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Abstract:
Last year’s deregulation of the financial services industry changed the competitive pressures on banks, brokerages, and insurance
companies. Firms in this industry have been forced to expand and reorganize their offerings around the customer rather than
around products. This makes a perfect case for (...)
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Last year’s deregulation of the financial services industry changed the competitive pressures on banks, brokerages, and insurance
companies. Firm...
Published:
2000-11-02
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Abstract:
Companies need to implement serious yardstick work when seeking to evaluate CRM-software investments. This involves creating
a cost-benefit analysis, determining the tangible and intangible benefits, and the risks involved with CRM implementation. (...)
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Companies need to implement serious yardstick work when seeking to evaluate CRM-software investments. This involves creating
a cost-benefit analys...
Published:
2004-07-23
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Abstract:
Although technology is pivotal in maintaining a competitive edge, many smaller professional services organizations (PSOs)
have limited time and resources to dedicate to their IT infrastructure. For this reason, the application service provider
model can be a very attractive offering. (...)
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Although technology is pivotal in maintaining a competitive edge, many smaller professional services organizations (PSOs)
have limited time and re...
Published:
2006-09-13
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Abstract:
Microsoft’s ambition will be its greatest challenge, as the company is concurrently experiencing an almost disruptive technology
transition from Windows to .NET, using Internet rather than PCs. Microsoft Business Solutions is now up to its gills with
soul-searching dilemmas, possibly with more issues t (...)
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Microsoft’s ambition will be its greatest challenge, as the company is concurrently experiencing an almost disruptive technology
transition from W...
Published:
2002-08-16
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Abstract:
Interconnection between vendors, suppliers, customers and employees through ERP and CRM tools, has become a competitive edge.
Like ERP and CRM infrastructures, a Public Key infrastructure has become an enabler of business objectives. PKI provides a
systematic approach to information security. (...)
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... Messaging and additional toolkits, Secure ERP and CRM Solutions make ...
to authenticate the parties involved in a business process transaction ... Technology
Overview. ...
Published:
2003-12-24
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Abstract:
This is a transcript of an audio conference on E-Business Service Provider Evaluation and Selection presented by TechnologyEvaluation.Com.
The presentation used the TEC patented selection engine WebTESS to conduct a live real time evaluation and selection. It
then reviewed the critical differentiating s (...)
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This is a transcript of an audio conference on E-Business Service Provider Evaluation and Selection presented by TechnologyEvaluation.Com.
The pre...
Published:
2000-08-10
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Abstract:
IT systems company Cap Gemini has been dropped from some large contracts and is being sued for allegedly refusing to perform
on another. (...)
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IT systems company Cap Gemini has been dropped from some large contracts and is being sued for allegedly refusing to perform
on another.
Published:
1999-12-15
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Abstract:
The Scala and Microsoft alliance in the CRM arena has merits of mutual benefits, particularly in the short to medium term,
but due to vacillating motives of the participants that compete in the other enterprise applications fields, will it last?
For the time being, Microsoft will likely be content to hel (...)
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The Scala and Microsoft alliance in the CRM arena has merits of mutual benefits, particularly in the short to medium term,
but due to vacillating ...
Published:
2003-08-28
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Abstract:
The CRM market is shifting. Instead of looking for an all-purpose and horizontal oriented CRM application, customers are
seeking a more specialized and industry specific tool. From the larger organization to the smallest customers, CRM buyers
are expecting their applications to follow their business mode (...)
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The CRM market is shifting. Instead of looking for an all-purpose and horizontal oriented CRM application, customers are seeking
a more specialize...
Published:
2003-05-28
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Abstract:
Last spring, the ASP market witnessed the arrival of an Application Service Provider designed to help organizations adapt
to the rapidly changing IT environment. Agilera is the result of a joint venture between CIBER, Verio and Centennial Ventures
designed to offer expertise, infrastructure, strategic c (...)
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Last spring, the ASP market witnessed the arrival of an Application Service Provider designed to help organizations adapt
to the rapidly changing ...
