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Informatica Powers Siebel’s New eBusiness Analytics

by M. Reed ... application suite, Siebel eBusiness Analytics provides executives and managers with insight into their customer base and multi-channel e-business operations ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/DataWarehousing/2000/12/news_analysis/NA_DW_MFR_12_19_00_1.asp - 7k - 2000-12-19 Summary: Siebel Systems is incorporating Informatica’s data integration platform into Siebel eBusiness Analytics 2000.3. The vendors hope to use the integrated product to consolidate data into a 'comprehensive e-business data warehouse'. Have the vendors found the e-business holy grail?

Informatica Heads for E-Business

by M. Reed ... Informatica to deliver the industry's first analytic solution optimized to address the multi-channel requirements of industrial-strength "B2B" e-businesses. ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/DataWarehousing/2000/01/news_analysis/NA_DW_MFR_01_05_00_1.asp - 5k - 2000-01-05 Summary: Informatica Corp. (Nasdaq: INFA) today announced the acquisition of Influence Software, a leading provider of analytic applications for the e-business value chain. Informatica is acquiring Influence Software for roughly $80 million in a stock transaction that will be treated as a pooling of interests. Th

Channels to the Hearts and Minds--On-line 2005

by Lucy West ... Introduction. The physical, e and wireless world continues to grow! The e channel for shoppers continues to grow, with so many nay-sayers and doubters. ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Scm/2005/03/research_notes/TN_SC_XLW_03_18_05_1.asp - 9k - 2005-03-18 Summary: The physical, e and wireless world continues to grow! The e channel for shoppers continues to grow, with so many nay-sayers and doubters. You'd think this issue would die, with more and more shoppers buying from far flung vendors: Boston to the Nanga Tribes for buying original crafts; Dallas to Huangshan

Symix Systems Front-Steps Into Greener e-Commerce Pastures

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... The second channel, which operates under the Frontstep name, markets the company's e-business products through third-party channel partners such as consulting ... http:/.../ResearchHighlights/BusinessApplications/2000/10/research_notes/EN_BA_PJ_10_25_00_1.asp - 36k - 2000-10-25 Summary: Like many of its peers, Symix Systems, one of the leading mid-market enterprise applications vendors, has been making a big push into the e-commerce market. A new Symix subsidiary called Frontstep, which was formed in January 2000, has been actively rounding out its e-business product and strategic consu

Supply Chain Management Vendor Finds Balance for Service Supply ...

by Michael Bittner ... on demand chain solutions for business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-customer (B2C) e-commerce. Click Commerce's early channel management software allowed ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/SCM/2006/05/research_notes/VN_SC_MB_05_08_06_1.asp - 16k - 2006-05-08 Summary: Click Commerce recognizes that the SCM playing field is highly competitive and fragmented. However, it believes it will remain competitive because its composite applications will create business process solutions that follow the current trend toward integrated suites of best-of-breed applications.

What Does the Future Hold for PRM?

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... or channel relationship management (ChRM), have thrived? Part of the answer is that expectations for PRM were overblown during the business-to-business (B2B) e- ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/eCommerce/2004/03/research_notes/TU_EC_PJ_03_06_04_1.asp - 13k - 2004-03-06 Summary: Almost every company has been scrutinizing their relationships with partners more closely and figuring out how best to reach and nurture them. With so much business going through indirect sales channels in the next five years, the need for some form of partner relationship management (PRM) should not be

Great Plains: Strong Channel and Microsoft focus for Dynamic(s) ...

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... Great Plains: Strong Channel and Microsoft focus for Dynamic(s) Growth PJ ... Great Plains offers e-business applications for financials, distribution, enterprise ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/BusinessApplications/1999/12/research_notes/VN_BA_PJ_12_99_1.asp - 13k - 1999-12-01 Summary: Great Plains has established very strong branding and penetration within the Small-to-Medium Enterprises (SME) segment of the ERP market, with a large and loyal customer base and a uniquely developed, extensive partner channel within the industry. A long presence on Microsoft's platforms ensures that R&D

Microsoft Great Plains Procures eProcure At Last

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... Clarus has long desired to host its e-procurement application and to sell it through large channel partners, something it was not able to do because of its ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/BusinessApplications/2001/08/news_analysis/NA_BA_PJ_08_13_01_1.asp - 14k - 2001-08-13 Summary: In a somewhat belated and long deliberated move, Microsoft Great Plains has struck an OEM partnership deal with Clarus to provide eProcure, an end-to-end e-procurement solution.

Oracle (Finally) Learning and Applying Its Own CRM

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... Select tracks and sessions will be broadcast on the E-Business Network Business channel, and keynotes will be available through streaming video on the Webstyle ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/BusinessApplications/2000/07/news_analysis/NA_BA_PJ_07_19_00_1.asp - 10k - 2000-07-19 Summary: After years of power struggle with its independent applications user group (OAUG), Oracle Corporation is to host its own application user group conference early next year.

Epicor Software Corp.: Completing Painstaking "e"Volution Part 2 ...

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... Furthermore, Epicor's hybrid distribution channel (direct sales to larger mid-sized ... Epicor continues to enhance its line of integrated e-business/portals ... http:/.../ResearchHighlights/BusinessApplications/2001/04/research_notes/VN_BA_PJ_04_02_01_1.asp - 29k - 2001-04-02 Summary: Fiscal 2001 will prove to be very challenging for Epicor Software and we believe the next 18 months will be the company's make-or-break period. This part examines how successful Epicor has been in completing its evolution from a vendor of financial accounting software to a provider of holistic business p