2013 ERP Market Share Update: SAP Solidifies Market Leadership
During 2012 the worldwide Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) market experienced sluggish growth of just 2.2%, yet Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), financial management and Human Capital Management (HCM) applications showed potential for breakout growth. Through the challenging times of the previous year however, SAP still retained worldwide market share leadership. These and other insights were recently published in [...]
Sage Charts Its Course
Pascal Houillon, the CEO of Sage North America, has been at the job for a bit over a year. He took over the reins at last year’s Sage Summit where he famously introduced a new branding exercise. Houillon’s idea was to make Sage a more prominent brand by de-emphasizing the individual product names, in many [...]
Sage Summit 2011: CRM at a Crossroads
I’ve known Sage since before they were Sage so to speak. I was a SalesLogix Technology Partner back in ‘99 – in other words when men were men and cocktails were hooch (I don’t know what that means.). When it comes to CRM, they are, without a doubt, one of the most enigmatic companies I’ve [...]
Tuesday’s Tip: Dealing With Pesky Software Licensing Audits
Organizations Report Increase In Software Licensing Audits Across the board, the largest complaints about software vendors and their business practices have come from increasingly aggressive software auditing practices. Once thought to be a small possibility, the software vendors now wield this big stick to drive up sales and of course ensure compliance. Given the 32 [...]
Sage Charts a New Future with Continuity, SaaS, Conected Services
Sage took a major step in clarifying its position in the market when it hosted an analyst day in Boston last week. The company has been around for a long time and has been one of the higher revenue generators for many years thanks to an assortment of products that span the front and back [...]
Sage – A deep customer focus
Sage had a number of industry analysts out to Boston last week for a one-day event. This was the first analyst event theyâve had in North America in almost a decade. While Sage has at times seemed to me to be a company that changes slowly, apparently there were a number of changes underfoot for [...]
Sage in the Cloud, but is it too little too late?
Last week Sage, the UK’s biggest accountancy software supplier, finally released their first real online accounting solution. It looks like a proper SaaS or Cloud offering, unlike the hosted Online 50 product sold through a few resellers from 6 years ago, or their previous failed attempt of SageLive in 2009. I would argue that because [...]
The CRM Watchlist Part II: The Usual Suspects
I have to imagine that Kevin Spacey is getting sick and tired of the use of his movie’s title for pretty much everything related to a regular event. So this “Sigh” is for him. Sigh. In the first CRM Watchlist 2011 (long) post I covered the Big 4. In round 2, we’re going to look [...]
NetSuite: The quiet momentum
In the last week, you have read plenty about salesforce and its Dreamforce event and SAP and its influencer event. NetSuite had a small gathering for a few of us in town for those big events. And while that event got little ink, frankly it deserves plenty for momentum at the company. NetSuite has managed [...]
Further Illumination
I don’t like ambiguity and there was some in yesterday’s post so let’s get to it. Yesterday I wrote: Microsoft is confidently offering replacement systems that have been the beneficiaries of significant investment over the last several years. These systems also run on cloud infrastructure, though cloud does not necessarily mean multitenant. Microsoft and others [...]
