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While 2000 was a difficult year for Infinium, resulting in a focus shift and significant restructuring, the company entered
2001 with an expanded product offering and the determination to gain more visibility within its target markets. (...)
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While 2000 was a difficult year for Infinium, resulting in a focus shift and significant restructuring, the company entered
2001 with an expanded ...
Published:
2001-03-22
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While Frontstep reported loses in fiscal 2001, the potential of its well-rounded product/services offering mix as well as
the recent downsizing, bodes well a return to profitability. (...)
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While Frontstep reported loses in fiscal 2001, the potential of its well-rounded product/services offering mix as well as
the recent downsizing, b...
Published:
2001-09-17
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This note discusses how ERP-driven e-business will have to extend well beyond providing business partners self-service portlets.
It will have to allow trading partners not only order status tracking but also the enterprise plans and conditions down to
plant level for more efficient two-way interaction an (...)
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This note discusses how ERP-driven e-business will have to extend well beyond providing business partners self-service portlets.
It will have to a...
Published:
2001-04-25
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This final note discusses how Application Service Providers (ASPs) have arisen on the Internet in response to such ERP woes
as support expenses, misbehaving applications, and server downtime, and how as the nature of ERP software evolves into services
and/or hosted models, the market might be experiencin (...)
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This final note discusses how Application Service Providers (ASPs) have arisen on the Internet in response to such ERP woes
as support expenses, m...
Published:
2001-04-27
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ERP applications are the information backbone for contemporary manufacturing enterprises. This note identifies current trends
in the ERP market that we believe businesses that are both current and potential ERP users should be cognizant of in order
to appropriately manage their expectations. (...)
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ERP applications are the information backbone for contemporary manufacturing enterprises. This note identifies current trends
in the ERP market th...
Published:
2001-04-18
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By harnessing Microsoft .NET possibly more keenly than its creator and by figuring out its bread-winning product groups,
amid difficult market conditions notwithstanding, Epicor might be showing us that ‘a clearer vision' can keep it in the mid-market
leadership race amongst a plethora of formidable op (...)
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By harnessing Microsoft .NET possibly more keenly than its creator and by figuring out its bread-winning product groups, amid
difficult market con...
Published:
2003-06-12
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This PLM research note provides insight on the importance of business objectives when adopting PLM. This article presents
research findings on business objectives to adopt PLM based on software selection projects and surveys conducted by TEC. Drawing
and product documentation management, product collabora (...)
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... structured manner, we expect that “better manage drawings ... in a
wider range of business processes including marketing, manufacturing, and services. ...
Published:
2010-02-04
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The objectives of end-to-end supply chain visibility are better plans, better service, increased inventory turns, and higher
profit margins, where MBN might answer only some of these requirements at this stage. In any case, MBN is a great, initial
idea that can lay the foundations for a future product of (...)
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The objectives of end-to-end supply chain visibility are better plans, better service, increased inventory turns, and higher
profit margins, where...
Published:
2004-09-04
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Although the human resources department has long been seen as a necessary evil at best, the scope of human resources management
systems (HRMS) has been extended to include recruiting, competency management, training, time management, performance management,
and so forth. (...)
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Although the human resources department has long been seen as a necessary evil at best, the scope of human resources management
systems (HRMS) has...
Published:
2006-09-26
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Abstract:
In the past, enterprise resource planning (ERP) initiatives were far too costly for smaller organizations to consider. However,
a trend has recently emerged where software vendors are now offering software-as-a-service business models for ERP implementation
to even the smallest organizations. (...)
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In the past, enterprise resource planning (ERP) initiatives were far too costly for smaller organizations to consider. However,
a trend has recent...
Published:
2009-09-07
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The need to support flexibility prior to installation of enterprise systems has largely been mastered by many vendors. But
what is really more important is ongoing agility after the installation. Agresso seems to have raised the bar in this regard. (...)
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The need to support flexibility prior to installation of enterprise systems has largely been mastered by many vendors. But
what is really more imp...
Published:
2006-10-16
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The two small-to-medium enterprise (SME) market segment leaders seem to have somewhat different strategies going forward
(despite inevitable watching over each other's shoulder), and time will tell who will ultimately win (or maybe both will remain
in a stalemate power sharing situation). (...)
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The two small-to-medium enterprise (SME) market segment leaders seem to have somewhat different strategies going forward (despite
inevitable watch...
Published:
2005-08-22
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In the larger schema of things, SOA would espouse general, more abstract concepts of software reusability and encapsulation
within certain boundaries (as to then provide access to that software via defined interfaces), Web services would then make
these SOA concepts vendor-independent due to their use of (...)
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In the larger schema of things, SOA would espouse general, more abstract concepts of software reusability and encapsulation
within certain boundar...
Published:
2004-12-22
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Strategy in digital business has become an increasingly significant component of Digital Business Service Provider (DBSP)
offerings. Pure plays have and are becoming more experienced, and are serious competitors to the more traditional strategists.
DBSP strategists take over where the traditional consult (...)
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Strategy in digital business has become an increasingly significant component of Digital Business Service Provider (DBSP)
offerings. Pure plays ha...
Published:
2000-10-03
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Three major parties (vendors, consulting services, and adopting organizations) are identified in the ERP ecosystem, in which
different parties need different key success factors. This article also discusses some challenges that may have an impact
on the ERP ecosystem. (...)
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Three major parties (vendors, consulting services, and adopting organizations) are identified in the ERP ecosystem, in which
different parties nee...
Published:
2008-12-05
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Abstract:
With its solid and improving cash position and current development work in progress for contemporary Internet-based, 'software
as a service' enterprise and collaborative commerce applications, and given its intentions to continue to sell both directly
and indirectly with accredited VARs within certain ve (...)
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With its solid and improving cash position and current development work in progress for contemporary Internet-based, 'software
as a service' enter...
Published:
2003-06-13
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Business process management notation (BPMN) is an initiative to increase standardization within process modeling. What are
the principles of BPMN, and what is the value of BPMN to vendors and organizations using business process modeling? (...)
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Business process management notation (BPMN) is an initiative to increase standardization within process modeling. What are
the principles of BPMN,...
Published:
2006-11-07
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Abstract:
Despite FreeFlow's success at helping organizations regain some margin of profitability for excess inventory, the company
still strives for expansion and improvement as a product inventory disposition vendor, with the aim of meeting international
environmental regulations down the track. (...)
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Despite FreeFlow's success at helping organizations regain some margin of profitability for excess inventory, the company
still strives for expans...
Published:
2007-02-02
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This note discusses how a flexible and agile ERP system needs an adaptable architecture, how easy integration to 3rd-party
applications has become a key selling point for ERP vendors, and how extending ERP to the Internet stems from the intent of
many IT organizations not to reinvent the wheel in their s (...)
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This note discusses how a flexible and agile ERP system needs an adaptable architecture, how easy integration to 3rd-party
applications has become...
Published:
2001-04-20
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Epicor competes in multiple enterprise business applications markets. Epicor may mean different things to different people,
which does not really help mind share creation in particular segments of interest. (...)
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Epicor competes in multiple enterprise business applications markets. Epicor may mean different things to different people,
which does not really...
Published:
2003-06-14