ERP Software

Sage SaaS online 50

Sage is about to release their Sage 50 as a hosted package from what I understand the system has not been built up to deliver information over the Internet but that will come in time.

Sage had to move fast to compete against the SaaS upstarts will be interesting how far they will take SaaS through their product line.

Sage SaaS

Oracle Fusion Middleware

Oracle‘s new Fusion Middleware helps customers build business processes for several different applications using APIs or other integration points such as WSDLs. The middleware products are then used to help create SOA using Web services, an Enterprise Services Bus and Oracle BPEL Process Manager.

Oracle's Fusion Middleware Stack includes

Oracle Application Server 10g,

Security Developer Tools (to support WS-Security and SAML),

Oracle Identity Management,

Oracle Data Hubs,

Oracle Collaboration Suite,

Oracle process manager,

Oracle web services manger,

JDeveloper tools,

Oracle WBPEL, and

Native support for EJB 3.0 and Hibernate.

All these features hot-pluggable, allowing Oracle users to mix-and-match Fusion Middleware with their existing infrastructure software. “With this approach, we can provide customers a complete SOA environment, or we can let customers use what they already have and simply add added functionality, such as end-to-end security or [BPEL] process management, where they might need it,” MacNeil said.

Oracle ERP fusion

Larry on ERP consolidation

Larry chatting to forbes and his thoughts on the ERP consolidation.

"You have to take a broader view and realize this is an industry like any other--telecom, railroads. They went through consolidation. Why shouldn't the computer industry be any different?"

"This shouldn't have been a surprise to anybody. But it seemed to be, and a lot of people thought I was nuts when I said these things. And that's why we're out there alone as a consolidator. "

Larry also mentioned that Oracle could buy BEA Systems  or buy BusinessObjects, the largest business intelligence vendor.

Forbes