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Abstract: The (...)
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... Vendors taking a vertical approach address the needs of specific industries
and concentrate on the unique needs of those industries. ... PubDate: 8/11/2003
Abstract: Cooperative markets and clever strategies controlling internal developments and guiding marketing may help Parametric Technology
Corporation (PTC) reach revenues of $1 billion (USD) by 2008. However, more impressive is this may make PTC an innovator in
product lifecycle management.(...)
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... need to understand unique industry requirements. PTC hopes to fill this void with its vertical
approach. Strategic account growth. ...
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... forecasting module were been developed in conjunction with customer’s feedback and understanding of how
the industry and market vertical approach affects the ...
Abstract: RFPs and selection tools typically focus on features and functions. The business process protagonists consider this focus
old fashioned. However, users want and need an inventory or check lists of the functions to understand if the business process
will work. One always has to start from somewhere, and t(...)
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... Part Two compared business processes to the feature/function approach. ...
The fact that every vendor that is serious about its vertical focus has separate ...
Abstract: Today, global manufacturers have all but abandoned traditional vertical supply chain management to adopt the more flexible
horizontal and virtual supply chain concepts. But in changing their business model, they have given up a fair amount of control
over their supply chain processes.(...)
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... Lateral arrangement has thus replaced vertical integration as the preferred approach
to managing the many diverse activities in the supply chain. ...
Abstract: There is a clear distinction between the market dynamics within the respective MBS and Sage/Best channels.(...)
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... drive to service the industry-specific needs of its vertical market customers ...
Using this linked building-block approach, customers can eventually think in terms ...
Abstract: A company virtually unknown outside of the hospitality sector hits the ground running with a product, a marketplace, and a
business model that might make some of the better-known e-procurement companies sit up and take notice.(...)
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... specific partnerships and services. GoCo-op is implementing a three-tiered approach
to a vertical marketplace. The top tier consists ...
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... Lateral supply chain integration has replaced vertical integration as the favored approach
to managing the myriad activities in the contemporary supply chain. ...
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... Part 2 of this blog series then outlined the five drivers for retailers to act vertical,
and the three key tenets of the approach. ...
Abstract: While competitive costs (low and flexible software license pricing and implementation costs) and outstanding global service
(proven fast implementations and customer loyalty) will remain important requirements for success, particularly in the lower
end of the market, vertical focus will be the key factor(...)
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... Both ERP products show strength in these vertical markets, although the ...
multinational companies that need the coordinated, standardized, worldwide approach. ...
Abstract: 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(...)
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... may prefer integration vendors with renowned product strength, vertical expertise, financial
... The best-of-breed approach could still often provide the selection ...
Abstract: Online advertising network Adsmart will be developing ad networks based on vertical business-to-business markets. This may
reduce some of the variability of reliance on consumer sites, but is a quite different business from the one they are used
to.(...)
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... Adsmart is now setting up a special network with vertical categories that ...
advertisers of consumer products are used to the shotgun approach of advertising in ...
Abstract: There is certainly room to ask the fundamental question of whether the traditional practice of RFI/RFP-based selection processes
has been adequate for the task of selecting complex systems. The record indicates there is much room for improvement. In essence,
for complex selections like in the case of ent(...)
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... Proponents of both approaches will cite reasons why their approach is the "right
way ... one will typically be able to drill down to both vertical solutions (eg ...
Abstract: Over the last few years the market has seen a plethora of fixed-scope and fixed-price applications, pre-packaged vertical
solutions with industry templates, limited education and training, implementation tools, attractive support programs and hosting
services with catchy names, all aimed at making it fas(...)
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... The fact that SAP has so far qualified only three vertical solutions, primarily for
the service industry sector, serves as a ... Is a fast-path approach good or bad ...
Abstract: In the short term, Microsoft Dynamics SL will likely follow the professional services automation (PSA) trend of extending
functionality to the Web. In the long term, its eventual absorption into the Microsoft Dynamics product line may affect Microsoft's
strategy in the project portfolio management market(...)
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... Microsoft's Dynamic New Approach to Professional Services Automation Neil Stolovitsky
... a unified solution that will serve the various vertical markets requiring ...
Abstract: webMethods, Inc. has released a set of Packaged Integrations — pre-built software solutions that can be used to rapidly automate
common cross-application business processes. The company claims Packaged Integrations make it possible to accelerate implementation
by up to 80 percent and reduce implementa(...)
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... Taking the pre-packaged vertical application approach and the ability
to rapidly automate common cross-application business processes will have strong appeal ...
Abstract: CODA's savvy accounting and financial offerings include budgeting, forecasting, scorecards, and tools that use Microsoft Excel
spreadsheets collaboratively and securely. However, CODA must defend its narrow specialist and best-of-breed approach against
larger-scale integrated enterprise system offerings.(...)
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... a generic functionality, and not a module for a specific vertical. ...
integrating disparate systems; although CODA's integration-friendly approach is commendable ...
Abstract: Key concerns for PLM prospects will be domain knowledge in design and engineering-specific functions and integration, including
currently poor connections from Oracle workflow to third-party business applications and CAD/PLM interfaces.(...)
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... Oracle E-Business Suite is still the best-attuned offering (in terms of pricing, vertical
extensions, customizability, professional service approach, etc.) to ...
Abstract: 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.(...)
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... may prefer integration vendors with renowned product strength, vertical expertise, financial
... The best-of-breed approach could still often provide the selection ...
Abstract: Having garnered cash amounting to the GDPs of many developed countries, software giant Microsoft has treated itself with another
'billion plus' acquisition of its long-term partner and recent competitor, Navision, a business application provider for the
mid-market. Will this move fill the gaps of earlier(...)
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... should come in handy to Microsoft Great Plains' team, which has also been grappling lately with devising
its localization and vertical industries approach. ...
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