Apr 30, 2009
Market Service: IT Management and SOA
Are NetSuite and Rootstock Showing the Future of ERP
Ian Finley
...announced the beta version of its new MRP software-as-a-service (SaaS) product as well as its first customer, Xtellus, a growing global manufacturer of optical networking technology. Rootstock's MRP offering was built in 18 months using NetSuite's NS-BOS platform. It's also integrated with NetSuite's OneWorld SaaS ERP suite
Nov 21, 2008
Market Service: IT Management and SOA
Should Your ERP Vendor Be Your SOA Vendor
Ian Finley
A company's ERP system is often its biggest software investment. Does doubling down and buying your SOA infrastructure from the same vendor make sense? Surprisingly, the answer depends on your business strategy, not on the technology
Feb 8, 2007
Enterprise Application Strategies
SOA What? SOA Seeks a Purpose in an ERP World
Bill Swanton, Ian Finley
With all of the major ERP vendors hyping the wonders of service-oriented architecture as the ultimate solution to business flexibility and total cost of ownership, the reaction we get from most of our enterprise applications clients is "SOA what?" SOA's significance for ERP customers should become clearer this year; but today most users remain...
Nov 6, 2009
Market Service: ERP
SaaS Integration With SAP a Pleasant Surprise at Brady Corporation
Ian Finley
Imagine integrating Salesforce CRM with SAP ERP, with the project taking half the time and resources expected. This is exactly what happened at Brady Corporation. No strangers to SAP integration, Brady IT credits salesforce.com's service-oriented architecture and tools for the unusually easy integration effort. At least sometimes, integrating SaaS and on-premises applications can be...
Mar 19, 2009
Market Service: IT Management and SOA
NetSuite Wants You On Its Cloud
Ian Finley
NetSuite's new developer network is the latest shot in the war for customers, software vendors, and systems integrators. It's also a key part of the company's strategy to dominate ERP for small and midsize businesses (SMBs), as well as a part of the emerging battle between software-as-a-service (SaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) providers for dominance in the cloud
Feb 22, 2008
Market Service: IT Management and SOA
Workday and Cape Clear: An Aberration or a Trend?
Ian Finley
Workday's acquisition of Cape Clear makes sense for Workday-the move helps further differentiate the company from traditional ERP vendors-but it's hard to understand Cape Clear's rationale. Why did a product leader in horizontal SOA technology agree to become the integration tool for a SaaS startup? Is this combination an aberration? Or is this a sign that the enterprise software market is changing irreversibly
Feb 5, 2008
Retail Strategies Service
IBM Aims To Be the Foundation for a Retail Platform
Robert Garf, Ian Finley, Dennis Gaughan, Dana Stiffler
...grow at a CAGR of 7% the next five years, passing the $10B mark in 2011. To capitalize on this demand, IBM recently introduced its Retail Integration Framework. Although IBM has strong professional service and technology infrastructure products, these assets weren't necessarily packaged and delivered comprehensively for retail ERP implementations
May 31, 2007
Market Service: Customer Management
Should You Make Your Software More "SaaSy"?
Robert Bois, Ian Finley
Any software vendor from the desktop tools providers all the way to full blown ERP providers are being forced to react to the growing impact of SaaS on their markets. New vendors are building SaaS models from the ground up, while established vendors are debating whether to switch, hedge, or stick to the model that got them where they are. But what are the...
Sep 15, 2009
Oracle EBS Peer Forum
Oracle Peer Forum Teleconference: Structuring the E-Business Suite To Enable Business Flexibility
Ian Finley
Leveraging standard functionality, wherever possible, is the best way to enable business flexibility with Oracle EBS. We also discussed where flexibility is most important and how to use standard Oracle functions to extend EBS while preserving future flexibility.
Jul 7, 2009
Market Service: IT Management and SOA
Oracle Will Cause a Major Earthquake in Enterprise Software This Summer
Ian Finley
The enterprise software market will be shaken up when Oracle completes its acquisition of Sun Microsystems and Java. Some say it will have little or no effect-but don't believe it. We'll examine how it will likely impact enterprise software and services vendors as well as the tens of thousands of companies that rely on them.