CSC secures WA police IT contracts
Western Australia Police has entered into two five-year IT service contracts with CSC for application support and consulting services.
Western Australia Police has entered into two five-year IT service contracts with CSC for application support and consulting services.
It's no accident that only a handful of sessions at SAP's upcoming Sapphire conference feature Business ByDesign, the company's entry into on-demand ERP (enterprise resource planning) software for the midmarket, according to a top company official.
There's open source software, then there's the cloud, and thus far, the two have been mutually exclusive. But that is starting to change.
Melbourne-based oil and margarine manufacturing company Peerless Foods has snubbed the multi-national ERP vendors and developed its own software to manage everything from invoices to product distribution.
Conventional wisdom and decades' worth of IT project failures and less-than-desirable outcomes tell us that every tech-related investment-from a massive SAP ERP rollout to a small Salesforce.com SaaS CRM deployment-comes with some amount of risk.
On-demand ERP vendor NetSuite is targeting large SAP users with a new offering that links its OneWorld application to SAP systems.
Issuing corporate smart phones isn't just about catering to the preferences of the next generation. As a lower-cost alternative to company laptops, mobile phones might be better suited to the current economic climate.
This week's Microsoft Convergence conference in New Orleans will likely be light on new product announcements but heavy on talk about how the vendor's ERP and CRM software can help companies adapt to change and save money in challenging economic times.
A new vendor-sponsored survey finds that some European and North American SAP customers are largely continuing with ERP (enterprise resource planning) system upgrades amid the global economic downturn. But the main reason cited was the end of vendor maintenance for their product versions.
The weak economy has companies of all sizes and types moving to cut costs, and for U.S. bedding manufacturer Select Comfort, those choices have included a decision to halt all work associated with a wide-ranging SAP ERP (enterprise resource planning) project. And documents on file with a government regulator indicate that shareholder pressure may have contributed to the move.
SAP will bring a unified interface across its suite of business applications over the next few quarters as part of an ongoing effort to make its software easier to implement, according to company co-CEO Leo Apotheker.
ERP vendor Epicor said Thursday it is cutting an unspecified number of jobs as part of a plan to save US$16 million to $20 million each year.
SAP will extend maintenance for its ERP 6.0 platform and other products until 2017, and in a partial olive branch to angry customers, has sweetened the feature set of its Enterprise Support service, the company said Thursday.
The lawsuit filed by Waste Management against SAP in March over what the trash-disposal company claims was a botched ERP (enterprise resource planning) implementation is growing increasingly rancorous, with accusations of withheld information and deliberate foot-dragging.
Two open source companies have partnered to provide an integrated enterprise resource planning and business intelligence offering that should minimize the complexity that an open source deployment typically renders.