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Q&A: Understanding Infor’s TDCI Acquisition and the CPQ Market
Infor recently announced the acquisition of TDCI for its product configurator that works with Dynamics and other ERP solutions, as well as TDCI’s MAC-PAC ERP product, which further strengthen’s Infor’s hand in the IBM iSeries market. How about an expert’s … Continue reading
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Tagged configurator, CPQ, Experlogix, ISV Showcase, M&A, Oracle, SAP, Siebel, TDCI
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Hmmm. Gartner, are you sure about that $1.1 billion Dynamics CRM number?
Gartner Group has released its latest report on the worldwide CRM market, including growth and marketshare numbers for the top 5 vendors. Salesforce.com has taken over the number one spot from SAP on the strength of 26% growth, while SAP … Continue reading
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Tagged AX, CRM, Dynamics CRM, Gartner Group, GP, Marketshare, NAV, Oracle, Salesforce.com, SAP, SL
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Cloud CRM Price Comparison Guide
Maximizer, Dynamics CRM, NetSuite, Oracle CRM OnDemand, SugarCRM, Salesforce.com, SAP, and Zoho. That’s a pretty good list of the alternatives for cloud based CRM, and with prices for each. We don’t have much more to say than that. Over on … Continue reading
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Tagged Dynamics CRM, Maximizer, NetSuite, Oracle CRM OnDemand, pricing, Salesforce.com, SAP, SugarCRM, Zoho
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Enterprise Software Sucks. Infor’s stategic direction, the good, the bad, the ugly
We’ve run across what is hands-down the best summation of what is being announced at Infor’s big conference this week, and its prospects at becoming the vendor that breaks through the Oracle-SAP duopoly in the enterprise software market. Given that Microsoft has … Continue reading
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Tagged Enterprise, Infor, Infor 10, Infor 10x, integration, ION, ming.le, Oracle, product roadmap, SAP
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SAP and Oracle fare best as software growth slows
Um, what? Well, it’s true, SAP and Oracle have fared the best, IF you exclude the growth in Microsoft Dynamics and a host of other providers. Really a bit of a misleading headline if you think in terms of the … 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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So it’s true. While SAP’s HANA business grows, the rest of its software falters
As SAP hinted at great growth around its HANA in-memory database, it led to some speculation last week that the company was inflating the numbers on that product, at the expense of the rest of the business SAP earnings are out … Continue reading
Oracle rolls out new in-memory applications, plays “me too” with SAP
SAP has been getting a lot of buzz for its in-memory database and applications. The buzz is far, far ahead of actual adoption and customer results, but even so Oracle’s marketing machine wasn’t going to cede this ground to SAP … Continue reading
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Tagged appliance, Exadata, HANA, In-Memory, J.D. Edwards, Oracle, PeopleSoft, performance, SAP, TCO
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UNIT4 chief to Oracle and SAP: “Bring it on”
First, it’s good marketing strategy…getting yourself mentioned in stories with the 800 pound gorillas of the industry. Second…let’s just say it is not false bravado. Unit4 can and does win against these guys, just like we do with Dynamics.
SAP Business ByDesign and BusinessOne on a collision course
Damn right. And at certain levels within SAP, the company is apparently clueless about the impending problem. That’s a bit of a surprise as the company has been making moves to push ByDesign downmarket past the imaginary line the vendor … Continue reading