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What’s in a Name? “North American Success,” Says UNIT4 Agresso
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 […]
On-Premise ERP Vendors: Your partners are moving to cloudier pastures
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 […]
Rutland Plastics Chooses Epicor ERP to Drive Their Success
Here at Blog ERP we like to highlight how ERP software solutions can help streamline your business processes and optimize efficiency. ERP solutions provide support for your business across several departments, in one software instance. The importance of using an efficient ERP software solution is finally being understood by businesses worldwide. Rutland Plastics recently implemented […]
SAP Business ByDesign Is Out–So What’s NetSuite’s Next Move?
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 […]
Everything Cloud: All Consona Products Now Available on SaaS Model
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 […]
ERP and Cloud-Computing: Making Upgrades and Innovation Easier
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 […]
ERP for your Small Business
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 […]
SAP Targets Business Intelligence through In-Memory Database Appliances
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 […]
Epicor’s 2010 First Quarter Results
Epicor, the ERP software vendor, has announced their financial results for Q1 2010. Epicor’s financial quarter ended March 31, 2010, but as ERP giants continue to battle it out, it is important to analyze results so we can find some insight on things to come. Epicor’s ERP software is geared towards midmarket and divisions of […]
More Racing to the Cloud: SAP Adds Virtualization
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, […]