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Mid-range European ERP portending the future?

On my personal blog, I skimmed over recently published results for Agresso and COA Solutions. Agresso is emerging in the US as a small if solid player in public sector as well as for those businesses that need a more agile approach to business configuration than you'd likely get from...

Tags: Revenue, Public Sector, Vendor, SAP AG, Agresso, COA Solutions, COA, Maintenance Revenue, Saas/on-demand, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-09-02

Corrupting consolidation

The last week or so I've had a number of conversations with colleagues attempting to figure out how and why the enterprise software mega-players continue to get away with premium pricing during the worst recession in living memory. Why is it that Oracle can show its best...

Tags: Consolidation, Vendor, Wall Street, Vinnie, Agresso, Financial Planning, Strategy, Open Source, Finance, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-03-29

Agresso banks record year

Unit4Agresso, the Netherlands based business applications vendor recorded its best result, turning in revenue of €393.6 million ($503.7 mill) up 27% from the 2008 figure of €308.8 million ($395 mill). Earnings before tax fell to €19.3 million ($24.7 mill) from €27.1 million ($34.7 mill) due to increased financing...

Tags: Revenue, Bank, Earnings, Analysis, Agresso, Financial Accounting, Operational Accounting, Financial Planning, Finance, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-02-24

Agresso's answer to ERP addiction

Earlier today I took a briefing from Agresso. Up front I'll say that I have something of a soft spot for this company. Some years back I did some very early formative work on what is now their BLINC Businesses Living In Change schtik and was...

Tags: ERP Vendor, Oracle Corp., ERP, Agresso, Aggresso, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-10-01

Additional Resources

Salesforce.com Plays In the Enterprise - Again

Back in 1999, I was a salesforce.com user and at that time, it was a rather kludgy sales force automation application that didn't do much right - for example if I tried to export a .CSV file it gave me an .XLS file and vice versa.  I read something by Marc...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Accounting, Financial, Sales Force Management, Sales Force Automation (SFA), Sales, Enterprise Software, Software, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-10-07

Salesforce.com and CODA hook up

Salesforce.com and CODA (via its parent Unit 4 Agresso) are hooking up to create FinancialForce.com. While financial details of the arrangement were not revealed, Salesforce.com is a minority stakeholder in the new company. From the blurbs: The CODA 2go team and products have transferred to FinancialForce.com, which will...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., CODA, FinancialForce.com, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-09-30

Gartner financial apps MarketScope

Earlier today I saw Oracle crowing about getting a top slot in Gartner's Marketscope for financial applications. They weren't the only ones. SAP took a similar top slot. But then all the others Gartner looked at: Epicor, Lawson, Microsoft, Exact, Infor, Sage and Unit 4 Agresso scored 'positive.' Odd you...

Tags: PeopleSoft Inc., Oracle Corp., Financial, On-demand, Gartner Inc., Sage, KashFlow, Managed Hosting, Smb/Sme, Cloud Computing, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-08-17

A buy side response to the enterprise buyer's Bill of Rights (and a partial solution)

My first post of today pointed towards an all too familiar enterprise project 'fail' and the documented experiences of one project person trying to reach completion on a now two year implementation. Coincidentally (I didn't know this was in the pipe), Mike Krigsman provides a critique of Forrester's Enterprise Software...

Tags: Consultant, SAP AG, Bill, Principle Reason, Enterprise Software, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-07-13

Woonzorggroep Wilgaerden Leverages Business Intelligence to Improve Quality and Efficiency of Care

Woonzorggroep Wilgaerden wanted to improve the quality and efficiency of care and anticipate and discover matters that need quick attention. The challenge was to reduce the time required to provide information to management by two weeks and decrease the amount of time Wilgaerden spends on generating and analyzing figures, leaving...

Tags: Staffing, Oracle Corp., Business Intelligence, Financial Accounting, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Finance

Case studies 2009-06-01

An ERP Product Line in 18 months? NetSuite and Rootstock did it

Lessons any ERP provider should heed The Power of Platform-as-a-Service This week, NetSuite and Rootstock announced the availability of an all new ERP solution. The incredible aspect of it is that the solution was created in 18 months. ...

Tags: PaaS, NetSuite Inc., ERP, Rootstock, Cloud Computing, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-05-03

News to know: Safari 4, HP, Gmail outage, Ballmer's bets, SaaS adoption

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Safari 4 coverage: Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Safari 4 - This is one fast browser! Ryan Naraine: ...

Tags: Google Gmail, Software-as-a-service, Larry Dignan, Apple Safari, Hewlett-Packard Co., Steve Ballmer, Dana Blankenhorn, Mary Jo Foley, Apple Inc., VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, Outage, Sam Diaz, Web Browsers, Cloud Computing, Internet

Blog posts 2009-02-25

Dump ERP: a Valentine's message

Clipped from Agresso onto my Flickr As Valentine's Day approaches, expect to see some innovative and entertaining marketing 'stuff' come from the vendor community. How about this from Agresso to get the ball rolling: Dear <Vendor>, ...

Tags: Vendor, ERP, Valentine's Day, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Corporate Law, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-02-12

News to know: Cloud wars; Apple; Google; China is watching you

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: Amazon launches pre-emptive strike against Microsoft’s planned cloud platform. Techmeme A new mystery: What's Microsoft got up its Office Live sleeve? Zack Whittaker:...

Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Larry Dignan, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., IPO, Robots, Linux, E-mail, Digital Media, Financial Services, Emerging Technologies, Operating Systems, Software, Online Communications, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Blog posts 2008-10-02

Project execution gets more social with Clarizen

Project management is an art rather than a science and that software to manage projects exhibity many problems. Clarizen hopes to change that with version 2.0 of its service. Rather than concentrate on project creation and forecasting which never goes to plan, Clarizen attempts to keep...

Tags: Clarizen, ProjectMail, Microsoft Project, Team Management, Strategy, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-04-14

More consolidation as Agresso closes in on CODA?

In a regulatory statement made on its website, UK enterprise financials vendor CODA today announced it has been approached by Agresso in what looks like a friendly takeover: Coda plc (“CODA” or the “Company”) announces that on 18 December 2007 it received an indicative approach from Unit 4 Agresso...

Tags: Consolidation, On-demand, CODA, Unit 4 Agresso, Approach, COA, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-01-14

C'mon Microsoft, don't be shy

I disagree with my colleague Josh Greenbaum on several aspects of his analysis of the SAP/Oracle/Microsoft position and specifically around Microsoft. Relegating Microsoft to an also ran position doesn't fit with how I perceive Microsoft Dynamics. Josh asserts:Two data points versus the plethora of filings and comprehensive analyses that Oracle...

Tags: Enterprise applications

Blog posts 2007-07-23