CRM enterprise 'suite vendors' offer many front-office functions using a consistent architecture that reduces integration efforts. The best way to view enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications is that they support the business process needs...
Take this quotation from the same speech: "We admit the e-Business Suite does not have everything our customers want. Ellison says you wouldn't want to reconfigure the e-Business Suite software. Oracle now claims to sell all the software you'd need...
Cash-strapped British Airways is planning to automate the purchasing process as part of company-wide plans to make £300m in cost savings by 2005. BA has already achieved IT-specific savings of over £50m as part of its IT21 programme but the rollout...
A vulnerability in recent versions of Word could allow hackers to automatically run macros, which are mini-programs typically used to automate routine tasks. It can also be used with Project 2002 and 2000, Visio 2002 and 2000 and Works Suite 2002...
To lower cost, you have two options: you either go offshore, or you automate processes. These "knowledge services" will rely on Sun's N1 software to shuttle management information back to Sun and automate changes in company data centers, he said.
Meanwhile, in PowerPoint, Microsoft said it is working to automate more of the graphics features from within the presentation program so workers can create documents that look good without much design effort.