According to its latest study, the research group is predicting the market for products including supply chain management and back office automation software will grow to $1.9bn by 2001, compared to just $977m this year.
SAPmarkets will sell products that let companies to automate their procurement and supply chain with the use of an Internet-based marketplace of suppliers. The E500m (£308m) move will bring the German ERP vendor into direct competition with market...
Rani Merritt, executive vice president and general manager of worldwide marketing at BroadVision, said: "Our new procurement and market maker applications, combined with our existing, award-winning product line, give our customers the power to...
Commerce One offers its customers e-procurement, auctioning, content management, financial services and value supply chain applications. With its focus on supply chain management former Ariba partner i2 has never been considered an e-market player.
Commerce One is going head-to-head with Ariba with its supply chain product. Commerce One has also patented one of the components, a business analysis application which allows users to modify the software as internal company strategy changes or new...
While BI has long been part of the IT landscape, the scale up of ERP, CRM and supply chain applications has created massive data factories, making analytical and BI tools even more useful. IBM's WebSphere, BEA's WebLogic and Sun Microsystems' ONE...