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Compare Intuitive Manufacturing Systems side-by-side with BAAN, SAP, J.D. EDWARDS, EPICOR, ORACLE, QAD, and 80+ other ERP vendors

Jul 4, 2009
Today's usage of Decision Support Systems (DSS), combined with vetted ERP knowledge bases, allows organizations to save time and money, achieving better and more reliable/fully-documented decisions, a quantum improvement over the widely-used subjective process of selecting complex enterprise software...
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Can 'Intuitive' And 'ERP' Words Be Associated? (4 Pages)
by P.J. Jakovljevic
Jul 18, 2002 Abstract : While Intuitive Manufacturing Systems, still largely a stealth small ERP provider, may have the ‘Intuitive ERP’ trump to attract SMEs internationally, a bevy of competitors has also been engaged in delivering their panaceas to the increasingly crowding market segment.
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Intuitive Manufacturing Systems Shows Maturity in Adolescent Age Part Three: Market Impact Continued (3 Pages)
by P.J. Jakovljevic
Jun 24, 2004 Abstract : By deliberately steering clear of too ambitious expansionist policies that have hindered so many smaller software companies in the past, and by focusing on a handful of core markets, Intuitive has managed to keep itself on healthy track.
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Intuitive Manufacturing Systems Shows Maturity in Adolescent Age Part Two: Market Impact (4 Pages)
by P.J. Jakovljevic
Jun 23, 2004 Abstract : Intuitive is one of the vendors that have long attempted to mitigate the actual and perceived barriers to enterprise resource planning (ERP) acceptance by smaller enterprises.
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Intuitive Manufacturing Systems Shows Maturity in Adolescent Age Part One: Company Overview (4 Pages)
by P.J. Jakovljevic
Jun 22, 2004 Abstract : Having reached its first decade of existence, Intuitive Manufacturing Systems, a stealth mid-market ERP provider, has long taken the plunge of rewriting its system onto the pure Microsoft .NET managed code framework, which might bear fruits in the long run, if not immediately.
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Can 'Intuitive' And 'ERP' Words Be Associated? Part 2: Challenges & User Recommendations (3 Pages)
by P.J. Jakovljevic
Jul 19, 2002 Abstract : By deliberately steering clear of too ambitious expansionist policies that have hindered so many smaller software companies in the past, and by focusing on a handful of core markets, Intuitive has managed to keep itself on healthy track.
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Intuitive Manufacturing Systems Shows Maturity in Adolescent Age Part Four: Challenges and User Recommendations (5 Pages)
by P.J. Jakovljevic
Jun 25, 2004 Abstract : As long as the 'old' software is meeting business needs, new technology is not the change driver, which makes building replacement products on a new framework a higher risk strategy. Product functionality still matters and, while it is important for enterprise applications providers to implement the latest computer science 'quantum leap', there is no guaranteed correlation between first-to-market and the ultimate-success-in-the-market. Iin fact, based on many experiences, one could even argue that the correlation might be inverse.
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Microsoft .NET-managed Code Enablement: Examples and Challenges (5 Pages)
by P.J. Jakovljevic
Oct 5, 2006 Abstract : Intuitive, Visibility, and Epicor offer .NET Framework-managed code products, but their 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it' mindset might work against them unless they can prove higher value propositions, such as new, more quickly developed vertical functionality.
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Major Vendors Adapting to User Requirements (4 Pages)
by P.J. Jakovljevic
Mar 28, 2006 Abstract : SAP and Microsoft have finally realized that their products will increasingly be evaluated by how well they interconnect, how flexible they are, and how intuitive their user interfaces are. However, these trends have already been incorporated by lesser-known vendors.
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What Do Users Want and Need? (5 Pages)
by P.J. Jakovljevic
Aug 23, 2005 Abstract : At the basic level, users want a more intuitive way to 'look inside the business', and they want applications to bring them closer to their operations, such as alerts that can help them handle exceptions or better yet, to act on business events (or even non-events) well before they become exceptions.
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