ERP Forums

We are pleased to announce our new ERP forums!

We will be adding forums as we go, but for now, there are forums dedicated to ERP, PLM, and CRM.

Please feel free to post your questions, answers, topics of concern, or other related topics. Please keep the discussions professional! We hope that these will become a valuable resource to you. We welcome your contributions to this knowledge base of ERP, CRM, and PLM information.

You can view them by going to Our ERP Forums

It’s Still About the Process

Process Improvement must be coupled with ERP implementation. The following talks about this connection:

It’s Still About the Process
by John K. Waters

As enterprise systems evolve from ERP to ERM, adding more functionality to tame and streamline back-office processes, the process of choosing the right solution grows more complex. Use this guide to sort through popular offerings.

Software Magazine – It’s Still About the Process

Linux a BIG hit in India

Linux is growing in the mission critical space. Here is one article that demonstrates that with a key focus on Linux in India:
Linux a BIG hit in India

Some Statistics cited in the article:
# Linux is expected to have a 15 per cent share of the ERP market by 2007 (Peerstone Research)
# 55 per cent of all companies deployed Linux by the end of 2005 (AMR Research)
# There are over 1.2 million developers with Linux skills (Evans Data Corp)
# IBM has more than 7000 services professionals working with Linux
# Robert Francis Group (IBM-sponsored research) found security levels in Linux generally exceeded those in Windows, providing a more secure and manageable environment out of the box with significantly more functionality in terms of security integration and management
# The Linux kernel programming code is better and more secure than the programming code of most proprietary software – based on a four-year analysis of the 5.7 million lines of Linux source code conducted by five Stanford University researchers