The whole point of enterprise resourcing planning (ERP) software is to meet a cross-section of industry needs, and Infor is reinforcing that point with a TV commercial that shows how its CloudSuite is changing the worlds of manufacturing, health-care and even sports. The 30-second spot offers a whirlwind tour of prototypical customers of CloudSuite, a […]
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Oracle OpenWorld 2018 brings FedEx, Juniper and others to discuss their progress in the cloud
Oracle this week is using its OpenWorld 2018 conference to showcase how some of its major B2B customers are moving to cloud-based applications that can use machine learning to streamline and speed up business processes. In a general session that was livestreamed from OpenWorld 2018 in San Francisco, Oracle executive vice-president of applications product development […]
‘You’re kind of bumming me out, Clive Owen,’ character tells actor in latest SAP TV spot
His suit is immaculate and his delivery is pitch-perfect, but beyond that, Clive Owen is surrounded by problems in his latest TV commercial for software giant SAP. The star of Croupier, Closer and many other films spends his most recent outing for the enterprise application vendor’s marketing campaign walking through a litany of business and […]
Magento Commerce discovers why many B2B firms aren’t completely sold on the capabilities of e-commerce tools
More than half of B2B organizations said integration with legacy technologies is hampering their adoption of e-commerce tools and 37 per cent say they lack the ability to support various sales channels, according to a research study from Magento Commerce. While 85 per cent of organizations said they were interested in offering customers ways to […]
SAP launches C/4HANA at CRM users taking a ‘Me2B’ approach to sales
SAP on Tuesday used its annual Sapphire Now user conference to announce a customer experience software suite dubbed C/4HANA that will include a what it called a “fourth generation” customer relationship management tool, along with the acquisition of a field service software firm called Coresystems. C/4HANA will include SAP’s Sales, Marketing, Commerce and Service Clouds, […]
TechTarget CMO suggests a more holistic way to think about lead gen quality
The many online magazines published by TechTarget cover everything from enterprise resource planing applications to data storage and servers, but the one technology innovation that’s unlikely to be covered by its editors and reporters is its own toolset for helping marketers gather more accurate, actionable sales leads. Earlier this month TechTarget announced updates to its […]
B2B Solution of the Week: Salesforce Ecosystem
While Salesforce continues to chart growth in uncharted territory as the standard-bearer of the cloud computing revolution, it also brings along the participants in its CRM ecosystem. So many other companies build their own solutions in one way or another on the Salesforce platform. This week seemed a watershed with a number of significant announcements. […]
B2B Solution of the Week: How to avoid the pitfalls of ERP implementation
It’s the granddaddy of all B2B applications: enterprise resource planning (ERP) software. Many flavors of ERP exist today on premises and in the cloud, however, they all share a level of implementation complexity fraught with danger. What can B2B practitioners do to ensure that their ERP implementations have a maximum chance of success? A number […]
Infosys acquires SaaS company Panaya
Infosys announced on Monday the company is acquiring the Israel-based automation technology provider Panaya Inc. The terms include $200 million in cash with the deal being closed before March 31, 2015, once customary closing conditions are satisfied. Infosys, India’s third largest software services company by revenue, has generally been conservative with its acquisition strategies, as Financial Express […]
Inside the Lifecycle of ERP – What’s Changing Now
Licensing a new ERP solution is akin to moving to a new home. It’s rarely fun. It is expensive, time-consuming and full of potential risk. Either task helps you understand: How much clutter you’ve accumulated. Who your true friends are. Your real motivation for going through all this. Just how expensive this process is. And, […]
SAP revamps business suite with ‘biggest launch in over two decades’ (Sponsored)
With the launch of its latest business suite of hybrid-computing products, SAP is responding to the increasingly-crowded financial software market lead by emerging cloud companies. The new business suite of HANA-driven applications is dubbed SAP S/4 HANA, and it is the company’s biggest launch in over two decades. HANA has been the company’s crown jewel for the last […]
4 signs that it’s time to replace your ERP system
This article originally appeared on Membeburn. Copyright Memeburn.com 2015. The enterprise resource planning (ERP) market is evolving at a rapid pace as a result of technology innovation. At the same time, most businesses are changing themselves as they try to keep up with the frantic pace of business in the digital era. That means that […]