Kewill And Microsoft Great Plains To Further Mutually Complement

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... Existing Microsoft Great Plains customers should evaluate the Kewill add-ons as a way to add value to their existing applications whether with an impending ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Erp/2001/11/news_analysis/NA_ER_PJ_11_12_01_1.asp - 13k - 2001-11-12 Summary: While Microsoft Great Plains and Kewill will offer a potentially awesome combined offering worldwide, their competitors will bet on products that cover all the bases in a natively integrated fashion.

Microsoft Great Plains Procures eProcure At Last

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... Existing Microsoft Great Plains customers should evaluate the eProcure platform as a way to add value to their existing applications whether with an impending ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/BusinessApplications/2001/08/news_analysis/NA_BA_PJ_08_13_01_1.asp - 15k - 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.

Microsoft Lays Enforced-Concrete Foundation For Its Business ...

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... Evaluate MBS Great Plains if you are a small to medium, North American single-site discrete manufacturing company or division, with a limited IT budget and a ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Erp/2002/11/research_notes/EN_ER_PJ_11_06_02_1.asp - 12k - 2002-11-06 Summary: Despite the plausible product roadmap, any organization evaluating MBS products should keep itself informed, and consider existing functionality only. MBS, at this stage, will likely not appeal to companies that need more complex CRM capabilities or must manage customer relationships through diverse li

How Great Is Great Plains' Manufacturing Offering (Did Somebody ...

by P.J. Jakovljevic & L. Talarico ... Evaluate eEnterprise if you are a small to medium, North American single-site ... CRM, e-commerce, etc.) are also critical to you, then Great Plains brings added ... http:/.../ResearchHighlights/BusinessApplications/2001/05/research_notes/EN_BA_PJ_05_01_01_1.asp - 22k - 2001-05-01 Summary: Great Plains informed us during its Convergence 2001 annual user conference about its initial strides into the discrete manufacturing market. The following is our view of Great Plains odds of success in this particular endeavor.

Microsoft to Add 'Encore' Functionality to MBS Great Plains 8.0 ...

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... Small and medium size organizations using MBS Great Plains back-office modules, which ... They should evaluate the upcoming functional enhancements as a way to add ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Erp/2004/07/news_analysis/NA_ER_PJ_07_10_04_1.asp - 16k - 2004-07-10 Summary: MBS' current strategy of letting extension functionality proliferate spontaneously largely resembles the current development practice of the open source community. This can be be considered ironic, because open sourcing is something Microsoft loves to hate.

Microsoft 'The Great' Poised To Conquer Mid-Market, Once and Again ...

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... Potential and existing Navision/Great Plains customers should evaluate the offered product lines, bearing in mind what the competitors have to offer too. ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Erp/2002/05/news_analysis/NA_ER_PJ_05_15_02_1.asp - 16k - 2002-05-15 Summary: Microsoft's reticence to comment on any timelines of product integration and operations mergers, to our belief, stems from their genuine inability to foresee it at this stage. Still, although the indications that the business will continue to be as usual are strong, Microsoft may eventually decide to str

Microsoft Throws .NET At SMEs, With CRM As Bait

by P.J. Jakovljevic, Louie Talarico ... Small and medium size businesses using Microsoft Great Plains back office applications and ... They should evaluate the above CRM functional enhancements as a way ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Crm/2002/03/news_analysis/NA_CR_PJ_03_08_02_1.asp - 13k - 2002-03-08 Summary: While Microsoft might be honest today with its claims of staying away from the true enterprise-level CRM applications space, no one can be sure that its appetite will remain in check for very long.

ManagedOps.com 13 Years and 93,000 Square Feet

by A. Turner ... Single platform solution: ManagedOps.com supports Great Plains and Siebel Systems ... Maintain Strategic Relationships: Continually evaluate strategic and mutually ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/eCommerce/2000/05/research_notes/VN_EC_ADT_05_08_00_1.asp - 16k - 2000-05-08 Summary: New Hampshire s Taylor Group changes its name, builds a 93,000 square foot data center and lays out a plan to leverage 13 years of application experience to promote its ASP solution.

Microsoft Keeps on Rounding up Its Business Solutions Part Two ...

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... Procures eProcure At Last and Kewill And Microsoft Great Plains To Further ... They should evaluate the above potential demand planning functional enhancements as ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Scm/2003/12/news_analysis/NA_SC_PJ_12_02_03_1.asp - 23k - 2003-12-02 Summary: While smaller businesses must be attuned to what their larger customers and trading partners require, and thus consider the Microsoft Business Network (MBN) as a relatively simple and inexpensive way to support those customers' demands, MBN is only a small part of the trading relationship equation.

Microsoft Business Network (MBN)--Coming of Age? Part Two: Market ...

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... interest in analyzing the product, which offers several compelling reasons to evaluate. ... additional options on their Outlook, Excel, or MBS Great Plains screens ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Scm/2004/09/research_notes/PN_SC_PJ_09_02_04_1.asp - 20k - 2004-09-02 Summary: Microsoft Business Network (MBN) has the potential to deliver the never really (or hardly ever) realized benefits of early dot-com era Internet trading exchanges or networks that could reasonably and effectively link customers to their trading partners.