Erp News & Articles

Microsoft is putting more of its home-grown apps into the cloud, as it improves the capabilities of the Windows Azure cloud platform. Enterprise users can expect Photosynth and Dynamics NAV to be on the Azure platform, along with several other Enterprise Resource Planning apps that will follow by 2012.

V1 document management landed in the US from Britain two years ago. Since then it has expanded in all directions, developing its re-seller channel and partners, including Oracle. This week, it has just announced that it is building on the Oracle connection and providing integrated document management to Oracle’s E-Business Suite.

Enterprise resource planning just got easier as Workday's (news, site) iPad application goes live on the iTunes App Store. While Workday's web app has a mobile-optimized version that can be used both on desktop and mobile, this iPad-specific app comes with unique features that make enterprise collaboration and resource planning more intuitive on a tablet interface.

This week, in what may be a response to Microsoft’s recent moves to integrate its products, Google Apps and NetSuite team up and the result is definitely good for SMB. Xerox and Cisco have also partnered, CA offers data protection on Azure, while TrendMicro offers backup for very small businesses.

This week, there was some interesting news in the mobile space, with Google finally offering a new Docs app for Android, Sony enters the tablet wars, SMBs are looking to smaller vendors for their ERP deployments, there’s further confirmation that SMBs are taking to social media, while eFileCabinet has integrated with Intuit’s Quickbooks.

The second day of Oracle’s Collaborate conference was, again, a fruitful one, with clarification on the support timelines for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Update 2 and World A9.2 Update 1 ERP systems, a new integration between PeopleSoft and Primavera P6 and a new survey from the Oracle Applications Users Group that assesses difficulties involved in application upgrades.

Microsoft (news, site) has finally given businesses a look at its enterprise resource planning software (ERP) Dynamics AX 2012 -- due for beta release later this month and for general release in August -- and has made some vague commitments to enabling access to it in the cloud, although when and how was not explained.

Early in 2009, UK-based Version One announced that it was setting up in the US as V1 (news, site). At the end of that year, it announced that it had moved into the Canadian market with a partnership with CA-Plus. A few months later, it said it was looking to expand its reseller channel rapidly. This week, it has announced another partnership, again in Canada, this time with Toronto-based Bredet Services.

With a competitive business model, a vibrant developer community and 35 active partners around the globe, OpenERP may be the most impressive open source software company you have never heard of.

A final look at SAP’s (news, site) Hanover CeBit show that has finished this week comes from the Sales OnDemand application, due to be put on general release  by the middle of the year -- and which might be able to give Salesforce CRM and Microsoft Dynamics a good run for their money.

In the SMB space this week, a look at research that confirms what many have suspected: The cloud space in the SMB sector has yet to be fully exploited. We also find out that Facebook is the principal online market tool for small businesses, while Openbravo offers SMBs the agile ERP.

Microsoft and SAP have finally released the polished version of their recent joint Duet program that ties SAP (news, site) software with Microsoft (news, site) applications. In 2005, when the project was originally launched they tied Office with SAP’s enterprise resourced planning software, this time they tie SAP and SharePoint 2010.

Microsoft is still teasing the market with its Dynamics releases. This time, it’s the announcement that it will be releasing a technical preview of its enterprise resource planning software (ERP) at the beginning of February, with a full release scheduled for the third quarter of this year.

There probably isn’t a whole lot of mileage in reporting that Oracle (news, site) has just released its Q1 figures, which show that it made buckets of cash again. ‘Buckets’ might be a tad vague, so just for the record, revenue grew 47% to US$ 8.6 billion with net income growing 28% to US$ 1.9 billion.

The slow drip feed of information about the release of Microsoft Dynamics SL 2011 ERP has started with Microsoft (news, site) announcing that it will be released in English in the US and Canada in the second quarter of next year.