TEC Products

Supply Chain Management (SCM) Software Evaluation Reports http://rfp.technologyevaluation.com/rfi.asp?catid=SCM Supply Chain Management (SCM) Evaluation Center http://scm.technologyevaluation.com/ Supply Chain Management (SCM) RFP Templates http://rfp.technologyevaluation.com/store.asp?catid=5

SAP, PeopleSoft Earnings Look Brighter; ERP Strikes Back

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... effect of the following major factors: the Y2K-caused market ... to e-commerce (B2B, B2C), supply chain management (SCM), client relationship management (CRM ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/BusinessApplications/2000/01/news_analysis/NA_BA_PJ_01_26_00_1.asp - 7k - 2000-01-26 Summary: On January 7, taking many by surprise, enterprise software giant SAP pre-announced fourth quarter earnings, saying pre-tax earnings had doubled the final quarter of 1999 after a third-quarter profit warning. License revenue skyrocketed 40% to 800M EUR ($822.7M U.S.) in the fourth quarter and sales rose 2

ERP Demand Being Re-heated

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... effect of the following major factors: the Y2K-caused market ... to e-commerce (B2B, B2C), supply chain management (SCM), client relationship management (CRM ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/BusinessApplications/2000/04/news_analysis/NA_BA_PJ_04_19_00_1.asp - 10k - 2000-04-19 Summary: As reported on March 5 in The Dallas Morning News/KRTBN -- E-commerce may get all the attention, but information technology experts say the demand for enterprise resource planning professionals is almost as hot.

PeopleSoft Gathers Manufacturing and SCM Wherewithal Part Two ...

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... distracted by extraneous events like the Y2K bug frenzy ... offerings more on the supplier relationship management (SRM ... on true strategic and complex SCM bits and ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Erp/2004/01/research_notes/EN_ER_PJ_01_26_04_1.asp - 24k - 2004-01-26 Summary: The PeopleSoft-J.D. Edwards merger was, in great part, about retaining the big five (or big four, or big three) seat and the need to be bigger within shrinking market opportunities. The combined vendors should now a have solid foothold against SAP and Oracle, particularly because one better-performing si

Where Is ERP Headed (Or Better, Where Should It Be Headed)? Part 1 ...

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... most ERP vendors is mostly attributable to the Y2K-problem caused ... markets, such as supply chain management (SCM), customer relationship management (CRM ... http:/.../ResearchHighlights/BusinessApplications/2001/04/research_notes/TN_BA_PJ_04_18_01_1.asp - 23k - 2001-04-18 Summary: ERP applications are the information backbone for contemporary manufacturing enterprises. This note identifies current trends in the ERP market that we believe businesses that are both current and potential ERP users should be cognizant of in order to appropriately manage their expectations.

PeopleSoft - Catching Its Second Wind From The Internet Part 1 ...

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... 1998, facing an industry wide Y2K problem-caused ... strides into supply chain management (SCM) and business ... The PeopleSoft 8 Supplier Relationship Management (SRM ... http:/.../ResearchHighlights/BusinessApplications/2001/06/research_notes/VN_BA_PJ_06_05_01_1.asp - 27k - 2001-06-05 Summary: PeopleSoft, once a high flyer owing to its congenial culture and slick ERP product, has invested two years and over a half billion dollars to develop a number of new, Internet-based enterprise applications that have apparently propelled it back on the enterprise applications top chart. It has now emerged

PeopleSoft Revamps World for Its Mid-Market 'Express' Conquest ...

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... Thus, many enterprises facing tight Y2K-related deadlines ... advanced collaborative functionality, scalability, SCM, customer relationship management (CRM ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Erp/2004/07/news_analysis/NA_ER_PJ_07_27_04_1.asp - 24k - 2004-07-27 Summary: 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

SAP Posts Solid Q499, but Warns of Q100

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... effect of well-known major factors: the Y2K-caused market ... to e-commerce (B2B, B2C), supply chain management (SCM), client relationship management (CRM ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/BusinessApplications/2000/02/news_analysis/NA_BA_PJ_02_07_00_2.asp - 8k - 2000-02-07 Summary: On January 24, SAP announced its preliminary year-end results and warned that the costs of its new employee stock option plan and marketing and staff additions for its mySAP.com Internet software system would likely outpace sales in the first quarter of 2000.

The ERP Market 2001 And Beyond Aging Gracefully With The ...

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... of companies on Year 2000 (Y2K) remediation brought the ... yesterday's hot items like customer relationship management (CRM), supply chain management (SCM) or e ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Erp/2001/10/research_notes/MN_ER_PJ_10_03_01_1.asp - 23k - 2001-10-03 Summary: Although we believe that exorbitant growth rates are a matter of the past, growth will remain the word associated with the ERP market in the 2000 s. ERP will, however, have to share the spotlight with the fast growing adolescent ERP-adjacent areas like SCM, CRM and e-procurement.

Mid-Market ERP Vendors Doing CRM & SCM In A DIY Fashion Part 2 ...

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... Mid-Market ERP Vendors Doing CRM & SCM In A DIY Fashion Part 2: Market ... The Y2K-problem caused a market slump in 1999 and the current protracted global economic ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Erp/2002/04/news_analysis/NA_ER_PJ_04_22_02_1.asp - 19k - 2002-04-22 Summary: Tier2/Tier 3 vendors are prepared to endure the onslaught of the likes of SAP, Oracle, and PeopleSoft, as well as of proverbial mid-market leaders such as J.D. Edwards, Baan, Intentia, QAD, IFS and Epicor, and newly formed mid-market juggernauts like Microsoft Great Plains, Best Software (formerly Sage S

Wrong ERP Demise Predictions Have (Only Partly) Created Skills ...

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... The Y2K-caused market slowdown; The Fortune 500 market saturation; ... shift to e-business, supply chain management (SCM), client relationship management (CRM ... http:/.../ResearchHighlights/BusinessApplications/2001/02/research_notes/EN_BA_PJ_02_02_01_1.asp - 22k - 2001-02-02 Summary: With so much frenzy surrounding e-business and CRM applications, ERP may be a far cry from its halcyon days. However, ERP implementation skills are still in demand, particularly as a foundation and a facilitator to other sexier applications.