Today marks the first in a series of in-depth, hard-hitting reports, reviews, and interviews from veteran industry insider, senior TEC analyst P.J. Jakovljevic (see bio). P.J.'s years of experience bring an insight into markets, vendors, and trends that will help you keep up with the constantly changing IT landscape.In today's PJ's Industry Spotlight, you'll get a look at xTuple, and at how this vendor is responding to trends—and bringing forward new products—in the open source market. In today's feature podcast, find out how an international manufacturer using a traditional, local enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution shifted gears to end up with an on-demand, remotely hosted ERP system. It wasn't the kind of change the company originally intended, but the benefits proved too attractive to resist. If your ERP system is falling behind when it comes to responding to changes in your business, you may be blowing most of your annual ERP budget just trying to get the system to keep up. Find out what you can do about it, and the efforts software vendors are making to remedy the situation, in today's feature report.
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