However, companies must expect to supplement these suites with best-of-breed marketing automation and analysis vendors, as well as custom enterprise integration to back-office SAP, Baan, Oracle, and PeopleSoft systems.
Ebusiness software specialist Great Plains is to acquire Solomon Software for around $140m in stock and cash in a move intended to boost the company's ebusiness offerings to medium-sized companies. The deal, set to be completed by June, will see...
Around noon on Monday, PayPal switched its credit card processing from Wells Fargo to Electronic Payment Exchange (EPX), said Anderson. Wells Fargo took over PayPal's payment processing from EPX under a deal PayPal and Wells Fargo announced in June.
Now, Sun says the initiative finally is catching on, thanks to improvements in connectivity and in processing power, and to a need for software that can be easily modified to fit new system architectures.
Ayala's mission is to turn Microsoft's Business Solutions group, which sells products including Great Plains, Navision and Microsoft CRM, into a $10bn business by 2010, which is a huge leap from the $550m it generated in the 12 months to June 2003.
The Redmond software giant has about 30,000 existing Great Plains customers and about the same number of firms using Navision, yet around 80 per cent of these companies don’t have a full CRM solution, providing a great cross-sell opportunity.