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Your Challenge: Get Decision Makers' Approval for Mid-market Manufacturers for Enterprise Resource Planning. Specific, Measurable,
Achievable, Relevant and Time-Bound. The globalization of discrete manufacturing is forever changing the notion of what a
"small manufacturer" is. Even companies that are cons (...)
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Your Challenge: Get Decision Makers' Approval for Mid-market Manufacturers for Enterprise Resource Planning. Specific,
Measurable, Achievable, Rele...
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2010-03-11
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For over a decade, SAP has offered industry-specific applications, starting with oil and gas and utilities solutions. Media,
insurance, chemicals, banking, and public sector offerings have followed, highlighting SAP's lesser-known side as a market-oriented
provider of industry-tailored solutions. (...)
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For over a decade, SAP has offered industry-specific applications, starting with oil and gas and utilities solutions. Media,
insurance, chemicals,...
Published:
2006-05-25
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Should Baan and Ironside learn from their new senior sibling SSA GT how to consistently produce stellar financial results
and profitability while proceeding with the launch of the next-generation product releases and integration platforms that
could in turn cater for SSA GT's aged products' technology re (...)
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Should Baan and Ironside learn from their new senior sibling SSA GT how to consistently produce stellar financial results
and profitability while ...
Published:
2003-07-11
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Despite the challenges, PeopleSoft has raised the bar in providing solutions for smaller enterprises, and Tier 2 and Tier
3 vendors might be in for a tough battle to defend their turf, especially as they are concurrently trying to expand and modernize
their products with ever diminishing resources and wa (...)
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Despite the challenges, PeopleSoft has raised the bar in providing solutions for smaller enterprises, and Tier 2 and Tier
3 vendors might be in fo...
Published:
2002-09-27
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Packaged solutions for the chemicals industry are available from SAP and selected partners. Still, given a number of other
viable solutions, prospective users will have to decide whether SAP would indeed be the best solution without the packaged
option. (...)
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Packaged solutions for the chemicals industry are available from SAP and selected partners. Still, given a number of other
viable solutions, prosp...
Published:
2006-05-30
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As the market shifts from sophisticated enterprise CRM implementations to the more competitive and overcrowded mid-market-large
enterprise vendors tend to step on mid-market vendor's toes. The real concern is to determine whether the mid-market cultural
and functional differences are well understood and (...)
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As the market shifts from sophisticated enterprise CRM implementations to the more competitive and overcrowded mid-market-large
enterprise vendors...
Published:
2003-06-26
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Amid an intensifying hullabaloo in the mid-market, with all tier one players delivering solutions tailored for small-to-medium
enterprises (SMEs) and incumbent tier one and tier three vendors defending their turf, PeopleSoft seems to have thrown another
strike by utilizing its acquisition of former J.D. (...)
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Amid an intensifying hullabaloo in the mid-market, with all tier one players delivering solutions tailored for small-to-medium
enterprises (SMEs) ...
Published:
2004-07-26
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Our quest for quality and well-priced mid-market CRM software solutions, takes us this week to review Surado Solutions Inc.
developers of Surado CRM Solutions. Surado positions itself high in many functional areas, against many mid-market software
vendors such as SalesLogix, Epicor, Microsoft CRM, Kana, (...)
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Our quest for quality and well-priced mid-market CRM software solutions, takes us this week to review Surado Solutions Inc.
developers of Surado C...
Published:
2003-10-16
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Abstract:
For over a decade, SAP has offered industry-specific applications, starting with oil and gas and utilities solutions. Media,
insurance, chemicals, banking, and public sector offerings have followed, highlighting SAP's lesser-known side as a market-oriented
provider of industry-tailored solutions. (...)
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scm mid market manufacturers best practices:
For over a decade, SAP has offered industry-specific applications, starting with oil and gas and utilities solutions. Media,
insurance, chemicals,...
