SYSPRO’s Game Changer – All Dressed Up and Many Places To Go
The Enterprise Resource Planning applications market is beginning to look a lot like the automotive industry where customer experience takes on greater urgency than...
Oracle To Buy Responsys In New Flight Plan
Never the one to lose in high seas or in the Cloud, Oracle is pursuing a $2 billion flight plan that could put any...
Apparancy Extends A Helping Hand
After years of running a hodgepodge of legacy and best-of-breed apps, many healthcare organizations find themselves with disjointed operational workflows that prevent them from...
SYSPRO Stays Fresh and Relevant
As the software industry begins to mature, staying fresh and relevant has become more important than ever for many vendors.
The challenge begins to multiply...
Sage Is Back In The Driver’s Seat
After years of expanding via acquisitions and strategy shifts, Sage appears to have finally found the right engine to power its growth.
Sage, the world’s...
SAP Faces the Inconvenient Truth
On the last day of the huge SAPPHIRENOW conference, a trio of standup comedians appeared on stage lampooning everything under the sun with one...
Salesforce.com Intensifies Talent War With Oracle
Salesforce.com said it named Keith Block, formerly executive vice president of Oracle, as its new president and vice chairman, following a series of new...
SAP Catches Buyout Fever With Hybris
A day after Salesforce.com’s $2.5-billion deal to buy social CRM vendor ExactTarget, SAP announced its plan to acquire hybris, a Zug, Switzerland-based ISV specializing...
Salesforce.com’s Humongous Deal To Boost Cloud Appeal
When Salesforce.com announced its first quarter fiscal 2014 earnings two weeks ago, I made the prediction that it would make a major acquisition in...
Intuit’s Improvements
For Intuit, a company best known for its intuitive applications from TurboTax and QuickBooks, innovation has always been one of its key differentiators. Lately...
Business Transformation With BHAG In Mind
On the heels of one of the worst recessions in history, large organizations have started investing in business transformation projects that could breathe new...
Siemens PLM Drops Bombshell To Give Thanks
The day before Thanksgiving, Siemens PLM dropped a bombshell on the automotive vertical by announcing the winning of Daimler AG as its latest CAD...
Salesforce.com, SAP Trading Places
In the annals of the software industry, it’s often a zero sum game when vendors start jockeying for new positions in an effort to...
Deltek Profits From Project-Focused Markets
With a knack of automating professional services organizations and government contractors, Deltek has what it takes to steer these customers and ultimately reshape the...
Business Analytics For the Masses
There has been a lot of talk about the merits of business analytics, which is a cut above what business intelligence can do, but...
An Unconventional Approach From SAP To Score Industry Wins
The conventional wisdom is that SAP has been particularly successful selling into heavy industries. After all, it got its start in the 1970s developing...
Salesforce.com Steers Social Enterprise Movement Amid Cloudy Outlook
With growing signs of leading one of the most important segments of the enterprise applications market, Salesforce.com embodies the disruptive power of Cloud-based delivery...
SAP Chases Constant Cloud Customers
The completion of SAP’s acquisition of SuccessFactors raises as many questions about the future of SAP as there are about its past.
One of the...
As New Reality Sets In, Oracle Braces For The Future
As an avid enterprise IT watcher, I am constantly amazed at the uncanny ability of Oracle to reinvent itself after relying on its bread-and-butter...
Power Broker Propels SAP Customer Value
Chakib Bouhdary has the new title of Chief Customer Value Officer of SAP, having served as a key advisor to co-CEO Bill McDermott for...
Desperately Seeking Silicone Support Amid Silicon Shifts
Seismic shifts in the technology world have sparked a wave of unlikely partnerships involving desperate vendors pairing up with one another in order to...
Travel and Expense Management Applications Market 2010-2015
This applications market sizing report focuses on the 2010 performance of the top 10 applications vendors in the travel and expense management applications market.
As...
Human Capital Management Applications Market 2010-2015
This applications market sizing report focuses on the 2010 performance of the top 10 applications vendors in the human capital management applications market.
The HCM market...
Enterprise Resource Planning Applications Market 2010-2015
This applications market sizing report focuses on the 2010 performance of the top 10 applications vendors in the enterprise resource planning applications market.
With the global...
Oracle Siebel Continues CRM Journey
Countering common perceptions that Siebel is not growing, Oracle is reaffirming its commitment to the granddaddy of customer relationship management applications amid sweeping changes...
Concur Fusion
Concur Technologies Inc., the travel and expense management applications juggernaut, has stuck to its tried-and-true formula of helping business travelers ease the pain associated...
Top Tech Spenders
Samsung Electronics Co., the crown jewel of Korean chaebol Samsung Group, again topped research and development spending among the world’s largest technology companies in...
Big Data Survey
In one of the biggest surveys of Big Data implementations, Apps Run The World found first-generation vendors such as Teradata and IBM have continued...
SAP Cloud Reaches An Inflection Point
What a difference a year has made SAP!
At last year’s SAPPHIRE NOW, I raised a few thorny questions about SAP’s Cloud viability and its...
Unit4 Ushers In People Platform For ERP Users
After more than a year of reinvestment and redevelopment efforts, Unit4 is upping the ante with a new platform that could boost its standing...
