Enterprise resource planning (ERP) represents a broad set of activities supported by software that helps an organization manage the important parts of its business, such as product planning, purchasing and managing inventories, financial data, vendor relations, customer service and sales management. ERP systems are used to optimize and standardize internal business processes. However, many ERP implementations run afoul due to their cost and complexity.
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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 >
Thaw Seen in IT Hiring
The good news, if there is any in this lousy job market, is that the unemployment rate in IT is only about half that of the overall market, which the U.S. Labor Department on Friday put at 9.8 percent. It remains an employer’s market, with an abundance of candidates for every... More >
A Service-Oriented Approach to Cost Cutting on Customizing SAP
Loraine Lawson spoke with Atul Saini, CEO/Chairman/CTO of Fiorano Software, about how Fiorano's SOA Platform can help companies customize and Web-enable ERP forms, without spending huge money on consultants. Lawson : I understand you've had some experience with SOA to improve ERP systems.... More >
Software Forum: Information On Demand Virtual Experience
This interactive virtual forum presents leading IT experts providing the insights you need to turn your information into a strategic driver for innovation, business optimization and competitive differentiation.
Performance Under Pressure: The State of Enterprise Web Application Quality and Availability
This research study finds that Web application issues are an all-too-common problem and examines these Web-based enterprise application issues from two perspectives: that of an online customer and that of a site manager.
CDC Software Acquires BI Company
Hong Kong-based CDC Software has announced that it is buying a venture-backed business intelligence provider for manufacturing , though it did not disclose the name of the company to be acquired, nor the price, reports RTT News . The acquisition is expected to expand CDC's business in the food and beverage,... More >
Aberdeen: Connection Between BI, ERP Not Maximized
Take an integration mindset toward business intelligence and ERP , advise the authors of an Aberdeen report, "The ERP/BI Connection: Adding Value through Actionable Intelligence." Without that approach, companies may be in danger of wasting the investment they have made in BI, which Aberdeen says has come in first place... More >
Microsoft Goes After Sage Customers
Calling its Dynamics ERP solutions a “beacon in the storm,” Microsoft is going after customers of rival Sage Software after its top channel partner inexplicably closed shop, reports Channel Web . Microsoft is offering customers a 25 percent rebate and a 50 percent discount on licensing for migrating, in a move that ... More >
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