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ERP goes social and Mobile . . . Visits with Infor, SAP, and Oracle at the National Retail Federation (NRF) 100th Annual Convention and Expo. ... (more information)
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NetSuite Declares the Cloud Wars Won at Suite World User Conference.... (more information)
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The Integration, Contagion and Growth concept, which was part of Nolan's six stages of technology growth model, posited that we never roll-back from IT use; it perpetually grows and every seven years ... (more information)
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Oracle, SAP, Microsoft, UNIT4 and others take very different paths to providing analytics with high performance
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Enterprise software, at the end of the day, is fueled by investment money--public or private. Deals flow. But are these a good deal for customers?... (more information)
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Big private equity swap creates Aptean and a new road ahead for customers.... (more information)
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Last but not least, Manufacturing becomes big business in the cloud.... (more information)
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Managing inventory has broader and more influential factors beyond the 'standard' formula. Proposing a modern model for managing inventory.... (more information)
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SYSPRO executives discuss company strategy at Grape Escape.... (more information)
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SAP's Manufacturing Industry Forum had excellent presentations by customers and SAP. Here we highlight one manufacturing customer's journey to transformation, as well as a presentation on SAP's supply... (more information)
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At this year's SuiteWorld conference, we heard about new developments and numerous customer examples showing how NetSuite enabled their growth.
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At the annual user conference of Epicor Software, aptly called Insights, we saw their strategy for bringing along their customers as they continue to modernize their rich portfolio of mid-market enter... (more information)
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As a new year dawns for the ERP market, the question to ask is: Is the ERP provider on the path to greatness - or not?... (more information)
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At this year's NRF show, we saw some especially innovative new developments from ERP and supply chain vendors, such as behavior-based segmentation, automated allocation and replenishment, new clientel... (more information)
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ERPs now in the cloud. What is the impact on traditional channels?... (more information)
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ERP websites that purport to give you a list of the 'top ten,' or only list ERP leave us cold. And they confuse the software buyer. And as ERP providers keep adding more and more software into their p... (more information)
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ERP players who specialize in small and mid-sized businesses are an interesting and diverse group of players. Their challenge is . . .... (more information)
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As small businesses grow and they address their processes and complexities, they need technology to be there for them.... (more information)
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ERP for the SMB: Sales and Marketing business models should drive your choice for an ERP. This series is for SMBs that are contemplating ERP.... (more information)
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ERP in the SMB is a highly differentiated market.
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ERP Now!
Comparisons of Solution Providers and their 60+ ERP Products
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What a time for ERP! New solutions providers and merger mania have kept this market from being dull. And new technologies - social, mobile and cloud - are the must-have capabilities that keep soluti... (more information)
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This article starts our ERP series. ERP is an interesting and complex tale not unlike the Panchtantra or the Arabian Nights . . .... (more information)
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ERP Pricing for the SMB entails a holistic strategy.... (more information)
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Software companies manage themselves and their costs very differently, and that makes serving small, midsize or large markets easy or challenging.... (more information)
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This table shows a list of the providers in the "ERP Now!" report. Some providers are differentiated by small- vs. medium-sized businesses. This table also covers on premise, hosted, and cloud ... (more information)
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Tens of thousands of companies are still sitting on old ERP platforms. What will it take for them to upgrade?
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How Systems Will Work in the Future -- Actually Now.... (more information)
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HarrisData technology strategy includes Apple and IBM PureSystems technologies.... (more information)
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Last week's Ariba LIVE conference clarified SAP's cloud strategy, highlighted the importance and future plans of Ariba's Business Network, and further cemented the central role of HANA as the foundati... (more information)
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Oracle OpenWorld 2019 includes SuiteConnect San Francisco, a conference-within-a-conference. Here we share some of the things we learned about Oracle NetSuite, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Oracle Auto... (more information)
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The latest technology and updated UX/UI are needed to attract a new generation of supply chain professionals. But they are also benefitting everyday users.... (more information)
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Amazon (and others) have profoundly raised customer expectations for frictionless commerce, fast-free delivery, and nearly infinite selection. This impacts not just retailers, but manufacturers and di... (more information)
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Infor provides a great example of ongoing reinvention of a software firm: taking a collection of decades old applications, leveraging the deep and rich functionality developed and lessons learned over... (more information)
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Infor hosted analysts for a stealth look at some of the new innovations in their labs in NYC.... (more information)
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Infor's ERP portfolio gets a makeover. To understand Infor's many ERP packages read on.
