P.J.
Jakovljevic
- July
27, 2000
Event
Summary
At its FOCUS 2000 annual user group meeting, which took place in Denver
on June 19-22, J.D. Edwards' top executives unveiled a slew of initiatives
that they claim will really change the enterprise applications vendor's
direction. According to its press release from June 20, J.D. Edwards announced
its "Freedom to Choose" business strategy designed to meet customers'
needs for flexibility and choice in the design and assembly of new technologies,
solutions and partnerships to enable the next phase of e-business: Collaborative
Commerce (C-Commerce).
C-Commerce
should be the ability to deliver open, collaborative technologies that
allow communication among vendors, suppliers and customers across the
supply chain, thereby maximizing value in business-to-business environments.
To that end, J.D. Edwards has forged a number of alliances since September
1999 as the company looks to expand the availability of its OneWorld product
suite.
Chairman,
CEO and President C. Edward McVaney introduced details of the company's
strategy to over 8,000 customers and partners at its annual user conference,
FOCUS 2000. "In order to succeed in this collaborative world, customers
need extended enterprise plug and play, the end game of freedom to choose.
They need to have the flexibility to change business processes and accommodate
the evolving needs of their partners and customers, and do not want to
be dictated to by single-source vendors," said McVaney. "J.D. Edwards'
Freedom to Choose initiative is a natural extension of our Idea to Action
value proposition, as we move forward to deliver freedom from proprietary
standards, freedom to adopt new technologies into an open, collaborative
architecture, and freedom of interoperability between all applications."
J.D.
Edwards claims that the underlying workhorse for its strategy is the latest
release of its flagship product, OneWorld Xe (where "Xe" stands for "extended
enterprise"), which provides a flexible architecture, pre-integrated applications,
and interoperability to power the J.D. Edwards ActivEra solutions to deliver
inter-enterprise collaboration. It will include OneWorld Scripting Tool
intended to help users maintain their customizations as they transition
their systems and improvements.
The
technology behind the company's new interoperability strategy, which should
give customers the power to collaborate using multiple extended applications
that are shared among numerous enterprises, is Extended Process Integration
(XPI). XPI, which will be Web-enabled, will support both HTML and Java,
and will offer an Autopilot tool for automating application testing, which
uses pre-built testing scripts, will be available in September 2000. XPI
allows disparate technologies within an organization to effectively work
together using functionality acquired through J.D. Edwards' new agreement
with e-business infrastructure provider Active Software, Inc.
Under
the long-term development agreement from June 20, the two companies will
partner to embed the ActiveWorks open platform into the OneWorld Xe architecture.
While the new solution is under development, J.D. Edwards will resell
the ActiveWorks product with OneWorld Xe, enabling customers to take advantage
of the new agreement immediately, worldwide. ActiveWorks supports major
application, platform and networking standards and provides an open platform
for building products and solutions that expand a customer's collaboration
capabilities.
In
order to provide multi-enterprise collaboration among vendors, partners
and suppliers, J.D. Edwards will embed Netfish's XML-enabled processes
and technology. The company touts that customers will see immediate benefits
of the seamless web of processes, intelligence and value of these strategies,
with further rapid progress expected over the next 6 -18 months. On June
20, J.D. Edwards and Netfish Technologies, Inc., a leader in XML-based
business-to-business eCommerce solutions, announced that the two companies
have signed an agreement to embed Netfish XDI B2B process integration
technology into future versions of OneWorld Xe enterprise software. J.D.
Edwards will immediately begin selling the current version of the Netfish
XDI System on an OEM basis to provide its customers with an interim solution
while the two companies develop the new, integrated solution.
J.D.
Edwards chose Netfish as a leader in XML-based B2B integration, to enable
its customers to collaborate across the supply chain with their partners
and customers, regardless of which technology runs in their enterprises.
As a result, J.D. Edwards delivers fully integrated support for RosettaNet
standards, with all published PIPs (partner interface processes), enabling
J.D. Edwards' customers in the electronic component and information technology
sectors to conduct B2B transactions electronically using the XML based
inter-enterprise technology standards, developed by RosettaNet.
"Embedding
Netfish's best-of-breed B2B integration technology as a core component
of our collaborative applications will help our customers reach beyond
their enterprises, giving them the opportunity to gain tremendous cost
and time-to-market advantages through cross-enterprise process automation,"
said Ed McVaney. "This agreement will enable our customers to communicate
across the supply chain, no matter what technology their suppliers, distributors
and customers use to conduct business. We believe that this will help
us deliver sustainable competitive advantage to our customers."
Using
the two companies' technology, J.D. Edwards plans to integrate its ERP
software, OneWorld, with its older AS 400-based WorldSoftware. It also
plans to integrate OneWorld with third-party applications from companies
such as Siebel and Ariba. As announced at the beginning of the year, the
J.D. Edwards' storefront for e-business will be powered using IBM's Websphere
Commerce suite. J.D. Edwards has also reviewed its reselling agreement
with Siebel to include Siebel's entire suite of front office applications.
