By Brian Sommer on April 30, 2013
Oracle is huge. No single assessment does this complex IT provisioner justice. While many of my peers speak of some tech companies in single-word assessments, I struggle with Oracle. And, let me get this out of the way right now, I actually like some of the stuff they’re doing, I question some others and am [...]
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By R "Ray" Wang on March 29, 2012
Versytec Acquisition Addresses Growing Demand For JD Edwards Support Denver, Colorado based Spinnaker Management announced on March 6th, 2012 its acquisition of its competitor Versytec. For those who remember their third party maintenance (3PM) history, Versytec was among the first firms to announce third-party maintenance services within a year after PeopleSoft acquired JD Edwards in [...]
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By Jason Busch on October 7, 2011
I spent two completely scheduled days at Oracle OpenWorld this week (apologies to everyone else I know in the area who I did not have a chance to visit, but I can’t recall packing so many things into 48 hours before). Even though I’ll …
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged JD Edwards, OOW, oow11, oracle, Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle OpenWorld, PeopleSoft |
By Vinnie Mirchandani on April 29, 2011
In the early 90s I did some work with a multi-national which had SAP at its home country, J.D. Edwards on AS/400 in major country subs, Platinum on LANs in smaller markets and spreadsheets in even smaller markets. Not ideal, but broadband and talent costs justified the tiered strategy. In the 2000s, with telecommunications better [...]
Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Enterprise resource planning, erp, JD Edwards, netsuite, sap, software as a service, Tiered ERP, two-tier ERP |
By Vinnie Mirchandani on April 12, 2011
Steve Miranda, SVP used those words in his keynote yesterday as Oracle rolled out its more evolved cloud messaging at its Collaborate User conference in Orlando. I expect Oracle marketing to emphasize the choice theme a lot more rather than its hostile “cloud is fashion du jour” or confusing “cloud in a box” messages of [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged conferences, Fusion Apps, ibm, JD Edwards, Larry Ellison, oracle, Oracle Corporation, Oracle Fusion, Oracle OpenWorld, PeopleSoft, SAP AG |
By R "Ray" Wang on March 1, 2011
Forward And Commentary Legacy optimization remains a key component for funding future innovation. Two-tier ERP emerges as one strategy to optimize existing systems while adding innovation. The report capitalizes on the recent Software Insider survey of 235 companies looking at future strategies. A. Introduction Organizations continue to face an onslaught of business requirements that their [...]
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By Dennis Moore on November 19, 2010
Computer Research studied Oracle Applications customer plans for the future, along with their satisfaction with Oracle maintenance and support. Some of the results will shock you.
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Computer Economics, enterprise software, JD Edwards, Oracle Applications, Oracle Corporation, Oracle Fusion Applications, PeopleSoft |
By Merv Adrian on June 15, 2010
Informatica’s cloud ambitions continue and deepen with each new release. In the three years since its launch, Informatica Cloud, the strategic initiative launched to bring Informatica’s data integration assets to the cloud, has won salesforce.com’s Best of AppExchange award for 2008 and 2009, added other cloud-based applications as targets, and most significant, signed up 650 [...]
Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Acord, AddressDoctor, AppExchange, data integration, Data Management, data quality, Data replication, Data Warehousing, HIPAA, iaas, Industry Trends, Informatica, JD Edwards, JDE, mdm, Microsoft Dynamics, oracle, SaaS, salesforce.com, sap, SWIFT |
By R "Ray" Wang on March 2, 2010
Single Instance ERP Harder And Harder To Justify The holy grail of an ERP implementation used to be the single instance deployment. However, market forces, a move to adopt new disruptive technologies, slow pace of innovation from incumbent vendors, and high maintenance fees have changed many organization’s perspectives. Add a slew of rapidly changing business [...]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged agresso, analytics, Apps Strategy, AspenTech, baan, best practices, BPCs, Business Models, business requirements, business value, Cincom, CIO, Deltek, disruptive, disruptive technologies, enteprise apps, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, Enterprise Business Apps, enterprise software, Epicor, erp, geographic requirements, IBS, IFS, industry requirements, Infor, innovation, Intentia, IQMS, JD Edwards, Lawson, Lawson M3, Lawson S3, Maconomy, maintenance fees, MAPICS, Meridian Systems, Microsoft Dynamics AX, Microsoft Dynamics GP, Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Microsoft Dynamics SL, Mincom, modernization, netsuite, next gen cio, next gen IT leaders, OpenAir, oracle, PeopleSoft, Planview, Plex, purpose built, QAD, regulatory compliance, reporting, ROI, SaaS, SAP B1, SAP Business All-In-One, shelfware, single instance erp, SYSPRO, SyteLine, tax requirements, Tenrox, two-tier ERP, Ultimate Software, Unit4, workday |
By R "Ray" Wang on November 9, 2009
Rapid SaaS Adoption Will Lead To A Repeat Of 1990’s Best Of Breed Integration Challenges
The proliferation and rapid adoption of SaaS solutions stems from 7 key benefits: richer user experience, rapid implementation, frequent cycles of innovation, minimal upgrade hassles, always on deployment, subscription pricing, and scalability (see Figure 1). Despite these benefits, organizations head full [...]
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