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The integration solutions market will be an interesting area of growth. IBS has an attractive offer for companies with complex
and expensive business software at the group and headquarters level, wanting to lower costs and quicken implementation in
their subsidiaries. (...)
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The integration solutions market will be an interesting area of growth. IBS has an attractive offer for companies with complex
and expensive busin...
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2005-09-08
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For the last several months, MAPICS, Inc. (NASDAQ: MAPX), a global provider of extended ERP applications for world-class
mid-sized manufacturers, has embarked on a painstaking process of producing a strategy going forward that would pragmatically
blend the company’s traditional values and success facto (...)
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For the last several months, MAPICS, Inc. (NASDAQ: MAPX), a global provider of extended ERP applications for world-class mid-sized
manufacturers, ...
Published:
2002-11-20
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Aligning information technology (IT) with corporate strategy is key to maximizing the business impact of IT investments.
Tree Top's structured process of reviewing proposed IT investments will allow an enterprise to understand this alignment,
and prioritize investments. (...)
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Aligning information technology (IT) with corporate strategy is key to maximizing the business impact of IT investments. Tree
Top's structured pro...
Published:
2006-04-05
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Food and beverage manufacturers rely on information technology to meet market demands. However, food is one market where
most enterprise applications show a number of "fatal flaws"—capabilities whose omission can impede operations to the extent
of complete failure. (...)
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Food and beverage manufacturers rely on information technology to meet market demands. However, food is one market where most
enterprise applicati...
Published:
2006-11-08
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The way a bank selects, implements, and monitors a technological product significantly contributes to the final effect on
the bank's environment. (...)
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The way a bank selects, implements, and monitors a technological product significantly contributes to the final effect on
the bank's environment.
Published:
2000-07-11
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Much has changed, while much has remained the same at MAPICS during 2003. With the February finalization of the Frontstep
acquisition, MAPICS has become quite a large enterprise applications provider, which positions the vendor near (if not at)
the top among vendors that focus on the mid-size discrete ma (...)
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Much has changed, while much has remained the same at MAPICS during 2003. With the February finalization of the Frontstep
acquisition, MAPICS has ...
Published:
2003-10-13
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In addition to products' rationalization, the integration at sales and cultural levels will be challenging. In general, existing
customers of involved merging vendors should be alert, but they should still look at these events as positive. (...)
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In addition to products' rationalization, the integration at sales and cultural levels will be challenging. In general,
existing customers of invo...
Published:
2003-08-18
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Now that is it publicly traded, it is poised for reaching over $400 million revenue mark in calendar 2002. Lawson has maintained
significant mind and market share in the service industries sector, and is a recognized competitive force to keep the likes
of PeopleSoft, Oracle and SAP on their tiptoes. (...)
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Now that is it publicly traded, it is poised for reaching over $400 million revenue mark in calendar 2002. Lawson has maintained
significant mind...
Published:
2002-05-06
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Through its recently formed Strategic Solutions team, SSA Global might be showing that it is not just an ERP collector that
is living off milking its install base, but rather an extended enterprise applications provider that can appeal to both its
current and new users. (...)
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Through its recently formed Strategic Solutions team, SSA Global might be showing that it is not just an ERP collector that
is living off milking ...
Published:
2004-09-16
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While there is an opportunity for FRx to become a main pillar within the entire Microsoft BI product strategy, there is not
yet an overall cohesive BI/CPM strategy or architecture to guide the product plans to an integrated BI solution set. (...)
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While there is an opportunity for FRx to become a main pillar within the entire Microsoft BI product strategy, there is not
yet an overall cohesiv...
Published:
2003-12-05
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The QRS acquisition by JDA would have eventually brought together two providers of complementary e-commerce products that
would help retailers, manufacturers, and suppliers manage and sell their products to other companies and customers on-line.
JDA now remains on its own to define a revised PIM/GDS stra (...)
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The QRS acquisition by JDA would have eventually brought together two providers of complementary e-commerce products that
would help retailers, ma...
Published:
2004-11-04
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To provide useful financial insight on projects, financial managers need to think about business strategy more like a series
of options than a single projected cash flow. While the concepts of options are certainly familiar to most executives, the
trick to valuing strategic choices lies in the complex an (...)
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To provide useful financial insight on projects, financial managers need to think about business strategy more like a series
of options than a sin...
Published:
1999-10-01
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SSA GT believes it is on a path to regain a leading position in its target markets by solving industry-specific business
challenges and creating a heterogeneous application environment that works seamlessly with other back-office applications. (...)
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SSA GT believes it is on a path to regain a leading position in its target markets by solving industry-specific business challenges
and creating a...
Published:
2002-04-29
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Abstract:
In addition to products' rationalization, the integration at sales and cultural levels will be challenging. In general, existing
customers of involved merging vendors should be alert, but they should still look at these events as positive. (...)
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impact of technology on financial management:
In addition to products' rationalization, the integration at sales and cultural levels will be challenging. In general,
existing customers of invo...
Published:
2003-08-18
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With a large investment in architecture made early, PeopleSoft has so far resisted the downturn in the market and has gained
ground by making its core applications a compelling choice. However, the company has tempted the fate with touting that its
product architecture would make it bulletproof to the we (...)
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With a large investment in architecture made early, PeopleSoft has so far resisted the downturn in the market and has gained
ground by making its ...
Published:
2002-06-20
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The former die-hard IBM AS/400-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) supplier to mid-market manufacturing companies, MAPICS,
seems to have found its soul after the recent acquisition of its former competitor Frontstep and Frontstep's extended-ERP
product line on a Microsoft .NET-based technology platf (...)
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Part One: Recent Events and Market Impact. ... Product Lifecycle Management
(PLM) solution, from its longstanding partner—Ceimis Enterprises of Laguna Hills ...
Published:
2004-07-20
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In several aspects, Lawson Software could be regarded as an enterprise applications market anomaly. For one, at its peak
in fiscal 2002, the company boasted annual revenues of nearly $430 million, but it still has only a slender (less than 10
percent of revenues) presence outside of its US domestic marke (...)
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In several aspects, Lawson Software could be regarded as an enterprise applications market anomaly. For one, at its peak in
fiscal 2002, the compa...
Published:
2003-11-08
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Abstract:
Although most vendors provide organizations with the project portfolio management tools to meet their objectives, few provide
strategies to implement an IT governance framework successfully. Pacific Edge offers a three-stage approach to implementing
IT governance, based on an organization's maturity. (...)
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Although most vendors provide organizations with the project portfolio management tools to meet their objectives, few provide
strategies to implem...
Published:
2006-06-20
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Companies with large sales forces, huge product portfolios, and complex incentive plans with many variables need to offer
variable pay. This has created opportunities for a new enterprise software category called enterprise incentive management
(EIM), or incentive compensation management (ICM). (...)
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Companies with large sales forces, huge product portfolios, and complex incentive plans with many variables need to offer
variable pay. This has c...
Published:
2006-11-30
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Dell Computer Corporation spent millions preparing to deploy an ERP system before realizing that the solution to one set
of issues created a more severe problem. Note based on discussion among Michael Dell, Kevin Rollins, and Morten Topfer of
Dell Computer Corporation and Dell’s Platinum Counsel of c (...)
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... process management and thereby negatively impact the company's
... Dimension. Essential Capability. Technology Requirement. ... the ability
to make financial commitments. ...
Published:
2002-05-31