ERP Software

SAP Loving Amazon's Elastic Cloud

 

SAP is streaming  their  emerging cloud  strategy across multiple development platforms, one of the platforms is called  "River," which is written to support lightweight extensions to its on-premises ERP software.
The first River-based application, Carbon Impact 5.0, is set to be released  next month and will be running on Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud.

River applications are meant to be light and easy to use  with only a few dozen screens. SAP has done "a significant amount of work" on River in areas such as data security and authentication, " River will be opened up to partners "over time," as well as other infrastructure services, he said. "The first [application] is on Amazon, but the platform is designed to run on multiple clouds. Over time it will run on multiple clouds including our own."
Meanwhile, more complex ERP cloud applications will be based on the platform behind Business ByDesign, SAP's mid market on-demand ERP,

Although SAP builds out a portfolio of on-demand applications, its embrace of the cloud goes only so far for now. "While only 11% of respondents think of cloud as a short-term fad, an additional 72% need more convincing,"
“Technology's just not at a point where you can run a mission-critical application on a public cloud," said SAP's CTO Vishal Sikka

Sage Moves Into Poland

UK ERP Software group Sage has launched a public tender offer to acquire Poland's Teta. for an  value of about £41m.

Teta provides enterprise resource planning software to medium  and large -sized companies. If the tender offer gets the goahead , Sage will become  the leading provider of business management software across Eastern Europe gaining a portfolio of 2000 customers across Poland and Hungary.

Teta’s  revenue for 2009 was £21m and EBIT £3m, with net assets of £22m.


CEO Paul Walker said the proposed acquisition complemented the group's existing business in Poland and would allow it to develop its offerings in the attractive Eastern European markets.

Netsuite Launches Manufacturing Software

NetSuite is targeting the manufacturing industry with an ERP edition aimed at discrete manufacturers.

Key functionality includes multi-site planning and management, material requirements planning, production management, engineering change control, shop floor control and work-in-progress management.

Pricing for the discrete manufacturing capabilities starts at US$2,499 per month for a companywide module. NetSuite pricing of $99 per user per month also applies.

Netsuite is working with Rootstock Software, Netsuite is providing the marketing muscle branding for rootstocks manufacturing software, Rootstock’s MRP offering was built in 18 months using NetSuite’s NS-BOS platform. It’s also integrated with NetSuite’s OneWorld SaaS ERP suite.

NetSuite is hoping to entice manufacturing companies looking to move off their legacy systems, which may be difficult or expensive to maintain. But will be facing stiff competition from mid market ERP vendors such as Epicor, Lawson Software and Microsoft Dynamics.

What will be interesting is too see how quick Netsuite can add other industry vertical functionality using partner expertise to deliver industry specific functionality.