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Should Baan and Ironside learn from their new senior sibling SSA GT how to consistently produce stellar financial results
and profitability while proceeding with the launch of the next-generation product releases and integration platforms that
could in turn cater for SSA GT's aged products' technology re (...)
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Should Baan and Ironside learn from their new senior sibling SSA GT how to consistently produce stellar financial results
and profitability while ...
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2003-07-11
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SSA GT has many times surprised even the biggest skeptics by turning around seemingly non-viable vantage products (which
iBaan and Ironside certainly are not) and/or ailing vendors (which Baan has been, and Ironworks will have likely become). (...)
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SSA GT has many times surprised even the biggest skeptics by turning around seemingly non-viable vantage products (which iBaan
and Ironside certai...
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2003-07-15
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E-business has prompted a lot of vendors to move towards creating electronic product lifecycle management (e-PLM) suites.
However, enterprise resource planning vendors with extensive e-commerce initiatives, development staffs, and renewed interest
in PLM, are as likely to lead the way. (...)
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E-business has prompted a lot of vendors to move towards creating electronic product lifecycle management (e-PLM) suites.
However, enterprise reso...
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2005-10-21
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Where these vendors' challenges take more individual tracks would be the state of affairs of harmonizing their installed
user base across a controllable number of active software versions. It, however, might indeed take a rocket scientist to figure
out how to fully integrate organizational structure wher (...)
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Where these vendors' challenges take more individual tracks would be the state of affairs of harmonizing their installed
user base across a contro...
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2003-03-25
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Vanguard's challenge is to continue to be nimble and responsive to the needs of its target market and original equipment
manufacturer (OEM) partners. (...)
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Vanguard's challenge is to continue to be nimble and responsive to the needs of its target market and original equipment
manufacturer (OEM) partne...
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2005-07-21
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Baan's focus on discrete manufacturing has not been a close fit with Invensys' plant automation products that have been geared
mostly to process industries. To that end, Invensys has had a nightmarish job of trying to rationalize Baan and its process
ERP counterparts, Protean and PRISM, development - str (...)
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Baan's focus on discrete manufacturing has not been a close fit with Invensys' plant automation products that have
been geared mostly to process i...
Published:
2003-05-08
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E-business has prompted a lot of vendors to move towards creating electronic product lifecycle management (e-PLM) suites.
However, enterprise resource planning vendors with extensive e-commerce initiatives, development staffs, and renewed interest
in PLM, are as likely to lead the way. (...)
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E-business has prompted a lot of vendors to move towards creating electronic product lifecycle management (e-PLM) suites.
However, enterprise reso...
Published:
2005-10-21
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Integrated Development Enterprise (IDe)'s IDeWeb 5.3 is a product portfolio management best-of-breed solution for new product
development. It is tailored to discrete and process manufacturers in the electronics, food and beverage, specialty chemicals,
and telecommunications sectors. (...)
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Integrated Development Enterprise (IDe)'s IDeWeb 5.3 is a product portfolio management best-of-breed solution for new
product development. It is t...
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2006-02-08
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Our quest for quality and well-priced mid-market CRM software solutions, takes us this week to review Surado Solutions Inc.
developers of Surado CRM Solutions. Surado positions itself high in many functional areas, against many mid-market software
vendors such as SalesLogix, Epicor, Microsoft CRM, Kana, (...)
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Our quest for quality and well-priced mid-market CRM software solutions, takes us this week to review Surado Solutions Inc.
developers of Surado C...
Published:
2003-10-16
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Formerly the SCP market leader, Manugistics has witnessed its market position erode steadily over the last several years
in favor of newcomers to the market. Although a recent restructuring has brought new management and a leaner organization,
it remains to be seen whether Manugistics can return to long (...)
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Formerly the SCP market leader, Manugistics has witnessed its market position erode steadily over the last several years in
favor of newcomers to ...
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1999-08-01
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... Individual reports are available for purchase, or you can review the ratings in ...
now holds the latest data on both Infor Masterpiece (previously SSA Global) and ...
Published:
2007-11-02
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Ramco Systems returned to Las Vegas for its annual user group meeting in North America in October of 2003. We review the
progress that Ramco has made on its promises to customers at the last user conference, the customers’ reactions to the progress,
and where Ramco and its customers will go from here. (...)
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Ramco Systems returned to Las Vegas for its annual user group meeting in North America in October of 2003. We review the progress
that Ramco has m...
Published:
2003-11-04
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Only effective e-mail management, together with records management and policies for employees on how to manage their e-mails,
will help organizations deal with compliance regulations and potential litigation. (...)
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Only effective e-mail management, together with records management and policies for employees on how to manage their e-mails,
will help organizati...
Published:
2009-03-27
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While regulatory requirements to adopt International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) may be a concern for publically
traded companies only, there are plenty of reasons why privately held entities will want to prepare to adopt IFRS as well. (...)
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While regulatory requirements to adopt International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) may be a concern for publically
traded companies only, t...
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2009-12-14
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This is an examination of Pronto Software's ERP solution. By looking at how areas where the Pronto product fulfills a large
portion of selection criteria, companies can determine if it is worthwhile to pursue a relationship with Pronto. We ask the
question, all things being equal, which modules contribut (...)
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This is an examination of Pronto Software's ERP solution. By looking at how areas where the Pronto product fulfills a
large portion of selection c...
Published:
2003-04-11
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While the recent initiatives by Microsoft Business Solutions to piecemeal bolster its product lines' SCM capabilities should
benefit users, a lot more cohesive SCM strategy is needed for Microsoft to truly permeate the SCM mid-market. (...)
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While the recent initiatives by Microsoft Business Solutions to piecemeal bolster its product lines' SCM capabilities
should benefit users, a lot ...
Published:
2003-12-01
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With Infor Human Capital Management (HCM) 3.0, Infor has combined transactional and strategic human resources functionality
with planned integration to its flagship enterprise resource planning and extensions solutions, so that customers can better
align HCM initiatives with overall business strategy. (...)
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With Infor Human Capital Management (HCM) 3.0, Infor has combined transactional and strategic human resources functionality
with planned integrati...
Published:
2006-10-12
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Although the recent spate of acquisitions in the business intelligence market, especially marked with Business Object’s acquisition
of Crystal, Hyperion’s acquisition of Brio, and Actuate’s acquisition of Nimble, may bear resemblance to the raging consolidation
in the ERP market, the underlying rea (...)
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Although the recent spate of acquisitions in the business intelligence market, especially marked with Business Object’s acquisition
of Crystal, Hy...
Published:
2003-08-17
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Production management remains MAPICS’ strongest spot, and, therefore, it has often been implemented only in manufacturing
divisions of large global organizations that use a Tier 1 ERP product for corporate financials and/or HR applications. Therefore,
executing the ambitious initiatives with its modest (...)
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Production management remains MAPICS’ strongest spot, and, therefore, it has often been implemented only in manufacturing
divisions of large globa...
Published:
2002-11-22
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More and more, the market is requesting that a CRM or an ERP application include analytics which can be used in a myriad
of businesses to predict customer behavior and help businesses increase the effectiveness of their customer acquisition, retention,
and cross-sell programs. It is a costly operation to (...)
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More and more, the market is requesting that a CRM or an ERP application include analytics which can be used in a myriad of
businesses to predict ...
Published:
2004-01-30