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ERP Evaluation Center

Nov 8, 2009
Today's usage of Decision Support Systems (DSS), combined with vetted ERP knowledge bases, allows organizations to save time and money, achieving better and more reliable/fully-documented decisions, a quantum improvement over the widely-used subjective process of selecting complex enterprise software...
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Nimble Enterprise Applications Vendor Faces Stiff Challenges in A Competitive Environment ( Pages)
by P.J. Jakovljevic
Aug 11, 2006 Abstract : Despite intensifying competition in the enterprise applications market, IFS likes its chances. IFS has released the seventh generation of its component-based applications, while competitors are still on their first, or second at best. Nevertheless, IFS has a tough road ahead.
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What's Wrong With Enterprise Applications, And What Are Vendors Doing About It? Part Two: A New Framework Strategy ( Pages)
by P.J. Jakovljevic & Olin Thompson
Jun 23, 2003 Abstract : Building replacement products on a new framework is a higher risk strategy. The product functionality still quite matters and, while it is important for enterprise applications providers to implement the latest computer science 'quantum leap', there is no guaranteed correlation between first-to-market and the ultimate success in the market (in fact, based on many experiences, one could even argue that the correlation might be inverse).
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What's Wrong With Enterprise Applications, And What Are Vendors Doing About It? ( Pages)
by P.J. Jakovljevic & Olin Thompson
Jun 21, 2003 Abstract : With increased competition, deregulation, globalization, and mergers & acquisition activity, enterprise software buyers realize that product architecture plays a key role in how quickly vendors can implement, maintain, expand/customize, and integrate their products. Many in the enterprise applications vendors' community recognize that these are unmet realities and are attempting to offer solutions that will deal with them. While it is not practical to look at every strategy and every vendor's nuance, this note looks at some important examples representing distinct strategic approaches.
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Enterprise Applications--The Genesis and Future, Revisited Part One: 1960s--Pre-Computer Era ( Pages)
by P.J. Jakovljevic
Mar 31, 2004 Abstract : Knowing the history and evolution of enterprise applications is essential to understanding their current use and future developments. Each step in the evolution of the software is built on the fundamentals and principles developed within the previous one, which holds true for the contemporary phase of the 2000s as well.
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Driving Factors in The Enterprise Applications Market ( Pages)
by P.J. Jakovljevic
Mar 23, 2006 Abstract : The enterprise applications market is converging resulting with fewer providers; however, there are still the same number of competing systems. What are the factors that are driving the market and what are the emerging trends?
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Why Database-agnostic Enterprise Applications Are on the Way Out ( Pages)
by Rick Veague and Dan Matthews
Mar 12, 2007 Abstract : Middleware agnosticism is the wave of the future, and the database platform is becoming part of the application. It has therefore become increasingly important that vendors of enterprise applications offer a wider range of middleware choices to organizations.
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Glossary of Enterprise Applications Terminology Part Two: Just-in-Time Through Extensible Markup Language (5 Pages)
by P.J. Jakovljevic
Mar 29, 2004 Abstract : As enterprise applications systems developed over time, a continuous stream of new terminology surfaced. This is a glossary of those terms.
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Glossary of Enterprise Applications Terminology Part One: Accounts Payable Through Internet (4 Pages)
by P.J. Jakovljevic
Mar 27, 2004 Abstract : As enterprise applications systems developed over time, a continuous stream of new terminology surfaced. This is a glossary of those terms.
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Glossary of Enterprise Applications Terminology Part Two: Just-in-Time to Extensible Markup Language ( Pages)
by P.J. Jakovljevic
Dec 25, 2004 Abstract : As enterprise applications systems developed over time, a continuous stream of new terminology surfaced. This is a glossary of those terms.
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