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On October 4, Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA), Baan Japan, and EXE Inc. announced a strategic alliance designed
to enable Japanese companies to create total solutions for the rapidly growing supply chain management (SCM) field. The companies
will jointly market the new solutions, which will (...)
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On October 4, Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA), Baan Japan, and EXE Inc. announced a strategic alliance designed
to enable Japanese co...
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1999-10-13
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Sun Microsystems and Gateway have announced initiatives designed to make their products and services more appealing to start-up
companies, especially those where cash may be a little tight. (...)
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Sun Microsystems and Gateway have announced initiatives designed to make their products and services more appealing to start-up
companies, especia...
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2000-08-18
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Computer Associates announced at their CAWorld conference that e-business is the place to be, and they are re-orienting their
company to facilitate it. CA has previously failed to make inroads in the consulting arena, and they feel e-business is the
way to fix the problem. (...)
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... Market Impact. Computer Associates is late to the table in joining the e-business explosion.
Most software vendors made this move at least six months ago. ...
Published:
2000-04-27
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Market research shows that enterprise software and service markets are crossing market lines to witness strong growth in
the Aerospace and Defense (A&D) industry. (...)
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Market research shows that enterprise software and service markets are crossing market lines to witness strong growth in the
Aerospace and Defense...
Published:
2000-02-21
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Application vendors are focusing on their install base as their primary source of revenue while cutting costs to provide
profitability. Most vendors will tell you that they are both new account and customer oriented, and some have struck this
balance. But the vast majority have been worshipping at the (...)
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Application vendors are focusing on their install base as their primary source of revenue while cutting costs to provide profitability.
Most vend...
Published:
2003-05-09
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Computer Associates announced at their CAWorld conference that e-business is the place to be, and they are re-orienting their
company to facilitate it. CA has previously failed to make inroads in the consulting arena, and they feel e-business is the
way to fix the problem. (...)
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computer software vendors:
... Market Impact. Computer Associates is late to the table in joining the e-business explosion.
Most software vendors made this move at least six months ago. ...
Published:
2000-04-27
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Although the retail and wholesale customers have typically invested a low proportion of their total revenues in information
technology, retail industry leaders have begun to demonstrate an ability to achieve market advantage through the effective
use of specialized enterprise applications. As a result, t (...)
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Although the retail and wholesale customers have typically invested a low proportion of their total revenues in information
technology, retail ind...
Published:
2004-09-13
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Although the retail and wholesale customers have typically invested a low proportion of their total revenues in information
technology, retail industry leaders have begun to demonstrate an ability to achieve market advantage through the effective
use of specialized enterprise applications. As a result, t (...)
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computer software vendors:
Although the retail and wholesale customers have typically invested a low proportion of their total revenues in information
technology, retail ind...
Published:
2004-09-13
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With Informix’s completion of its acquisition of Ardent Software, it remains to be seen how effective this marriage will
be, and whether Ardent will be allowed autonomy to continue its success in the extract/transform/load and data integration
infrastructure. (...)
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... forced to merge with larger software vendors (such as Sybase) in order
to be able to compete in this market with behemoths such as Computer Associates, Informix ...
Published:
2000-04-10
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ERP vendors are making their way into the retail market by bundling, acquiring point solutions or partnering strategically
to embed retail-specific functions within their suites. Like in all other enterprise applications markets, eventually, albeit
not any time soon, the retail market too will come to a (...)
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ERP vendors are making their way into the retail market by bundling, acquiring point solutions or partnering strategically
to embed retail-specifi...
Published:
2004-09-14
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Geac has acquired in excess of 40 companies around the world. Geac's purchase of UK-based ERP software maker JBA International
in 1999 has nearly doubled the company's size. (...)
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Geac has acquired in excess of 40 companies around the world. Geac's purchase of UK-based ERP software maker JBA International
in 1999 has nearly ...
Published:
2000-03-01
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Enterprise Application Integration vendor Software Technologies Corp. (STC) announced the filing by the company of a Registration
Statement with the Securities and Exchanges Commission relating to the proposed initial public offering of up to $100 million
of its common stock. (...)
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... systems should include STC on a long list of possible EAI vendors. ...
Using consultants already familiar with the integration software can greatly reduce the time ...
Published:
2000-03-03
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In a series of radical moves, Computer Associates appears to be trying to re-direct its gargantuan operations. After missing
its numbers in the first calendar quarter (CA’s 4th fiscal quarter), its stock was down 59% at one point. (...)
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In a series of radical moves, Computer Associates appears to be trying to re-direct its gargantuan operations. After missing
its numbers in the f...
Published:
2000-10-24
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Shares of Computer Associates, BMC Software, Compuware Corporation, and others have suffered serious setbacks on the stock
market in recent days due to shortfalls in revenue. These companies are direct competitors, and are all suffering the same
fate in the stock market. Once again, the dreaded Wall Str (...)
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... Shares of Computer Associates, BMC Software, Compuware Corporation
... Most vendors blame it on a failure to close large deals near the end of the quarter
...
Published:
2000-08-08
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Epicor Software is one of the first vendors and possibly the only mid-market vendor able to natively embrace customer and
supplier activities tied to a core transactional back-office system. Fiscal 2001 will prove to be very challenging for Epicor
Software and we believe the next 18 months will be the c (...)
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Epicor Software is one of the first vendors and possibly the only mid-market vendor able to natively embrace customer and
supplier activities tied...
Published:
2001-03-30
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Smart companies are investigating all possible software support and maintenance (S&M) options. Alternative software S&M is
not for all businesses, but it seems a logical option for technologically conservative (and savvy) companies that do not need
all the available upgrades. (...)
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Smart companies are investigating all possible software support and maintenance (S&M) options. Alternative software S&M
is not for all businesses,...
Published:
2007-04-11
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What types of vendors' approaches to the mid-market have emerged from the wave of mergers and consolidations and what characteristics
ultimately distinguish the contenders from the pretenders are two questions that are emerging from the consolidation market. (...)
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What types of vendors' approaches to the mid-market have emerged from the wave of mergers and consolidations and what
characteristics ultimately d...
Published:
2005-09-12
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An enterprise that wants to shift to a global product development strategy must invest in modern product lifecycle management
(PLM) technology. Therefore, the PLM software market could be on the edge of a significant growth cycle. (...)
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... computer-aided design (CAD), computer-aided manufacturing ...
Major software providers are honing their marketing messages ... Several of these PLM vendors
have even ...
Published:
2008-10-17
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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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AccountMate Software has been a player in the middle market for over twenty years. In the past several years it has been
acquired by several global companies. Recently AccountMate's management has purchased the company and once again it is independent
and able to chart its own course. (...)
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... is a full-featured contact management software program that ... a different
warehouse, list all the vendors that supply ... as the components of a computer
system) and ...
Published:
2005-01-20