Moreover, JDE has decided to enter the arena of B2B electronic exchanges
with Active Marketplace. The TRADEX Commerce Center platform is the basis
for this and as with other exchanges, the idea is to link trading communities
in an on-line marketplace. Yet another earlier partnership is with Extensity,
a vendor that delivers automated travel and expense reporting software.
Noteworthy
for Supply Chain Management (SCM) users is the general availability release
of the Active Supply Chain suite of applications, which was originally
developed by the former Numetrix group, which J.D. Edwards acquired last
year (for more details, see TEC's News Analysis from July 7 "J.
D. Edwards FOCUSes on Active Supply Chain").
Another
notable announcement was its agreement with i2 Technologies whereby i2
will host J.D.Edwards' One World suite within i2's TradeMatrix marketplaces
and will become the first worldwide distributor of OneWorld (for more
details, see TEC's News Analysis from July 12 "i2
Technologies' Latest Offering: J. D. Edwards OneWorld").
Last
but not least, on June 27, J.D. Edwards announced its support of MicroStrategy
7, the latest offering from MicroStrategy Incorporated, a leading worldwide
provider of Intelligent E-Business software. J.D. Edwards' business-to-business
software combines the Intelligent E-Business Platform of MicroStrategy
7 with open, collaborative business intelligence capabilities that will
enable customers to enhance analytical/decision support capabilities and
make better decisions across the supply chain. J.D. Edwards claims it
has selected the MicroStrategy 7 platform because of its analytical richness,
wireless capabilities, capability to scale to the largest databases, ease
and extent of customization, and enterprise manageability.
"Our
goal is to support the decision-making process from business to business
across the extended enterprise in an open, collaborative manner to deliver
sustainable competitive advantage for our customers," said Ed McVaney.
"MicroStrategy's Intelligent E-Business platform combined with our open,
collaborative technology will offer organizations the ability to receive
strategic insight about the operation of their company by delivering the
right information to the right employees at the right time, no matter
where they are."
Market
Impact
The good news is that J.D. Edwards seems to finally have a clear-cut strategy
and direction, however thorny and harrowing the path may be. The company
made the point at its annual user conference both to explain to users
and analysts its dismal financial performance over the last 18 months
and to outline its significantly different tack for the future. While
we were moderately impressed by the announcements, some customers might
have been relieved to a degree by J.D. Edwards' invigorated posture and
determination.
In
1999 and in the first half of 2000, J.D. Edwards spent a hefty amount
of its R&D expenses on resolving quality inconsistencies, missed functionality,
poor performance, and Web-enablement of its OneWorld flagship product
and on building its relationships with Ariba and Siebel Systems. To further
rub a salt in a wound, the company had to acknowledge the existence of
notable quality problems associated with the above-mentioned endeavors.
The only light in the tunnel was the completion of integrating Numetrix
with its OneWorld ERP suite and re-branding it as Active Supply Chain
(ASC). We believe ASC has a potential of becoming a strong foundation
for building upon the necessary components of inter-enterprise collaboration,
order fulfillment, and digital marketplaces.
J.D.
Edwards appears to have finally pulled itself together, although in the
nick of time. All that remains to be done is to execute the strategy flawlessly.
Do we even have to mention that it will take some serious doing?!
While
we condone J.D. Edwards' move to position itself as an ERP vendor to convince
mainly medium sized manufacturing enterprises that it is necessary to
extend their activities into e-collaboration, we also believe that managing
this large application portfolio (a kind of a software Frankenstein),
much of which involves partnering or extensive integration and customization,
will be cumbersome despite its highly marketed flexible product architecture.
One
should never neglect the inevitable intricacies of managing softer, people
issues with multiple levels of indirectness. An illustration can be a
demonstration that one could have seen at FOCUS 2000. That showed Ariba
CommerceCenter (Tradex) marketplace take an order and pass it into OneWorld
(ERP back-office) and from there into Active Supply Chain (ASC). After
performing all necessary collaboration with alerts and equivalent responses
to a problem, the sale was updated via Siebel and due analysis was conducted
with MicroStrategy modules. Finally, required materials were ordered via
Ariba e-procurement. While impressive, it is mind boggling at the same
time. It is not that easy to remember all those disparate products' names
and their respective functions, let alone to make this concoction work
seamlessly in the long run!
Complementary
product alliances can often be a good thing. E-commerce trends are by
nature very dynamic, and no single vendor can provide all required components.
Native integration is becoming less of an issue, particularly in the higher
end of the market - acquiring the best products at the acceptable price
to meet an e-business strategy is the major issue. Nevertheless, it is
still intriguing why J.D. Edwards needs more 3rd party partnerships than
most of its competitors - a double-digit number of alliances have been
announced since September 1999.
