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As for the lower-end of the market, SAP has designed SAP Business One to meet the core management needs of dynamically growing
small and midsize businesses, and is moving to better address the specific needs of small manufacturers through a planned
strategic solution relationship with SoftBrands whereby (...)
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As for the lower-end of the market, SAP has designed SAP Business One to meet the core management needs of dynamically growing
small and midsize b...
Published:
2004-05-08
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As the contest for the lower-end of the market intensifies, SAP is further honing a twofold strategy of promulgating its
mySAP All-in-One vertical offerings for the higher-end of the mid-market, while offering the SAP Business One product to appeal
to smaller enterprises with less complex processes. Soft (...)
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4 shift sap:
As the contest for the lower-end of the market intensifies, SAP is further honing a twofold strategy of promulgating its mySAP
All-in-One vertical...
Published:
2004-05-07
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This partnership provides SAP with the opportunity to further extend its reach within its large corporate customer base by
serving the needs of its distant smaller plants and divisions dispersed around the globe. Thus, SAP should hereby have the
wherewithal to defend its major accounts from encroachment (...)
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This partnership provides SAP with the opportunity to further extend its reach within its large corporate customer base by
serving the needs of it...
Published:
2004-05-11
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Abstract:
Make sure that what you select now will keep abreast of the technology changes in the future. It may sometimes be more beneficial
to implement the right solution slowly than to rush the wrong one into place. (...)
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Make sure that what you select now will keep abreast of the technology changes in the future. It may sometimes be more beneficial
to implement the...
Published:
2004-05-12
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Abstract:
On October 27, MAPICS, Inc. reported revenues and net income for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended September 30, 1999.
For fiscal 1999, total revenues amounted to $134.7 million compared with $129.7 million in fiscal 1998. Net income for the
year totaled $13.2 million, or $0.62 per share (diluted) (...)
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On October 27, MAPICS, Inc. reported revenues and net income for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended September 30, 1999.
For fiscal 1999, tot...
Published:
1999-11-03
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In PLM, there is no single vendor that can meet all of the requirements, and the market is still immature, so almost every
product can be the right solution provided a certain set of requirements. In this part of the article we review 3 vendors
who offer products to the PLM market - IDe, Thetis, and PDM (...)
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In PLM, there is no single vendor that can meet all of the requirements, and the market is still immature, so almost every
product can be the righ...
Published:
2003-05-26
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If you are an executive in a Tier 3 or Tier 4 manufacturing company and you have wondered where to start, whom to call, what
questions to ask, this article is for you. (...)
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If you are an executive in a Tier 3 or Tier 4 manufacturing company and you have wondered where to start, whom to call, what
questions to ask, thi...
Published:
2003-05-15
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Business applications market leader SAP reported a 43% drop in net income for its first quarter ended March 31, despite a
10% increase in revenue. In a separate announcement, SAP also said that Kevin McKay, head of SAP's U.S. operations, has resigned
for personal reasons. (...)
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Business applications market leader SAP reported a 43% drop in net income for its first quarter ended March 31, despite a
10% increase in revenue....
Published:
2000-05-17
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Abstract:
This final note discusses how Application Service Providers (ASPs) have arisen on the Internet in response to such ERP woes
as support expenses, misbehaving applications, and server downtime, and how as the nature of ERP software evolves into services
and/or hosted models, the market might be experiencin (...)
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4 shift sap:
This final note discusses how Application Service Providers (ASPs) have arisen on the Internet in response to such ERP woes
as support expenses, m...
Published:
2001-04-27
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SAP is reportedly planning a radical revamp of its software development operations in an effort to regain dominance of the
North American business software market. (...)
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SAP is reportedly planning a radical revamp of its software development operations in an effort to regain dominance of the
North American business...
Published:
2000-07-10
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To address questions for a TEC customer, we interviewed Dr. Peter Barth, Technology Marketing Manager for SAP AG in Walldorf,
Germany. The conversation covered issues in the areas of client/server architecture and database management used by the SAP
R/3 Enterprise Resource Planning suite of products. (...)
