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Arena Solutions: More Than Just a Pretty Facelift
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
For over a decade, Arena Solutions has been redefining the product lifecycle management (PLM) space with a suite of cloud applications that enable engineering, manufacturing, and their extended supply chains to work better together — from first prototype to full-scale production. In 2000, the two co-founders founded bom.com, a Web-based application for managing items, bills of material (BOMs), [...]
10 Tips for Checking Your Software Implementer’s References
Monday, May 14, 2012
Your organization has selected to purchase an enterprise resource planning (ERP) software—or any other type of software for that matter. The next step is to find the software provider that will deliver and implement the software for you. This can be the vendor, an independent software vendor (ISV), or an authorized reseller, often called a [...]
Product End-of-life: A Primer
Monday, May 14, 2012
There are five stages that usually make up the lifecycle of a product: introduction, growth, maturity, decline, and termination.
During introduction, companies typically focus on the success of the product. Maturity is the stage when their focus is to take advantage of momentum and sell as much as possible. Only during maturity or decline do they [...]
AribaLIVE 2012 – Cloud B2B Commerce Coming of Age
Monday, May 14, 2012
After a hiatus of several years, the stars and planets were again aligned for me to be able to attend the AribaLIVE conference in early April 2012. And boy, what a difference several years can make! The last time I attended, in the mid-2000s, Ariba was behind its worst times of the early 2000s and [...]
A Quick Look at Version 6.5 of Sugar CRM Professional
Friday, May 11, 2012
Sugar CRM announced the latest version of its customer relationship management (CRM) solution at Sugarcon 2012, its annual conference. After the event, I had a very interesting conversation with Jan Sysmans, senior director of product marketing, and Chris Bucholtz, editor-in-chief of CRM Outsiders, and would like to share the most interesting findings here with you.
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TEC Industry Watch: Enterprise Software News for the Week of May 7th, 2012
Thursday, May 10, 2012
SOFTWARE SELECTIONS AND GO-LIVES
Los Angeles County selects SAS to provide analytics services and applications
Industry tags: BI/business analytics
“Los Angeles County will use SAS predictive analytics and data mining solutions as well as SAS BI solutions to fight organized fraud within the Department of Public and Social Services. Uncovering more than 200 probable fraud cases = BI [...]
An Amateur Software Buyer’s Guide to Outplaying Vendors
Wednesday, May 09, 2012
Whether it is an enterprise resource planning (ERP), a customer relationship management (CRM), or any other system, acquisition and deployment of enterprise class software is usually a significant move for a company of any size and industry. It leads to disruption of the company’s business activities, so much so that hardly any employee is left [...]
TIBCO Releases Spotfire 4.5—Extending Data Access, Analysis, and Mobile Features
Wednesday, May 09, 2012
TIBCO, a Palo Alto, California—based provider of a diverse number of business and information technology (IT) software applications, has announced the availability of TIBCO Spotfire 4.5, its business intelligence and analytics platform. This new version contains enhancements in different functional areas.
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Cloud ERP Wars Intensifying in Full Force(.com)
Wednesday, May 09, 2012
The first of week of May marked a flurry of news by up-and-coming cloud enterprise applications vendors. During salesforce.com’s Cloudforce event in Chicago, Kenandy, Inc. announced release 2.0 of Kenandy Social ERP, the first cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) system built entirely on Force.com, salesforce.com’s social enterprise cloud computing platform. The new release adds financials [...]
Make Sure Metrics Don’t Kill Your Business
Tuesday, May 08, 2012
Measuring programming progress by lines of code is
like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
—Bill Gates
Business metrics—the quantifiable measurements by which a company’s performance is gauged—are part of the broad area of business intelligence (BI) or business analytics (BA).
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Better Visualization and Performance with Pentaho Business Analytics 4.5
Monday, May 07, 2012
On April 25, Pentaho delivered Pentaho Business Analytics 4.5, and I had a chance to get a sense of its new features via a demo prepared by Pentaho. Two main topics were at the forefront of this new offering from the Orlando-based company: visualization and performance.
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Nuxeo Content Management Platform, a Backgrounder
Monday, May 07, 2012
Nuxeo sees its content management product as the base for organizations to create their own content-centric business applications. The company offers some interesting tools to aid in this process, which I’ll get to in a moment. Nuxeo also offers its own distinct modules for document management, case management, digital asset management, and with the recent [...]
Talking to an Unrelenting Cloud Enthusiast – Part 1
Monday, May 07, 2012
During my several years of attending events organized by the cloud computing evangelist salesforce.com, such as Dreamforce and Cloudforce, Xactly Corporation has always had a prominent stand at the expo floor (another fixture at these events has been BigMachines, and not surprisingly the two vendors are close partners). In a nutshell, Xactly’s on-demand software lets [...]