While
the best-of-breed approach can have its merits, we believe it consistently
leads to additional integration costs and complicates service & support
arrangements. Interfaces between significant components like ERP, CRM
and/or e-business usually require significant tailoring. This can be a
barrier to future changes as further modifying already modified code is
notoriously time consuming, costly, and risky. J.D. Edwards' heavy reliance
on other vendor's software, therefore, contradicts its aggressive positioning
around flexibility, which customers may find somewhat disconcerting.
Furthermore,
the EAI market is currently a nascent and fragmented one, and is burdened
with difficulties. While there are a lot of vendors vying for a position,
there is no single company that offers a complete product set that can
deal with all the issues an enterprise faces when trying to integrate
either internal or external applications.
The
caveats also lie in the complex nature of EAI software and the power struggles
that are currently taking place in the market. There are indications of
existence of more than several dozen of 'versions' of XML. Keeping track
of these will be a gut-wrenching work and J.D. Edwards will need to ensure
it can provide enough technical resources to the job.
Having
known the company's quality difficulties with earlier releases of OneWorld
as well as having witnessed the recent staff attrition, the market may,
with a good reason, have serious reservation regarding the company's capabilities
to successfully deliver and support significantly more complicated product
set. Furthermore, its direct sales force, indirect channel and parts of
its operations in Europe, Latin America and Asia will have to undergo
a serious education and training drill.
However,
these are not necessarily insurmountable obstacles, given the fact that
even SAP had to abandon its purist 'one-stop-shop' product strategy. While
JD Edwards' move into the EAI arena is indisputably risky, we commend
its determination to bite the bullet. The sooner the issues are tackled,
the greater probability that they will be resolved. Some of its competitors,
who are still convinced that they can deliver most of the necessary functionality
themselves, may find themselves seriously lagging once they finally realize
the need for interconnectivity and EAI.
The
name of the game will be to find a perfect balance (critical mass) between
a company's own components and 'borrowed' 3rd-party products. A mitigating
factor is also that J.D. Edwards has made a strong commitment to only
two EAI vendors, Active Software and Netfish. The company will be much
more in control of the arrangements by licensing source code, which is
by far more efficient and reliable than liaisoning with a slew of vendors
that provide similar integration systems.
Even
so, since the source code is typically not licensed perpetually, J.D.
Edwards will have to confirm the agreement with WebMethods (which meanwhile
acquired Active Software) in order to keep abreast of latest source code
releases. And what about current and completed implementations where another
EAI vendor product (e.g., Oberon Software) has been used?
J.D.
Edwards should also consider having notably different marketing approaches
for the higher end of the market and for its smaller and mid-market fragments,
given the different requirements and mindset of decision makers in these
respective niches. The 'freedom to choose' message will most likely strike
chords with some more aggressive CIOs of larger global companies, who
would be unwilling to get locked into the inflexible, proprietary technology
that Oracle's value proposition seems to inherently offer.
The
increase in new licenses and reportedly increased J.D. Edwards pipeline
seem to speak in that regard. However, this should be backed up with much
more vigorous marketing and market awareness creation than it has been
done so far. Also, the company should publicly allay any pangs of doubt
the market might still have regarding its product scalability, which have
plagued its endeavors in the higher end of the market in the past.
On
the other hand, the company will have to provide more out-of-box integration
for the small-to-medium enterprises (SME) market. These CIOs are very
likely to get disconcerted by the prospect of having to deal with a dozen
of disparate interfaced applications and may rather consider a solution
that requires only a couple of critical bolt-on applications. Therefore,
it will be very important that J.D. Edwards at least completes seamless
integration of Siebel and Ariba components with OneWorld suite as a matter
of urgency. Great Plains would be a case point in this regard with the
successful incorporation of Siebel within its eEnterprise product suite.
Last
but not least, to allay recent negative publicity, the company must emanate
a convincing e-commerce message to assure the market and its customers
that it will continue to be viable, regardless of which the target customer
is. It is also needless to say that the execution will have to be flawless
because the leeway for making mistakes has rapidly been shrinking; this
may possibly be the last 'make-or-break' opportunity for J.D. Edwards.
User
Recommendations
Existing J.D. Edwards' customers should certainly consider the new offering,
but avoid selecting it without looking at what the other vendors have
to offer. We recommend identifying your clear e-business strategy and
conducting a thorough comparison-shopping, at least for the negotiation
leverage sake.
As
for potential customers, we generally recommend including J.D. Edwards
in an enterprise application selection long list for mid-market and low-end
Tier 1 companies (with $100M-$2B in revenue). Organizations whose requirements
fall within the scope of the standard ERP and SCM offering, where manufacturing,
logistics and financial modules are main pillars of an enterprise application,
would benefit from considering J.D. Edwards. One should bear in mind the
company's proven fair treatment of customers as well as its expertise
within some industries like automotive, consumer packaged goods, electronics,
manufacturing & distribution. Nonetheless, if a complementary product
beyond core ERP and SCM (e.g., CRM, e-Commerce, BI, etc.) is of a critical
importance, users should think carefully about the possible EAI implications
and may benefit from considering competitors' value propositions too.
