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Abstract:
Agresso’s experience with people-centric services organizations has led the vendor to design a solution that effectively
address these businesses’ need for field services and asset maintenance management. Agresso’s melding of two solutions, and
the product’s underlying architecture, support chang (...)
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Agresso’s experience with people-centric services organizations has led the vendor to design a solution that effectively address
these businesses’...
Published:
2008-02-27
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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:
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:
IBM still needs to convince users that it is nimble enough to handle the smaller projects prevalent in today’s cost-conscious
market, which may be a concern that is aggravated rather than alleviated by the acquisition. (...)
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IBM still needs to convince users that it is nimble enough to handle the smaller projects prevalent in today’s cost-conscious
market, which may be...
Published:
2002-08-28
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Abstract:
LANSA offers to rejuvenate legacy systems by empowering developers with simplified programming to use Java services. (...)
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LANSA offers to rejuvenate legacy systems by empowering developers with simplified programming to use Java services.
Published:
2005-09-29
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Abstract:
The ultimate winner in the SOA market will have to provide industry-specific solutions solving essential problems that others
cannot. Focus must move away from technology lock-in and vendor dependency, to best solutions for customers, even if it means
customers can use competitor products. (...)
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The ultimate winner in the SOA market will have to provide industry-specific solutions solving essential problems that others
cannot. Focus must m...
Published:
2005-05-07
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Abstract:
Although their consolidation appetite is not diminishing by any means, some major acquisition protagonists like SSA Global
and Infor seem to be showing signs of more deliberation and even restraint, rather than jumping the gun to indiscriminately
gain market share. (...)
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erp applications for business services:
Although their consolidation appetite is not diminishing by any means, some major acquisition protagonists like SSA Global
and Infor seem to be sh...
Published:
2006-04-24
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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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... Microsoft Business Network (MBN) is a combination ... eventually with
all MBS ERP applications (albeit currently ... Microsoft BizTalk Server,
and hosted Web services. ...
Published:
2004-09-01
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Abstract:
Companies in the services industry need both asset and field services management, but current integrated asset and field
services maintenance systems often fail to meet these organization’s needs. However, enterprise resource planning vendor Agresso
appears to have just the right solution. (...)
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erp applications for business services:
Companies in the services industry need both asset and field services management, but current integrated asset and field services
maintenance syst...
Published:
2008-02-25
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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:
In the larger schema of things, SOA would espouse general, more abstract concepts of software reusability and encapsulation
within certain boundaries (as to then provide access to that software via defined interfaces), Web services would then make
these SOA concepts vendor-independent due to their use of (...)
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erp applications for business services:
In the larger schema of things, SOA would espouse general, more abstract concepts of software reusability and encapsulation
within certain boundar...
Published:
2004-12-22
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This note discusses how ERP-driven e-business will have to extend well beyond providing business partners self-service portlets.
It will have to allow trading partners not only order status tracking but also the enterprise plans and conditions down to
plant level for more efficient two-way interaction an (...)
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erp applications for business services:
This note discusses how ERP-driven e-business will have to extend well beyond providing business partners self-service portlets.
It will have to a...
Published:
2001-04-25
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Abstract:
There has been noise in the US public sector about a strong federal (Feds) interest in ERP applications. This, coupled with
the Feds customary huge purchasing appetite for goods and services ranging from consulting to purchasing military devices
and components, building, many businesses that have previou (...)
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There has been noise in the US public sector about a strong federal (Feds) interest in ERP applications. This, coupled with
the Feds customary hug...
Published:
2004-09-21
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Abstract:
10 Questions to Ask your Finance and Accounting Software Vendors before you Buy ERP. Get Free Case Studies and Other Software
to Use In Your Decision Before you Buy ERP. When conducting a mid-market enterprise resource planning (ERP) system comparison,
there are several key questions that you should ask: (...)
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erp applications for business services:
... consider also using a vendor's business and IT resources consulting services
they can help design business processes to best it the ERP applications,
as well ...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Abstract:
10 Questions to Ask your Finance and Accounting Software Vendors before you Buy ERP. Get Free Case Studies and Other Software
to Use In Your Decision Before you Buy ERP. When conducting a mid-market enterprise resource planning (ERP) system comparison,
there are several key questions that you should ask: (...)
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erp applications for business services:
... consider also using a vendor's business and IT resources consulting services
they can help design business processes to best it the ERP applications,
as well ...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Abstract:
While smaller businesses must be attuned to what their larger customers and trading partners require, and thus consider the
Microsoft Business Network (MBN) as a relatively simple and inexpensive way to support those customers' demands, MBN is only
a small part of the trading relationship equation. (...)
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erp applications for business services:
While smaller businesses must be attuned to what their larger customers and trading partners require, and thus consider the
Microsoft Business Net...
Published:
2003-12-02
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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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... suppliers, customers and employees through ERP and CRM ... Secure applications
framework implies that not only the ... how they will interact to conduct business in a
...
Published:
2003-12-24
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Abstract:
Trying to sell dumbed-down versions of mySAP Business Suite, Oracle E-Business Suite, without a serious re-engineering of
these products, has not worked for the lower-end of the market. To date, Oracle and SAP have responded by acquiring more suitable
genuine products for the segment, while it is not unl (...)
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Trying to sell dumbed-down versions of mySAP Business Suite, Oracle E-Business Suite, without a serious re-engineering of
these products, has not ...
Published:
2003-06-09
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Abstract:
Business process management (BPM), having evolved over the past fifteen years, has finally reached a level of maturity where
vendors are now abolishing functional silos to allow the enterprise-wide flow of business processes. It replaces the old,
manual system of coordinating activities in a company and (...)
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Business process management (BPM), having evolved over the past fifteen years, has finally reached a level of maturity where
vendors are now aboli...
Published:
2005-07-09
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Abstract:
ERP applications are designed to optimize an organization’s underlying business processes — primarily accounting/financial,
manufacturing, distribution, and human resources/payroll. This note identifies current trends in the ERP market that we believe
are the direct consequence of vendors’ attempts (...)
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ERP applications are designed to optimize an organization’s underlying business processes — primarily accounting/financial,
manufacturing, distrib...
Published:
2000-05-03