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CMS Software (now known as Solarsoft Business Systems) may not be a huge global player, but its enterprise resource planning
solutions address a wide spectrum of supply chain management requirements, including customizable electronic data interchange
functions, warehousing, distribution, and traceability (...)
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CMS Software (now known as Solarsoft Business Systems) may not be a huge global player, but its enterprise resource planning
solutions address a w...
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2007-12-03
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Faced with competitive inadequacies, the major ERP vendors have been vigorously busy developing, acquiring, or bundling new
functionality so that their packages go beyond the traditional realms of finance, materials planning & management, and human
resources. (...)
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Faced with competitive inadequacies, the major ERP vendors have been vigorously busy developing, acquiring, or bundling new
functionality so that ...
Published:
2001-10-05
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A sales configurator needs to be able to "decipher" products' specifications from a rule-based, constructed catalog number.
Part number users should query vendors to determine whether their enterprise solutions cater to the needs of industrial automation
manufacturers. (...)
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A sales configurator needs to be able to "decipher" products' specifications from a rule-based, constructed
catalog number. Part number users shou...
Published:
2007-06-22
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During the last few years, Made2Manage has evolved from a vendor of traditional MRP/ERP software to a provider of ‘one-stop-shop’
enterprise business applications. (...)
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During the last few years, Made2Manage has evolved from a vendor of traditional MRP/ERP software to a provider of ‘one-stop-shop’
enterprise busin...
Published:
2003-01-21
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Having reached its first decade of existence, Intuitive Manufacturing Systems, a stealth mid-market ERP provider, has long
taken the plunge of rewriting its system onto the pure Microsoft .NET managed code framework, which might bear fruits in the
long run, if not immediately. (...)
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Having reached its first decade of existence, Intuitive Manufacturing Systems, a stealth mid-market ERP provider, has long
taken the plunge of rew...
Published:
2004-06-22
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SouthWare Innovations is one of the first middle-market vendors to create what might be the one of the best examples of true
business management system (accounting + exception management + task management), and for that reason alone it should receive
serious consideration. (...)
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... The Excellence Series supports a significant number of applications, most ...
Comprehensive inventory control including substitute items, vendor part numbers, RF ...
Published:
2005-01-04
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Glovia hopes to become a manufacturing service platform that will connect and integrate various business systems that user
companies currently use. The vendor's software-as-a-service offering is one of the routes it plans to take to get there. (...)
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Glovia hopes to become a manufacturing service platform that will connect and integrate various business systems that user
companies currently use...
Published:
2007-01-24
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In PLM, there is no single vendor that can meet all of the requirements, and the market is still immature, so almost every
product can be the right solution provided a certain set of requirements. The Catch 22 for both buyers and vendors is to
pinpoint the right opportunity in this ongoing 'dating game' (...)
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In PLM, there is no single vendor that can meet all of the requirements, and the market is still immature, so almost every
product can be the righ...
Published:
2003-05-24
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Past experience shows us that the vast majority of enterprise technology evaluations run over time and budget, and once selected,
the majority of the implementations fail to meet functional, return on investment (ROI) and total cost of ownership (TCO)
expectations. Many companies have consequently been s (...)
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Past experience shows us that the vast majority of enterprise technology evaluations run over time and budget, and once selected,
the majority of ...
Published:
2003-05-23
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Companies that are not already offering the capabilities of meeting the exacting, stringent requirements of federal agencies
will likely not be able to tap the recent surge in the federal and defense markets. Conversely, those vendors and their users--government
contractors--who can deliver comprehensive (...)
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Companies that are not already offering the capabilities of meeting the exacting, stringent requirements of federal agencies
will likely not be ab...
Published:
2005-01-14
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While the WMS market is expected to continue to grow modestly and faster than the market for many other applications, it
appears the WMS add-on solution, customer order fulfillment process management, will experience much higher growth. (...)
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While the WMS market is expected to continue to grow modestly and faster than the market for many other applications, it appears
the WMS add-on so...
Published:
2003-11-14
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We generally believe that, in the long run, market winners will be those vendors with an established large customer base
and with huge financial and human resources that would make them more responsive to any future challenges such as sudden market
trends and/or technology paradigm shifts. (...)
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We generally believe that, in the long run, market winners will be those vendors with an established large customer base and
with huge financial a...
Published:
2001-10-09
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The free cartoon character cursor provided by Comet Systems Inc. tracks and stores the web visits of millions of people.
This potential privacy issue was discovered and announced by the same security consultant who discovered, in March of 1999,
that Microsoft Windows was inserting unique serial numbers i (...)
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The free cartoon character cursor provided by Comet Systems Inc. tracks and stores the web visits of millions of people. This
potential privacy is...
Published:
1999-11-29
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Most enterprises fight fires with axes, fire hoses, trucks, and hordes of firemen, but the CDQM approach is a smoke detector.
It’s far less expensive to put a fire out when it’s just smoldering, rather than to extinguish a blazing house fire and then
remodel the entire house. (...)
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... tables into Huntington's master table, it failed to include the system division number
assigned to each division table in the new Huntington part number. ...
Published:
2002-10-18
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While Geac’s balance sheet was boosted by recent events, a more positive sign is the company’s intent to become a true software-developing
vendor, not simply a software collector and dealer. (...)
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While Geac’s balance sheet was boosted by recent events, a more positive sign is the company’s intent to become a true software-developing
vendor,...
Published:
2001-10-18
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Imagine the convenience of a 24x7 intranet marketplace where companies could sell off their inventory to the highest bidder.
FreeFlow is one such business service provider, helping companies find buyers to sell their products to and increase inventory
asset recovery. (...)
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Imagine the convenience of a 24x7 intranet marketplace where companies could sell off their inventory to the highest bidder.
FreeFlow is one such ...
Published:
2007-01-29
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The latest acquisitions of SSA Global indicate a new phase in the vendor's acquisition strategy and development cycle, and
are furthering its goal to be number three (after SAP and Oracle) in the world of enterprise resource planning vendors. (...)
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The latest acquisitions of SSA Global indicate a new phase in the vendor's acquisition strategy and development cycle,
and are furthering its goal...
Published:
2006-04-26
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The downside, as a rule, is the painstaking integration effort yet to be devised for a number of remaining products in the
Sage’s/Best’s family and to be subsequently exerted, as there is always a large time bracket from concept to actual materialization.
Further, integration is never a simple feat. (...)
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The downside, as a rule, is the painstaking integration effort yet to be devised for a number of remaining products in the
Sage’s/Best’s family an...
Published:
2002-12-23
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Epicor is working with Microsoft so that portal adopters can benefit from SharePoint's models and access to other enterprise
data. (...)
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Epicor is working with Microsoft so that portal adopters can benefit from SharePoint's models and access to other enterprise
data.
Published:
2005-10-05
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Rather than pursuing the usual route of writing analyses of major market trends, we’ve decided to ask vendors about their
opinions and approaches. IFS has re-joined the discussion on the topic of user experience (UX) design. (...)
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Rather than pursuing the usual route of writing analyses of major market trends, we’ve decided to ask vendors about their
opinions and approaches....
Published:
2009-08-03