The 45,000 attendees at this week’s Oracle OpenWorld event in San Francisco were served up a program rich with announcements affecting Oracle’s CRM, business intelligence, ERP and enterprise application landscape. Oracle Siebel CRM, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards and Oracle Business Process…
ERP (enterprise resource planning) has never been the easiest software to deploy. After all, its tentacles spread into just about every facet of the organization. So it’s never going to be a plug-and-play proposition. But customer complaints about lengthy deployment…
Looking to provide customers with options to connect with their business partners, SAP (NYSE: SAP) has announced plans to acquire business-to-business (B2B) integration provider Crossgate. Headquartered in Munich, Germany, Crossgate lets companies integrate and network with trading partners, clients and…
Belgium-based Odoo made a name for itself under its previous name of OpenERP, with an open source ERP application that gained traction, especially in Europe. Over the past few years, the company has expanded into more areas of the enterprise…
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…
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…
The intersection of business intelligence (BI) with mobile devices and fast wireless connections will likely revolutionize the supply chain management (SCM) landscape in a couple of key ways. It will bring back-end apps to smartphones and tablets, and improve the…
Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad has become the top platform for mobile business intelligence, followed by Research in Motion’s (NASDAQ: RIMM) BlackBerry, according to a new study. The mobile business intelligence study by analyst Howard Dresner is a follow-up to one…
Pella is a manufacturer and distributor of windows and doors. It runs a lean manufacturing operation, keeping little inventory in house, so it’s important for the company to keep its finger on the pulse of demand so the supply chain…
OpenERP seems to be a rarity among open source business software companies. There are no special enterprise editions — open source and paying customers get the exact same software and features — yet the company has managed to turn a…