Open Market

Is There a Smarter Way to Handle Excess Active and Obsolete ...

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... does not work, again, a flexible bidding technology should allow the user company to take its excess spares inventory to the open market to solicit as many ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/SCM/2007/01/research_notes/VN_SC_PJ_01_29_07_1.asp - 27k - 2007-01-29 Summary: Imagine the convenience of a 24x7 intranet marketplace where companies could sell off their inventory to the highest bidder. FreeFlow is one such business service provider, helping companies find buyers to sell their products to and increase inventory asset recovery.

Manugistics Indulges In The Open M&A Season. Part 2: Market Impact ...

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... Indulges In The Open M&A Season. Part 2: Market Impact, Challenges, and User Recommendations PJ Jakovljevic - June 5, 2002. ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Scm/2002/06/news_analysis/NA_SC_PJ_06_05_02_1.asp - 18k - 2002-06-05 Summary: Experience teaches us to be wary of the outcome of mergers and acquisitions as the market has witnessed both success and disaster stories. While we believe that the above mergers might be synergistic in the long run, some growing pains, integration issues, and discontinuation of redundant products are al

A Semi–open Source Vendor Discusses Market Trends

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... It's a lot like what we see in the open-source market—each vendor's perspective on SOA is driven by the businesses and products it has to defend. ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/ERP/2008/10/research_notes/TN_ER_PJ_10_10_08_1.asp - 53k - 2008-10-10 Summary: A response to trends in the open source software market comes this time from relative newcomer provider xTuple. This vendor’s footprint isn’t entirely in the open source door, however, with OpenMFG, its commercially licensed solution with an open source infrastructure.

Will MS try the 'Open Source' Gambit with WinCE? Why Not ...

by R. Krause ... server space. Microsoft has been trying desperately to break open the PalmOS hold on the palmtop/handheld market. However, this ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/HardwareOS/2000/04/news_analysis/NA_HW_RAK_04_10_00_1.asp - 9k - 2000-04-10 Summary: In what may be another attempt to gain some kind of foothold in the handheld and embedded-OS market, rumors are floating that Microsoft will open the source code for Windows CE.

Lawson's Approach to the Retail Market

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... Also, the ERP vendors had long ignored the retail sector to only recently move more aggressively into the wide-open market, striving to thereby provide greater ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Erp/2004/09/research_notes/VN_ER_PJ_09_24_04_1.asp - 24k - 2004-09-24 Summary: Lawson Retail Operations Suite solutions are built for high-volume retail enterprises and encompass a range of activities, including the management of item information, category planning and review, assortment, pricing, promotions, warehouse replenishment, multichannel ordering, store replenishment, fore

SAP's Approach to the Retail Market

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... Also, the ERP vendors had long ignored the retail sector to only recently move more aggressively into the wide-open market, striving to thereby provide greater ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Erp/2004/10/research_notes/VN_ER_PJ_10_02_04_1.asp - 21k - 2004-10-02 Summary: SAP and its ERP peers appear to understand that continuously improving the way enterprise information is presented and by marrying analytics, optimization, and retail operation systems on top of an ERP platform is starting to win over retailers.

Not All Acquisitions Happen: JDA and QRS Part Two: Market Impact

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... Also, the ERP vendors had long ignored the retail sector to only recently move more aggressively into the wide-open market, striving to thereby provide greater ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Erp/2004/11/news_analysis/NA_ER_PJ_11_04_04_1.asp - 29k - 2004-11-04 Summary: The QRS acquisition by JDA would have eventually brought together two providers of complementary e-commerce products that would help retailers, manufacturers, and suppliers manage and sell their products to other companies and customers on-line. JDA now remains on its own to define a revised PIM/GDS stra

SSA Global finds Little Known SCM Gems in Filling Out its Solution ...

by Michael Bittner ... The company's financial risk factor is low to moderate, as SSA Global's market strategy is to sell its WMS applications to both the open market and the ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/ERP/2006/01/research_notes/VN_ER_MB_01_19_06_1.asp - 18k - 2006-01-19 Summary: SSA Global's strategy to grow both organically and through acquisition while developing an end-to-end suite of applications with one open platform architecture has allowed this traditional enterprise resource planning vendor to evolve into a supply chain management solutions provider.

Compaq to Open Tru64 Unix?

by R. Krause ... If the "open source gambit" helps increase its market share, that is a good thing. The 64-bit-ness of Tru64 should also provide some advantage. ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/HardwareOS/2000/07/news_analysis/NA_HW_RAK_07_12_00_1.asp - 6k - 2000-07-12 Summary: In what may be an attempt to cash in on the open source OS game, Compaq is hinting it may open some parts of the source code for its Tru64 Unix operating system.

IBM’s Marketplace Solutions: Is Ariba Not Enough?

by D. Geller ... And the announcement went on to state "The companies will integrate their technologies to provide a comprehensive open market platform, which will be resold to ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/eCommerce/2000/06/news_analysis/NA_EC_DPG_06_08_00_1.asp - 21k - 2000-06-08 Summary: IBM trains its sights on helping businesses create online marketplaces. But, we ask our staff prognosticator, isn’t that what partner Ariba does?