News Analysis: Aptean Six Months After The CDC Software And Consona Merger
Mergers Continue In The Enterprise Software Space On August 7th, 2012, CDC Software and Consona Corporation merged to form Aptean. Over the past six months, Monte Ford, the president of Aptean has made key executive hires, committed to new product investments, and rationalized overhead. Key points in the acquisition include: Merger creates economies of scale. [...]
Quarterly Financial Tracker: Q2 CY 2010 – SaaS Vendors Still Show Massive YoY Growth
The majority of 22 publicly traded software vendors demonstrated solid year-over-year (YoY) quarterly growth from Q2 2009 (see Figure 1). Every SaaS vendor in the Software Insider Index® drove 14% to 26% growth (see Figure 2) despite the pick up in on-premises license sales. Highlights for the 2010 CY Q2 2010 results: On-Premises Trends JDA [...]
Chinese Enterprise Software: CDC Software Acquires its Way Into the Supply Chain
Last week, CDC Software Corporation announced a potential new acquisition in the supply chain sector. According to their press release, CDC “signed a term sheet to acquire a leading provider of on-demand software as a service (SaaS) supply chain management solutions,” which represents “the latest move by CDC Software to expand its growing portfolio of [...]
SimplyBox 2.0 Simplifies Enterprse 2.0 Collaboration
Collaboration Remains Elusive Across Applications And Enterprises Organizations seeking the benefits of collaboration and rapid knowledge sharing in Enterprise 2.0 (E2.0) solutions face several key challenges in delivering a consistent enterprise solution: Consistent tool across multiple applications and environments. Organizations want one tool to collaborate regardless of the application they are using. Today, organizations often [...]
Software Insider Index™ (SII): 2009 SII Top 35 Enterprise Business Apps Vendors™
2009 Results In Major Revenue Declines For On Premise And Officially The Year Of SaaS
A review of last year’s financial performance should erase any doubts about the viability of SaaS as a deployment option and a business model. Traditional on-premise business apps vendors took the brunt of the beating earlier in the year but [...]
Best Practices: Lessons Learned In What SMB’s Want From Their ERP Provider
Competition Intensifies For The Small And Medium Organization’s Software Budget
Software vendors such as Oracle and SAP can no longer rely on their large enterprise customers for double digit year-over-year growth. In fact, their customers have not only reached a saturation point in being able to consume new solutions, but have also faced demands to cut [...]
