ERP SOFTWARE
ERP vendor Infor on the hunt again?
Posted under ERP SOFTWARE on Monday, 19 July 2010 by admin
We've just seen the beginning of the acquisitions of Infor Global Solutions. The ERP software company, which has been in existence for barely three years, has made dozens of acquisitions over the past three years, including OS/400 software vendors like MAPICS, BRAIN, Daly.commerce, and Lilly...
Sage snaps up Master Builder
Posted under ERP SOFTWARE on Saturday, 17 July 2010 by admin
Sage's pre-tax profits are up 19 per cent to £113.7m (2005: £95.8m) on sales up 18 per cent to £455.9m (2005: £385.6m). most of this growth has come from acquisitions and have just made another niche purchase with Master Builder, which focuses on the US construction industry...
Sage wants to play in the middle market
Posted under ERP SOFTWARE on Saturday, 10 July 2010 by admin
Accountancy ERP software specialist Sage has upgraded its Application Integration Server (AIS) product, with improved connectors between front- and back-office applications. Experts said the move should further strengthen the vendor's appeal to the upper end of the mid-market.
The latest...
Open architecture battle
Posted under ERP SOFTWARE on Thursday, 8 July 2010 by admin
"Oracle's competitors have done a good job of creating some confusion in the market, and they've been successful at it because Oracle has not been successful in getting out its message," said Forrester senior analyst Ray Wang, in an interview with SearchSAP.com. "Oracle should...
Netsuite AJAX release
Posted under ERP SOFTWARE on Wednesday, 7 July 2010 by admin
Netsuite an online business service provider aimed at the SMB sector has just released Version 11 which has bundled with it AJAX which will allow users to modify what information they want to receive on a thin client up until now that has always been an issue with hosted packages.
Here is...
Sir Julian Horn-Smith new chairman at Sage
Posted under ERP SOFTWARE on Wednesday, 30 June 2010 by admin
Sir Julian Horn-Smith will be taking over as Sage chairman starting in August of this year .he comes from Vodafone as deputy chief executive and will bring to the table Vodafone’s experience of growing a global operation with Sage saying they want to take debt from a £100 million to £600...
Workday HR release
Posted under ERP SOFTWARE on Tuesday, 29 June 2010 by admin
Workday is going to be released next month focusing on the HR market. Dave is creating a new way to organize HR data delivered through the web using SOA.
Workday will focus on building a set of HR applications to handle such tasks as employee hiring, succession planning and...
SAP Netweaver plans
Posted under ERP SOFTWARE on Tuesday, 29 June 2010 by admin
SAP is moving forward with its NetWeaver technology and it’s Enterprise Services Architecture, saying that most of their customers are way behind in the upgrade cycle a sap upgrade can be expensive and time consuming.
SAP is pushing ESA to combine their Netweaver platform with...
Lawson mangement has space to manoeuvre
Posted under ERP SOFTWARE on Tuesday, 15 June 2010 by admin
Looks like Lawson is a bit too expensive for the big guys at the moment the analysts are saying it does not look like there will be any offers for Lawson ERP this year.
There was talk in 2004 that Oracle was going to have a pop at Lawson but they bought Retek instead.
"You never...
ERP 2.0 Jargon
Posted under ERP SOFTWARE on Saturday, 12 June 2010 by admin
