Enterprise Apps Today‘s Ann All discussed the importance of ERP reporting with Glenn Wirick, vice president of product development for InsightSoftware.com, which makes productivity tools for Oracle’s E-Business Suite and JD Edwards software. Wirick has worked with JD Edwards software…
Open source ERP has not gained much market traction, as of yet. Analyst firms such as Forrester Research don’t even monitor it currently as it isn’t an area that comes up much in client inquiries. But just as with open…
LAS VEGAS — SAP applications could potentially be at risk from an emerging type of exploit known as Server Side Request Forgery (SSRF). That’s the message coming from security researcher Alexander Polyakov at this week’s Black Hat security research conference.…
It’s shaping up to be a good year for enterprise application makers according to a forecast released by Gartner. In 2012, the overall enterprise software market will reach $120.4 billion, a 4.5 percent increase over the $115.2 billion generated in…
Running two ERP solutions seems counter to ERP’s ostensible aim of consolidating a company’s internal and external data, including financial, sales and marketing information. Yet using a so-called two-tier ERP strategy offers benefits, say experts. Why a Two-tier ERP Strategy?…
Do companies with aging applications from Oracle and SAP want to pay those vendors for support and maintenance? A 2010 Computer Economics survey showed many Oracle customers chafed at the fees they paid Oracle for support. As Computer Economics President…
Sanjay Poonen, the head of SAP’s mobility division and president the Global Solutions division, took the stage during a press conference in San Francisco on Tuesday to announce that his company is acquiring Syclo. Already an SAP partner company prior to…
The name SAP has been synonymous with enterprise applications for decades. Now SAP executives want their company to be synonymous with databases too. SAP today announced a series of initiatives that will further enable its database efforts, including the in-memory…
A growing number of vendors offer cloud ERP products. While major players like SAP are introducing cloud computing into their previously on-premise product lines, the trail has been blazed by a series of pioneers, whether under a cloud or a…
Microsoft Dynamics enterprise resource planning (ERP) software is heading to Azure, the company’s cloud platform, later this year. And Microsoft hopes SMBs and ISVs will follow. During this week’s Convergence 2012 gathering in Houston, Microsoft announced that Dynamics NAV 2013…