Take a look at the ERP market and you’ll find a landscape dominated by a handful of commercial products offered by well-known enterprise software vendors such as SAP, Oracle, Microsoft and Sage. Although there are plenty of open source ERP…
When you think of Microsoft, you naturally think of operating systems like Windows for the desktop and server. You also think of Microsoft Office and probably use one of the applications every business day. Today’s business IT climate is going…
By Anthony Petro, K2 Enterprise application developers have gotten the short end of the stick when it comes to notoriety and glory for their work. Speaking broadly, they do not enjoy the same “cool” factor that is often associated with commercial applications. But…
Few business processes are as important as employee payroll. The process is often complicated, however, by the need to move time and attendance, compensation and other employee data between disparate systems. This often requires multiple imports and exports of data…
Talk about customer relationship management (CRM) software and you’ll probably be thinking about on-premise software packages or software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings from big companies like Salesforce.com, SAP, Oracle or Microsoft. But as well as these and other commercial CRM offerings, there…
Infor, a company that assembled a large portfolio of enterprise applications through dozens of acquisitions over the past decade, is reinventing itself as a serious cloud contender with a flurry of announcements made at this week’s Inforum user conference. Infor’s…
Within the next five years, CIOs will have to deal with thousands of cloud applications and millions of mobile devices and sensors. And – shudder — they will have to integrate everything. Andrew Leigh, a product vice president at Jitterbit,…
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 has been out for quite some time and received a Service Pack update earlier in the year. While SP1 included the usual mix of performance, reliability and security fixes, it also provided a number of new…
By Mika Javanainen, M-Files Corporation The emergence of PCs in the 1980s profoundly changed the way that businesses operate. However, human nature always finds a way to cling to the past. So as network file folder systems were introduced to…
Finance and accounting professionals don’t have time for “mundane processes” said Alex Ortiz, head of Product Marketing for Host Analytics. Alleviating the heavy workloads of F&A pros is one of the major goals of the latest release of Host Analytics’…