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Amdocs recently announced a complete revamp of its marketing philosophy and its offering to its customers, which it believes
to be the most important shift since the company's initial public offering in 1998. (...)
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2005-08-04
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Although ASA seems to have obtained an intriguing complementary product offering and a modest client base for almost next-to-nothing
cost, it has to quickly articulate a clear and assuring message to the market that it can and will execute a strategy for
enhancing PowerCerv product lines for a foreseeabl (...)
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2002-10-29
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Baan, once a leading global provider of ERP software hopes its adoptive parent, Invensys, will put it back on the enterprise
software applications map. However, we believe Baan’s path to full recovery will be quite thorny. Part 2 examines Baan’s strengths
and challenges and makes specific bottom line (...)
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software applications...
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2000-11-30
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It is startling how much has changed in Oracle’s applications business during the last two years. Oracle is indisputably
the most reformed applications vendor, having achieved significant growth in total revenue, license revenue and net income.
Oracle has a head start on most of its competition pertain (...)
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most reformed applica...
Published:
2000-09-19
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SSA GT has mostly achieved its most imminent and important goal of enticing existing BPCS customer base to stay on their
maintenance contracts. Vendors vying to be replacement solutions for the BPCS ERP system could be in for a bigger hurdle than
expected. (...)
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... financials, quality management, business intelligence (through Cognos
... its competition regarding e-business capabilities, and ... customers,
we advise potential and ...
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2002-01-04
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SSA GT has mostly achieved its most imminent and important goal of enticing existing BPCS customer base to stay on their
maintenance contracts. Vendors vying to be replacement solutions for the BPCS ERP system could be in for a bigger hurdle than
expected. (...)
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... financials, quality management, business intelligence (through Cognos
... its competition regarding e-business capabilities, and ... customers,
we advise potential and ...
Published:
2002-01-04
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The vendor that many have long forgotten seems to be reincarnating. In order to return from oblivion SSA GT has been making
strides to put itself back on the global enterprise applications map, primarily through salvaging the relationships with existing
customers. Will the latest V8 product vouch for an (...)
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strides to put itself ...
Published:
2001-09-10
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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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The varied product portfolio now under the SSA GT banner will take serious pondering and soul-searching and may likely act
as a distraction from SSA GT's primary BPCS product strategy. While SSA GT's gallant attempt to regain credibility in the
industry is noteworthy, it still has much more catching-up t (...)
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The varied product portfolio now under the SSA GT banner will take serious pondering and soul-searching and may likely act
as a distraction from S...
Published:
2002-05-01
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SSA's Portfolio strategy is to surround its core ERP products with best-of-breed 3rd party enterprise applications and provide
system integration services and support around it. SSA will gradually transform itself into a systems integration provider,
as opposed to a pure ERP vendor, within the next 3 yea (...)
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provide system integration ...
Published:
1999-10-01
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Oracle will not rest until it comes close (or even overtakes) Siebel in the CRM market. Its latest gimmick from its bag of
tricks was the recent launch of the OracleSalesOnline.com system, which allows businesses to use Oracle's SFA software for
free. However, any additional CRM components users might ne (...)
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Oracle will not rest until it comes close (or even overtakes) Siebel in the CRM market. Its latest gimmick from its bag of
tricks was the recent l...
Published:
2000-10-06
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The time for existing Made2Manage customers and partners to act is now. The new owners’ motivation in buying the product
and vendor must have been the install base and that is you. Showing interest and being vocal about your needs is your part
in keeping the relationship the way you want it. (...)
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The time for existing Made2Manage customers and partners to act is now. The new owners’ motivation in buying the product and
vendor must have been...
Published:
2003-09-15
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Why has it been so difficult for CRM point solution providers to even find a white knight, which has not generally been the
case with even ancient ERP products? Could it be that while the traditional introspective mind-set of ERP becomes history,
its functionality remains critical and CRM is being absorb (...)
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Why has it been so difficult for CRM point solution providers to even find a white knight, which has not generally been the
case with even ancient...
Published:
2003-03-28
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Winning ERP products will demonstrate deep industry functionality and tight integration with best-of-bread ‘bolt-on’ products
in a particular vertical. Users should focus on the handful of business objectives they need to achieve and the ways to measure
their success. (...)
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Winning ERP products will demonstrate deep industry functionality and tight integration with best-of-bread ‘bolt-on’ products
in a particular vert...
Published:
2001-10-15
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Baan's focus on discrete manufacturing has not been a close fit with Invensys' plant automation products that have been geared
mostly to process industries. To that end, Invensys has had a nightmarish job of trying to rationalize Baan and its process
ERP counterparts, Protean and PRISM, development - str (...)
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Baan's focus on discrete manufacturing has not been a close fit with Invensys' plant automation products that have
been geared mostly to process i...
Published:
2003-05-08
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Once high-flying ERP vendors, Baan and SSA, have officially ceased to exist as independent companies on the same day in the
first week of August thereby marking the end of the golden era of traditional ERP. (...)
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Once high-flying ERP vendors, Baan and SSA, have officially ceased to exist as independent companies on the same day in the
first week of August t...
Published:
2000-09-13
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Abstract:
It is startling how much has changed in Oracle’s applications business during the last two years. Oracle is indisputably
the most reformed applications vendor, having achieved significant growth in total revenue, license revenue and net income.
Oracle has a head start on most of its competition pertain (...)
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most reformed applica...
Published:
2000-09-19
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Abstract:
The specialized material resource planning module for cut-to-size/shape industries must be able to recognize when current
demand cannot be satisfied by the in stock inventory due to dimensional issues, and include that unsatisfied demand in its
reorder messages. (...)
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The specialized material resource planning module for cut-to-size/shape industries must be able to recognize when current
demand cannot be satisfi...
Published:
2006-09-08
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The worsening plight of most ERP vendors, caused by the market slowdown, which started in the fourth quarter of 1998, continued
in full force throughout 1999. The market size for 1999, with the 4th quarter yet to be reported, is estimated at $18.5B-$19.5B
(12%-16% growth over 1998), with sales expected t (...)
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The worsening plight of most ERP vendors, caused by the market slowdown, which started in the fourth quarter of 1998, continued
in full force thro...
Published:
1999-01-01
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Abstract:
Although ASA seems to have obtained an intriguing complementary product offering and a modest client base for almost next-to-nothing
cost, it has to quickly articulate a clear and assuring message to the market that it can and will execute a strategy for
enhancing PowerCerv product lines for a foreseeabl (...)
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Although ASA seems to have obtained an intriguing complementary product offering and a modest client base for almost next-to-nothing
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2002-10-29