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SAP Assembles Cloud Powerhouse with Ariba, SuccesFactors Acquisitions

SAP Assembles Cloud Powerhouse with Ariba, SuccesFactors Acquisitions

By Zoli Erdos on May 22, 2012

Emphasis on  “assemble”, as opposed to develop.  For years SAP and Oracle fought a religious war of acquire/assemble vs develop in-house.  SAP’s view was (even under the current Co-CEOs) that you can only get to a coherent, seamlessly integrated suite by development.  Apparently they have changed religion, borrowing a chapter or two from Larry Ellison’s […]

Posted in Application Software, Business, Enterprise, Featured Posts | Tagged ariba, Business ByDesign, erp, larry ellison, Lars Dalgaard, netsuite, procurement, sap, sapphirenow, successfactors, workday

Netbooks Emerges from Hibernation as WorkingPoint: SaaS for SMB, with Nicer UI but Reduced Functionality.

Netbooks Emerges from Hibernation as WorkingPoint: SaaS for SMB, with Nicer UI but Reduced Functionality.

By Zoli Erdos on June 17, 2009

(This post is now updated, see bottom)Netbooks, provider of an Integrated SaaS Business Suite for Very Small Businesses came out of hibernation with a new name: WorkingPoint. In the never-ending debate of all-in-one vs. best-of-breed  I tend to represent the “old-school” which believes in the value of having one tightly integrated system for most business […]

Posted in Marketing, Product reviews, Small business | Tagged accounting, Accounting Software, bearingpoint, Branding, Business ByDesign, business names, CRM, enterprise software, erp, inventory management, manufacturing software, netbooks, netsuite, on-demand, order fulfillment, procurement, quickbooks, saas, salesforce.com, small business software, smb, sme, vsb, workingpoint | 1 Response

Oracle Launches Sourcing On-Demand.  So Much for the Gibberish-talk :-)

Oracle Launches Sourcing On-Demand. So Much for the Gibberish-talk :-)

By Zoli Erdos on March 9, 2009

Image by wicho via Flickr “The interesting thing about cloud computing is that we’ve redefined cloud computing to include everything that we already do. I can’t think of anything that isn’t cloud computing with all of these announcements. The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women’s fashion. Maybe I’m an […]

Posted in Enterprise | Tagged enterprise software, erp, larry ellison, netsuite, on-demand, Oracle, procurement, saas, sap, sourcing, Supply Chain | 1 Response

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