As
with all new releases, users should employ a critical approach in their
evaluation of OneWorld and require all potential vendors to demonstrate
specific business processes. Though demonstrations do not guarantee a
trouble-free implementation, they can go a long way toward helping users
understand how the software might behave in their environments. Future
clients are also advised to request the company's written commitment to
promised functionality, length of implementation, and seamless future
upgrades, particularly for recently announced partnered offerings.
The
following are only some of the issues associated with EAI that users should
be aware of: different security systems and keys, package interfaces that
do not provide the information in a preferred format, systems may operate
in different time zones and be geographically dispersed, scalability,
performance, disaster recovery and contingence. Users for whose solutions
J.D. Edwards partnered with other EAI vendors may benefit from informing
themselves what the company plans for future service & support are and
what would the ramifications of switching or not to its above-mentioned
strategic EAI partners be.
Improved
technological integration is seldom guaranteed by joint marketing arrangements,
and only comes after the arrangement yields considerable implementation
experience. Therefore, users are advised to ensure that J.D. Edwards is
the main contractor that will assume overall accountability for the project.
Failing to do so may result with customers being caught in a middle of
contractors' recriminations and finger pointing when things start to go
awry. The company's readiness to provide a number of reference sites where
the installation of its partnership-enhanced product has gone without
major glitches would additionally alleviate existing anxieties within
users' community.
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Part 2 - Problem Overview | Selecting PLM Software Solutions | Tier 3 And Tier 4 ... Where Do You Go If You Don't Know, What You Don't Know. | Invensys Production Solutions - Can Historic Strengths And The 'Protean Boost' Overcome Its Liabilities?
Part Two: Liabilities, Strategy, and User Recommendations | Invensys Production Solutions - Can Historic Strengths And The 'Protean Boost' Overcome Its Liabilities? | What Does Vendor Consolidation Mean To The End User? | The Reinvention of Software Vendors and End-User Value | Can ERP Meet Your eBusiness Needs?
Part Three: The Effect of eBusiness on Your Business | Can ERP Meet Your eBusiness Needs?
Part Two: ERP is the Foundation | Can ERP Meet Your eBusiness Needs? | Inventory Planning & Optimization:
Extending Your ERP System
Part Three: Business Case for Inventory Optimization Solutions | Inventory Planning & Optimization:
Extending Your ERP System
Part Two: How It Works | Inventory Planning & Optimization:
Extending Your ERP System | Resurrection, Vitality And Perseverance Of Former ERP 'Goners'
Part Five: User Recommendations | Resurrection, Vitality And Perseverance Of Former ERP 'Goners'
Part Four: Challenges | Resurrection, Vitality And Perseverance Of Former ERP 'Goners'
Part Three: Market Impact | Resurrection, Vitality And Perseverance Of Former ERP 'Goners'
Part Two: Geac & Baan | Resurrection, Vitality And Perseverance Of Former ERP 'Goners'
Part One: Ross Systems & SSA Global Technologies | Caution! Will A Traditional ERP System Help You Deliver Projects? | Will A Big Fish's Splash Cause Minnows' Flush Out Of The CRM Pond?
Part Two: Challenges and User Recommendations | Will A Big Fish's Splash Cause Minnows' Flush Out Of The CRM Pond? | Top 10 Reasons For Having A Project Kickoff - Part II | Top 10 Reasons For Having A Project Kickoff - Part I | The Art Of Distributed Development Of
Multi-Lingual Three-Tier Internet Applications | Requirements Definition For Package Implementations | Evaluating Alternatives:
Key Questions To Ask When Considering An Alternative ERP/MRP System | Rapid Prototyping Or Simply Over-hyping | How Much Wisdom Will BRAIN Bring To Agilisys?
