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 R "Ray" Wang on June 25, 2010
Infor Takes A Bold Stance By Standardizing The Technology Stack
On June 23rd, 2010, Infor announced that the Alpharetta, GA, based software solutions provider would align its future tools and technology platform with Microsoft. Infor intends to use and integrate Microsoft server-based products to improve time to market for future product development. In addition, Infor [...]
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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 [...]
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By R "Ray" Wang on November 2, 2009
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 [...]
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By Brian Sommer on September 15, 2009
NetSuite, CA, iTrade Network, Meridian Project Systems, UC4, Project Open,….
NetSuite has some new financial consolidation/planning functionality in their SaaS solution. It permits global firms to handle currency conversion. Adaptive Planning’s software is at the core of this solution. This technology does not currently use an in-core memory resident database. The more of this sort of [...]
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