Applications for Mid-size Businesses
Sponsored by Oracle
Oracle provides scalable, industry-specific, and best-in-class functionality for fast-growing companies with limited budgets. Oracle offers proven, open solutions and a network of partner expertise. There is no reason why businesses or government entities with limited resources should not have the same capabilities as larger enterprises. Oracle recognizes that companies with limited budgets demand comprehensive business solutions. Our customers want applications that are low-cost, low-risk, and provide industry-specific functionality and faster time-to-value. Oracle Accelerate delivers a comprehensive set of applications, rapid implementation tools, and an extensive partner system, so that companies can maximize their budgets and achieve real business value quickly.
Sponsored Content
Forrester: Key Improvements in Midsize ERP Applications You Can't Afford to Ignore
This Forrester report provides analysis, selection criteria and other recommendations for selecting an enterprise applications vendor for midsize businesses.
Simplifying the Management of Tier 1 ERP Systems for Mid-Sized Companies
This white paper will discuss the impact of Tier 1 systems on IT departments in terms of ongoing maintenance, demonstrating that Tier 1 systems make many IT tasks easier, ranging from new-report generation to user training to upgrade management.
IT Tipping Point for Mid-sized Companies: Deciding When to Move to Tier 1 ERP
This white paper will focus on debunking the myth that Tier 1 systems make running the business more difficult, while demonstrating that Tier 1 systems can actually make it easier for growing mid-sized companies to do the things they need to do.
Leveling the Field: Powerful Software Solutions for Midsize Companies
This white paper highlights the value and benefits of a fixed-scope/fixed-price approach to IT implementations that ultimately lowers costs to customers and speeds time to value.
How Midsize Businesses Are Using ERP to Gain Competitive Advantage in a Tough Economy
Read this case study to learn how Gavina Coffee defied the current challenging economic conditions by leveraging an ERP solution to improve company efficiencies, reduce costs and improve competitiveness.
Rapid Implementation - The New Age of ERP
Read this white paper to learn how smaller companies can reap huge benefits in a tough economy by deploying integrated applications across the entire organization — just like large enterprises have done for years.
Blogs
Is Your Walk Down Enterprise Software Memory Lane Bittersweet?
Doing some research to check facts on this May 5 blog post on Technology Solutions Corp. (see ), I came across an index of the stories that ran in Computer Business Review in September 1997. It’s a revealing view of the changes in the enterprise software and IT markets in the past decade. ...More >
Mutual Need Drives SAP-Microsoft Alliance
Although any time that Microsoft and SAP cooperate on anything it leads to idle speculation about a possible merger, every now and again even these two giants actually wind up doing something that is just driven by the requirements of mutual customers. Such is the case with the latest cooperative...More >
Data Integration and BI: The High Cost of Doing Nothing
Increasingly, data integration and data quality initiatives go hand-in-hand. And with good reason: Experts say it costs $1 to verify a record at the source, $10 to later cleanse and de-dupe it, and $100 if nothing is done, according to a recent Computerworld Technology Briefing on business...More >
Articles & Interviews
Microsoft's PowerPivot Puts BI Users More in Control
Ann All spoke with several employees of SharePoint360 , a SharePoint hosting and consulting company specializing in business intelligence that is included in Microsoft's Technical Adoption Program (TAP) for the Gemini technology. (Gemini was recently renamed PowerPivot.) SharePoint360 is the... More >
The Cloud Is Your Friend: Answers to Misconceptions of Cloud Computing
Change can be a source of apprehension for a lot of businesses, especially when it comes to critical data you use to run your operations. New technology definitely meets resistance because it is unknown and not yet understood widely. is one of those technologies that business professionals... More >
The Dawning of the IT Automation Era
Over the next five years, IT automation will overtake offshoring as the next major efficiency trend in IT. For many companies, offshoring has been a way to reduce IT costs by lowering the cost of labor and facilities. However, offshoring is demonstrating diminished returns as IT infrastructure... More >
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Dell Takes a Hit in Third Quarter
Dell reported profits for the third quarter fell 54 percent , which sent its stock price reeling. Bloomberg blamed lost market share and higher PC component costs. The PC maker reported net income of $577 million on revenues of $12.9 billion, a decline of 15 percent. At a time when other tech companies -- Intel,... More >
So Many Ways Startups Can Fail
In a presentation at the University of Washington, aQuantive co-founder Scott Lipsky said he had made a list of 721 reasons startups fail. However, he winnowed it down to 10 for his talk, reports TechFlash . Yes, one of them is funding problems -- not just getting money, but failing to maintain a frugal mindset, he... More >
IBM Offers BI Application Service
IBM is making use of its Cognos acquisition to offer the IBM Smart Analytics Cloud . Our CTO Edge site reports that the BI application service will allow customers: to roll out an implementation of Cognos 8 running on top of virtual machine software running on top of a Linux operating system hosted on an IBM... More >
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