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The objective for this site is to provide an unbiased portal to ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems, ERP Value Added Resellers (VARs) and relevant ERP articles. The systems and VARs listed are those we know about and do not imply a recommendation by 180 Systems. We have also provided links to those vendors or VARs that have provided a reciprocal link or sponsored our site.

Recent ERP Articles

ERP Modernization: Why It’s a Top Priority for Midsize Companies in 2012

May 02, 2012

March 2012 from Oracle – “The last great wave of ERP modernization occurred in the lead-up to Y2K, but according to industry experts, a unique set of business, economic, and technological forces are converging to make ERP modernization a top priority once again in 2012…
The panelists identified the following forces that are driving this burgeoning [...]

Brain drain: Where Cobol systems go from here

May 02, 2012

March 14, 2012 from InfoWorld – “…More than 50 years after Cobol came on the scene, the language is alive and well in the world’s largest corporations, where it excels at executing large-scale batch and transaction processing operations on mainframes. The language is known for its scalability, performance and mathematical accuracy. But as the Boomer [...]

Microsoft Dynamics ERP on Azure: What Are the Benefits?

May 02, 2012

March 27, 2012 from The Enterprise System Spectator – “Last week I attended Microsoft’s annual Convergence conference, for users and partners of its Dynamics line of enterprise applications. The back-to-back briefings were a great opportunity to get an update on where Microsoft is going with enterprise applications.
But the big news from my perspective is that [...]

Larry's Long Reach

May 02, 2012

March 14, 2012 from Forbes – “…NetSuite has found itself fashionable. Last year its revenues totaled $193 million, up 16% with operating losses of $25.6 million. Its stock has jumped 248% in the last two years. Ellison’s 50.5% stake, worth $930 million, is no longer a mere rounding error in his $27 billion net worth…
And [...]

System selection, done right — Part 2

March 05, 2012

March 2012 from CAmagazine and written by Michael Burns – “…The whole selection process will take a minimum of three to four months, with most of the time allocated to waiting for the vendors to respond to the RFP and preparing for the demonstrations. We are very sympathetic to vendors that go through this rigorous [...]

Accelerate IT Delivery, Or Die

March 05, 2012

February 17, 2012 – “It is amazing how quickly technology moves. Today, cloud computing and mobile technology are changing the way enterprises and consumers live, work and play. But even with advances made each day, enterprise-level IT continues to move at the same old plodding pace. No doubt, the speed of technology innovation makes it [...]

ERP Projects: Do You Have Many Needs or Just Too Many Consultants?

March 05, 2012

February 21, 2012 from BlogNotions – “…It is no secret most software-consulting firms will attempt to pile as many of their consultants on your project as humanly possible. At the same time, the situation I find most unnecessary is when firms convince their clients more experts are required to do the work their existing consultants [...]

Lessons Learned: ERP Failure

March 05, 2012

November 2011 from ACA Group and written by Lisa Anderson – “…One of the largest and most commonly repeated mistakes is to forget about the culture. It doesn’t matter if you’ve purchased the latest, best, world-class system; if you haven’t considered your culture in your selection and implementation plans, you can count on failure…”
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Mischaracterization of Multitenancy in an SAP-sponsored Blog Post

March 05, 2012

February 20, 2012 from The Enterprise System Spectator – “… SAP Business ByDesign (ByD) is a full multi-tenant ERP offering for SMBs. It is a well-known fact that SAP’s first attempt at ByD employed a single-tenant architecture, similar to that proposed by Lai in his blog post. That iteration was not successful in that, according [...]

The ERP Selection Process

March 05, 2012

November 17, 2012 from CFO – “The selection and implementation of a new Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system is probably the most critical IT decision you and your organization will ever make and it’s not an easy task identifying which of the available solutions will meet your organization’s evolving requirements. An ERP system will have [...]

SAP Leads, Oracle Lags In Enterprise Apps

February 15, 2012

January 17, 2012 from Information Week – “The results are in from most of the top names in on-premises ERP software, and the results are clear: SAP is leading, Infor and Epicor are doing well, but Oracle is lagging big time. SAP on Friday released preliminary numbers for its fourth quarter ended Dec. 31, 2011, [...]

ERP Project Ownership: Do Organizations Plan to Fail?

February 15, 2012

January 6, 2012 from Toolbox.com – “Within the ERP industry it is common to hear software-consulting firms say: “The system failed because our client did not take ownership of their project.” While this is often true, I find this statement a little perplexing…do senior managers in most companies spend millions of dollars on ERP with [...]

Why Oracle May Really Be Doomed This Time

February 15, 2012

February 11, 2012 – “…Back when it was starting its $20 billion buying spree of companies in 2006, analysts all said the strategy would fail. There were a lot of compelling arguments why.
People said that the assets of a software company are the engineers and the engineers would go elsewhere. People argued that Oracle fundamentally [...]

Avoiding the pitfalls of ERP system implementation

February 15, 2012

Spring 2004 from Information Systems Management – “By definition, ERP systems are both integrated and comprehensive solutions. Each of their modules has many features and options. It is impossible to vet each function and feature before signing on the dotted line. Often, an ERP vendor promises a new feature in the next version of its [...]

Massive Air Force ERP software project still struggles

February 15, 2012

February 13, 2012 from Computerworld – “A massive Oracle ERP (enterprise-resource-planning) software project being conducted by the U.S. Air Force continues to experience difficulties, with the defense agency deciding to toss out some completed work as part of a restructuring plan that will be announced soon, according to an official communication released last week…
Dubbed the [...]

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