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Back Office and Operations - 2005
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New Approaches to Software Pricing
P.J. Jakovljevic 12/23/2005 12:00:00 AM
Hearing the complaints of dissatisfied customers, some vendors are developing customer-centric contracts. HarrisData has even gone so far as to draft a Bill of Rights for customers. How well do these pledges measure up?
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Enterprise Software Service and Maintenance Alternatives
P.J. Jakovljevic 12/22/2005 12:00:00 AM
Traditional license models may be wearing out their welcome for both vendors and customers. A competitive market and a more IT savvy business generation is prompting change, but what alternatives are out there for software service and maintenance?
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Is There a Panacea for Enterprise Software Pricing Yet?
P.J. Jakovljevic 12/21/2005 12:00:00 AM
While enterprise applications are becoming a commodity, their pricing schemes have yet to follow suit. Users are put in a costly position where the "fine print" clauses of implementation contracts may inhibit reasonable expectations for software warranties.
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Enterprise Software Product Outsourcing: A Fresh Perspective for Mid-market Vendors
Ashfaque Ahmed 12/1/2005 12:00:00 AM
Creating outsourcing centers is a viable option for companies under pressure to develop quality products with tight time and budget restraints. Mid-market companies, however, often do not have this option, but can still benefit from partnering with an outsourcing provider.
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Business Process Management: How to Orchestrate Your Business
Hans Mercx 7/9/2005 12:00:00 AM
Business process management (BPM), having evolved over the past fifteen years, has finally reached a level of maturity where vendors are now abolishing functional silos to allow the enterprise-wide flow of business processes. It replaces the old, manual system of coordinating activities in a company and improves functionality and effectiveness through modeling, documentation, certification, collaboration, automation, and compliancy to minimize costly errors.
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Beware of Vendors Bearing Solutions
Dave Stein 4/30/2005 12:00:00 AM
Hype has been a major factor in the recent downfall of some of the enterprise application industry's most illustrious players. This article presents some very simple things that you can do to prevent yourself and your company from being tomorrow's lead story in the industry trades.
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How to Avoid Becoming Another CMMS Implementation Failure Statistic
Aleks Vujicic 3/3/2005 12:00:00 AM
Anywhere from 40 to 80 percent of CMMS implementations fail to meet expectations. However, by evaluating the company's business process flow, having proper organizational structure and buy-in, you can realize the true benefits of CMMS and avoid becoming another failure statistic.
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Best-of-breed Approach to Finance and Accounting
P.J. Jakovljevic 11/16/2005 12:00:00 AM
CODA's savvy accounting and financial offerings include budgeting, forecasting, scorecards, and tools that use Microsoft Excel spreadsheets collaboratively and securely. However, CODA must defend its narrow specialist and best-of-breed approach against larger-scale integrated enterprise system offerings.
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Joining the Sarbanes-Oxley Bandwagon; Meeting the Needs of Small and Medium Businesses
P.J. Jakovljevic 11/15/2005 12:00:00 AM
To meet tough government compliance, more vendors are offering compliance solutions. CODA's collaborative task modeling tool takes an enterprise's best practices model, audits business processes, automates data collection, and creates a secure collaborative space to offer checks and balances to simplify compliance monitoring.
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Composing Collaborative Financial Applications
P.J. Jakovljevic 11/14/2005 12:00:00 AM
With its short term ownership under Baan all but forgotten, CODA has been doing well, owing to its astute offerings tailored to the preferences of each regional market, coupled with some recent appetizing acquisitions.
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