Published:
2006-05-25
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Creating outsourcing centers is a viable option for companies under pressure to develop quality products with tight time
and budget restraints. Mid-market companies, however, often do not have this option, but can still benefit from partnering
with an outsourcing provider. (...)
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Creating outsourcing centers is a viable option for companies under pressure to develop quality products with tight time and
budget restraints. Mi...
Published:
2005-12-01
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Customer relationship management is a sophisticated set of customer-facing tools; however, its technology has outpaced the
management strategy used to implement it. Moreover, murky definitions and objectives have caused varying degrees of success
and failure to emerge from the same initiative. Clearly de (...)
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Customer relationship management is a sophisticated set of customer-facing tools; however, its technology has outpaced the
management strategy use...
Published:
2004-10-21
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To maximize the return on investment of a customer relationship management system, a new CRM best practices model should
be used. A point-based system, self-assessment model that emphasizes senior management leadership and the need to create a
culture consistent with CRM can lead to a deployment strategy (...)
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To maximize the return on investment of a customer relationship management system, a new CRM best practices model should be
used. A point-based sy...
Published:
2004-10-22
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Abstract:
Packaged solutions for the chemicals industry are available from SAP and selected partners. Still, given a number of other
viable solutions, prospective users will have to decide whether SAP would indeed be the best solution without the packaged
option. (...)
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scm mid market manufacturers best practices:
Packaged solutions for the chemicals industry are available from SAP and selected partners. Still, given a number of other
viable solutions, prosp...
Published:
2006-05-30
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SSA GT has many times surprised even the biggest skeptics by turning around seemingly non-viable vantage products (which
iBaan and Ironside certainly are not) and/or ailing vendors (which Baan has been, and Ironworks will have likely become). (...)
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SSA GT has many times surprised even the biggest skeptics by turning around seemingly non-viable vantage products (which iBaan
and Ironside certai...
Published:
2003-07-15
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In continuing our first-time ever questions-and-answers series for software applications vendors, Infor and IFS, two upper
mid-market, stalwart vendors, express their views on market trends, platform approaches, and mid-market issues. (...)
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In continuing our first-time ever questions-and-answers series for software applications vendors, Infor and IFS, two upper
mid-market, stalwart ve...
Published:
2007-07-06
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IBM and B2B collaborative supply chain planning vendor Logility, Inc. have partnered to offer a joint solution for the AS/400e
server platform. (...)
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IBM and B2B collaborative supply chain planning vendor Logility, Inc. have partnered to offer a joint solution for the AS/400e
server platform.
Published:
2000-04-14
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Abstract:
By using software tools that help you forecast and work together with others inside your organization, and even with your
customers, the forecasts may become more accurate. You can make an assumption on how much improvement might be possible.
This part discusses the challenge of performing the data anal (...)
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By using software tools that help you forecast and work together with others inside your organization, and even with your
customers, the forecasts...
Published:
2001-07-17
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SAP has been delivering on its chemicals industry strategy by expanding its capabilities for manufacturing and supply chain
management, broadening its composite package applications in areas such as emissions management, pricing management, and manufacturing
dashboards, and focusing on mid-market compani (...)
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SAP has been delivering on its chemicals industry strategy by expanding its capabilities for manufacturing and supply chain
management, broadening...
Published:
2006-05-31
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Abstract:
While regulatory requirements to adopt International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) may be a concern for publically
traded companies only, there are plenty of reasons why privately held entities will want to prepare to adopt IFRS as well. (...)
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While regulatory requirements to adopt International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) may be a concern for publically
traded companies only, t...
Published:
2009-12-14
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Sage Group's decision to finally group its plethora of enterprise-level applications in North America under the Best Software
brand in 2002 emanated from the company's ability to deliver highly integrated components, and to weave a unified story around
this concoction of products, many of them with best- (...)
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Sage Group's decision to finally group its plethora of enterprise-level applications in North America under the Best Software
brand in 2002 emanat...
Published:
2003-07-28