Published:
2000-07-31
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On April 20, Infinium Software, a provider of Web-based enterprise solutions and services, announced that it introduced many
significant new offerings at Infinium World 2000, held at the MGM Grand Resort in Las Vegas. (...)
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On April 20, Infinium Software, a provider of Web-based enterprise solutions and services, announced that it introduced many
significant new offer...
Published:
2000-05-10
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Abstract:
Tier2/Tier 3 vendors are prepared to endure the onslaught of the likes of SAP, Oracle, and PeopleSoft, as well as of proverbial
mid-market leaders such as J.D. Edwards, Baan, Intentia, QAD, IFS and Epicor, and newly formed mid-market juggernauts like
Microsoft Great Plains, Best Software (formerly Sage S (...)
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Tier2/Tier 3 vendors are prepared to endure the onslaught of the likes of SAP, Oracle, and PeopleSoft, as well as of proverbial
mid-market leaders...
Published:
2002-04-22
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Abstract:
While Cincom's solutions, services, experience and results should resonate well with in the complex manufacturing segment,
it competes against a slew of companies with stronger brand names (not impeded by Cincom’s conservative tacit nature) and/or
financial resources. (...)
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While Cincom's solutions, services, experience and results should resonate well with in the complex manufacturing segment,
it competes against a s...
Published:
2002-11-27
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Abstract:
While Microsoft’s zeal to deliver a market-ready CRM product may speak to the CRM market’s attractiveness, Applix’ exit may,
on the other hand, indicate that the niche CRM vendors without a clear differentiating value proposition have not much to
look for there in the long run. (...)
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While Microsoft’s zeal to deliver a market-ready CRM product may speak to the CRM market’s attractiveness, Applix’ exit may,
on the other hand, in...
Published:
2003-03-10
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Abstract:
There are two ways to build enterprise application solutions: link together disparate, best-of-breed solutions, in which
vendors embrace open architectures and inter-application messaging protocols, or find a one-stop-shop with all the software,
functionality, and interoperability one could ever ask for. (...)
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There are two ways to build enterprise application solutions: link together disparate, best-of-breed solutions, in which vendors
embrace open arch...
Published:
2001-11-22
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Abstract:
Microsoft Business Network (MBN) has the potential to deliver the never really (or hardly ever) realized benefits of early
dot-com era Internet trading exchanges or networks that could reasonably and effectively link customers to their trading partners. (...)
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... Navision, MBS Solomon, Microsoft CRM, and related ... their existing
information technology (IT) investments by streamlining business processes, and by ...
Published:
2004-09-02
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Abstract:
Customer relationship management is a sophisticated set of customer-facing tools; however, its technology has outpaced the
management strategy used to implement it. Moreover, murky definitions and objectives have caused varying degrees of success
and failure to emerge from the same initiative. Clearly de (...)
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Customer relationship management is a sophisticated set of customer-facing tools; however, its technology has outpaced the
management strategy use...
Published:
2004-10-21
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Abstract:
Aspen Technology recently announced its e-commerce initiative, Aspen e-Business, which is the first in a planned series of
business-to-business e-commerce applications. As part of the initiative, AspenTech will partner with business-to-business
application vendor Extricity Software, Inc. to deliver e-com (...)
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Aspen Technology recently announced its e-commerce initiative, Aspen e-Business, which is the first in a planned series of
business-to-business e-...
Published:
1999-11-17
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Abstract:
In the past, enterprise resource planning (ERP) initiatives were far too costly for smaller organizations to consider. However,
a trend has recently emerged where software vendors are now offering software-as-a-service business models for ERP implementation
to even the smallest organizations. (...)
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In the past, enterprise resource planning (ERP) initiatives were far too costly for smaller organizations to consider. However,
a trend has recent...
Published:
2009-09-07
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Abstract:
While the Microsoft Business Network (MBN) product is worth considering for a number of compelling reasons, it will take
some immense doing before it becomes a retailers' equivalent of what the Sabre reservation system means to airline agents. (...)
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... Navision, MBS Solomon, Microsoft CRM, and related ... their existing
information technology (IT) investments by streamlining business processes, and by ...
Published:
2004-09-01