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To Gain Market Share in the Mid-Market, SAP Leaves No Stone Unturned ( Pages)
by Kevin Ramesan
Jun 30, 2003 Abstract : The star above small and medium businesses (SMB) has never been so bright. CRM solution vendors are courting this market segment extensively. This is the second of a series of articles that look at strategies deployed by major enterprise solution vendors to attract the SMB decision makers and whether those vendors are ''dumbing down'' their enterprise software for the mid-market. This article evaluates SAP's mid-market solutions and its implementation approach.
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Geac Gets Its Commonsense Share Of Consolidation, With Revolving Door CEOs No Less Part Three: Challenges and User Recommendations ( Pages)
by P.J. Jakovljevic
Aug 14, 2003 Abstract : The rejuvenated management team has done a praiseworthy job of bringing the company back to health while concurrently unveiling a new System21 product that can compete with the other products in the market. Deep vertical functionality, process integration, and the communication of a detailed product strategy blueprint to the market should help users manage total cost of ownership (TCO) during this era of conservative IT budgets.
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Welcome to the CRM Mid-Market Abyss-PeopleSoft ( Pages)
by Kevin Ramesan
Jun 26, 2003 Abstract : As the market shifts from sophisticated enterprise CRM implementations to the more competitive and overcrowded mid-market-large enterprise vendors tend to step on mid-market vendor's toes. The real concern is to determine whether the mid-market cultural and functional differences are well understood and acted upon or do the large players simply offer a smaller mockup of their existing enterprise solutions. This article, which evaluates the PeopleSoft mid-market CRM solution, is the first of a series of research articles that focus on the mid-market applications provided by large CRM vendors.
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IBM Tries to Take More Market Share from Oracle, BMC, and CA ( Pages)
by M. Reed
Sep 22, 2000 Abstract : IBM has announced a four-year, $200 million investment to make it more cost effective and easier for companies to manage data on IBM S/390 enterprise servers. They will attempt to compete more effectively with Computer Associates (which acquired Platinum Technology and Sterling Software), BMC, and Oracle in the lucrative database tools market.
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Exact Software Continues with Its Share of Judicious Acquisitions ( Pages)
by P.J. Jakovljevic
Jan 9, 2006 Abstract : Through determined and prudent product enhancement initiatives, Exact Software demonstrates itself as an earnest enterprise in the small and medium market, and it is growing its global base.
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Geac Gets Its Commonsense Share Of Consolidation, With Revolving Door CEOs No Less Part Two: Market Impact ( Pages)
by P.J. Jakovljevic
Aug 13, 2003 Abstract : Geac is now a financially conservative, stable but acquisitive organization that has remained profitable despite the general IT industry downturn. Geac’s future focus on delivering new functionality to its heartland of existing customers and industry verticals, while building out its technology to make its existing products more future-proof, seems prudent. Geac is also targeting new customers through Extensity, Comshare and other front-end applications.
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Geac Gets Its Commonsense Share Of Consolidation, With Revolving Door CEOs No Less ( Pages)
by P.J. Jakovljevic
Aug 12, 2003 Abstract : By continuing to achieve stable financial performance and leverage customer requirements to deliver new product enhancements, as well as undertake palatable acquisitions such as Comshare, Geac might well overcome a lingering general feeling that it missed its opportunity to be a top-notch applications vendor. Still, losing five CEOs within five years may sound disconcerting to some, although Geac might contest that.
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Analyst / SCT Share Vision at SCT User Conference ( Pages)
by P. Catz
May 21, 2001 Abstract : The SCT User Conference featured industry analysts from Gartner Group, AMR Research and Meta Group each sharing its vision for the future of enterprise systems with the audience. Customers, in special interest groups and in presentations discussed their success with SCT’s products. SCT showed both their existing product set plus their vision for the future with a series of product announcements and prototypes of future products.
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Information Security Firewalls Market Report Part One: Market Overview and Technology Background ( Pages)
by Laura Taylor
Mar 1, 2005 Abstract : The firewall market is a mature and competitive segment of the information security market. With numerous vendors and firewalls in all price ranges choose from, IT decision makers should be especially selective. This report presents a market overview and some criteria for selecting products from the long list of contenders.
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