Application Service Providers (ASPs) attracted more attention than anything else in outsourcing in 2000. Kirk Krappe, senior vice president of products and markets for Corio, Inc., one of the industry’s pioneers and leading ASPs, predicts even more incredible growth in this arena for 2001.(outsourcing, asp)
George Valentine is glad PeopleSoft is actually people hard. Valentine is the CEO of transchannel, an Application Service Provider (ASP) in Atlanta, Georgia, dedicated to companies that have already installed that ERP (Enterprise Resource Program (ERP). In a classic outsourcing scenario, transchannel frees companies from the daily headaches of managing complex ERP programs and lets them focus on their core businesses, according to Valentine.
The two Brits were lured by the siren call of the constant sunshine. Bahad and his partner started Dataforce Corporation in 1993 as a marketing vehicle for their Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) consultancy…
One of the facts of life in outsourcing is that risks are involved. Therefore, you have to manage to those risks, and expectationss should be set with those in mind…
Outsourcing ERP: Companies like Clarent Corp. often find themselves in a bind. Clarent is a mid-market company that has seen explosive growth since its inception in July 1996. And the voice over IP technology company expects to see even more growth into the next millenium. Growth is never a bad thing, but finding ERP solutions for a company as dynamic as Clarent can be.
Outsourcing ERP: Mid-size companies have IT problems too, much like large companies. And just because they are mid-size doesn’t mean their problems are. They need the same type of ERP solutions that Fortune 1,000 companies are getting
ERP deals are complex from a contractual structure and negotiation standpoint. And because many mid-market companies are just beginning to venture into ERP application territory, an area that until recently was reserved for large companies, mistakes are common..
Last December, the stocks of the five biggest ERP application vendors plummeted as low as 65 percent after several investment firms predicted that they couldn’t sustain their soaring growth rates. This prediction came on the heels of the knowledge that more than 60 percent of Fortune 1,000 companies had already implemented core ERP applications. With this realization in hand, ERP firms decided to head into unchartered territory and prove the investment firms wrong.
Both customers and vendors will be taking a close look at their outsourcing activities in 1999, according to Michael Palma, research analyst for Dataquest…
As the outsourcing industry heads into the final year of the century, growth will be driven by a blending of the traditional and newer segments of the industry, according to Donna Crane, vice president, marketing, Systems and Computer Technology Corp. (SCT).
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions are increasingly attractive to clients who recognize the benefits of enterprise-wide integration of information technology, applications and business processes.
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