Archive for January, 2010

As pointed out on ebizQ, some use the terms “cloud” and “SaaS” interchangeably. As many astute ebizQ readers indicate, there is in fact a significant difference. ERP Cloud News View We believe (like many others commenting on ebizQ) that SaaS is a delivery model, and that the cloud makes SaaS possible. However, SaaS is...
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Last week Thomas Wailgum explored why Sage and Oracle might have trouble being nimble enough to get to the cloud. This week Dennis Howlett explores how Sage may or may not get to the cloud in his ZDNet post Sage launches X3 but to barely a cloud in the sky. Dennis makes a lot...
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Thomas Wailgum of CIO magazine ponders the Oracle/SAP rivalry and wonders whether or not either has what it takes to successfully deliver Cloud ERP. In other words: Have SAP and Oracle become too big to compete in this new decade of constant change, next-generation app pipelines, pricing upheavals and innovation-first business strategies? Read the...
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A few weeks ago Gartner acquired AMR, and this week Dennis Gaughan replaced Bruce Richardson (who left AMR to join the vendor Infor) with the responsiblity for editing the AMR newsletter. One thing didn’t change – we still found a few gems in the newsletter. In today’s B2B discussion, Dennis points out the need...
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When given a choice, customers visiting an ERP website clicked SaaS (61.1%) over on-premise (38.9%) when learning about ERP purchasing options. What can we learn from this? One possible conclusion would be that more people are interested in learning about SaaS than an on-premise solution. This certainly makes sense given the analyst predictions, the...
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Talk of SaaS and cloud computing is leading some to say that VARs are going the way of the dinosaur. While this might be true for VARs that make a living installing software, those with expertise in ERP and accounting have skills and expertise which is needed. An ERP Installation Example Earlier this week,...
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