Part 2: Challenges and User Recommendations | How Much Wisdom Will BRAIN Bring To Agilisys? | Why Systems Fail - The Dead-end of Dirty Data | PowerCerv Finally Overpowered By The '02 Hurricane Season
Part 2: Strengths and User Recommendations | PowerCerv Finally Overpowered By The '02 Hurricane Season | Data Conversion in an ERP Environment | Agilisys Continues Agilely Post-SCT
Part 3: Challenges and User Recommendations | Agilisys Continues Agilely Post-SCT
Part 2: Market Impact | Agilisys Continues Agilely Post-SCT | Fourth Shift's evolution Within SoftBrands' DemandStream
Part 2: Challenges and User Recommendations | Fourth Shift's evolution Within SoftBrands' DemandStream | Software Piloting: How Do You Fly This Plane | Geac Hopes To See System21 Shine Again Like 'Aurora'
Part 3: Challenges and User Recommendations | Geac Hopes To See System21 Shine Again Like 'Aurora'
Part 2: Market Impact | Geac Hopes To See System21 Shine Again Like 'Aurora' | Enterprise Applications Battlefield Mid-Year Scoreboard
Part 4: Other Vendors, CRM, SCP & User Recommendations | Enterprise Applications Battlefield Mid-Year Scoreboard
Part 3: IBM | Enterprise Applications Battlefield Mid-Year Scoreboard
Part 2: Microsoft | Enterprise Applications Battlefield Mid-Year Scoreboard | Beware of Legacy Data - It Can Be Lethal | Adonix Grows Roots Against The Odds
Part 2: Challenges and User Recommendations | Adonix Grows Roots Against The Odds
Part 1 | The Automotive OEMs Might Soon Contract “BRAIN” Damage Part 2: The Future and User Recommendations | The Automotive OEMs Might Soon Contract “BRAIN” Damage Part I | Scala Shows Far More Than A Bit Of A Backbone
Part 3: Challenges and User Recommendations | Scala Shows Far More Than A Bit Of A Backbone
Part 2: Market Impact | Scala Shows Far More Than A Bit Of A Backbone Part 1 | Two Highly Focused Vendors Team For Their Markets' Good | Integration is the Name of the Game in Software Systems | SalesLogix and ACT! Officially Branded As Best Software
Part 2: Challenges and User Recommendations | SalesLogix and ACT! Officially Branded As Best Software | Can 'Intuitive' And 'ERP' Words Be Associated? | The 'Joy' Of Enterprise Systems Implementations
Part 4: User Recommendations | The 'Joy' Of Enterprise Systems Implementations
Part 3: Causes of Failures | The 'Joy' Of Enterprise Systems Implementations
Part 2: Implementation Key Success Factors | The 'Joy' Of Enterprise Systems Implementations
Part 1: Inexorable Statistics | Fast-path Implementations - Are They Good or Bad? | Announcing Agilisys (Formerly SCT’s Process Manufacturing & Distribution Business) - Finally Fully Focused On Process Manufacturing | Datatex and Dan River Apparel Fabrics - Ten Years and Counting | Is Enterprise Market Consolidating? Exactly! | The Old ERP Dilemma - Should We Install The New Release? | Manugistics Indulges In The Open M&A Season.
Part 2: Market Impact, Challenges, and User Recommendations | Manugistics Indulges In The Open M&A Season | Standardizing on One ERP System in a Multi-division Enterprise | Microsoft 'The Great' Poised To Conquer Mid-Market, Once and Again
Part 2: Challenges and User Recommendations | Microsoft 'The Great' Poised To Conquer Mid-Market, Once and Again
Part 1: Recent Acquisition Announcement | Siebel Rallies Its Integration Alliance Troops
Part 2: Market Impact | INFIMACS Boasts MRP Relevant To MROs | Siebel Rallies Its Integration Alliance Troops
Part 1: Recent Announcements | Lawson Enforces Its Stronghold
Part 2: Market Impact | Lawson Enforces Its Stronghold
Part1: Recent Announcements | iProcess.sct Enters Golden Gate Opportunity | CA Unloads interBiz Collection Into SSA GT's Sanctuary
Part 1: Recent Announcement | Mid-Market ERP Vendors Doing CRM & SCM In A DIY Fashion
Part 2: Market Impact | Mid-Market ERP Vendors Doing CRM & SCM In A DIY Fashion
Part 1: Recent Announcements | QAD Seemingly Nearing The Corner | Your ERP System is Up and Running-Now What? | Stratyc's Laser-Sharp Focused Tools Retrofit Legacy Systems | Adonix Expands X3 And Its "French Connection"
Part 2: The Future | Baan Resurrects Multi-Dimensionally
Part 4: Challenges & User Recommendations | Baan Resurrects Multi-Dimensionally
Part 3: Market Impact | Ross Systems – A Bright Spot On A Difficult Enterprise Application Landscape | PeopleSoft's Buying Momentum Goes On.
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Part 2: User Recommendations | PeopleSoft's Buying Momentum Goes On.
