ERP: January 2012

SAP dominates the ERP market, commanding 24 percent of total ERP market share in 2010, with Oracle close behind, with 18 percent of the market in 2010. The rivalry is heating up even more following SAP CTO Vishal Sikka’s recent comments that SAP plans to support its flagship Business Suite ERP software on its HANA in-memory database platform by the end of 2012. Industry observers see this as a move to entice companies to choose HANA over Oracle databases.

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are supposed to help management predict, plan and execute. Some do it better than others. So it is with some trepidation that we embarked upon a quest to predict the coming year for ERP.

Systems integrator says Nectari supports real-time access from Microsoft Excel to Sage ERP X3 and other data sources.

ERP provider reports 17 percent growth in licenses in 2011. New innovation center positions it for more growth in 2012, says its CEO.