PeopleSoft Internationalizes Its Mid-Market Forays
Part 2: Challenges & User Recommendations
P.J. Jakovljevic - September 27, 2002

Additional Market Impact

As well known and much publicized, the major factors of success in business applications for the small and mid market segment have traditionally been price, speed of implementation, vertical focus, product scalability and scope expandability, and a single point of contact. Therefore, PeopleSoft seems to have captured (or at least tackled) most of them, partly owing to finally breaking its product in more manageable components (which provides for faster phased implementations and system agility) and Internet-enabling it (which provides for easier deployability and user interface intuitiveness). Its solutions within ERP, CRM, SCM, portals and supplier relationship management (SRM) functionality provide a wide scope of features, and very few vendors can provide tightly integrated applications of this magnitude under one umbrella...