Analyst Take: Enterprise Resource Planning

Jeff Woods, Managing VP of Gartner, discusses the best practices for your ERP implementations. For more insight and advice, visit, gartner.com.

Enterprise Resource Planning: Dr. Norma Davis

Dr. Norma Davis, management consultant talks with Oliver Hamilton about enterprise resource planning (ERP).

The Future of Enterprise Software

The software industry seems to be confronting large-scale challenges as new models, including on-demand software-as-a-service (SaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS), are having an increasingly disruptive impact on the traditional, licensed software models. Use of SaaS is gaining ground with business process and applications professionals to outsource their key processes. According to Gartner, 25% of all software will be deployed with the SaaS model by 2011. Deutsche Bank predicts 50% by 2013. Does the SaaS model spell the end for the traditional perpetual license model in software? If so, will the established software vendors weather the transition? What are the implications for software innovation, the VC community and the entrepreneurs? Will the end customers have more bargaining power over the vendors or less going forward? What can the IT organization expect in quality and service of software? Join Marc Benioff, founder, chairman & CEO of salesforce.com, the world’s leading independent SaaS provider, and Hasso Plattner, co-founder, ex-CEO and chairman of SAP, the world’s largest business software company, as they face off on the future of enterprise software. Moderated by Quentin Hardy of Forbes. Churchill Club Great Debate on The Future of Enterprise Software ()04/03/08) with Marc Benioff, Hasso Plattner, Quentin Hardy

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Enterprise Knowledge The Wiki Way

Today, the Web is influencing many things. One key element of life is communication. People are no longer meeting at cafe’s but rather they are meeting on MySpace. The web is also collecting a vast database of information. One of the key points is Wikipedia. According to Wikipedia, Wikipedia is a Web-based free-content multilingual encyclopedia project. It exists as a wiki, a website that allows any visitor to freely edit its content. ”

Now that technology is finding its way into corporations and is weaving itself into ERP. The following article examines this new trend.

Enterprise Knowledge The Wiki Way
By Michael Hickins

NEW YORK — Web 2.0 is finding its way into the enterprise by way of a Wiki.

Wikis (define), collaborative Web sites on which all members of a community can contribute and post, have become commonplace on the consumer Web. Read the Article here…