The past week has been chock full of cloud-related news. First, Microsoft announces that it will begin offering the Microsoft Dynamics ERP software through the Azure cloud platform. Then Dell announces that they will spend $1 billion this year to create 10 data centers that will support cloud services for enterprises. IBM also announced that […]
Recently, Ariba and Hubspan announced the creation of a new service that helps organizations connect their ERP solutions to the Ariba Commerce Cloud solutions. The new service provides a cost effective way to integrate the Ariba cloud solutions to ERP systems and provides increased information flow and improved operating efficiency. Ariba believes that systems integrated […]
Today, NetSuite Inc., a provider cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) and financial suites, announced the series of industry leaders schedule to speak at its London conference, “A Cloud Computing Wake-Up Call for Professional Services.†The event’s purpose is to inform European-based professional services firms about the possibilities of cloud computing solutions and how they can […]
The traditional sentiment of what it takes to implement enterprise resource planning (ERP) and similar large, complex packaged applications is that it’s a big, lumbering, exhausting process. Standard procedures such as installation, configuration, testing new systems and then moving them into production can take enormous time and effort, and software changes often just layer on […]
When it comes to cloud-based ERP offerings, we’re used to hearing about how NetSuite generally excels while SAP is playing the catch-up game. Which makes it a bit strange that Consona only recently announced that their entire business-software suite (from ERP to CRM) would be available on a cloud-based service model, and never got any […]
The traditional sentiment of what it takes to implement enterprise resource planning (ERP) and similar large, complex packaged applications is that it’s a big, lumbering, exhaustive process. Standard procedures such as installation, configuration, testing new systems and then moving them into production can take enormous time and effort, and software changes often just layer on […]
SAP covered three basic segments at their SAPPHIRE conference last week: on-premise, on-demand, and on-device product strategy. And while the on-demand end news was largely speculative and related to plans for future products, they did announce a virtualization partnership with Cisco, EMC, and VMware’s Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) coalition. The VCE was formed in 2009, […]
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 […]
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 […]