SAP v Oracle: Battle of the ERP Giants
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…
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The Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Software Market
These days, companies need to make use of several different software products to remain competitive. They help businesses manage supply chain logistics, human resources and customer relationships. This can be…
Infor Partners with Whole Foods on Retail-Specific Cloud ERP
Last year Infor began rolling out cloud ERP software targeted to specific industry verticals, including solutions for the automotive, hospitality and aerospace/defense industries. Delivered through Amazon’s Web Services platform, the…
ERP Buyer’s Guide for Small Businesses
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…
Enterprise ERP Buyer’s Guide: SAP, Oracle and Microsoft
The enterprise resource planning (ERP) market for large enterprises these days is dominated by three companies — SAP (NYSE: SAP), Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT). Their rivals have…
SAP vs. Microsoft: ERP software
In the enterprise resource planning (ERP) software market, SAP and Microsoft are two of the biggest names. ERP software ERP platforms are designed to help enterprises organize their business-related information…
Salesforce vs. HubSpot CRM
A business has a wide range of customer relationship management (CRM) systems to choose from. Two are Salesforce — probably the largest and most popular system — and HubSpot, from…
Buying Considerations When Choosing an ERP Vendor
Success in modern business depends on the efficient allocation and use of a wide range of resources, which include: Capital and cash flows Employees Relationships with prospects and customers Relationships…
MRP vs. ERP: Which is Best for Your Business?
Both Material Requirements Planning (MRP) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software can help you to effectively manage your business resources. However, there are a few differences between the two. Let’s…
SAP vs. IFS: ERP Comparison
The benefits gained from ERP software include the ability to manage activities like procurement, risk management, and supply chain operations more efficiently and effectively. Without the assistance of an ERP…
Oracle vs. SAP: ERP Software
ERP software is an indispensable resource for businesses. It helps them manage routine activities like accounting, procurement, risk management, compliance, supply chain operations, and enterprise performance management. ERP benefits ERP…
Odoo Raises $90M To Advance Open Source ERP
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software has long been dominated by established proprietary vendors, but that’s not to say there isn’t open source competition in the market. Odoo, a company formerly…
Oracle Continues To Push Enterprise Apps Into the Cloud
Oracle is continuing to grow its business, largely on the back of expanding software and cloud based services. The company reported its second quarter fiscal 2019 financial results on Dec.…
Oracle Brings Machine Learning Advancements to Enterprise Applications
Oracle announced a series of new enterprise application efforts and innovation during its OpenWorld 2018 event, which wrapped up on Oct. 25. Among the many announcements made by Oracle was…
SAP ERP Business Growing in the Cloud
SAP reported its third quarter fiscal 2017 financial results on Oct. 19, demonstrating the positive impact of the enterprise application software firm’s move to the cloud. For the quarter, revenue…
13 ERP Predictions for 2017
ERP has changed markedly over the past two decades. So where is it heading in 2017? Some see the end of old ways that have lingered too long and now…
What is Odoo Open Source ERP?
Belgium-based Odoo made a name for itself under its previous name of OpenERP, an open source ERP application that quickly gained traction, especially in Europe. Over the past few years,…
Why You Need Manufacturing ERP Software
Why is there so much manufacturing ERP software, created specifically for the manufacturing sector? “Manufacturing ERP must account for and manage the actual production processes and materials on the factory…
Workday Intros Planning, Learning, Education Products
Workday is expanding into new areas of the enterprise which it hopes will appeal to its current user base of finance and human resource professionals and help it attract new…
Worksoft Aims to Facilitate Process Discovery in SAP Apps
Despite the proven importance of process improvement in technology initiatives, many companies give short shrift to mapping and streamlining their processes. Worksoft, an SAP partner and provider of automation software…
9 Apps Empowering Finance
Finance plays a crucial role in every successful business. Whether it’s weighing how to invest resources, managing expenses or setting financial goals for the year ahead, finance leaders are trusted…
Moving from Spreadsheets to ERP Software? Try These 6 Tips
By Jayne Morrison, Unit4 Software Spreadsheets are cheap, easy to manage and can accommodate many different types of data. Therefore, it’s no surprise that, according to an FEI Canada report,…
11 Cloud ERP Software Options
Enterprise Apps Today recently covered what the top four ERP vendors in terms of overall market share – SAP, Oracle, Infor and Microsoft – are doing with cloud ERP software.…
Cloud ERP Software: What ERP Market Leaders Are Doing
Cloud ERP software was the poor relation of the ERP market not so long ago. Yet it has gradually proven its enterprise smarts, and is now beginning to command a…
