Electronic marketplaces will save static ERP products from becoming obsolete as companies look to move applications online, according to Sanjiv Sidhu, founder of i2 Technologies. Sidhu says the electronic marketplace will provide ERP (enterprise...
According to the two consultancies, the deal will enable them to capitalise on the opportunities in ebusiness services, ERP and ERM (enterprise resource management) application service provision. UK consultancies Druid and FI Group are to merge...
Anderson said: "The architecture does need to evolve, and running zero code on the client makes sense but Oracle does have a longer standing background in ERP applications, therefore it makes sense for Peoplesoft to stage a David and Goliath match.
ERP is no longer fashionable. To be an ERP vendor is like admitting you still eat prawn cocktails and are partial to the odd glass of Asti. Add to this the pressure of finding space in a saturated top-level ERP market, and many vendors are looking...
But to assert that Japan has a lead at all is to assume that Japan and the rest of us are on the same road, that markets in Europe and the US will evolve in much the same way as Japan, but some steps behind.
Some of the largest costs for user organisations are far-reaching applications that go by the catch-all term enterprise resource planning (ERP). A few years back, when Oracle was making its audacious bid for PeopleSoft, which had in turn only just...