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Best Practices: Lessons Learned In What SMB’s Want From Their ERP Provider

Competition Intensifies For The Small And Medium Organization’s Software Budget Software vendors such as Oracle and SAP can no longer rely on their large enterprise customers for double digit...

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SAP Business Influencers Summit – A Clear Path Forward?

I have to admit that I enjoy going to conferences and summits as an analyst, journalist or paid speaker.  I’m treated well by the vendors who bring me, my expenses are covered (and if a speaker, a fee...

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CRM Watchlist 2010 – The SMBs – IVA – Brent Leary Rocks

(Brent Leary, who is both a Social CRM guru and a great friend has graciously done a post on the companies to watch for 2010 when it comes to the small and medium business space. He was clearly trying...

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CRM Watchlist 2010 – The SMBs – IVB – Brent Leary Rocks More

Tolstoy Okay my compadres, on Monday you had a strong taste of Brent Leary’s good stuff on small business CRM. Now we move on to Part B of his stuff, closing the loop on the SMB market place. Listen...

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Redux: Will Google Enter the Business Applications Market?

If you think I am here to spill the beans, you’re wrong. On a purely speculative level, if there is some news to come, and if there is an embargo related to it, then I respect that.  And it’s all a...

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Google Launches Apps Marketplace

I’m at the Google Campfire One event where they’ve just announced the Google Apps Marketplace.  The site is live now, feel free to browse.  The speculation is now over, this is Google’s answer on...

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NetSuite, Manufacturing, Ecosystems and a Better Way to Compete

We’ve covered NetSuite substentially @ CloudAve – to the point that I’ve run into trouble with my title:  I already used NetSuite vs SAP … Round #n. A Game Changer? so what should I call this one?...

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SAP Business ByDesign Video – Plain and Simple, Making Fun of …Wow, ERP!

We’re just having an intense internal debate in the Enterprise Irregulars group whether SAP’s Business ByDesign (ByD) is late to the market and what it all means, when hot off the press here’s a...

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Business All-In-One Goes Buyside — SAP Brings SRM 7.0-Like Capability to the...

The middle market remains without a definitive eProcurement solution. Ariba, despite aggressive price points and leading overall market-share in the broader eProcurement market by our analysis, has...

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IBM, Partners Launch Supplier Connection — Small Business Plus or Diversity...

Earlier this month, IBM and a number of partners (Bank of America, Citigroup, Pfizer and UPS) announced plans to collectively launch Supplier Connection, a small business registration site. According...

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Ariba StartSourcing/StartContracts — Commendable SMB Effort, But not as Cheap...

I recently dug into Ariba’s new down-market SmartSourcing and SmartContracts offerings that represent simplified yet decent products for the mid-market in their own right. Information Week — which...

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NetSuite Fights Hairball Epidemic with New Release and Edgy Marketing Campaign

NetSuite’s marketing team has been known for their edginess, starting from pranks like the SAP for the Rest of Us Party during SAP’s annual conference to staging a shootout at the anti-SAP Conference...

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SAP Goes On-demand

While the reigning crown prince of on-demand held court at Dreamforce last week, a pretender to the throne threw down the gauntlet and made its first full-court, concerted press into the future perfect...

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Zoho Rounds Out Small Business Suite with Accounting App–Zoho Books

This morning Zoho, known for SMB focused SaaS offerings in the areas of productivity, collaboration, business processes launched an Accounting app: Zoho Books. I typically don’t do detailed product...

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Cost Management Failures: 10 Reasons SMBs Stink at Procurement

Last week, we began a blog series exploring the state of procurement in the small and middle market sectors. See 2013: The Year of Source-To-Pay Adoption for SMB Procurement and 3 Essential...

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2011 ERP survey: New IT failure research and statistics

Panorama Consulting’s new 2011 ERP report (registration required), covering the year 2010, offers worthwhile reading to anyone interested in understanding small business ERP projects. The survey covers...

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A Tale of Five Conferences: InfusionCon 2013, Infusionsoft

Overture Once again, I have to start with an apology. This is one of several technology conference “seasons” where they pile onto one another. Thus, as I’m writing this I’ll have been to five...

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