Partner announcements at this week’s Dreamforce conference show that cloud CRM leader Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) is keenly aware of opportunities in back-office software like ERP and supply chain management. Salesforce announced investments in and partnerships with supply chain startup Kenandy…
SAP (NYSE: SAP) has announced availability of its second release this year of the SAP Business ByDesign ERP suite. SAP Business ByDesign is a complete business management solution delivered on-demand as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution. The platform is designed for…
How secure is SAP (NYSE: SAP)? That’s a question that security researcher Alexander Polyakov set out to answer during a session at the Black Hat security conference last week. Polyakov is the CTO of security firm ERPscan, with a specific…
Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) soon-to-be released Dynamics AX 2012 is a major redesign of the vendor’s flagship enterprise resource planning (ERP) product – and yet another addition to its five-member Dynamics ERP family. The other members of the Microsoft ERP product…
Building on last year’s acquisition of Sybase, SAP (NYSE: SAP) is increasing its focus on making its enterprise applications mobile. Last week, the company said it is opening up mobile solutions from the Sybase portfolio to partners within the global…
In an effort to help organization track greenhouse emissions and sustainability, Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) has introduced Oracle Environmental Accounting and Reporting and JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Environmental Accounting and Reporting. The modules, provided as an option for the Oracle E-Business Suite…
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) released a few details at this week’s Worldwide Partner Conference of some upcoming CRM and ERP product launches. Kirill Tatarinov, president of Microsoft Business Solutions, announced that the next update of Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online will be…
In a new report, Gartner says worldwide software as a service (SaaS) revenue is expected to grow 21 percent in 2011, reaching $12.1 billion. SaaS-based application delivery is expected to experience healthy growth through 2015, when worldwide revenue is projected…
ERP systems were once used almost exclusively by large companies. In recent years, though, an increasing number of ERP solutions for smaller businesses (SMBs) have entered the market. Some are sold by vendors that primarily serve SMBs, although software giants…
SAP (NYSE: SAP) said it will better meet the needs of the smallest businesses with new hosted subscription and starter packages for the SAP Business One ERP solutions for small businesses. The new starter packages let SAP channel partners offer…