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NEWSLETTER
Volume 5
Issue 18
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ToolsGroup—Going Back to Its Supply Chain Planning Roots |
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Today, TEC principal analyst P.J. Jakovljevic looks at ToolsGroup, a leading supply chain planning (SCP) vendor that helps large and midmarket companies
develop more accurate forecasts and inventory targets. Learn how ToolsGroup can help your company improve and automate its planning processes, as P.J. serves up a look at the company's history, solutions, and an interview with its VP of Marketing.
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Satisfied with Your Supply Chain Management? |
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Is your supply chain performing to expectations, or are you experiencing problems? Let us know in this
brief survey on supply chain satisfaction. Your response will remain confidential, and will form part of the original research for our upcoming SCM Buyer's Guide. As a thank you for participating, you'll receive one week's unlimited access to TEC Advisor, TEC's comprehensive online software evaluation and comparison tool.
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Comparing SCM Software?
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Compare supply chain management (SCM) solutions for using TEC Advisor, according to your organization's needs and characteristics. It's free, fast, online, and easy—and
you'll see the results immediately.
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Market News
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IQMS Concludes Another Record Year
IQMS continues its 10-year streak of double-digit growth with a record number of new clients, employee hires, and industry accolades in 2011
PASO ROBLES, CA – Feb 7, 2012 – IQMS, a leader in the design and development of manufacturing enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, today announced its record breaking 2011 year in review. The underlying trend of 2011 at IQMS was expansion, demonstrated by an organic 24 percent revenue increase over 2010 and double-digit hiring gains in all departments.
Read the press release.
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Popular IT White
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Industry Watch: This Week in Enterprise Software News
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Industry/Vertical
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System Type |
TEC Analyst Perspective
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Useful Links
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Zumba Fitnet adopts
SaaS
solution Netsuite OneWorld |
Lifestyle,
Fitness,
Entertainment |
Enterprise resource
planning |
"With a business model that is
based on such diversity and
distribution of business
partners, Zumba's adoption of a
SaaS solution is a logical way
to go. The Web commerce support
from NetSuite will cater nicely
to Zumba's online customer base,
and the multinational structure
behind OneWorld will provide a
consolidated view of all their
partners activities. A great
example of distributed supply
chain management."
– Phil Reney, TEC SCM
Analyst |
NetSuite PR
TEC profile for NetSuite |
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Software Vendor M&As,
Partnerships, and Product
Launches |
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Industry/Vertical
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System Type |
TEC Analyst Perspective
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Useful Links
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SDL acquires Alterian |
Cross-industry |
Information Management |
"20-year-old information
management veteran, SDL,
finalized its purchase of
Alterian. Although SDL has a
wide range of products (content,
translation management, etc.),
it will fit the Alterian
offering with its own Tridion
WCM solution. The base products
provide a similar swath of
functionality but SDL sees
particular plusses for its
customer base because of the
marketing analytics, campaign
management, and social media
capabilities SDL will be able to
offer from Alterian. A detailed
plan about merging the systems
hasn't been unveiled and for now
both remain available." –
Josh Chalifour, TEC's Director
of Knowledge Services |
Press release
Evaluate SDL and Alterian with
TEC Advisor |
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IBM acquires Emptoris |
Cross-industry |
Supplier relationship management |
"IBM snagged a supplier
management leader that provides
an intuitive set of
functionality. This function set
is in line with business
practices such as central vendor
data repositories, program
management, vendor portals,
contract management, and
analytics. Combined with the
extensive demand management
analytics provided by IBM's
Smarter Commerce, Emptoris will
provide matching efficiency in
supply management. " – Phil
Reney, TEC SCM Analyst |
IBM PR |
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Kronos acquires OptiLink |
Health care |
Workforce management |
"Kronos is at it again, scooping
up its latest company with
OptiLink. The addition of an
acuity-based staffing solution,
allows Kronos to expand its
reach, uniting clinical practice
with workforce management. With
this acquisition, a common
platform is created within which
finance and nursing departments
can collaborate in controlling
labor costs." – Sherry Fox,
HCM Research Analyst, TEC |
Kronos PR
TEC profile for Kronos |
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IFS AB (Sweden) partners with
NEC Corporation (Japan) |
Food processing |
ERP |
"Following their long-term
partnership roadmap announced
more than a year ago, IFS and
NEC have launched a joint
solution for food and beverage
businesses. Thailand is the
first country where this
solution is officially
available. This IFS ERP solution
for food and beverage companies
is now available in the cloud
via NEC's technology and
enforced with NEC's add-ons and
experience in process-oriented
manufacturing." – Aleksey
Osintsev, TEC ERP Analyst |
Press release |
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Microsoft unveils Dynamics CRM
mobile |
Cross-industry |
CRM |
"Probably the most important
feature of the 2012 Q2 service
update of Microsoft Dynamics CRM
is the extended availability for
mobile devices. User will be
able to access complete Dynamics
CRM functionality on all major
types of mobile devices: Windows
Phone 7, iPad, iPhone,
BlackBerry, and Android. The new
service is cloud-based and
allows for synchronization
between offline and online data.
