For Business Process & Applications Professionals

The State Of ERP 2009: Market Forces Drive Specialization, Consolidation, And Innovation

by Paul D. Hamerman, November 2, 2009

As the enterprise resource planning (ERP) software market struggles against an unprecedented tide of economic woes, strategic opportunities are surfacing for customers. Soft market conditions mean fewer deals for vendors and better deals for buyers of . . .

For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Looking Beyond Oracle's Global Partner Network For PeopleSoft Implementation Expertise

by Liz Herbert, October 31, 2008

Many clients ask Forrester to help identify PeopleSoft providers beyond Oracle's Global Partner list for projects ranging from full-scale implementation projects to add-on work, to training, and to upgrades. These other firms demonstrate the ability to . . .

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ERP Applications 2008: The Battle Goes Vertical

ERP Vendors Refocus On Industry And Midmarket Strategies

by Paul D. Hamerman, June 23, 2008

The enterprise resource planning (ERP) market continues to mature at the upper end as the two titans — Oracle and SAP — look to extend their footprints in multinational enterprises. Industry functionality is becoming paramount for success in the ERP market, . . .

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Enhancement Packages Improve SAP Upgrade Value

by R "Ray" Wang, May 29, 2008

By 2009, the majority of SAP customers will face the end of standard support and extended support arrangements. To take advantage of service-oriented architecture (SOA) and SAP ERP 6.0, customers will have to move on to SAP NetWeaver 7.0, SAP's new technical . . .

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A Tale of Two Models For Instance Consolidation

Business Process Approaches On The Journey Toward Single-Instance ERP

by R "Ray" Wang, February 6, 2006

While governance models are a key factor in instance consolidation, additional factors include product and services homogeneity, the geographic nature of the business, and company size. Because achieving "big-bang" single instance requires a colossal . . .

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ERP Applications — Market Maturity, Consolidation, And The Next Generation

by Paul D. Hamerman, Byron Miller, April 2, 2004

ERP is maturing and consolidating as vendors seek to acquire a critical mass of customers and maintenance revenues. License revenues will rebound from declining to minimal growth, with maintenance becoming the bulk of the business. Significant opportunities . . .

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Enterprise Application Vendor Assessment 2004: PeopleSoft

by Paul D. Hamerman, Byron Miller, January 7, 2004

While PeopleSoft will not threaten SAP¿s dominant position, it must develop a more innovative vision and technology strategy to enhance its market position during the next two to three years.

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Organizations and CEA/ERP: Evolving Together Toward the Virtual Enterprise

by Byron Miller, January 6, 2004

Organizations that demand a fully integrated information environment should choose ERP vendors that are committed to an architecture that supports the Extended Internet (X Internet), integration by messaging, and services provided by components.

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PeopleSoft Should Trim Its Product Strategy

by Charles Homs, David Metcalfe, Paul D. Hamerman, November 13, 2003

PeopleSoft offers the market three product lines: Enterprise, Enterprise One, and Enterprise World. To ensure that this recipe for license growth contributes to better margins, PeopleSoft should trim development costs and push the open source stack.

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Comparing the Comprehensive Enterprise Application Vendors

by Byron Miller, Paul D. Hamerman, July 22, 2003

Three large software vendors, SAP, PeopleSoft and Oracle, will continue to dominate the enterprise applications software market, offering a broad array of applications to support the transactional and management needs of most types of large companies.

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Market Overview 2003: Comprehensive Enterprise Applications

by Byron Miller, Paul D. Hamerman, April 3, 2003

The large tier-one vendors will grow at a faster overall rate than tier-two and tier-three vendors due to their breadth in faster-growing sectors, like CRM, SCM, SRM, PLM and analytical applications.

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Enterprise Application Vendor Assessment: Oracle Applications

by Byron Miller, Paul D. Hamerman, April 1, 2003

Oracle is hoping a sales force reorganization will enable its applications business to regain momentum; we believe merely stopping its decline in 2003 would be a significant achievement. Oracle will battle PeopleSoft for the No. 2 position it once owned.

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J.D. Edwards — Re-emerging as a Stronger Company and Product

February 5, 2003

J.D. Edwards is doing a lot at once, and none of the initiatives are easy to do, but it is doing the right things in the right way to keep itself and its product in the top tier.

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Enterprise Application Vendor Assessment: SAP

by Byron Miller, Paul D. Hamerman, January 16, 2003

Giga has developed a flexible, multidimensional software vendor assessment framework to aid in identifying viable candidate vendors and in reassessing incumbent vendors. This framework consists of a company assessment and a product assessment.

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Integration Alternatives: The ERP/Comprehensive Enterprise Application Position

by Byron Miller, January 15, 2003

During the past two years most of the top-tier ERP/comprehensive enterprise application vendors (SAP, PeopleSoft, J.D. Edwards) have been rapidly expanding their user and application integration capabilities.

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IT Trends 2003: ERP/Comprehensive Enterprise Application Drivers Still Present but Funding Is Tight

by Byron Miller, October 17, 2002

Trends for 2003 in ERP/CEA include efforts by vendors to support cross applications, a move toward more open architectures and vanilla installations as well as consolidation of vendors to one or two, among others.

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Enterprise Application Vendor Assessment: PeopleSoft

by Paul D. Hamerman, September 27, 2002

PeopleSoft is a top-tier enterprise applications vendor that continues to move forward with product development and delivery strategies. It has solid finances and a reputation for providing sophisticated software to corporations, education and government.

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PeopleSoft Offers Purer Internet CRM Alternative

by Erin Kinikin, December 11, 2001

While PeopleSoft has capitalized on its leading Web architecture and the CRM delays of its ERP competitors to make CRM one of its fastest growing (and largest) product lines, it still faces a number of challenges.

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Oracle Is Not Ready to Be the One-Stop Shop for Applications

by Byron Miller, May 17, 2001

Before Oracle should be considered a one-stop shop, it needs to get four things right: (1) quality, (2) application architecture, (3) support and (4) pricing. Given its history and resources, it will make progress on only one issue: architecture by 2003.