Enterprise Technology Blog

 This may seem an odd topic for this blog, but hang in there and you’ll see the connection.
I got into a discussion the other day about why people buy. The conversation came around to the world of enterpise software - where I live - and that’s when it got interesting.
The ERP market is by most measures [...]

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Here’s a story you don’t see every day.
In the SME space it’s not unusual for a growing company to change its ERP system.  The same does not hold true for larger enterprises, however. Among large enterprises, its most often easier to live with the incumbent system than to deal with the pain of replacing it. In the case of [...]

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Two months ago Forrester Research predicted a 9 per cent growth in IT spending for 2008, today the Financial Times reports that the forecast has been revised downwards by 1/3 to 6 per cent growth.  
Andrew Bartles, author of the Forrester report makes two very important points:

Unlike the 2001 tech bubble, this is a slow down in spending [...]

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ASUG (America’s SAP User Group) has selected Diane Palmquist, SoftBrands vice president of SAP Products and star of the podcast series on SAP Business ByDesign, to be a presenter at the 2008 ASUG Annual Conference.
Diane will present: The 3 Reasons You Can’t Afford to Ignore Software-as-a-Service
If you listened to the podcast series you know that SaaS [...]

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SoftBrands was named the SAP Software Solution Partner of the year for 2007 at the recently completed SAP FKOM APJ event in Singapore. 
We can add this to the two awards SAP presented to SoftBrands at the US FKOM event earlier in January. 
The awards tally for 2007:

Top 10
Solution Partner Sales Excellence Award for Revenue
SAP Software Solution [...]

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