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Microsoft Office/SharePoint 2010 and Google Apps: Skinning The Same Cat?
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 […]
What ERP Software Vendor is the “Most Innovative�
SYSPRO, the ERP software provider, has been recognized in the “Most Innovative Company” and “New Product or Service of the Year” categories. SYSPRO was given the double-accolade by the American Business Awards, aka “the Stevie Award”. SYSPRO is a double-finalist for the awards, and hopes to take home the gold at the June 21st awards […]
CDC Supply Chain Software Vendor Acquires TradeBeam
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 […]
Epicor 9, Offsite Is On The Mark With Cloud-Based ERP
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 […]
Microsoft Attempts to Undercut SAP, Announces A Two-Tier ERP Connector
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
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 […]
BravoSolution Helps Drive Supply Chain Management Success
Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD) has won the coveted Aberdeen Group’s 2010 achievement award for supply chain management excellence. The company uses BravoSolution as their supply chain management software of choice. BravoSolution was built to help users in the supply chain industry manage their multiple interconnected businesses. Supply chain management solutions help with provision of […]
What Vendors Think About Moving Legacy Enterprise Resource Planning Solutions to Cloud Platforms
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 […]
SAP’s Strategy Trending Towards Mobile Technology To Gain ERP Market Share
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 […]
What Makes A Cost Effective ERP Solution for the Manufacturing Sector
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 […]