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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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SAP Acquires Sybase

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 Poaches from SAP, Boast Big Q4 Earnings

Late last week, NetSuite announced their fourth quarter earnings, and their overall success in 2009 is undoubtedly a harbinger of widespread SaaS ERP uptake within the next few years. And if those numbers weren’t enough, they also announced that RedBuilt LLC switched to their product from SAP—NetSuite has successfully poached SAP customers before, but RedBuilt […]

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FusionOps Insight: The New Business Analytics Dashboard

FusionOps’ business analytics products have been getting quite a bit of attention lately. The general consensus on their offerings—which integrate with users’ existing ERP platforms—is that they are fine products, but in many ways they could potentially threaten the companies FusionOps wants to partner with. Just last month they launched a new metrics delivery dashboard, […]

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Microsoft ERP Aims to Dominate the SMB Market

Microsoft’s Dynamics ERP may never have the enterprise-market potential touted by SAP and Oracle, but the company is aiming to dominate the small- to medium-sized business market. Microsoft doesn’t break down revenue reports from its Dynamics line by segment, but Ray Wang, a partner at the Altimeter Group analyst firm, estimates that Dynamics ERP brings […]

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NetSuite Targets A New Audience, Announces SuiteCloud Connect for Large Corporations

It isn’t news that cloud-computing software vendors are hawking their products as the perfect solution for mid-market enterprises experiencing a cash crunch, and now these vendors are pushing their applications to large enterprises trying to maintain circulation to their branches. Today at the Oracle OpenWorld convention, NetSuite announced a new version of their OneWorld product, […]

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InfoWorld honors Openbravo with Best of Open Source Award 2009

– Openbravo and its community recognized with Bossie award on heels of new innovative products and broadened range of applications – Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, Massachusetts (September 04, 2009) – Openbravo, the leading developer of web-based open source Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Point of Sale (POS) solutions for businesses, has been named by InfoWorld […]

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Bennett International Group Streamlines New Manufacturing Operations With Intuitive ERP Software

Software from Consona Will Maximize Efficiency of New Ventureâ??s Internal and Customer-Facing Processes, and Provide Scalability for National Growth. Indianapolis, IN (August 28, 2009) – Consona Corporation (Consona), a worldwide leader in providing customer relationship management (CRM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) software and services for companies of all sizes, today announced that global transportation […]

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