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Florida Crystals Succeeds in the Cloud

Florida Crystals, owner of sugar giants Domino Sugar and C&H Sugar, has recently made the move to the “enterprise cloud”, and has since seen a significant reduction in IT and maintenance costs. The company has been operating SAP applications to fill their business needs, and has selected service supplier Virtustream to operate the applications off-premise. […]

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ERP Software Helps Library Company Yield Huge Profit

Sunder Rajan, owner and founder of India’s Just Books, has found a way to gain a wide public appeal for libraries through the implementation of enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions. Software engineer Rajan started up a small library near his home in Bangalore, India, in 2008. Just Books achieved a surprisingly successful launch, gaining 1,000 […]

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Marin County Blames SAP for Failed “Ramp-Up” Project

California’s Marin County heard extensive sales pitches from SAP, Oracle, and PeopleSoft before deciding on SAP’s complex ERP 2005 software to revamp their county-wide system in 2004. What followed this decision were years of headaches and millions in overrun costs. The software was implemented throughout the county by Deloitte Consulting, who allegedly charged the county […]

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Infor Acquires Lawson Software

On April 26th, 2011, Lawson Software announced its definitive decision to be acquired by Infor and its parent company Golden Gate Capital. Lawson, a Minnesota based ERP vendor, develops enterprise software for companies in the health care, food, and retail fields. This merger will significantly bump the Infor company up in the rankings, which will […]

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Popular ERP Software Reviews

There is a plethora of available Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software solutions. Some are designed for manufacturing companies, others for distribution companies, and others try to be customizable for almost any organization. Some of these are hosted systems; others are on-site systems, while still others are Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) systems. Some are made for large companies […]

The ERP Vendor Consolidation: What It Could Mean to You

One of the 2011 trends predicted for the ERP market has been realized in recent weeks. That trend predicted the consolidation of ERP vendors. Apax Partners has recently agreed to pay $976 million for Epicor, plus an additional $890 million for Activant. Both organizations will be folded under the Epicor brand. Another recent purchase is […]

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Payment Company Selects IBM Mainframe to Support Key Business Operations

Payment Solution Providers Expects to Save up to 35% in IT costs with IBM System z and DB2 Software over HP servers with Oracle databases ARMONK, N.Y. and TORONTO, April 19, 2011 — IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that Payment Solution Providers (PSP) is consolidating its entire IT infrastructure on the IBM System z® mainframe […]

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IBM to Deliver New Optimized POWER7 Products, Inspired by Watson Technology

New blades, upgraded servers built to handle world’s most demanding emerging applications ARMONK, N.Y., April 12, 2011 — IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced new workload-optimized POWER7® systems, including a performance boost to the Power 750 — the same server used in Watson, the Jeopardy! winner — that provides even faster processing capability than each machine […]

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IBM Unveils Next Generation Smart Cloud Platform for Business

Clients get the economics of IBM’s existing cloud services with an extended choice of delivery models and enterprise features SAN FRANCISCO, April 7, 2011 — IBM (NYSE: IBM) today unveiled its next generation IBM SmartCloud, an enterprise-class, secure cloud specifically created to meet the demands of businesses.   To accelerate the shift from experimentation, development […]

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The Biggest Companies Might Not Have the Best ERP Software for Your Business: Reviews of Sage and Lawson ERP Software

Generally, the biggest companies that exist in any industry are not the biggest because of their poor customer service, their poor product quality, or their poor pricing.’ However, this does not mean that they are the best choice for you and your company.’ Sure, SAP, Oracle, and Microsoft dominated the best ERP software debate, at […]