Hannon Hill Cascade Server for Content Management
Friday, May 04, 2012
Hannon Hill has grown its content management application over the years so that today’s solution targets midsized organizations with a depth of functionality at an accommodating price point. Hannon Hill’s Cascade Server is frequently adopted within higher-education institutions (roughly 80 percent of its clients) but Hannon Hill has also maintained a focus on the public [...]
TEC Industry Watch: Enterprise Software News for the Week of April 30th, 2012
Thursday, May 03, 2012
SOFTWARE SELECTIONS & DEPLOYMENTS
European manufacturer of construction chemicals selects IFS Applications
Industry tags: Process manufacturing, mining
“Polish corporation Atlas Group, which operates 18 business entities and 5 mines in Poland and internationally, has selected IFS Applications as its corporate-level ERP system. The first areas slated for implementation will be financials, distribution, manufacturing, maintenance, controlling elements, consolidation, trade [...]
IBM to Extend Analytics Portfolio by Acquiring Vivisimo
Wednesday, May 02, 2012
IBM has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Vivisimo, a provider of federated data discovery and navigation solutions. This acquisition will enable IBM to reinforce its offering in the enterprise search and data discovery spaces.
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Jaspersoft and VMware to Start Delivering BI for Cloud Applications
Wednesday, May 02, 2012
Today Jaspersoft entered into a partnership agreement with VMware to integrate Jaspersoft’s business intelligence (BI) platform into Cloud Foundry, the open platform as a service (PaaS). This will make it possible for Jaspersoft to provide analysis and reporting capabilities within a cloud-based application development framework.
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Jaspersoft on Amazon Web Services Marketplace
Monday, April 30, 2012
Jaspersoft has decided to take the JasperReports Server Community Edition and make it available on Amazon’s recent offering called AWS Marketplace, free of charge. This will make it possible for users to use JasperReports as a preconfigured Amazon Machine Image (AMI) to be deployed as part of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).
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Amazon Launches Web Services Marketplace
Monday, April 30, 2012
In a very interesting move in what I would call a software consumerization trend, much like the AppStore, recently Amazon launched Amazon Web Services Marketplace (AWS Marketplace). The new service from Amazon will make available a number of cloud-based software to its users.
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Research and Updates
TradeStone Software Presents Bamboo Rose
TradeStone’s merchandise lifecycle management (MLM) platform unifies the design, sourcing, ordering, and delivery of private-label and branded goods, allowing fashion, apparel, footwear, and accessories retailers to leverage a “single version of the truth.” The company’s latest innovation, Bamboo Rose, is a global e-market community for retailers and suppliers who want to exchange ideas and product information before they buy.
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When Is Talent Management Really Right for Your Business?
Many organizations realize that developing and managing talented employees is integral to the success of their business. But how do you know whether your company is ready for talent management? And if so, how do you go about actually managing your talent? In this article, TEC human capital management (HCM) analyst Sherry Fox answers these questions and outlines an approach to an effective talent management initiative.
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4 Steps to Successful Succession Development Planning
So you’ve determined that you need to develop a succession planning strategy in anticipation of the retirement of key personnel. Now what? How do you identify and select the employees for development and who do you need to involve in the process? In her latest article, TEC human capital management (HCM) analyst Sherry Fox outlines key considerations and four essential steps to a successful succession planning initiative.
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How Airlines Can Stop Getting Murdered by Maintenance Costs
Patchwork maintenance repair and overhaul (MRO) systems can cost large airlines millions in duplicated effort, extra inventory, and delays. But with round-the-clock schedules to maintain, few airlines can afford to upgrade to an integrated MRO solution any time soon. Today TEC Analyst Philippe Reney looks at two ways airlines can improve their MRO capabilities without a complete IT overhaul.
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What’s Up with xTuple—and Open Source ERP?
You may be wondering how the open-source ERP vendor xTuple operating with a workforce of only 27 can compete on the same stage with the software giants. Find out how as TEC principal analyst P.J. Jakovljevic looks at xTuple’s current ERP offerings and commercial editions, and speaks with xTuple CEO Ned Lilly on the vendor’s social capabilities, product development focus, market and competitive landscape, and future outlook.
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Vendor Spotlight Report: W4
Business process management (BPM) software vendor W4’s philosophy is to mix the best of BPM tools and applications with its model-driven application development framework. Download this report to find out how this philosophy has shaped W4's flagship platform BUSINESS FIRST, along with an analysis of BUSINESS FIRST's features and functionality from TEC BI Analyst Jorge García.
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Mobile BI: Features, Challenges, and Opportunities
What does your organization need to consider when adopting a mobile business intelligence (BI) or business analytics strategy? What are the enablers, challenges, and opportunities of a mobile BI strategy implementation? In this report, we explore considerations for deploying a mobile BI solution, how to leverage this type of platform to best advantage, and why a mobile BI/analytics solution can be a valuable asset for your company.
