Posts Tagged ‘ software ’

Your distribution business operates differently than your friendly neighborhood retailer. Your business operates differently from Walmart. Therefore, your ERP solution should offer deployment choices which reflect the nature of your distribution business. The two extreme examples of Walmart and a neighborhood retail store illustrate that each company has different budgets, software and IT experience,...
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The ERP channel is alive and growing. All ERP vendors are actively courting value added resellers. In Bob Scott’s Insights, we found the following blurb about Epicor: CEO George Klaus has finally owned up to the fact that has company has a channel program, following Epicor’s Five-Star award by Epicor’s Partners for Growth Program....
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The Panorama Consulting 2010 ERP Vendor Analysis report contains information based on survey results from 1,600 organizations that have selected or implemented ERP in the last four years. The results are interesting, but not surprising: Businesses are still clinging to top vendors (SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics) 30% of top vendor implementations last longer than...
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David Linthicum in his article 3 cloud computing mistakes you can avoid today describes some good policies for potential cloud ERP customers. 1. Consider public clouds We agree, with some additional advice. The article says “while private clouds are great solutions in many instances, not considering public clouds could mean you’re missing opportunities to...
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InfoWorld’s Pete Babb in his article “Is ERP as we know it dying?” explains that the battle on the ERP front has changed from fighting over new implementations (where relatively few opportunities exist) to fighting over add-on applications. He quotes Paul Hammerman, VP of enterprise applications at Forrester Research, “I think the battleground is...
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Julia King in Computerworld Article, Beyond CRM: SaaS slips into the mainstream, presents macro statistics as well as individual stories about the burgeoning SaaS industry. Statistics we pulled from the article: IDC projected a 36% worldwide growth in 2009. The number was revised upward to 40.5% as a result of the recession. Gartner expects...
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Panorama Consulting recently published a study called the 2010 ERP Report which provides 5 key conclusions gathered from a survey of approximately 1,600 respondents who implemented various mid-range ERP solutions. We encourage you to read the paper to see statistics on ERP implementation expeditures, timeframes, and expectations. In this post we would like to...
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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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