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The major factors of success in business applications for the mid-market segment have traditionally been--flexible pricing,
packaging and deployment options; speed of implementation; vertical focus; interconnectivity to other applications and legacy
systems; product scalability and scope expandability; I (...)
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The major factors of success in business applications for the mid-market segment have traditionally been--flexible pricing,
packaging and deployme...
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2004-07-27
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Your Challenge: Get Decision Makers' Approval for Respond Quickly to Changing Markets.Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant
and Time-Bound. In today’s Internet-connected global economy, the market doesn’t allow for companies to sit back and relax
into a comfortable niche. Customer loyalty is ever (...)
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Your Challenge: Get Decision Makers' Approval for Respond Quickly to Changing Markets.Specific, Measurable, Achievable,
Relevant and Time-Bound. In...
Published:
2010-03-11
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When selecting a CRM vendor should you go with a one-source solution, reducing the need for integration with other corporate
data sources, or go with a best-of-breed approach, getting the best in each category but being left with standalone applications
that must be integrated? This article compares the (...)
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When selecting a CRM vendor should you go with a one-source solution, reducing the need for integration with other corporate
data sources, or go w...
Published:
2001-09-05
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As the market shifts from sophisticated enterprise CRM implementations to the more competitive and overcrowded mid-market-large
enterprise vendors tend to step on mid-market vendor's toes. The real concern is to determine whether the mid-market cultural
and functional differences are well understood and (...)
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As the market shifts from sophisticated enterprise CRM implementations to the more competitive and overcrowded mid-market-large
enterprise vendors...
Published:
2003-06-26
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Having a system that can support mix-mode manufacturing without the need for artificial constraints would mean that the technology
is available to offer on demand manufacturing enterprise resource management to the marketplace. (...)
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Having a system that can support mix-mode manufacturing without the need for artificial constraints would mean that the technology
is available to...
Published:
2007-01-17
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Small enterprises, like their bigger brethren, need some differentiation means in the market, and that will not be achieved
by implementing a cut-and-dried business solution in a "cookie cutter", "me too" deployment approach (...)
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Small enterprises, like their bigger brethren, need some differentiation means in the market, and that will not be achieved
by implementing a cut-...
Published:
2004-04-19
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A tightly focused vendor, IRM Corporation, has fine tuned its products, services, its sales process and even its commercial
terms to match the realities of its sole market – food manufacturers who sell to the foodservice and vending markets. (...)
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A tightly focused vendor, IRM Corporation, has fine tuned its products, services, its sales process and even its commercial
terms to match the rea...
Published:
2003-01-06
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SAP’s viability and its business applications market’s leadership remains unscathed, as the company remains rock-solid and
will be the leader for a long time to come. While SAP has espoused one of the most compelling and promising collaborative-Commerce
vision to-date, the ideal enablers of collabor (...)
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SAP’s viability and its business applications market’s leadership remains unscathed, as the company remains rock-solid and
will be the leader for ...
Published:
2002-06-07
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PeopleSoft's solutions within enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), supply chain management
(SCM), enterprise portals, business intelligence (BI), and supplier relationship management (SRM) functionality provide a
wide scope of features, and very few smaller vendors (...)
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PeopleSoft's solutions within enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), supply chain
management (SCM), enterpris...
Published:
2004-07-28
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Major vendors are entering the professional services software market and small niche vendors are repositioning themselves
to compete. This changing market is conveying mixed messages; however, users can navigate this space by separating market
messages from vendors' functional capabilities. (...)
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Major vendors are entering the professional services software market and small niche vendors are repositioning themselves
to compete. This changin...
Published:
2006-09-04
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Software vendor Net Perceptions and CRM gurus Peppers and Rogers Group have joined forces to develop co-branded media products
covering the use of technology to create personalized, one-to-one relationships. (...)
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Software vendor Net Perceptions and CRM gurus Peppers and Rogers Group have joined forces to develop co-branded media products
covering the use of...
Published:
2000-05-03
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Changing business requirements have forced supply chain execution (SCE) vendors to expand via add-on modules. Seeing this
upward push from the SCE vendors, enterprise resource planning vendors are now pushing downward and including SCE modules
within their solutions. (...)
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Changing business requirements have forced supply chain execution (SCE) vendors to expand via add-on modules. Seeing this
upward push from the SCE...
Published:
2009-03-25
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Abstract:
Notwithstanding moves from major vendors and value-added resellers, addressing the needs of small and medium businesses requires
significant changes within traditional business models. And although some of these changes can be trying, some seem to have
the formula for success. (...)
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Notwithstanding moves from major vendors and value-added resellers, addressing the needs of small and medium businesses requires
significant chang...
Published:
2006-05-17
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Get a behind-the-scenes look at what mergers and acquisitions means for you—the software buyer—and know the questions you
should ask if you find yourself in this situation. Your company has purchased a human resources (HR) software that will improve
your business. But you’ve just learned that your s (...)
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Get a behind-the-scenes look at what mergers and acquisitions means for you—the software buyer—and know the questions you
should ask if you find yo...
Published:
2011-04-20
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PeopleSoft needs to more efficiently mine its client base by doing a better job of selling the broadened offering, by getting
its affiliate channel both excited about the product portfolio and by upgrading the channel's ability to sell. (...)
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PeopleSoft needs to more efficiently mine its client base by doing a better job of selling the broadened offering, by getting
its affiliate channe...
Published:
2004-07-29
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The universe of existing applications partners is relatively stable; some occasional movement from dropping one product in
favor of another occurs naturally, and no vendor is immune to losing partners. But some innovative vendors are doing their
best. (...)
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The universe of existing applications partners is relatively stable; some occasional movement from dropping one product in
favor of another occurs...
Published:
2006-05-18
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Mid-market and the SMB segment are the next frontiers and a promised land for all the enterprise vendors, small and large
alike.Still, the willingness of smaller IT departments to go for more sophisticated technology beyond the all-too-common dispersed
islands of information on Excel spreadsheets, Access (...)
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Mid-market and the SMB segment are the next frontiers and a promised land for all the enterprise vendors, small and large
alike.Still, the willing...
Published:
2003-06-07
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Linking data to process is the realm of business process management (BPM). BPM's focus on process dramatically reduces the
amount of data that needs to be moved, and thereby reduces both the initial cost and ongoing maintenance cost of application
integration. (...)
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Linking data to process is the realm of business process management (BPM). BPM's focus on process dramatically reduces
the amount of data that ne...
Published:
2003-05-30
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Abstract:
More than their larger counterparts, small and medium businesses (SMB) are looking for relatively simple and inexpensive
software that is easy to install yet easy to customize and extend. (...)
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More than their larger counterparts, small and medium businesses (SMB) are looking for relatively simple and inexpensive software
that is easy to ...
Published:
2004-04-20
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Abstract:
Trying to sell dumbed-down versions of mySAP Business Suite, Oracle E-Business Suite, without a serious re-engineering of
these products, has not worked for the lower-end of the market. To date, Oracle and SAP have responded by acquiring more suitable
genuine products for the segment, while it is not unl (...)
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Trying to sell dumbed-down versions of mySAP Business Suite, Oracle E-Business Suite, without a serious re-engineering of
these products, has not ...
Published:
2003-06-09