With the new mobile version,
Microsoft will finally be a
strong competitor for vendors
like salesforce and Sugar CRM,
which already offer extended
mobile functionality on multiple
device types."
– Gabriel Gheorghiu, TEC ERP
Analyst |
Microsoft PR |
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Salesforce.com launches Desk.com |
Cross-industry |
CRM |
"Salesforce.com acquired
Assistly in September 2011, and
Desk.com is the result of
incorporating the solution into
the Salesforce family of
products. It is a cloud-based
help desk solution (which is not
exactly new, as vendors like
Zendesk, Zoho, and others
already doing a good job in this
space). Desk.com's social
features (integration with
Facebook or Twitter) are also
not revolutionary, but it's an
interesting option for companies
already using other Salesforce
products."
– Gabriel Gheorghiu, TEC CRM
Analyst |
SFDC PR |
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Information Builders launches
WebFOCUS Hyperstage |
Cross-industry |
BI |
"Information Builders is
enriching its portfolio by
offering additional ways to
explore analyze and discover
data by means of using in-memory
and a column base database
embedded directly into its
WebFOCUS platform." – Jorge
García, TEC BI Analyst |
IBI PR
TEC profile for IBI |
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SAP announces HANA for SMEs |
Cross-industry |
Analytics |
"SAP announced its strategy to
provide small and medium
enterprises (SMEs) with the
services of the SAP HANA
platform via SAP HANA analytics
for SAP Business One and the SAP
HANA Edge Edition. It will be
interesting to see how SMEs
adapt these offering to their IT
strategies."
– Jorge García, TEC BI
Analyst |
SAP PR
TEC profile for SAP |
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Oracle announces availability of
Oracle Advanced Analytics |
Cross-industry |
Analytics |
"Oracle Advanced Analytics
bundles Oracle R Enterprise
together with Oracle Data Mining
within Oracle Database 11g. This
provides new signals regarding
the importance organizations are
giving to the management and
analysis of massive amounts of
data."
– Jorge García, TEC BI
Analyst |
Oracle PR |
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Oracle acquires Taleo |
Cross-industry |
HR |
"Anyone who knows about talent
management knows that Taleo is
the leading player in that
space. Oracle knows they're
getting the cream of the crop
with this acquisition—a cool
$1.9 billion well spent. The
addition of Taleo's powerful
cloud tools will help improve on
Oracle's existing cloud-building
strategy. And it will give SAP a
run for their money in the cloud
market." – Sherry Fox, TEC
HCM Analyst |
Press release
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NuView Systems Releases NuViewHR
v.4.16 |
Cross-industry |
HR |
"TEC recently certified NuViewHR
v4.15 within its HR evaluation
area, however, during the
product demonstration, we were
able to view many of the
features from this newest
release, and took that into
consideration. NuViewHR v.4.15
was officially released on
February 1, 2012." – Sherry
Fox, TEC HCM Analyst |
Press release
Evaluate NuViewHR with TEC
Advisor |
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About
Technology Evaluation
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