There weren’t any headlines (or even many tweets) about Oracle Fusion Financials emanating from this year’s Oracle OpenWorld (#OOW12) conference. Maybe that’s by design, because it’s not in Oracle’s best interest to kick up a lot of dust about ERP migration. The financial applications software market is mature, and market share leaders such as Oracle have less interest in getting customers to upgrade than they did a decade ago. For a software vendor with a large installed base, cashing rich...
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Topics:
Performance Management,
ERP,
Office of Finance,
financial,
Business Performance,
Cloud Computing,
Financial Performance,
Oracle,
Workday,
JD Edwards,
PeopleSoft
As Workday continues to expand and the likelihood of its IPO becomes a more frequent topic of discussion, so does the movement of ERP systems to the cloud. Thus far, only a minority of companies have chosen to put their ERP and accounting systems in the cloud, but the numbers are growing and there’s evidence of success. NetSuite, for example, reported a 26 percent increase in its revenues to $145 million in the nine months up to Sept. 30, 2011. To be sure, this is not close to Salesforce.com’s...
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Topics:
Microsoft,
Sales,
Supply Chain Performance,
ERP,
NetSuite,
Office of Finance,
Dynamics,
Epicor,
Lawson,
QAD,
Operational Performance,
Business Performance,
Cloud Computing,
Financial Performance,
IBM,
Oracle,
Workforce Performance,
Infor,
financial software,
Intacct,
PeopleSoft,
Software
