A Semi–open Source Vendor Discusses Market Trends
by P.J. Jakovljevic
A response to trends in the open source software market comes this time from relative newcomer provider xTuple. This vendor’s footprint isn’t entirely in the open source door, however, with OpenMFG, its commercially… Read the Article…
Is Your Enterprise Application on a Road to Nowhere?
by Dan Matthews
Consolidation is a well-documented trend and is to be expected in the market for enterprise applications. This article outlines the evolution of the enterprise software market. Specifically, it focuses on the… Read the Article…
The Web-based Sales Portal—A Catalyst for Business Transformation
by B.K. Mahesh and Noorani Subramanian Hariharan
A sales portal is one of many tools that can be used to help transform a business, especially a consumer packaged goods company. In this article, key structural and functional elements, as well as the advantages of… Read the Article…
Manufacturing Software for an Integrated Steel Plant
by Ashfaque Ahmed
An integrated steel plant’s manufacturing processes typically encompass three distinct types of manufacturing—flow manufacturing, process manufacturing, and mill manufacturing—making such a plant a mixed-mode… Read the Article…
Can ERP Speak PLM?
by Jim Brown
Because product lifecycle management (PLM) offers a host of benefits to manufacturers, it has become one of the fastest growing categories of enterprise applications.
But a PLM system needs to work hand-in-hand with an… Read the Article…
Audit Your Message Strategy by Answering Three Questions
by Lawson Abinanti
Most companies create a new marketing plan every 12 months. At the same time, they should audit their message strategy to stay on top of competitors’ marketing and to have confidence that they are delivering the right… Read the Article…
Cash Management 101
by Leslie Satenstein
Cash management is an essential business process all organizations must perform to survive. Though cash management uses automation for much of the “grunt” work, it is human intelligence in the financial decision making… Read the Article…
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