Infinium Software, Inc.: Having All the Right Cards?

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... of the fact that Infinium financial and HR/Payroll modules often can ... e-commerce and vertical marketplaces, which will additionally burden products integration ... http:/.../ResearchHighlights/BusinessApplications/2000/07/research_notes/VN_BA_PJ_07_05_00_1.asp - 22k Summary: Following the market trends, Infinium has recently made an energetic push into a number of prospective areas such as: Web-enablement and self-service product capabilities, business intelligence, CRM, and application hosting (ASP) services. Infinium has only very recently announced its strategic partnersh

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

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... and Skills and Training, and it works with MBS Great Plains US payroll and human ... with a full-fledged broad SCM functional footprint would only burden the MBS ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Scm/2003/12/news_analysis/NA_SC_PJ_12_01_03_1.asp - 18k Summary: While the recent initiatives by Microsoft Business Solutions to piecemeal bolster its product lines' SCM capabilities should benefit users, a lot more cohesive SCM strategy is needed for Microsoft to truly permeate the SCM mid-market.

Epicor Reaches Better Vista From This Vantage Point Part Three ...

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... Receivable, Accounts Payable, General Ledger, Currency Management, Payroll, FRx, Open Active ... should significantly relieve the company's R&D burden and improve ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Erp/2003/06/research_notes/EN_ER_PJ_06_14_03_1.asp - 30k Summary: Epicor competes in multiple enterprise business applications markets. Epicor may mean different things to different people, which does not really help mind share creation in particular segments of interest.

Epicor Conducts Its Own ROI Acquisition Rationale Part Three ...

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... This situation might hold also for the native HR and payroll modules. ... focus on .NET framework should significantly relieve the company's R&D burden and improve ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Erp/2003/08/news_analysis/NA_ER_PJ_08_25_03_1.asp - 21k Summary: Despite notable functional and technological initiatives, the challenge for Epicor and its affiliate channel also remains the management of multiple flagship ERP product lines. Also, while the products may have their separate niches, they will in many more instances be similar enough to confuse former se

MAPICS Moving On Pragmatically Part 2: Market Impact

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... times for everyone across the board, and with an additional burden of resolving some ... Also, a payroll module has long been available, which always represents an ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Erp/2002/11/research_notes/EN_ER_PJ_11_20_02_1.asp - 25k Summary: For the last several months, MAPICS, Inc. (NASDAQ: MAPX), a global provider of extended ERP applications for world-class mid-sized manufacturers, has embarked on a painstaking process of producing a strategy going forward that would pragmatically blend the company’s traditional values and success facto

Outsourcing—The Pros and Cons » The TEC Blog

... not advised to go to outsourcing as it adds more financial burden (extra salaries ... has outsourced two processes in the past year with good results-payroll and IT ... blog.technologyevaluation.com/blog/2008/06/25/outsourcing—the-pros-and-cons/ - 42k - 2008-06-25

Human Resources - Consultants

... solve HR issues with a broad portfolio of leading HR and Payroll solutions ... We are committed to freeing companies from the burden of managing in- house incentive ... http://www.technologyevaluation.com/showcases/consultants/cat/87305/Human-Resources.html - 101k - 2008-09-04

Agilisys Continues Agilely Post-SCT Part 2: Market Impact

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... mainly selling generic ‘white collar' applications (eg, HR/payroll, financial accounting, etc ... and development environment should remove the burden of reliance ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Erp/2002/10/research_notes/EN_ER_PJ_10_15_02_1.asp - 18k Summary: Agilisys is also leveraging its former parent's pedigree on professional services and outsourcing, the 'Concept to Customer' and 'Early Upgrade Program' being good examples of the company’s focus on customer engaging product implementations and customizations.

IFS Continues Its Reinvention Through Pruning Part Two: Background ...

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... Sverige AB, IFS' Swedish subsidiary, announced that it has sold its payroll software to ... so, the company suddenly ended up with too much of a burden, given it ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Erp/2005/02/news_analysis/NA_ER_PJ_02_08_05_1.asp - 17k Summary: IFS could be an object case of how a great product (in terms of functionality scope and technological foundation) and knowledgeable employees are only part of the wholesale success in the finicky enterprise resource planning (ERP) market.

Attaining Real Time, On-demand Information Data: Contemporary ...

by Olin Thompson & P.J. Jakovljevic ... Java-based portal solutions, it should alleviate the development burden on BI ... such as, inventory control, human resources (HR) and payroll management, sales ... http:/.../ResearchHighlights/BusinessIntelligence/2005/06/research_notes/TU_BI_XOT_06_29_05_1.asp - 28k Summary: Demand for instant access to dispersed information is being met by vendors offering enterprise business intelligence tools and suites. Portlet standardization, enterprise information integration, and corporate performance management are among the proposed solutions, but do they really deliver real time i