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- ERP Solution Provider Increases Sales, Better Meets Customer Requirements With OBA
- Infor is a market leader in business software that provides an array of Enterprise Resource Planning ERP software for different industries and customer segments. The Infor ERP SyteLine team recognized an opportunity to extend the usefulness of their ERP product by enhancing its products integration with the 2007 Microsoft Office...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, ERP, Microsoft Corp., Sales, Infor, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies 2009-06-29
- Think Infor is only in maintenance mode? Think again
- Think Infor is only in maintenance mode? Think againInfor's Evolve Strategy Fits Their Customer ProfileThe work that Bruce Gordon, CTO of Infor and the team has done to SOA enable applications without requiring a whole new technology foundation fits the Infor customer profile very well. In fact, these new...
- Tags: Infor
- Discussion threads 2009-03-16
- Think Infor is only in maintenance mode? Think again
- Infor is one of those vendors I'd pretty much written off as a company that might be interesting. Rolling up a rag bag of distressed software vendors is not my idea of innovation but of financial engineering where you usually have to carefully watch the bang per buck coming out...
- Tags: Financial, Environment, SOA, Infor Global Solutions, Infor, Lock-in, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-03-16
- Cutting Paper: The SME FD's Guide to Document Management
- Spending hours sifting through paperwork to source the relevant information is simply unfeasible in today's SME, particularly when there are tools available to source the relevant piece of information in the appropriate format, at the click of a mouse. Ultimately, by adopting a document management solution designed to address the...
- Tags: Small And Medium Enterprise, Infor, Document Management, Smb/Sme, Managerial Accounting, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance
- White papers 2008-10-16
- Infor the Long Haul? Analyzing the Roll-up King
- Quick quiz: Name the 10th largest software company in the world? How about the largest privately-held enterprise software company? How about naming an applications company with more customers than SAP and Oracle combined other than Microsoft? Stumped? Heres one last question: name the vendor that has rolled up more than...
- Tags: Infor, Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2006-12-12
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- 10 Tips to Consider When Selecting the "Right" System Integrator to Ensure Success of Your Implementation
- One use to think that evaluating and selecting the "Right" enterprise system was the key to success. Well think again! After much industry consolidation, today's options are dominated by Epicor, Infor, Lawson, Oracle, SAP, Sage, and Microsoft Dynamics solutions with a good number of Best of Breed industry-specific choices sprinkled...
- Tags: Consultant, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2009-11-24
- Figuring the value of software
- Phil Wainewright's discussion about the cost of running highly scalable SaaS applications like SuccessFactors comes at the right time. He says: Speaking in the opening keynote of SIIA OnDemand in San Jose this morning, SuccessFactors CEO Lars Dalgaard let slip a statistic that set several...
- Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, SuccessFactors Inc., SAP AG, Phil Wainewright, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-11-02
- SAP and Siemens: kiss and make up?
- The other week news broke that Siemens planned to can its estimated €40 million plus annual maintenance agreement with SAP. What a difference a few weeks makes. According to a press release issued by SAP: SAP...today announced that Siemens AG, a global leader in electronics and electrical engineering, has...
- Tags: Siemens AG, SAP AG, Purchasing & Procurement, Business Operations, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-10-22
- 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
- TIBCO and SAP: place your bets
- Yesterday, Larry Dignan asked my opinion of persistent rumors that SAP is in the middle of taking a tilt at acquiring TIBCO. I rolled my digital eyeballs. How many times has this one gone around the block? As Brian Sommer yelled: ONCE A POTENTIAL ACQUISITION IS PASSED ON, IT...
- Tags: TIBCO Software Inc., SAP AG, Brian, Public Relations, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-08-11
- ERP sales are falling: here's one reason
- I'm on a small project that is typical of many: "I have a modest sized business but our complexities are no different to the Big Boys. Help." So off we trot so see if there's a solution that comes vaguely close to an 80% fit. As a 'day job sometimes'...
- Tags: Solution, Oracle Corp., ERP, Microsoft Corp., ERP Sale, Sales Strategy, Social Networking, Outsourcing, Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-08-04
- Marine Electronics Supplier Sees Advances in Manufacturing IT With New ERP Solution
- When Navico, a worldwide supplier of marine electronics, moved its Lowrance and other acquired brands into one operating unit, the resulting migration of business and product data exposed the limitations of its older Enterprise Resource Planning ERP system database and capabilities. The company decided to replace the ERP system with...
- Tags: ERP, Microsoft Corp., Manufacturing, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Supply Chain, Software, Business Operations
- Case studies 2009-08-04
- 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
- Handicapping the CRM field: Oracle leads the pack (but the race is tight)
- ZDNet Australia has handicapped the field of customer relationship management software and it appears that Oracle's on-demand and on-premise suite comes out on top with a score for 4.5 on a scale of 5. SAP and Salesforce scored a 4 rating overall on the same scale. ...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., CRM, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-07-13
- News to know: Apple, iPhone 3GS; Google Voice; Blu-ray; Bartz
- 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. Jason Hiner: Apple thumbs nose at Palm, reports 1 million iPhone 3G S units sold in 3 days CNBC:...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Information Technology, Voice, Andrew Nusca, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone 3G, Blu-ray, Carrier Strength, Microsoft Windows 7, Smart Phones, Strategy, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Management, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-06-23
- Infor Flex: innovation or fail?
- Infor Flex Overview View more OpenOffice presentations from First Last. Infor today announced Infor Flex, a program designed to keep customers happy and keep those all important maintenance dollars flowing Infor's way. At first viewing, the Infor prgram looks exciting: Infor Flex makes it easier...
- Tags: Innovation, Customer, SOA, Infor Flex, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Software As A Service (SaaS), Web Services, Managed Hosting, Enterprise Software, Middleware, Software, Emerging Technologies, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-06-22
- Where Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) must go next
- More Robust Apps Needed NOW! Platform-as-a-Service is hot these days. Vendors like NetSuite and salesforce.com have their clouds as to players like Amazon and Google. Cloud providers like to promote their capabilities to application developers and, in doing so, create an ecosystem full of low-cost applications for...
- Tags: Software Company, PaaS, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-05-08
- Salesforce's unspoken build and buy strategy
- At this week's Cloudforce I was keen to understand what is happening on the Force.com platform. Narinder Singh, Appirio's marketing strategist came on stage to talk about how they used the Force.com platform to set up MyStarbucksidea.com. This is an example of a situational application, built and designed for a...
- Tags: Strategy, Salesforce.com Inc., Force.com, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-04-07
- News to know: Cisco, Salesforce, iPhone, Seattle P-I, Facebook, Intel
- 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. Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Cisco launches bid to capture the data center Cisco: Beyond the data center Larry Dignan: Cisco's...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Apple iPhone, Facebook, Larry Dignan, Data Center, Dana Blankenhorn, Cisco Systems Inc., Intel Corp., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-03-17
- Tech and the global supply chain â€" Who’s the MVP for work over the past ten years?
- At AMR Research we constantly study the question of applying technology to supply chain to make it work better. Lots of old-school Lean freaks like to believe process is everything, sometimes implying that technology doesn’t really matter. I dispute this. Neither works well without the other, but it is certainly...
- Tags: Supply Chain, I2 Technologies Inc., Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Software, Software, Kevin O'Marah
- Blog posts 2009-02-20
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