8 Must-Have Two-Tier ERP Features
The two-tier ERP strategy trend, in which companies run a primary ERP system on-premise with one or more additional ERP systems in the cloud, has been steadily gaining ground. Because…
With IQity Buy, NetSuite Broadens ERP Appeal for Manufacturers
There is little doubt that IQity’s cloud manufacturing software complements NetSuite’s cloud ERP software. After attending a webinar during which IQity demonstrated some of its features on the NetSuite platform,…
FinancialForce Adds Personalization to Finance Apps
“Personalization” is a big buzz word in enterprise software, especially in customer-facing marketing applications. FinancialForce, a cloud ERP provider on the Salesforce App Cloud, is bringing personalization to a somewhat…
Application Data Management’s Role in Post-Modern ERP
By Rex Ahlstrom, BackOffice Associates For many years, enterprises were limited to employing just one ERP system. But technology advances now allow enterprises to shift to post-modern ERP deployments, using…
HCM Gets More Innovative in the Cloud
Human capital management (HCM) software used by HR departments has rarely been considered cutting edge. Yet a fair amount of innovation is taking place in HCM, thanks largely to vendors’…
7 ERP Implementation Tips
There are plenty of do’s, don’ts, gotchas, pitfalls and minefields waiting for the naive or unsuspecting when it comes to ERP implementation. So much so, in fact, that lawsuits over…
ERP Buying Guide: Top Tier Vendors
ERP is unlike most areas of IT. For operating systems, the primary vendors dominate. You have Microsoft Windows, Apple OS X, some flavors of Linux and little else. Few users…
7 Significant ERP Trends
The ERP landscape has been undergoing big changes in recent years. Accordingly, Enterprise Apps Today interviewed several experts in this field to determine what’s going on with ERP, where it’s…
Infor Acquiring GT Nexus to Further Cloud Ambitions
Infor looks serious about its plans to become a leading cloud services company. Today the ERP supplier announced an agreement to acquire GT Nexus, a provider of cloud supply chain…
ERP Under Attack at Black Hat [VIDEO]
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) from SAP and other monolithic enterprise applications from big vendors like Oracle are at risk from multiple forms of attack, according to Juan Pablo Perez-Etchegoyen, CTO…
ERP a Big Challenge for SMBs
Most midmarket and enterprise firms already have ERP solutions. While there may be business to be had upgrading those users to newer packages, the real growth area for ERP is…
Epicor Spinning off Retail Business
Big changes are under way at Epicor Software, a provider of ERP, CRM and other types of business software, which just announced plans to spin off its Retail Solutions business…
Adaptive Insights Simplifying CPM with New Tools
Adaptive Insights, a provider of cloud corporate performance (CPM) management software, unveiled this week a new service called Adaptive Solutions that aims to help customers more quickly and easily deploy…
Human Capital Management Buying Guide
Earlier this month, we covered 5 key trends in human capital management. (HCM). In this buying guide, we offer users some tips on implementation and a brief overview of the…
Will Businesses Want the Apple Watch?
Now we know how much the Apple Watch will cost ($350 to $1,099 and, for big spenders, an 18-karat gold version for $10,000), when it is coming (April 24, with…
FinancialForce.com Tackles Rebate Revenue Management
Closed-loop business processes, even ones that directly impact the bottom line, are relatively rare in supply chain management. Instead, many businesses cobble together information with tools like spreadsheets and email.…
ERP’s Channel Management Blind Spot
By Kelly Baig, Revitas If your business is like many, it earns more than half of its annual revenue through an ecosystem of channel partners. A study conducted by The…
10 Open Source ERP Options
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…
Microsoft Cloud Apps vs. Best of Breed
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…
Analytics Playing Greater Role in ERP
Are the terms enterprise resource planning (ERP) and business intelligence (BI) destined to become obsolete, replaced by something that encapsulates the two such as enterprise resource analytics? While a new…
Cloud ERP Acceptance on Upswing
ERP is beginning to experience a shift that has already shaped other enterprise applications like CRM, according to a new survey from Epicor Software, with respondents indicating a desire for…
Company Rebrands to Reflect App Expansion
Open source ERP provider OpenERP, which announced a new name and a $10 million round of funding earlier this year, has released digital marketing software that enables small companies to…
Cloud ERP, Financials Among New Infor Apps
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…
App Integration Underpins Customer Engagement
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…
Infor Bolsters Cloud Suite with Saleslogix CRM Buy
Infor, a company known for its cloud ERP targeted to specific industry verticals such as automotive and hospitality, is purchasing cloud CRM provider Saleslogix as part of its efforts to…
NetSuite Buys E-commerce Provider Venda
NetSuite, which is known primarily for its cloud-based ERP software, has acquired London-based Venda, a provider of e-commerce solutions, in a move intended to expand the capabilities of NetSuite’s SuiteCommerce…