The firms will set up a new company called Mag-Info-LaSer Informatique, which will offer retailers outsourced IT services, sell and implement dedicated retail software suites, provide ERP (enterprise resource planning) integration and sell CRM...
Many customers are at the mercy of ERP vendors who take so long to implement the applications, so they're hoping a hosting provider can be a panacea for these problems," he said. Application hosting will have no effect on the pace of ERP...
So that ERP system which wouldn't speak with your CRM system, which just won't connect with the payroll, soon will. Making long-term, strategic decisions can feel unwise - but it's a decision nearly every sophisticated user of IT will have to make...
One nontrivial matter is that error-handling (for which ERP requires a higher standard due to the increased number of system failure points and the number and diversity of users accessing a database) is much harder to implement.
It's a well-established services partner for PeopleSoft, who in 2001, at the lowest ebb of the ERP market slump, decided to sell as well as implement its software in the UK. Is the ERP and CRM space dead?
Though Project Green won't be complete for another three or four years, Microsoft hopes the finished product will help the company better compete with established ERP rivals with programs that are cheaper and easier to use.