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ERP: Sales Flat or Declining as Customers Make Do with Existing Software

By Dick Weisinger

While increases in IT spending are expected for most areas of IT in 2011, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software looks to be the exception.  Forrester Research expects that ERP spending will decline in 2011, although only slightly.  And 2010 ERP…

SaaS and ERP: Tearing Down the Walls of On-Premise ERP

By Dick Weisinger

In the world of SaaS applications ERP has been a laggard.  ERP solutions have typically been been built with very expensive and highly customized software, while SaaS applications have been at the other end of the price spectrum and while…

The Enterprise IT Revolution: OS Gains Momentum Across Enterprises

By Dick Weisinger

Open Source is having a profound affect on Enterprise IT.  In the early days of Open Source worries around support, scalability, reliability, security, and IP kept most Enterprise customers away from even seriously considering Open Source.   While many of…

SaaS ERP: Business in the Clouds

By Dick Weisinger

CRM continues to be the most successful category of application running in the cloud.  A recent survey in the UK by Really Simple Systems found that the split between companies using on-premise CRM versus those that use a cloud-based version…

PLM: Synergies from Merging Product and Application Lifecycle Management

By Dick Weisinger

Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) is the process of managing the lifecycle associated with building software, that include tools for managing requirements, architecture, coding, testing, tracking, and release management.  Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is the process of managing the entire lifecycle…