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The long term view of SAP’s innovative strategy
Have you bought into the hype that vendors like NetSuite are eventually just going to overrun the old guard like SAP? People who buy into that line of thinking have little understanding of where SAP is headed. Coming out of it’s Sapphire … Continue reading
47% of 9% divided by 50 equals…peanuts
That’s the math for most Sage customers to think about. The company has divided its products into three groups, Invest, Harvest, and Sunset. It boasts to financial analysts about the amount or resource being put into the Invest products, but … Continue reading
Salesforce.com will soon see SAP in the rear view mirror
SAP delivered $2.6 billion in CRM revenue during 2012, an increase of a mere 0.1% from the prior year. Salesforce.com grew 26% in 2012, delivering $2.5 billion in revenue. While it will soon lead SAP in revenue, it long ago … Continue reading
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Tagged CRM, innovation, leadership, Marketshare, mobility, Saas, Salesforce.com, SAP
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Now that is an accurate description of Sage’s business model
Sure, this comes in an April fools post on the source blog, but the humor is in the form of venting over some dysfunctional offerings from Sage. Good humor is often based on truth. There is a lot of painful truth for … Continue reading
Dynamics GP vs. NetSuite – A Reality Check Part Four
Continuing the series…more good stuff on Dynamics GP vs. NetSuite, this time dealing with some specific elements of TCO that don’t go away just because your solution is in the cloud. There is also a collection of specific (some outrageous) … Continue reading
Enterprise software and the curse of vendor sameness
Cloud, on-premise, enterprise, SMB….doesn’t matter, all the vendors kind of sound the same. Play a game of marketing buzzword bingo on their websites,, press releases, and brochures, and you’ll be quick to get a blackout. We like the way the … Continue reading
Infor remaking itself into an innovative software leader?
After buying nearly everything that moved and amassing over 100 different code bases, Infor has really changed its tune. Do they want to be more like Sage, or more like Microsoft? They appear to be choosing the latter.
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Tagged Baan, Infor, innovation, Intentia, ION, Lawson, Lilly, MAPICS, Syteline, Visual Manufacturing
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But seriously, what’s REALLY in the new release of MAS 90
Some people have suggested that Sage invests relatively little in R&D into the Sage 100 (formerly MAS 90) product. That it shouldn’t because very few new customer buy it and it’s more about keeping the current base on maintenance contracts. … Continue reading
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Tagged innovation, integration, MAS 200, MAS 90, roadmap, Sage 100, Sage 100 ERP 2013
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Blog post redux: Making the case that Microsoft sucks less than the other guys
We’ve written a number of recent posts that have dealt with the high cost of several competitive solutions, and the low level of R&D investment some (most) of those products receive. It’s a software maintenance game, where companies invest less than they … Continue reading
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Tagged AX, CRM, Dynamcis, Epicor, GP, innovation, Lawson, NAV, NetSuite, Oracle, return on maintenance, Sage, Salesforce.com, SAP, SL
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Microsoft commits to making Dynamics work on Windows 8
We should hope so. Anyone at the opening keynote for Convergence was treated to a sneak peak of what Dynamics AX might look like in a metro, Windows 8 style user interface, but it was a concept, without a defined … Continue reading