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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

Top 10 ERP Systems

July 08, 2010

We now have about 50 systems participating in our free on-line service that will match the Top 10 ERP Systems to your requirements based on a short online survey.
We continue to enhance our tools and have just completed the development of an RFP tool that will automate the creation of RFPs as well as the [...]

Infor, Microsoft join on ERP push

July 08, 2010

June 23, 2010 from ComputerWorld – “Microsoft’s SharePoint collaboration product will serve as a foundation for “portal based, unified interfaces for all Infor applications,” Infor said in a statement. The vendor will also use Microsoft’s Silverlight RIA (rich Internet application) platform; Microsoft Reporting Services for BI (business intelligence); and Microsoft Single Sign-On for identity management. [...]

Consona buys cloud ERP vendor Compiere

July 08, 2010

June 16, 2020 from ComputerWorld – “Consona has purchased on-demand ERP (enterprise resource planning) vendor Compiere, a move that gives it a place at the cloud-computing table, it was announced Wednesday. Terms were not disclosed.
Compiere is a bit of an anomaly in the ERP world, being both cloud-based and open source, although it does have [...]

Measurements to Navigate By

July 08, 2010

October 2008 from Service Performance Insight – “…Running a Professional Services Organization (PSO) is very complex – it is a game which must be won with “singles and doubles”, not homeruns; so it is imperative to know which KPI’s are “essential”, ones PSOs must continually measure, and ones that are “nice to have” but not [...]

Global CIO: Oracle's Phillips Says Standardizing On Oracle Is The IT Cure

June 07, 2010

April 23, 2010 from Information Week – “Phillips says the mix-and-match approach is killing IT organizations, and the only salvation is standardization (on Oracle, of course)…”
180 View – It’s a slippery slope to standardize on one vendor.

SAP Will Buy Sybase; Does It Mean a Shift in Strategy?

June 07, 2010

May 13, 2010 from Newsfactor – “In the largest technology industry acquisition of the year, SAP announced plans to buy Sybase for about $5.8 billion. SAP said the merged company will focus on serving “unwired enterprises.”
There are clear synergies between SAP and Sybase across both product lines and markets. SAP expects the merger to help [...]

SAPPHIRE NOW 2010 – The Quest For Innovation

June 07, 2010

May 24, 2010 from Forrester – “…With 5,000 attendees in Frankfurt, 10,500 in Orlando and 35,000 online participants, this was the biggest SAPPHIRE event ever.…”
180 View – If you’re interested in what happened at SAP’s really big show, this link is a good way to glean the highlights without needing to watch online videos…

Microsoft Dynamics GP Review

June 07, 2010

December 2007 from CPA Technology Advisor – “This review encompasses four of the top high-end accounting systems in the market place. Each system is aesthetically pleasing to work with, and each provides an intuitive user interface and a full set of modules to accomplish most any task or process…” Products reviewed are Microsoft Dynamics GP, [...]

Deltek Announces Its Intent To Acquire Maconomy

June 07, 2010

June 3, 2010 from Forrester – “Deltek’s announcement today of its intent to acquire Maconomy has the potential to vault the vendor’s position as a potential leader in the project-based solutions (PBS) space. For midmarket organizations that deliver projects as a crucial part of their revenue generation, this is a good move…”
180 View – Seems [...]

A Guide to Selecting the Right ERP Partner

June 07, 2010

2010 from Epicor – “…Organizations can typically choose from four principal types of ERP vendor partners who deliver solutions around the following models:

Partner ecosystems
Frameworks
Integrated best-of-breed
End-to-end embedded solutions…”

180 View – You can bet that Epicor falls into the type that has the least disadvantages.

Best-of-Breed or Integrated Suite? 10 Questions to Consider

June 07, 2010

May 6, 2010 from Software Advice – “…How truly integrated is the integrated suite vendor’s offering? If the ERP vendor acquired the system, it may not be “truly” integrated. It might just be a best-of-breed system with some basic integration. If they built it themselves, it could use a different code base and therefore not [...]

Global CIO: Oracle's Larry Ellison Declares War On IBM And SAP

May 04, 2010

March 29, 2010 from InformationWeek – “…In Oracle’s earnings call late last week, Ellison promised that the second half of 2010 will be a momentous one for not only Oracle but also the entire IT industry and its enterprise customers because that’s when Oracle will roll out its completely reengineered Fusion software lineup along with [...]

Microsoft and NetSuite battle in ERP space

May 04, 2010

April 19, 2010 from WebCPA – “Not so long ago, NetSuite barely factored in to Microsoft’s ERP business, but a recent initiative by the mammoth technology concern has channel partners on both sides agreeing that Microsoft has become concerned about NetSuite’s rising status in the market.
In March, Microsoft announced that it would pay $850 to [...]

Lawson's cloud services: good start, but no SaaS

May 04, 2010

March 31, 2010 from The Enterprise System Spectator – “…The overhead and expense, even with Lawson’s new offering on Amazon’s cloud, will be far above what SaaS providers experience. True multi-tenant SaaS providers, such as Salesforce.com and NetSuite, make changes once, and the entire customer base experiences them instantly. This is especially a benefit to [...]

Implementation Nightmare

April 05, 2010

March 2010 from IndustryWeek – IndustryWeek posed the following hypothetical problem inviting solutions to the problem which have also been published on their site.
“One year ago my company embarked on an enterprise-wide implementation, selecting an ERP system and a suite of software to address our primary business functions. This decision was not made lightly. Lestornia [...]

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