Put simply, many companies needed to get their systems sorted out before they imploded and ERP was a way of doing this. And let's remember that many organisations embarked on ERP projects - handling payroll, HR and other key corporate functions...
In the dim, dark past of the technology gone by (i.e.years ago), many companies based their IT decisions on the application buy - “We have a CRM problem - let’s get Siebel”, or “Everyone else is doing ERP, let’s talk to SAP”.
Sourcing and procurement software revenues also went into freefall - dropping 28 per cent and 23 per cent in 2002 and 2001 respectively according to Gartner - leaving the supply chain and e-procurement companies such as Ariba, CommerceOne and i2...
Microsoft's Dynamics ERP financial applications will also use the PerformancePoint Server in its financial applications suite. The Office PerformancePoint Server 2007, due mid-2007, will provide a set of programs geared at helping knowledge workers...
The bigger players include Microsoft with its Dynamics brand (covering the Axapta, Great Plains, Navision and Solomon systems through acquisition), Epicor (with acquisitions of CRS and Scala) and Infor (with more than 25 acquisitions in the last...
There are a number of factors driving the need for more advanced business intelligence solutions which can offer faster and more accessible insight into business operations. These factors are made more complex by the shorter decision cycles that...
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