Joshua Greenbaum
Joshua Greenbaum
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The trend toward project-based operations is gathering momentum. Since IFS is one of the few companies offering a comprehensive, completely integrated, project-based solution, the company is well positioned to support enterprises in their transition toward the Project Economy.
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I saw the plane dive. Next thing I knew -- boom -- it came down.
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Oracle has tremendous problems being industry expert. SAP has had more success at that end.
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Neither traditional ERP applications nor project planning software is designed to meet these needs. Making low-volume prototypes and managing a complex array of suppliers, designers, and marketing initiatives requires software that can link all these activities together within a project planning framework.
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They are missing functionality, process and data models that are going to go into the functional areas. These are very complicated things that have to be dealt with to build the suite. At the end of the day, I walked away saying Oracle is going to have serious trouble meeting a 2008 deadline.
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So the volume per user will go up probably significantly, which may make up for the lower overall deal size.
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The good news is that Microsoft has cracked the nut. The bad news is, the more successful they are with making the story public, the more they show that the SAP product line is a reasonable option as well.
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This proves to me that there is still a lot of competition in the marketplace and, particularly, that SAP does not have a lock on the market. What this says is that there's a lot of issues in a competitive deal and that the market system still works for enterprise software.
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The explosive growth in the size and quantity of databases is a well-known phenomenon in virtually every vertical industry. Making intelligent use of this data is now seen as a major part of companies' efforts to improve their operational efficiency; to better serve customers and partners; to develop, market and sell better products; and to stay on top of their regulatory and compliance requirements. SAND Technology's SAND/DNA reveals a unique and creative way to solve the problems endemic to data warehouse archiving.