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At Inforum, we got a good sense of the energy, innovation, and ability to evolve that is keeping Infor competitive.... (more information)
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Highlights from the Epicor Insights Conference 2013.... (more information)
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Highlights from Insights--Epicor User Conference.... (more information)
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We continue our look at how small and medium manufacturers and wholesale distributors are implementing IoT. Here, we examine how they are incorporating IoT into products and using it to create value-a... (more information)
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Enterprise software firms such as Epicor, LCI/MACROLYNK and others are launching their own Enterprise Social Networking technology. But what will drive user adoption on these types of enterprise socia... (more information)
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As usual, there was a plethora of thought leadership at Focus, JDA's annual conference. It seems they also realize thought leadership only counts if people actually implement it. They are increasingly... (more information)
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PowerPlex 2014 highlighted how small and medium manufacturers are implementing quite sophisticated manufacturing solution capabilities. ... (more information)
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Why would anyone write solutions and launch a new company in mature markets, which are undergoing significant consolidation? Turns out for a lot of good reasons.... (more information)
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Here we discuss applications of Trade DaaS including ERP/GTM integration, supply chain risk management, sourcing optimization, supplier discovery, price discovery, total landed cost, compliant duty op... (more information)
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At Infor's Innovation Summit for Analysts, we heard about their new data lake, investments in artificial intelligence, retail, manufacturing, and distribution. Here we cover some of the highlights.
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In Part 1 we provided an overview and some history of how the ERP market got to where it is today.... (more information)
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Oracle's acquisition of NetSuite last year was big news in the enterprise solutions arena. At SuiteWorld, we got a sense of what this will mean for NetSuite and its customers.... (more information)
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NetSuite's cloud-based ERP solutions are more than up to the job of handling complex business models.
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Revolutionaries have to pioneer and guide the way forward.... (more information)
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NetSuite has seen healthy growth since they were acquired by Oracle. At SuiteWorld, we heard about their strategy to continue to accelerate that growth, leveraging Oracle assets, ongoing micro-vertica... (more information)
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The universe of SaaS/Cloud offerings just got bigger. Today's announcement of Epicor Express means a full-featured SaaS solution is available to small manufacturers who have had almost no SaaS options... (more information)
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In this second part we discuss the current pricing in the SaaS market.
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The Week of SAPPHIRE NOW: SAP, in many ways, not the same ole ERP.... (more information)
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SAP has many products that target small and mid-size businesses. Here's how to figure it out.... (more information)
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SAP's just-announced new business unit is aspiring to deliver simplicity, choice, and rapid ROI to small and mid-sized companies. ... (more information)
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SAP has had a reputation (especially as painted by their competitors) of being monolithic, painful to implement, difficult to use, hard to upgrade, and just not all that innovative. While some of that... (more information)
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We don't always think of SAP as an innovator. But they are doing a lot. Complex Event Processing based on real-time sensor data, social media to find the right skilled people, embedded analytics, and ... (more information)
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At this year's SuiteWorld, NetSuite announced key architectural changes, their version of an omni-channel strategy, many new capabilities by vertical industry, and a new IDE for their SuiteCloud platf... (more information)
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One of the main themes at SuiteWorld 2013 was NetSuite's commitment to building out its capabilities for manufacturers beyond what they have already done. ... (more information)
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NetSuite's annual conference was big and bold (as always) with some really significant announcements and an abundance of interesting and illuminating customer stories and presentations.
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NetSuite's success can be traced in no small part to the customizability of their solution. Here are some short customer stories, mostly in Manufacturing and Wholesale Distribution, highlighting their... (more information)
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How some hot new innovative manufacturers and retailers are making NetSuite's cloud ERP and ecommerce work for them. ... (more information)
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Grape Escape features SYSPRO customers such as 1000Bulbs.com, Rochester Electronics and more...... (more information)
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SYSPRO continues to defy their small company ERP profile with leading technology innovation.... (more information)
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When Aptean was formed two years ago, many wondered whether they would survive. Now, not only does their survival seem relatively secure, but they have a shot at meaningful growth. Their recent annual... (more information)
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What are the real costs and impacts of delays in technology decision-making? Companies take a long time evaluating software. They brood about ROI. But they rarely think about what it is costing them w... (more information)
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More than a pretty face: ICE, ION, and Engage.... (more information)
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Free software is taking over the market, but at a price . . .
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UNIT4 has a great growth story to tell for their customers.
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Multi-tenant, hosting, on premise, plus the ability to share work processes among tenants make UNIT4 a unique player in the ERP market.... (more information)
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With the recent acquisitions of Plex and CDC's merger with Consona to create the new Aptean, the question becomes, who is driving the ERP strategy of the future?
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Wholesale Distributors represent approximately $4 trillion in trade, just in the US, alone! They are a powerful segment of every economy. The speed of business and increased competition powered by the... (more information)
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