep track of orders and process data, it is understandable that their focus is more on their products […]
The iPad is an undeniably sexy device for constant connectivity and amazing fun and useful apps. Many developers are looking to the iPad as the next great player in the enterprise resource planning (ERP) segment. The enterprise resource planning segment spans across the management of an enterprise’s physical and software assets, fiscal and human resources […]
While many vendors are moving their enterprise resource planning applications to the cloud to capitalize on press opportunities, EMC, Lawson and Epicor repeat the same message – don’t upgrade your application, upgrade your infrastructure. EMC CEO Joe Tucci explained that businesses won’t be willing to give up their existing investments in custom enterprise resource planning […]