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January 25, 2010, 3:34 am | Print This Post Print This Post | Email This Post Email This Post | 10 comments |

Monday’s Musings: The Hidden Value In SaaS Deployments

Gains In SaaS Adoption Driven By Speed And Cost Savings…
Preliminary data from Q4 earnings data show continued traction among SaaS solutions.  Expect SaaS deployments to gain steam in 2010 as organizations finalize their SaaS apps strategies to take advantage of 7 key benefits:

Richer user experience - SaaS apps bring Web 2.0 usability to the enterprise [...]

January 5, 2010, 11:59 pm | Print This Post Print This Post | Email This Post Email This Post | 5 comments |

Tuesday’s Tip: The SAP Optimization List - Key Ecosystem Vendors You Should Know

High Cost Of Ownership And Changing Requirements Drive SAP Users To Seek Optimization Solutions

As users await SAP to regain its mojo (see Dennis Howlett’s post) and implement it’s “Voice of the Customer” strategy in 2010, users must continue to reduce their cost of ownership and complexity. In addition, rapidly changing business requirements require some users to seek SaaS alternatives, additional point solutions, and extensions.
Consequently, vendors providing SAP optimization and extension solutions represent one of the fastest growing parts of the $78.7B (2009 Altimeter Group estimate), 850,000 SAP service partner and developer ecosystem. SAP users already embrace many of the solutions from vendors on this inaugural SAP Optimization List as part of their business value oriented apps strategy. The living list covers seven areas including:

1. application extension and usability;
2. application life cycle management;
3. archiving, storage, and test data management;
4. license management and optimization;
5. Microsoft Office integration;
6. third party maintenance; and
7. virtualization

December 22, 2009, 12:34 pm | Print This Post Print This Post | Email This Post Email This Post | 8 comments |

Tuesday’s Tip: 10 Cloud and SaaS Apps Strategies For 2010

Keep In Mind Basic Rules Still Apply Regardless Of Deployment Option

The proliferation of SaaS solutions provides organizations with a myriad of sorely needed point and disruptive solutions.  Good news - business users can rapidly procure and deploy, while innovating with minimal budget and IT team constraints.  Bad news - users must depend more on their [...]

October 24, 2009, 5:32 pm | Print This Post Print This Post | Email This Post Email This Post | 8 comments |

Product Review: Epicor 9 Delivers Next Generation Apps Capabilities Today

Epicor Succeeds On Delivering A Converged Product Line
Epicor’s latest release, Epicor 9, provides a proof point that an acquisition intensive vendor can keep their promises to both acquire and deliver on innovation.  Under the themes of “Protect, Extend, and Converge”, the Irvine, CA based mid-market software provider committed to its customers to support prior releases, [...]

October 14, 2009, 6:27 pm | Print This Post Print This Post | Email This Post Email This Post | 7 comments |

News Analysis: Oracle Formally Announces Fusion Apps

Oracle’s Fusion Apps Addresses A Broad Set Of Horizontal Modules

Oracle’s co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Larry Ellison announced the code completion of Fusion Apps in today’s late afternoon keynote.  Though Ellison did not give precise guidance on general availability (GA), he did hint that the product would be available, “sometime in 2010″.  The product currently [...]

August 24, 2009, 12:00 am | Print This Post Print This Post | Email This Post Email This Post | 10 comments |

Monday’s Musings: 10 Essential Elements For Social Enterprise Apps

Convergent trends fuel the push for new business solutions and platforms
The future of enterprise software is evolving from web-based apps, business process platforms, and service-enabled products; to a new class of more connected, social, and collaborative business software solutions.  This transformation comes from advances in the Web 2.0 world and a growing realization that business [...]

July 13, 2009, 6:00 am | Print This Post Print This Post | Email This Post Email This Post | 2 comments |

Monday’s Musings: Why On-Premise Vendors and SI’s Should Go on the Offense with SaaS

On-premise vendors still see SaaS as a loss leader due to huge ramp up and punishing revenue recognition rules

When it comes to the topic of SaaS, many on-premise vendors appear to be living in denial, hoping that SaaS fails, and/or creating confusion in the market place.  These tactics have merit as a shift to SaaS [...]

July 1, 2009, 7:08 am | Print This Post Print This Post | Email This Post Email This Post | 2 comments |

News Analysis: Oracle Launches Fusion Middleware 11g

Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g launch starts countdown to 100 days of innovation until Oracle Open World
In short, Oracle is putting forth a suite of middleware solutions that not only enable developers and software publishers to build their future solutions, but also deliver the middleware tools that will serve as the foundation for its go forward [...]

May 1, 2009, 4:15 pm | Print This Post Print This Post | Email This Post Email This Post | One comment |

Friday’s Feature: Snapshots In Enterprise 2.0 UX/UI - Eshbel’s Priority 13

Usability and User Experience Matter in Enterprise 2.0 Apps
Welcome to the fifth in a series of Friday’s Features showcasing the latest and greatest in enterprise apps usability. Many ERP software vendors including Epicor, Eshbel, IFS, Infor, Lawson, Microsoft Dynamics, and Syspro have made significant progress in improving usability as they progress to [...]

March 13, 2009, 11:52 pm | Print This Post Print This Post | Email This Post Email This Post | Leave a comment |

Friday’s Feature: Snapshots In Enterprise 2.0 UX/UI - Lawson Smart Office

Usability and User Experience Matter in Enterprise 2.0 Apps
Welcome to the fourth in a series of Friday’s Features showcasing the latest and greatest in enterprise apps usability. Many ERP software vendors including Epicor, IFS, Infor, Lawson, Microsoft Dynamics, and Syspro have made significant progress in improving usability as they progress to Enterprise [...]

February 20, 2009, 12:01 am | Print This Post Print This Post | Email This Post Email This Post | 2 comments |

Friday’s Feature: Snapshots In Enterprise 2.0 UX/UI - Epicor 9

Usability and User Experience Matter in Enterprise 2.0 Apps
Welcome to the third in a series of Friday’s Features showcasing the latest and greatest in enterprise apps usability. Many ERP software vendors including Epicor, IFS, Infor, Lawson, Microsoft Dynamics, and Syspro have made significant progress in improving usability as they progress to Enterprise 2.0 [...]

February 13, 2009, 12:06 am | Print This Post Print This Post | Email This Post Email This Post | 2 comments |

Friday’s Feature: Snapshots In Enterprise 2.0 UX/UI - IFS Applications

Usability and User Experience Matter in Enterprise 2.0 Apps
Welcome to the second in a series of Friday’s Features showcasing the latest and greatest in enterprise apps usability. Many ERP software vendors including Epicor, IFS, Infor, Lawson, Microsoft Dynamics, and Syspro have made significant progress in improving usability as they progress to Enterprise [...]

February 6, 2009, 5:05 am | Print This Post Print This Post | Email This Post Email This Post | 2 comments |

Friday’s Feature: Snapshots In Enterprise 2.0 UX/UI - Microsoft Dynamics

Usability and User Experience Matter in Enterprise 2.0 Apps
Welcome to the first in a series of Friday’s Features showcasing the latest and greatest in enterprise apps usability.   Many ERP software vendors including Epicor, IFS, Infor, Lawson, Microsoft Dynamics, and Syspro have made significant progress in improving usability as they progress to Enterprise 2.0 apps.  [...]