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4 shift sap:
To address questions for a TEC customer, we interviewed Dr. Peter Barth, Technology Marketing Manager for SAP AG in Walldorf,
Germany. The convers...
Published:
1999-11-01
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Abstract:
Commerce One and SAP announced that Commerce One will supply the marketplace infrastructure behind the mySAP portal. (...)
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SAP Gives Up, Declares Victory. Again. ... SAP AG and Commerce One are
joining together to build what SAP wasn't able to build alone: the mySAP.com business suite. ...
Published:
2000-07-05
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Since the license revenue plunge in the US, a likely cascading economic slowdown worldwide, and SAP’s high stakes in struggling
Commerce One happened much before the fatal September 11, one is only to wonder why SAP’s management woke up to reality and
revised its projections so belatedly. (...)
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Since the license revenue plunge in the US, a likely cascading economic slowdown worldwide, and SAP’s high stakes in struggling
Commerce One happe...
Published:
2001-11-09
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Baan's viability is no longer an issue. Baan's rejuvenated management team has done a praiseworthy job of bringing the company
back to health while concurrently unveiling a new product release that can compete with the other products in the market.
Challenges however remain. (...)
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Baan's viability is no longer an issue. Baan's rejuvenated management team has done a praiseworthy job of bringing
the company back to health whil...
Published:
2002-02-22
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Abstract:
Regardless of whether Oracle is cautiously pessimistic or SAP is unrealistically enthusiastic about the immediate future,
both vendors will quite likely weather the impending El Nino phase. Still, neither one can rest on its laurels, as they both
have their internal and external challenges to solve. (...)
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4 shift sap:
Regardless of whether Oracle is cautiously pessimistic or SAP is unrealistically enthusiastic about the immediate future,
both vendors will quite ...
Published:
2001-10-17
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Abstract:
To address questions for a TEC customer, we interviewed Dr. Peter Barth, Technology Marketing Manager for SAP AG in Walldorf,
Germany. The conversation covered issues in the areas of client/server architecture and database management used by the SAP
R/3 Enterprise Resource Planning suite of products. (...)
Excerpt related to
4 shift sap:
To address questions for a TEC customer, we interviewed Dr. Peter Barth, Technology Marketing Manager for SAP AG in Walldorf,
Germany. The convers...
Published:
1999-11-01
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Abstract:
During the course of product evaluations for a customer, the Technology Evaluation Center has uncovered a potential security
hole in SAP R/3's three-tier architecture. SAP has revealed that they expect the database or third party products to handle
security between the application server and the database (...)
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4 shift sap:
During the course of product evaluations for a customer, the Technology Evaluation Center has uncovered a potential security
hole in SAP R/3's thr...
Published:
1999-12-08
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Abstract:
With a set of seemingly complementary products and via a strategy of focusing on customers, astute acquisitions of more complementary
software companies and a careful deployment of all resources around the world including product development, sales and customer
support, SoftBrands hopes to rise from the (...)
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4 shift sap:
With a set of seemingly complementary products and via a strategy of focusing on customers, astute acquisitions of more complementary
software com...
Published:
2002-09-30
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Abstract:
Today’s Showdown is based on an industry-specific case study. Five enterprise resource planning vendors were selected for
the evaluation. All the results were based on the latest request for information (RFI) supplied to us by the vendors, and
all priorities were assigned by the client. (...)
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4 shift sap:
Today’s Showdown is based on an industry-specific case study. Five enterprise resource planning vendors were selected for
the evaluation. All the ...
Published:
2008-03-10
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Abstract:
SoftBrands believes it has finally repositioned itself for growth going forward by capitalizing on the reputation of Fourth
Shift, coming to an arrangement with SAP Business One, and introducing more reliable versions of its hospitality software
products. (...)
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SoftBrands believes it has finally repositioned itself for growth going forward by capitalizing on the reputation of Fourth
Shift, coming to an ar...
Published:
2006-02-27