Category: ERP News

CDC Supply Chain Software Vendor Acquires TradeBeam

May 24, 2010 | CDC Software, ERP Companies, ERP News, ERP Software, Supply Chain Management, Trends in ERP | 0 comments

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 […]

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Epicor 9, Offsite Is On The Mark With Cloud-Based ERP

May 24, 2010 | ERP News, Supply Chain Management, Trends in ERP | 0 comments

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 […]

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Microsoft Attempts to Undercut SAP, Announces A Two-Tier ERP Connector

May 24, 2010 | ERP Companies, ERP News, Microsoft Dynamics ERP, SAP | 0 comments

To the surprise of very few familiar with the incessant sparring between ERP software giants, Microsoft was one of a few enterprises to try and undermine SAP’s Sapphire conference. During the conference last week, the German software company announced the general release of their (much-anticipated) cloud-based ERP system, Business ByDesign. Microsoft, meanwhile, made a move […]

Apple Pushes iPad and Mobile ERP

May 24, 2010 | ERP News, Trends in ERP | 0 comments

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 […]

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What Vendors Think About Moving Legacy Enterprise Resource Planning Solutions to Cloud Platforms

May 19, 2010 | ERP Companies, ERP News, ERP Software, Trends in ERP | 2 comments

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 […]

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SAP’s Strategy Trending Towards Mobile Technology To Gain ERP Market Share

May 18, 2010 | ERP News, SAP | 0 comments

SAP reiterated its focus on delivering its software on-premise, on-demand and on mobile devices and on designing these components in a consistent way to ensure consistent, real-time data. While many of SAP’s users like SAP’s push on mobile, on-demand and in-memory, their core customers remain focused on getting onto the latest ERP release and taking […]

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What Makes A Cost Effective ERP Solution for the Manufacturing Sector

May 17, 2010 | ERP News | 0 comments

Almost all the popular ERP solutions were developed for the manufacturing sector. Their cost effectiveness is determined by how they match specific company requirements and the functionality of the ERP solution. ERP solutions do more than just automate the present transaction system, in fact, they are meant to improve business processes, remove bottlenecks of the […]

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SAP Acquires Sybase

May 12, 2010 | ERP Companies, ERP News, SAP | 0 comments

Breaking ERP news-SAP is acquiring Sybase for $5.8 million. Oracle, are you scared yet? Although it’s only speculation, SAP is said to have made the deal to compete with Oracle. The ERP giant Oracle grew its business after a $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems last year. The  SAP-Sybase cash deal is expected to close […]

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NetSuite Presents: The First Annual Hairball Awards

Apr 23, 2010 | ERP News, NetSuite | 0 comments

And the award goes to… In ERP News, NetSuite hosted its first annual “Hairball” awards to honor cloud computing businesses that were able to optimize productivity, cut costs, and “cough up the hairball” of  suite solutions it once used. NetSuite is a web-based business software suite that provides CRM, ecommerce and financial solutions, all in […]

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Launch of ERP Software Acumatica 1.4

Apr 22, 2010 | ERP News, ERP Software | 0 comments

Acumatica, a Cloud enterprise resource planning (ERP) vendor, announced the launch of Acumatica 1.4 today. The Cloud ERP software company has added several new features to its software to improve ERP experience for customers.  Acumatica’s main function is to automate business processes to optimize efficiency. Acumatica 1.4 is available immediately to users who have the […]

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