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Research Summary: Best Practices – The Case For Two-Tier ERP
Forward And Commentary Legacy optimization remains a key component for funding future innovation. Two-tier ERP emerges as one strategy to optimize existing systems while adding innovation. The report capitalizes on the recent Software Insider survey of 235 companies looking at future strategies. A. Introduction Organizations continue to face an onslaught of business requirements that their […]
Research Report: Microsoft Partners – Before Adopting Azure, Understand the 12 Benefits And Risks
It’s All About The Cloud At WPC10 Attendees at this year’s Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2010 in Washington, D.C. already expect Windows Azure development to be a key theme throughout this annual pilgrimage. Microsoft has made significant investments into the cloud. Many executives from the Redmond, WA, software giant have publicly stated that 90% […]
News Analysis: Infor Bets On Microsoft
Infor Takes A Bold Stance By Standardizing Their Technology Stack On June 23rd, 2010, Infor announced that the Alpharetta, GA, based software solutions provider would align its future tools and technology platform with Microsoft. Infor intends to use and integrate Microsoft server-based products to improve time to market for future product development. In addition, Infor […]
Software Insider Index™ (SII): 2009 SII Top 35 Enterprise Business Apps Vendors™
2009 Results In Major Revenue Declines For On Premise And Officially The Year Of SaaS A review of last year’s financial performance should erase any doubts about the viability of SaaS as a deployment option and a business model. Traditional on-premise business apps vendors took the brunt of the beating earlier in the year […]
Tuesday's Tip: When To Go With A Two-Tier ERP Strategy
Single Instance ERP Harder And Harder To Justify The holy grail of an ERP implementation used to be the single instance deployment. However, market forces, a move to adopt new disruptive technologies, slow pace of innovation from incumbent vendors, and high maintenance fees have changed many organization’s perspectives. Add a slew of rapidly changing business […]
Quarterly Financial Tracker: Q4 CY 2009 SaaS Vendors Continue To Trump On Premises Vendors In YoY Growth
The Year Of SaaS Shows… And Yes, In This Economy. The recession continued to take its toll on software sales with a slight impact to the SaaS vendors. Growth rates have come down from the high 30’s to the low 20’s. But with “flat” the new growth metric in this down economy, SaaS vendor results […]
Quarterly Financial Tracker: Q2 CY 2009 SaaS Vendors and Purpose Built Solutions Rack Up Big Wins
Most on-premise vendor continue to slip into significant YoY losses in license revenue and overall revenues. Meanwhile, economic conditions continue to favor SaaS, best-of-breeds, and purpose built solutions. Major themes in the 2009 Calendar Year Q2 include: Economic conditions drive demand for best of breed and point solutions delivered by SaaS deployment. Consequently, SaaS vendors […]
Quarterly Financial Tracker: Q4 CY 2008 SaaS Vendors Trump On-Premise Vendors In Quarterly Performance
The recession hit most vendors hard in the last quarter of 2008 as evidence by the dismal license revenue YoY comps. Some exceptions include JDA (52.9%) with a strong presence in retail and Agresso with its growth in public sector (25.6%). As vendors with perpetual license models hunker down for the pending drought, retention and […]
Monday's Musings: Five Programs Some Vendors Have Implemented To Help Clients In An Economic Recession
Almost every inquiry over the past 3 months has ended up with at least one question about what vendors are doing to help their clients amidst an economic recession. As blogged in the October 12, 2008 posting on “5 Steps to Restoring Trust in the Vendor – Customer Relationship” the issue of credibility and trust […]