ERP Software

Enterprise mashups partnership

Worklight an Enterprise 2.0 software product that consumerizes the enterprise application experience, and Teqlo, a mashup provider, today announced a partnership that enables the first secure integration between a mashup and an Enterprise 2.0 server. This cooperation offers business users to create a secure enterprise application mashups for protected enterprise data without having to write any code.

"This partnership is an important step in providing a secure mashup platform for real business use cases," said Rod Boothby, senior director of solution marketing at Teqlo. "Using WorkLight's secure feeds and Teqlo's platform, business end users can build their own customized applications."

Mashup provide the tools to build composite applications based upon multiple internal and external web services. However, Enterprise class mashups require complex connectors to retrieve data from enterprise applications. Prior to Teqlo only technical users and developers were able to create even simple mashups.

 

SAP postpones first release of SaaS ERP ?

 

SAP has revealed that they have delayed the launch of the much touted A1S for the SMB market ,the software is being tested by customers and now the release date will be put back to Q2?.

"It looks like building a web-native, ERP-based suite from scratch is a bit harder than SAP anticipated,”‘said Netsuite CEO Zach Nelson.

A1S which has "SOA by Design” Will allow SAP to   slash the total cost of ownership by 90% which I would love to see if they are right then the other software vendors might as well pack their bags but this does sound like a marketing statement.

A1S is part of SAP's strategy to get 100,000 customers by 2010; this service will be focused on volume and will be only offered as an online service with on premise being available at a later stage.

Microsoft SaaS CRM

 

Microsoft has showcased  a glimpse of  Software as a Service (SaaS) CRM application

End users will be able to run the Microsoft SaaS software application from within Outlook or a browser window. and partners will be able to build vertical editions for nicheindustries, and customers will have the ability to perform their own customizations.

Microsoft is trying to copy Salesforce's business model with AppExchange allowing customers ,partners to create their own unique software

What is interesting is this Hybrid model with installed CRM software being able to work with Internet services ,hopefully Microsoft can move beyond integrating other Microsoft web services and be able to offer a interface for out the box integration with other SaaS Web 2.0 services.

Lawson working IBM on SOA ,SaaS

 

Lawson Software is working with IBM  ,to use their middleware software built into Lawson System foundation.

Lawson System Foundation is  Lawson's SOA production and integration platform. It is designed to make it easier for companies  to build and implement SOA applications, integrate with third-party applications, and automate business processes.

Lawson will be using IBM to help with their SaaS platform called Lawson Total Care Platinum ,the initial offering will include hosted versions of both Lawson's M3 applications for manufacturers and  S3 applications for service companies.

For a company with two hundred  named users,  the hosting and application management services would run about $15,000 per month.

Lawson SOA ,SAAS

Oracle to purchase Hyperion

 

Oracle today agreed to purchase Hyperion Solutions  for $3.3 billion which will make Oracle the No. 1 in the business intelligence market, according to Charles Phillips, Oracle president.

The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to finalized in April 2007.

"This extends our business intelligence strategy of a year ago, when we launched Oracle business intelligence. That's been one of our highest growth product lines," Phillips said in a conference call this morning. "We now have the most comprehensive BI product line."

This purchase will most  likely start a round of consolidation within the BI area.

"IBM may buy Cognos, HP might end up buying Business Objects or Business Objects may buy another competitor. There will be a lot of pressure on these vendors to react to this acquisition," according to Mr Wang the senior analyst at forester.

What is interesting is SAP has partnership with Hyperion and might make a bid for Hyperion with Oracle having Hyperion it will give them another route into the SAP customer base ,"Now Oracle's Hyperion software will be the lens through which SAP's most important customers view and analyze their underlying SAP ERP data.

Oracle number one player now