By Jason Busch on March 15, 2010
Earlier today, Oracle announced the formal launch of its On Demand suite of procurement products. These solutions, which Oracle labels as Oracle Procurement On Demand should be no surprise to Spend Matters readers (check our recent coverage here and…
Posted in Featured Posts, Software | Tagged innovation, oracle, Oracle iProcurement, PeopleSoft, sap, supply risk
By Dennis Moore on March 10, 2010
Today, I got an alert from Java that an update was available, so I clicked “OK” to install. Imagine my surprise when I got the following prompt during the installation procedure:
Is Larry Ellison aware that Oracle (which now owns Sun and its Java products) is promoting Microsoft Bing? By the way, a colleague told me [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged databases, Java, Larry Ellison, microsoft, oracle, Oracle Corporation, Steve Ballmer, Sun Microsystems
By Josh Greenbaum on March 8, 2010
Sometimes the Economist gets is right, sometimes it gets it wrong. Last week one of the last of the authoritative business magazines put its foot in its mouth with a lightweight and poorly considered column about the value of co-CEOs, with a specific reference to SAP’s recent appointment of Bill McDermott and Jim Hagemann Snabe [...]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged CEO, Chief executive officer, Co-CEO, Hasso Plattner, Larry Ellison, Management, oracle, sap, Uncategorized
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 requirements [...]
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, R "Ray" Wang;, regulatory compliance, reporting, ROI, rwang0, SaaS, SAP B1, SAP Business All-In-One, shelfware, single instance erp, Software Insider, SYSPRO, SyteLine, tax requirements, Tenrox, two-tier ERP, Ultimate Software, Uncategorized, Unit4, workday
By Jason Busch on March 2, 2010
I usually have a more op/ed than reporting take on analyzing the news, but I thought I’d use this post to highlight some of the findings of Gartner’s latest Strategic Sourcing Magic Quadrant, authored by Debbie Wilson, to kick off the inevitable comm…
Posted in Business | Tagged AMR Research, Ariba, gartner, Industry Analysts, Jason Busch, Magic Quadrant, oracle, sap, Strategic sourcing
By Thomas Otter on February 27, 2010
My blogging mojo had left the building for a while, but for better or worse it returned today.
When I speak to enterprise software vendors they often moan about Excel. They say it is not secure, and that most spreadsheets contain errors. They preach about the dangers of information silos, of decisions made on old and [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Software | Tagged design, enterprise software, erp, excel, Facebook, microsoft, oracle, salesforce.com, sap, shelfware, software as a service, Spreadsheet, ui, usability
By Vinnie Mirchandani on February 26, 2010
Marc Benioff asks “Why isn’t all enterprise software like Facebook?”. And Charles Zedlewski of SAP responds a better question should be “Why isn’t all enterprise software like amazon?” Hey, it is good that enterprise software is looking to more consumery…
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Consultants, enterprise software, erp, Facebook, innovation, Marc Benioff, microsoft, oracle, ROI, salesforce.com, sap, usability
By R "Ray" Wang on February 24, 2010
The Year Of SaaS Shows… And Yes, In This Economy.
The recession continued to take its toll on software sales with a slight impact to the SaaS vendors. Growth rates have come down from the high 30’s to the low 20’s. But with “flat” the new growth metric in this down economy, results remain impressive. Traditional [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged Ariba, Blackboard, Concur, customer bill of rights, Deltek, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, Enterprise Business Apps, Enterprise Business Apps Vendors, enterprise software, i2, I2 Technologies, IFS, JDA Software, Lawson, Lawson Software, Manhattan Associates, netsuite, oracle, QAD, Quarterly Financial Tracker, R "Ray" Wang;, revenues, RightNow, rwang0, SaaS, SaaS Bill of Rights, salesforce.com, sap, SII, SII®, software as a service, Software Insider, Software Insider Index, Software Insider Index®, Software Vendors, Taleo, Ultimate Software, vendor financing
By James Governor on February 19, 2010
Everyone else seems to have gone with the Sunset, so I figured why not call out Sunrise instead… while some Sun technology is going to get nuked, and some people too, there are still plenty of solid assets to consider when parsing what Oracle is going to do.
One advantage of being a couple of days [...]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Dell, EMC, hp, ibm, Open source, oracle, Sun, Sun Microsystems
By James Governor on February 18, 2010
I attended a briefing last week in London with Rod Adkins, SVP IBM Systems and Technology Group, and Robert LeBlanc, who runs IBM’s middleware business. The subject at hand was the new POWER7 chip.
If you’re not a hardcore IBM server customer you’ve possibly never heard of POWER. It runs IBM’s mainframes, Unix boxes and the [...]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged DB2, Dell, DSS, Hewlett-Packard, ibm, Larry Ellison, OLTP, oracle, POWER 7, STG, Sun Microsystems, SWG, System i