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BI Maturity and Software Selection Perspectives
While new technology trends are invading the business intelligence (BI) space, technology shifts and hype do not necessarily equate to the ability to exploit the best tools for enhancing business performance. To select a best-fit BI solution, an organization needs to be able to realistically assess the maturity of its BI infrastructure. This allows them to discover where they are, what their BI requirements are, and how to determine the best BI solution or strategy. Download the full report now.
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Changing Trends in Regional Government Enterprise Solution Requirements
Download this report for in-depth analysis of the software priorities for regional and local governments, based on TEC software selection project data. Key issues include factors related to change, cloud computing, transparency and accountability, and collaboration and shared services. Also in this report: analysis of interviews with governmental clients of UNIT4, located in various areas of Western Europe and the US.
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MODX Web Content Management: Vendor Profile
Open source vendor MODX provides a modern, highly flexible, Web standards–compliant Web content management (WCM) framework. TEC’s Director of Knowledge Services Josh Chalifour profiles MODX—its background, business practices, revenue streams, and community. MODX’s WCM systems, Evolution and Revolution, are being used for a significant quantity of sites around the world. Find out more in this report.
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ERP Software Selection Case Study: Titan Flow Control Finds a Logical ERP Partner in TGI
Titan Flow Control, Inc. manufactures check and butterfly valves, pipeline strainers, pump products, fabricated designs, and accessories for industrial and commercial use. In 2008, Titan launched an enterprise resource planning (ERP) selection process to find a system that would meet its requirements for growth. Download this case study to learn about the benefits Titan experienced after selecting TGI's Enterprise 21 ERP software.
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ERP Software Selection Case Study: DCI Cheese Company Manages Rapid Business Growth with Enterprise 21 ERP
To facilitate business expansion, DCI Cheese Company engaged in an enterprise resource planning (ERP) evaluation process to select a system capable of supporting its multiple companies, divisions, and business units—and to provide a single data source for real-time business information and transaction processing. Download this case study to find out why DCI selected TGI's Enterprise 21 ERP.
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Case Study: When More Than Gourmet Needed a Cost-effective Solution, Enterprise 21 Offered the Perfect Recipe
Prior to selecting TGI's Enterprise 21 ERP system, Brad Sacks, More Than Gourmet’s founder and chief executive officer, had a vision—to become a culinary leader in providing premium French demi-glace, stocks, and sauces, with a rapid expansion plan to reach European and Asian markets. Today, Sacks attributes much of his company’s growth and success to Enterprise 21. Download this case study to find out why.
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ERP Software Selection Case Study: Cane Creek Cycling Components Rides Its Business on Enterprise 21 ERP
In 2008, Cane Creek Cycling Components, a manufacturer of high-end bicycle components, engaged in a comprehensive software evaluation project to select an enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution that would serve as its information and transactional backbone, and to accommodate future business growth plans and software needs. Download this case study to learn about the process that led the company to select TGI's Enterprise 21 ERP.
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TEC Helps SNK Canada Transform Its IT Consulting Business
In late 2011, SNK Canada was engaged to help a sports management client select operations, accounting, and IT management software to replace a legacy system. The client was suffering productivity losses, and the cost of the legacy software was a growing concern. Learn how Technology Evaluation Centers (TEC) helped SNK Manage the complexities of the project, so SNK could quickly identify the right system for the client.
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Transactional Data: Driving Real-Time Business
A global survey of IT leaders shows that most organizations find it challenging to convert high volumes of fresh transactional data into knowledge that business users can efficiently access, understand, and act on. SAP and HP are tackling this challenge head-on. Download this article to learn more.
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SAP In-memory Computing Technology: Changing the Way Business Intelligence Is Managed
Download this white paper to find out how in-memory computing can change the way you manage business intelligence, and the value your business can derive from the technology. For business and IT executives, this paper furnishes information and business examples about what changes they can look forward to and how those changes can catalyze their strategic initiatives.
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SAP HANA Demystified
What is SAP HANA? And how does it work? Download this primer on SAP HANA to get clear answers to these and other questions.
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Real-time Business: Playing to Win in the New Global Marketplace
To be successful in the data-driven economy, companies must leverage intelligence instantly and take immediate action. At the same time, they must ensure their decisions are based on proper data and analysis. So how are today's executives responding? To explore these issues, Oxford Economics surveyed 525 executives in March 2011. Download this report for full analysis of the results.
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Prepare for the Quantum Leap in Real-time Analytics: How In-memory Analytics Is Going to Change Everything about Your Enterprise
For business leaders facing the radical, disruptive change represented by in-memory analytics, the response may range from enthusiasm and advocacy to apprehension and fear. Regardless of your particular posture, the smart company needs to understand how in-memory works and what it represents, and craft a purposeful roadmap for their in-memory future. Download this primer on in-memory analytics to learn what it all means for you.
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