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March 16, 2010, 11:31 am | 0 Comment(s)

NetSuite is certainly a force to be reckoned with on the ERP front, but last week Microsoft announced a plan to take on the ERP giant—fisticuffs ensued.

Microsoft threw the first punch on Thursday, when they announced an aggressive three-month plan to poach NetSuite customers. Until the end of June this year, Microsoft is offering a credit of up to $850 for every NetSuite user that switches to one of Microsoft’s ERP platforms, which are Dynamics GP, Dynamics NAV, and Dynamics SL.

February 15, 2010, 3:01 pm | 0 Comment(s)

SAP & Waste Management: The $500 Million Battle

These days, it’s tough for SAP to do anything without making the news. Though to be fair, this tidbit from last week is very much headline-worthy: Waste Management is seeking $500 million from SAP for an allegedly failed ERP implementation.

February 10, 2010, 2:13 pm | 0 Comment(s)

How Will SAP Refocus Now That Léo Apotheker Has Resigned As SAP CEO?

While most Americans were crowded around a television watching the Super Bowl, SAP kicked off its week in a different way: they announced on February 7th that Léo Apotheker was stepping down as CEO, and resigning from the company’s executive board. Apotheker became the sole CEO toward the end of 2009, and shared that spot with Henning Kagermann prior; SAP will return to the co-CEO chain of command, with Bill McDermott (head of field organization) and Jim Hagermann Snabe (head of product development) taking the helm.

January 27, 2010, 1:48 pm | 0 Comment(s)

More Web 2.0 in ERP: Sage Gets Hip with An Updated Flagship Product

Sage forewarned us of their leap into Enterprise 2.0, and this week they gave more details of the impending splash: their flagship Sage ERP X3 v6 will have a cloud extension called the Enterprise Webtop. It’s an admitted change in Sage’s working vision, and during development, the emphasis was on the user and ensuring the product could adapt to the user’s modus operandi—i.e. whether they prefer desktop or web applications.

January 19, 2010, 5:24 pm | 0 Comment(s)

SAP Is Under Fire for Maintenance Fees -- Why Isn't Oracle?

Last year it seemed like there was nothing SAP could do right. They were attacked on pretty much all fronts—cost, deployment options, maintenance fees—and while criticisms weren’t wholly unwarranted, they were perhaps not all necessary.