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Part 1: Market Impact | Feds Buckle Down on Customer Information Security | The Old ERP Dilemma: How Long Should You Pay Maintenance? | Made2Manage Offers New Functionality And A VIP Treatment
Part 2: Market Impact | Made2Manage Offers New Functionality And A VIP Treatment
Part 1: Announcements | Gosh, They Kill Partnerships, Don't They? | The 'Old ERP' Dilemma: Replace or Add-on | J.D. Edwards' CEO Retires Again; This Time For Good? | Lawson Software Braves IPO And Reports Strongly Against The Odds | PSI AG To Become More Germane Globally Via Relevant Partnership | J.D. Edwards On The Mend; This Time Might Be For Real | It Isn't the Fall, It's the Sudden Stop | PipeChain Adds Pragmatism Onto Simplicity | Besieged By The CRM Throne Aspirants, King Siebel Delivers "The Magic No.7"
Part 2: Market Impact | How Some ERP Vendors Demonstrated - Warts And All
Part 2: Results | How Some ERP Vendors Demonstrated - Warts and All
Part 1 | Should interBiz Mean Intelligence And Prediction Beyond ERP? - Part 2: Challenges and Market Impact | Is SCT And Logistics.com Partnership A Déjà vu? | Should interBiz Mean Intelligence And Prediction Beyond ERP? | Navision Enhances Its e-Vision And Looks To Expand Vertically - Part 3: Challenges & User Recommendations | Navision Enhances Its e-Vision And Looks To Expand Vertically - Part 2: Market Impact | Navision Enhances Its e-Vision And Looks To Expand Vertically | ERP Selection Facts and Figures Case Study - Part 2: Qualitative Assessments and Analysis | ERP Selection Facts and Figures Case Study
Part 1: Business Model Scenarios | Soft Economy Dents SAP’s Armored Shield As Well | PRISM Users Get A Dedicated, Independent Web Community | Geac Awakens On Its Deathbed - Part 2: Geac's Response | What's With Oracle's And SAP's Differing Clairvoyance? | Geac Awakens On Its Deathbed - Part 1: Event Summary | The ERP Market 2001 And Beyond – Part 5: Recommendations | The ERP Market 2001 And Beyond – Part 4: Market Predictions | The ERP Market 2001 And Beyond – Part 3: Rating The Vendors | The ERP Market 2001 And Beyond – Part 2: Vendor Reactions | The ERP Market 2001 And Beyond – Aging Gracefully With The ‘New Kids On The Block’ | Shall Bifurcated Tack Reverse J.D. Edwards’ Bad Spell? | E-Business Sell Side Success at H.B. Fuller | Business Intelligence Success at Biomet, Inc. | Sausage Producer Packs Out the Profit with Technology | Intentia’s Intents To Be More Fashionable | 'Collaborative Commerce': ERP, CRM, e-Proc, and SCM Unite! A Series Study: J.D. Edwards | E-Business Customer Service Success at H.B. Fuller Company | SCT Extends Into Business Intelligence | ERP Trivia - Every Why Should Have Its Wherefore
Part 2: ERP Key Success Factors | ERP Trivia - Every Why Should Have Its Wherefore
Part 1: ERP Trends | Single Source or Best of Breed - The Debate Continues | Can You Add New Life To an Old ERP System? | Lawson Software Means Business With PSA and IPO | NavisionDamgaard Reverts To Navision, But In Name Only | J.D. Edwards' QUEST To End Its String Of Pyrrhic Victories
Part 2: The Implications | J.D. Edwards' QUEST To End Its String Of Pyrrhic Victories
Part 1: The News | PeopleSoft: Giving Fervent Hope To The Market And Jitters To The Competition. Part 2: The Implications | PeopleSoft: Giving Fervent Hope To The Market And Jitters To The Competition. Part 1: The News | ERP Selection Case Study Audio Conference Transcript | Fed Gives ERP A Shot In The Arm | IFS' Tamed Growth + Continued Losses + Increased Competitors' Lobby Talk = Decreased Customer Confidence | Latest Development on Epicor's Trying The Divestiture Tack | Is Ross Systems Up To A Hat Trick? | The Mid-Market Is Consolidating, Lo And Behold | Where Is ERP Headed (Or Better, Where Should It Be Headed)?
Part 4: ASP’s and New Pricing Models | Where Is ERP Headed (Or Better, Where Should It Be Headed)?
Part 3: E-Business and Mid-Market Shakeout | Geac Decomposes To Survive | Where Is ERP Headed (Or Better, Where Should It Be Headed)?
Part 2: Product Architecture and Web-Basing | Where Is ERP Headed (Or Better, Where Should It Be Headed)? Part 1: Functional Scope and Vertical Focus | Stalled Navision + Mixed Bag Damgaard = Satisfactory NavisionDamgaard | Small ERP Vendors Missing The ASP Boat | ERP Beginner's Guide In So Many Words | Will 2001 Be The Year Of Baan’s Miraculous Comeback?
