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As the small-to-medium enterprises (SME) market battle rages, Best Software seems to be taking appropriate steps to establish
itself as a more visible/audible force to be reckoned with. It does not intend to remain a tacit mid-market powerhouse any
longer. (...)
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As the small-to-medium enterprises (SME) market battle rages, Best Software seems to be taking appropriate steps to establish
itself as a more vis...
Date publiée:
2002-12-20
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In 2004, Best Software acquired ACCPAC through its parent company The Sage Group plc and has now released a new version of
its CRM product: SalesLogix 6.2. Their objective is clearly to gain as much market share as possible in the growing small
and medium sized enterprise market (SME). Acquiring addition (...)
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In 2004, Best Software acquired ACCPAC through its parent company The Sage Group plc and has now released a new version of
its CRM product: SalesL...
Date publiée:
2004-08-05
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With Best having already captured a lion's share of the market estimated to consist of several millions of small enterprises
or ~$14 billion in revenue opportunity, and continuing to capture new customers, the likes of MBS will likely have their work
cut out for them despite their recently unveiled sound (...)
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With Best having already captured a lion's share of the market estimated to consist of several millions of small enterprises
or ~$14 billion in re...
Date publiée:
2003-07-26
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During Insights 2003, Best Software announced several new industry-specific kits and a strategic acquisition in support of
its vertical product strategy, which targets manufacturers, distributors, nonprofits and accountants. More than 40,000 accounting
and bookkeeping firms currently use or recommend Bes (...)
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During Insights 2003, Best Software announced several new industry-specific kits and a strategic acquisition in support of
its vertical product st...
Date publiée:
2003-07-25
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Having garnered a powerful broad enterprise applications portfolio, Best Software is challenging the competition and telling
the market it will not easily be overlooked. (...)
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best software solutions:
Having garnered a powerful broad enterprise applications portfolio, Best Software is challenging the competition and telling
the market it will no...
Date publiée:
2002-07-29
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Best Software/Sage is a company that delivers products based on savvy understanding of its customers' needs, of the competitive
forces in the market, and on constant adaptability. It is still standing on top of the hill in many SME markets, and it is
typically a much more difficult task for anyone to cap (...)
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Best Software/Sage is a company that delivers products based on savvy understanding of its customers' needs, of the competitive
forces in the mark...
Date publiée:
2003-07-29
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Best Software's top objective is to encourage customers to stay with the company for the life of their business. (...)
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Best Software's top objective is to encourage customers to stay with the company for the life of their business.
Date publiée:
2002-12-19
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The company must clearly articulate its plans and the timeline for integration for each of its products. Otherwise it may
face confusion and/or anxiety amongst both its current and potential customers as well as within its VARs. (...)
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The company must clearly articulate its plans and the timeline for integration for each of its products. Otherwise it may
face confusion and/or an...
Date publiée:
2002-07-30
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Sage Group's decision to finally group its plethora of enterprise-level applications in North America under the Best Software
brand in 2002 emanated from the company's ability to deliver highly integrated components, and to weave a unified story around
this concoction of products, many of them with best- (...)
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Sage Group's decision to finally group its plethora of enterprise-level applications in North America under the Best Software
brand in 2002 emanat...
Date publiée:
2003-07-28
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The downside, as a rule, is the painstaking integration effort yet to be devised for a number of remaining products in the
Sage’s/Best’s family and to be subsequently exerted, as there is always a large time bracket from concept to actual materialization.
Further, integration is never a simple feat. (...)
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best software solutions:
The downside, as a rule, is the painstaking integration effort yet to be devised for a number of remaining products in the
Sage’s/Best’s family an...
Date publiée:
2002-12-23
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Past experience shows us that the vast majority of enterprise technology evaluations run over time and budget, and once selected,
the majority of the implementations fail to meet functional, return on investment (ROI) and total cost of ownership (TCO)
expectations. Enterprise technology selections for (...)
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best software solutions:
Past experience shows us that the vast majority of enterprise technology evaluations run over time and budget, and once selected,
the majority of ...
Date publiée:
2003-05-22
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Having garnered an astutely broad enterprise applications’ portfolio, Best Software recently unveiled its 'customer and/or
partner for life' strategy to fend off any intruder to its US market stronghold, especially Microsoft Business Solutions. (...)
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best software solutions:
Having garnered an astutely broad enterprise applications’ portfolio, Best Software recently unveiled its 'customer and/or
partner for life' strat...
Date publiée:
2002-12-18
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After dealing with the over-hype of Y2K, companies have started to reconsider the best of breed as a viable solution to satisfy
their software needs. This comes as a shock to the corporate systems culture when user communities were told that fully integrated
software such as ERP, SCM, and EAM were the on (...)
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best software solutions:
After dealing with the over-hype of Y2K, companies have started to reconsider the best of breed as a viable solution to satisfy
their software nee...
Date publiée:
2003-08-08
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Past experience shows us that the vast majority of enterprise technology evaluations run over time and budget, and once selected,
the majority of the implementations fail to meet functional, return on investment (ROI) and total cost of ownership (TCO)
expectations. Many companies have consequently been s (...)
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best software solutions:
Past experience shows us that the vast majority of enterprise technology evaluations run over time and budget, and once selected,
the majority of ...
Date publiée:
2003-05-23
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The two small-to-medium enterprise (SME) market segment leaders seem to have somewhat different strategies going forward
(despite inevitable watching over each other's shoulder), and time will tell who will ultimately win (or maybe both will remain
in a stalemate power sharing situation). (...)
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best software solutions:
The two small-to-medium enterprise (SME) market segment leaders seem to have somewhat different strategies going forward (despite
inevitable watch...
Date publiée:
2005-08-22
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More than their larger counterparts, small and medium businesses (SMB) are looking for relatively simple and inexpensive
software that is easy to install yet easy to customize and extend. (...)
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More than their larger counterparts, small and medium businesses (SMB) are looking for relatively simple and inexpensive software
that is easy to ...
Date publiée:
2004-04-20
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While not really a household name in North America before the Macola acquisition, Exact has always been a force to reckon
with in the lower end of the ERP mid-market in Europe, and occasionally, to a degree, elsewhere in the world. (...)
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While not really a household name in North America before the Macola acquisition, Exact has always been a force to reckon
with in the lower end of...
Date publiée:
2004-02-28
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Deltek Vision and other Deltek enterprise solutions, have been major players with project management-oriented organizations
for the past twenty years. Vision a leading product in the professional services automation market and has taken significant
strides to maintain this market leading position. (...)
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Deltek Vision and other Deltek enterprise solutions, have been major players with project management-oriented organizations
for the past twenty ye...
Date publiée:
2005-09-27
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In PLM, there is no single vendor that can meet all of the requirements, and the market is still immature, so almost every
product can be the right solution provided a certain set of requirements. In this part of the article we review 3 vendors
who offer products to the PLM market - IDe, Thetis, and PDM (...)
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best software solutions:
In PLM, there is no single vendor that can meet all of the requirements, and the market is still immature, so almost every
product can be the righ...
Date publiée:
2003-05-26
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Trying to sell dumbed-down versions of mySAP Business Suite, Oracle E-Business Suite, without a serious re-engineering of
these products, has not worked for the lower-end of the market. To date, Oracle and SAP have responded by acquiring more suitable
genuine products for the segment, while it is not unl (...)
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best software solutions:
Trying to sell dumbed-down versions of mySAP Business Suite, Oracle E-Business Suite, without a serious re-engineering of
these products, has not ...
Date publiée:
2003-06-09