SAP to unveil Web agenda
After several months of floating internet trial balloons, this week SAP AG will start trying to convince users that it has a coherent plan for supporting Web-based computing with R/3 and its other applications.
Stories by Craig Stedman
Feature: What's next for ERP?
Installing an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system to fix year 2000 problems is pretty much a thing of the past.
SAP offers details on new e-commerce software
SAP has provided more details about its emerging e-commerce plans, saying that a suite of software that supports online business is due for shipment by the end of September.
SAP ahead of users in e-commerce push
For some users who want to follow SAP down the e-commerce path, there's a not-so-small issue they need to take care of first: finishing their SAP R/3 installations.
Oracle to address packaged goods customer woes
Faced with continued problems in bundling together a set of internal and external applications for consumer packaged goods companies, Oracle is starting to develop some of its own functionality to meet the needs of those high-profile users.
Survey: ERP costs more than measurable ROI
ERP projects typically cost users more than they pay back in measurable financial benefits, according to a survey released last week by Meta Group.
SSA eases tie-in to third-party software
System Software Associates (SSA) plans to ship middleware that's supposed to make it easier for users to tie the vendor's financial and manufacturing applications to supply-chain planning tools and other products.
J. D. Edwards Buys Premisys for $12 Million
J. D. Edwards & Co. today announced a deal to buy The Premisys Corp., a small developer of software used to specify product designs.
CASE STUDY - Big Retail SAP Project put on Ice
Nash Finch Co., one of the first users to buy a version of SAP R/3 for
retailers, last month shelved most of its US$76 million project after development delays made it impossible to install the software in time for the year 2000.
SSA Refocus Kills Most Unix Development
Leaky application vendor SSA is sending out an SOS - and throwing software projects overboard to lighten its load.
Trying to end its money-losing ways, Chicago-based System Software Associates Inc. (SSA) this week halted development of its applications for all Unix systems except Hewlett-Packard Co.'s.