Definitely Maybe. | SCT Corporation: The Last Viable Process Manufacturing Vendor Standing? | QAD’s Costly eTransition Continues | Does NavisionDamgaard Merger Mark Further Mid-Market Consolidation? | Essential ERP - Its Functional Scope | The Essential ERP - Its Genesis & Future | Symix Starts New Year Under New Name, But Old Issues Remain | What On Earth Is Going On With SSA? | BEA Systems Has A Broad Vision For E-Business Infrastructures | Big ERP Players Courting Government Agencies | Geac Lives By Acquisitions; Will It Die By An Acquisition? | Lawson Software Expands Vertically As Well | Great Plains’ Latest Product Offering — Ready to Stampede the SME Market? | Great Plains' eEnterprise Solution 'N Sync with Microsoft's New Platforms | Navision Executes At a Slower Pace | Symix Systems Front-Steps Into Greener e-Commerce Pastures | Has SAP Found Magic Formula (One) To Learn The Ropes Of Marketing? | Is Baan Showing Signs of Life After Death? | Oracle – How to Disappoint Analysts by Doubling Profits | Ross Systems Ends Year On a Sour Note and Braces Itself For Survivor’s Game | Will Oracle’s Freebie Shot Hurt (Or Only Graze) Siebel? | Great Plains – An SME Market Leader, But At What Cost? | IFS Marches On, Although With a String of Losses | Siebel: Great Plans for Great Plains | Commerce One Holds Announcement Festival | Fourth Shift Corporation: Working Overtime To Provide Complete Customer Care | SynQuest Posts Mixed Results | J.D. Edwards’ Mixed Blessings | QAD Continues to Wade Through Red Ink | eConnections Expands Web With IPNet | Geac Trying Its Luck in Partnering | Ultimate Connection Seeking Its US Retail Connection Through Solomon Software Partners | New Release For Ariba’s Software | Thru-Put Announces Features For New APS Release | Oracle Applications - An Internet-Reinvented Feisty Challenger | American Software Has Been Starving While Delivering Innovations | Intentia Has Been Bleeding For Its Platform Independence | ERP Belle Époque Officially Ended With the Demise of Baan and SSA | PowerCerv Facing Another Stormy Season | The Pros and Cons of Collaborative Planning | MAPICS Back On Track, But Not Without Restructuring Pains | Global Vendor Negotiation Strategies | Winner Takes All – Siebel Ousts SalesLogix From Solomon’s Deal | PeopleSoft 8 Launched – Anything to Write Home About? | PeopleSoft: No More a Humble Kid From a Rough Neighborhood? | IBM Nabs Another Application Vendor | Epicor Software Corp.: How Far From Being 'One-Stop' Shop? | SCT Comes Back With a Vengeance | Lawson Software Marches Over $300M Milestone | SAP Remains Solid While Transitioning | They Can Run, But You Can’t Hide | How Has Made2Manage Systems Been Managing Itself? | Baan Defectors – Is This Only Tip of an Iceberg? | Is Fourth Shift Succeeding in Providing 'Complete Customer Care'? | SAP - A Leader Under Reconstruction | How Detrimental Can a 2nd-In-Charge’s Departure Be? | Can Geac Reshuffle the ERP Standings? | ERP Getting a New Breath of Fresh Air in Europe | Has Market Been Too Harsh On Great Plains? | Siebel Has Done It Again – This Time with Navision | American Software - A Tacit Avant-Garde? | Ross Systems, Inc.: In Process of Renaissance | How Has MAPICS Been Extending? | PeopleSoft Manufacturing - This Time For Sure?! | Oracle Proud To Be Number Two | i2 Technologies’ Latest Offering: J. D. Edwards OneWorld™ | SAP to Become Leaner, Meaner and More Organized | J. D. Edwards FOCUSes on Active Supply Chain | Infinium Software, Inc.: Having All the Right Cards? | SAP Gives Up, Declares Victory. Again. | Access Commerce Spices Up North American CRM Fray | No More Mr. Nice Guy With J.D. Edwards | Enterprise Resource Planning Systems Audio Conference | IFS Far Cry From Running Out of Breath | ROI Systems, Inc.: Will Slow and Steady Remain in the Race? | Baan Yet Another ERP Vendor to Find a Sanctuary Under Invensys’ Wing | MAPICS Red Ink Stained While Extending Its Offering | Intentia’s Growing Pains | After Strong Game, Logility Suffers Fourth Quarter Loss | Ross Systems’ Renaissance Yet to Happen | Ariba Gains Legs Courtesy of Descartes | Adexa Reports Record First Quarter Results | Epicor Continues To Bleed | Symix Systems’ Slips Into Red During Its E-Commerce Transition | Will Solomon Finally Satisfy Great Plains’ Insatiable Appetite? | Baan Sinks Deeper into Red Quicksand | Lawson Software’s CRM and ASP Moves – Wise, Bold, Injudicious, Enforced, or Something Else? | Is SAP Stumbling? Perhaps. | Yet Another ‘Big 5 ERP’ CEO Casualty | Navision Software a/s: Mid-market iNvasion | Essential ERP – Current Market Trends – Part II | Will That Wretched ERP Finally Die? Possibly, But Only the Acronym! | Yet Another ERP/CRM Partnership | Oracle Flying High on Q3 Report: Is Gold All That Glitters? | Navision Becoming More Visible | Geac Announces Q3 Results and Acquires CRM Vendor | ERP Demand Being Re-heated | ERP Vendors Venturing into PSA | Solomon Software: Breaking Away from Perception as “Best-of-Breed-Accounting” Vendor | JD Edwards’ Alliances: Is It Too Much of a Good Thing? | GLOVIA to be Resuscitated (Hopefully) | JD Edwards Reports Strong License Revenue Growth in Q1 2000, but… | Intentia Attempts to Become ‘Lean and Mean’ | Vendors Begin to Round Out Their CRM Suites | J.D. Edwards Names SynQuest Preferred Solution | Oracle Integrates Front and Back Office with Applications 11i | PeopleSoft's CEO Steps Down | SSA Seeks Support from Synquest | SAP sets up Apparel and Footwear team | Geac and JBA Join Forces to Form New ERP Giant | Computer Associates, Baan Japan and EXE Announce Strategic Alliance to Provide Total Supply Chain Management Solutions | Oracle to Enlist BPA Systems in its Mid-Market Quest | SAP Lowers Revenue Expectations | Symix Maintains Consistent Profitability Despite Y2K Market Conditions | Software Leasing Trend Slams Baan Earnings | Intentia Americas Gains Momentum with 10 New Deals Inked During Last Two Weeks | MAPICS Reports Solid Profitability Despite Dismal Fiscal 1999 4% Growth | Baan Releases New Supply Chain Products | French Government awards ERP contract to Peoplesoft | Business Software Firms Sued Over Implementation - Lawsuits Bring ERP Problems to Light | Geac Metamorphosises JBA Into Gear, but Cuts 20% of Staff | Deloitte & Touche Alliance with SynQuest Largely Symbolic | J.D. Edwards Incurs Further Losses In Third Quarter | Intentia and Dash Associates Team Up | Key Product Delays Take a Toll on Oracle Users | ERP Packages For Midsize Firms in the Works | QAD Reports Third-Quarter--Revenue Rises 56 Percent | Pronto ERP 'Coming to America' | System Software Associates Announces Fiscal Fourth Quarter Results - The Agony Continues | Boeing Expands Baan Licensing Deal | Oracle Reports Strong Profits | QAD Offers Improved E-Commerce Applications with Greater Flexibility and Customization Capabilities | Heads Roll at Consulting Giant in Wake of SEC Investigation | Is Baan Clinically Dead? | Manhattan Associates Partners with Intentia | PeopleSoft Completes Acquisition of Vantive; Vantive CRM Applications Integrate with PeopleSoft and Other ERP Systems | SAP, PeopleSoft Earnings Look Brighter; ERP Strikes Back | Great Plains on a Shopping Spree | Geac Upgrades Accounting And Human-Resources Apps -- SQL Release 6.0 Simplifies Purchasing And HR Services For Midsize Companies | MAPICS, Inc. to Acquire Pivotpoint, Expanding e-business Offerings for Mid-Sized Manufacturing Establishments | PeopleSoft Takes Aim at Foods Industry | ERP Vendors Moving to Aerospace and Defense Markets | PeopleSoft Recuperating Slowly, Hoping to Sink 1999 into Oblivion Quickly | Baan Posts $236 Million Loss and Sells Off Coda for Nearly $40M Less Than It Paid | Symix Expands Its Product Offering While Remaining Profitable | IFS Continues to Blossom | SAP Declares Victory Over Manugistics, Takes Aim at i2 | Food Producer Files $20m Lawsuit Against Oracle | Oracle Loses Again | PeopleSoft Programs Cause Headaches at Number of Universities | Hummingbird Announces Extraction and Portal Strategy for ERP | SAP Posts Solid Q499, but Warns of Q100 | Analysis of Lawson Delivering New Retail Analytic Capabilities | ERP Vendor Lawson Software Extends to IBM's DB2 Universal Database | J.D. Edwards Teams with FRx Software to Improve Reporting Solutions | SAP and HP on the Web Together | Analysis of SAS Institute and IBM Intelligence Alliance | E-Commerce Lesson: Success Gets a Yawn, Failure Takes a Beating | SAP's New Level of e-Commerce: mySAP.com | BAAN Announces "Open World": Business-To-Business Collaboration Over The Internet | Lawson Plays Well With Others | The "S" in SAP Doesn't Stand for Security (that goes for PeopleSoft too) | Oracle Co. - Internet Paradigm Boosts Applications Growth | J.D. Edwards and Numetrix Ponder the Future as One | SAP APO: Will it Fill the Gap? | Symix Sytems: Shifting SME's Focus to Their Customers | MAPICS: Will Customer Satisfaction be Enough? | Intentia: Java Evolution From AS/400 | SSA: Evolving into systems integrator to survive | JBA: Will it remain "@ctive Enterprise"? | Marcam Solutions: Shifting its Focus to MES | Industrial & Financial Systems, IFS AB: Thriving on Product Flexibility and Incremental Deployability | Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP) Market - Dismal 1999, the New Millennium to bring Relief (for Some) | Transition for Manhattan Associates Necessary for Long Term Growth | Lawson Software: Self-Evidently Thriving on Innovations | QAD Inc.: The Art of Vertical Focus | Great Plains: Strong Channel and Microsoft focus for Dynamic(s) Growth | SAP's Dr. Peter Barth on Client/Server and Database Issues with SAP R/3 | Baan E-Commerce: a Wing, a Prayer & a Single Platform | J.D. Edwards - Creating OneWorld of Mid-sized ERP Users | Q: Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Billionaire? A: Baan -- Foster Care for Its Orphans Needed As Well | Geac Computer Corporation: Mastering Growth by Acquisitions |