Though some observers had worried Oracle was in trouble after some disappointing second quarter results, Oracle stormed back in the third quarter to prove its naysayers wrong. Oracle reported its third quarter fiscal 2012 financial results late Tuesday, reporting revenues…
Only a few months into its partnership with Salesforce.com, business software provider Infor has released Inforce Everywhere, an application built on Salesforce’s Force.com platform that links Infor ERP data with Salesforce CRM. According to Infor, Inforce Everywhere keeps core CRM…
FinancialForce.com has a strong association with Salesforce.com, thanks to the fact that Salesforce is an investor in the company and FinancialForce.com applications are all built natively on Salesforce’s Force.com cloud development platform. Many FinancialForce customers are also Salesforce customers. Yet…
SAP has taken knocks for being too slow to market with software-as-a-service applications. In 2008 when SAP slowed its efforts to bring its Business ByDesign cloud solution to market, saying it needed more time to get the product just right,…
OpenERP, a Belgium-based provider of open source ERP, has announced the release of version 6.1, an upgrade meant to help businesses boost their productivity. According to the company, the release features 85 new applications, including a touchscreen point-of-sale, kanban views…
ERP is among the most dreaded of all enterprise software implementations. Its bad reputation is at least partly based on high-profile lawsuits, such as one in which pet food maker Sunshine Mills was awarded $61.3 million in damages after suing…
Software-as-a-service has generally been an easier sell for smaller companies that cannot spare large capital outlays, don’t employ big IT staffs and/or have fewer worries about integrating SaaS systems with existing on-premise software. A recent Aberdeen Group study found deployment…
Ali versus Frazier, Hearns versus Leonard, the list of iconic rivalries is long. And SAP ERP versus Oracle ERP is right up there among them. While others are alive and kicking in the ERP space, and upstarts with cloud-based systems…
In no particular order, here are Enterprise Apps Today’s top five ERP forecasts for 2012: Consolidation of ERP Vendors Go back to the ‘90s and there were hundreds of ERP players. Despite constant acquisitions, it seems there are more than…
Tangerine Software, a systems integrator that provides ERP and business intelligence solutions to North American companies, today introduced Nectari for Sage ERP X3, a business intelligence tool that it says is fully integrated with Sage ERP X3. According to Tangerine,…