Tag: ERP

  • SAP Announces mySAP Suite at Sapphire Conference

    SAP Announces mySAP Suite at Sapphire Conference

    Renee Boucher Ferguson

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    ORLANDO, Fla.—SAP AG made some sweeping announcements at its annual Sapphire user conference here May 16-18, led by the introduction of the long-awaited MySAP ERP 2005 suite that sports new vertical industry processes and analytic capabilities baked into the applications. SAP also made the conference the forum to announce a the acquisition of Frictionless Commerce… Read more

  • SAP’s Agassi Outlines ESA

    SAP’s Agassi Outlines ESA

    Renee Boucher Ferguson

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    ORLANDO, Fla.—It’s not common to hear impromptu applause during a keynote address—especially at a tech conference—but applause there was during Shai Agassi’s May 17 speech at Sapphire, SAP AG’s annual user conference. With little fanfare, the SAP executive board member stepped on the stage and quickly launched into a software demonstration of a company placing… Read more

  • NetSuite Nabs MBS Partners

    John Hazard

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    NetSuite announced Jan. 26 that it had poached five Microsoft Business Solution partners to its software-as-a-service way of life as part of its Microsoft Switch program. The NetSuite program offers Microsoft Dynamics VARs selling products such as Great Plains, Solomon, Navision, and CRM a 35 percent margin, a 50 percent discount on NetSuite for internal… Read more

  • The Case for Open-Source ERP

    The Case for Open-Source ERP

    John Moore

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    Si Chen believes open source has something to offer organizations with specialized business applications needs. To Chen, principal of Open Source Strategies Inc., a Los Angeles-based consulting firm, open source’s flexibility lends itself to ERP (enterprise resource planning) solutions. Open source puts ERP source code in the hands of companies, which can freely modify it… Read more

  • Open Source Offers ERP Alternative

    Open Source Offers ERP Alternative

    John Moore

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    OpenMFG plans to beef up its channel roster as it plies its hybrid open-source model in the enterprise resource planning market. The Norfolk, Va. company targets small and midsize businesses, with a particular emphasis on manufacturing firms. Ned Lilly, OpenMFG LLC’s president and chief executive officer, said he estimates that there are 300,000 manufacturers in… Read more

  • ERP Makes a Comeback

    John Moore

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    Enterprise resource planning projects have been a staple of the integrator’s business for years. Implementations of ERP’s antecedent, MRPII (manufacturing resource planning), were a huge business long before the Web came along, and even before client/server computing, for that matter. But the ERP business has had its ebbs and flows, hitting a particularly low point… Read more