9 articles in this selection

2009/11/03

In the land of IT, the one thing you can count on is a slick vendor presentation and a whole lot of hype. Eras shift, technologies change, but the sales pitch always sounds eerily familiar. In virtually every decade there's at least one transformational technology that promises to revolutionize the enterprise, slash operational costs, reduce capital expenditures, align your IT initiatives with your core business practices, boost employee productivity, and leave your breath clean and minty fresh....

2009/09/24

It's no wonder ERP has such a bad reputation: The recent history surrounding the complex and expensive enterprise software market is packed with tales of vendor mud-slinging, outrageous hype and epic failures.

2009/07/03

Open source 'alternatives' from SugarCRM, Openbravo, and Compiere have tapped the power of open source development to make customization easy, but the line between community and commercial is quickly crossed.

2009/06/29

Openbravo is an award-winning developer of professional open source solutions for businesses, offering the industry's first real alternative to proprietary enterprise software. The company's web-based Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Point of Sale (PoS) solutions, the most popular in their market, have been downloaded more than a million times and are used in over 50 countries....

2009/06/09

Waste Management sued SAP in March 2008 over a failed ERP project. Now, well into the pre-trial discovery process, a presale product demonstration software package that Waste Management says was a key element of the 'false representations' SAP made to 'induce Waste Management into entering a software licensing and implementation agreement' has gone missing. Naturally, both sides say the other has it. And SAP, for its part, says it has 'searched extensively' for the system and wants it 'as much or more' as Waste Management, since it 'will help SAP disprove WM's fraud claim.'...

2008/10/23

The advent of service-oriented architecture and better interfaces has allowed easier customization of integrations, according ERP vendor Epicor Software Corp. That has in turn enabled better BPM. Now, with common Web 2.0 interfaces business users and managers can make changes to business processes. In the past, that kind of customization had to be hand coded, requiring IT involvement....

2008/08/25

Probably the biggest immediate difference between an accounting package and an ERP system is the cost. When you are looking at R500 000 for a software system for 10 or 15 users, that is a big ask. But spending on ERP is an investment and here’s why.

2008/08/25

The latest release of fashion ERP solution “it suits Fashion” has been launched. it suits Fashion is a flexible business management solution, based on the latest version of Microsoft Dynamics NAV and is optimized for companies in apparel, footwear, sporting goods and accessories....

2008/07/14

Aberdeen findings show that the top pressure driving enterprise organizations is the need to support new, agile business processes. That's where implementing BPM and SOA can help -- by reducing costs, improving management visibility, and decentralizing de...