Moving to Web Applications? Don't Forget Bandwidth
Before Millipore Corp. began an upgrade of its ERP system, the maker of purification devices had a lot of plumbing work to take care of.
Before Millipore Corp. began an upgrade of its ERP system, the maker of purification devices had a lot of plumbing work to take care of.
A new online service is emerging: transportation exchanges that let companies use the Web to automate logistics operations such as arranging product shipments to buyers both in the U.S. and overseas.
SAP AG is hiring a boatload of developers as it tries to catch up to more nimble vendors in application areas such as e-commerce and customer relationship management. But increasingly, it's also turning to key R/3 users for help.
SAP AG said it has software development staff increased by almost 15 percent this month in an effort to accelerate the delivery of new applications for e-commerce, data warehousing and other uses that go beyond the back-office stronghold of its R/3 enterprise resource planning (ERP) system.
Even at this advanced stage in the development of ERP systems, some users are discovering that the software isn't flexible enough to handle all of their needs for order entry and processing.
Information technology may not be the first thing on the minds of executives at Glaxo Wellcome PLC and SmithKline Beecham PLC as they move forward with a $76 billion merger deal that was announced last week.
In an attempt to stop a management brain drain at the U.S. subsidiary of SAP AG, the German software vendor's shareholders last week approved a plan to start offering stock options to senior executives and other "top performers."
IBM Corp. and Industri-Matematik International Corp., a Swedish vendor of order-management software, next week plan to announce a combined set of inventory replenishment applications aimed at retailers.
Users who plan to follow Oracle Corp.'s new road map for centralizing their global enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems on a single database server may have a lot of prep work to do first.
The Sage Group PLC, a U.K.-based vendor of accounting software that runs on PCs, today said it signed a deal to buy Best Software Inc. in Reston, Va., for $445 million in cash.
For the third straight quarter, Chicago-based W W Grainger expects problems related to the installation of a new SAP R/3 system to put a damper on its earnings.
Baan last week confirmed that its telephone support workers have been told to stop providing off-hours assistance to users who don't have 24-hour support contracts.
JD Edwards has today launched an Internet-based application hosting service for its ERP and supply-chain management software.
While Baan Co. was releasing a barrage of more bad news, rival PeopleSoft Inc. - itself no stranger to struggles - last week said it expects to report a small operating profit for the fourth quarter of last year.
For the third straight quarter, Chicago-based W.W. Grainger Inc. expects problems related to the installation of a new SAP R/3 system to put a big damper on its earnings.