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Big actions coming from the Big Company in a Big way
The big news for court watchers, Microsoft followers, and fans of open source this week appeared on newsstands on Friday and online on Monday. Underline the appropriate headline “Microsoft takes on the free world,” Roger Parloff describes a scary “tinderbox” of a situation seemingly inevitable and destined to fatten Microsoft further. What has captured the […]
Google, Google … ten duotrigintillion times, Google
Just about everything Google Inc. does these days gets attention across all mass media and with good reason. Surely the no. 1 used website of ‘em all, the company has even produced an official verb, at least in common parlance: “to google.” (Indeed, many have forgotten or are unaware of Edward Kasner’s wonderfully-named number the […]
This is the song
ERP-CAD data integrators Elmo Solutions this week released Agni Link, a live bidirectional ERP-CAD connector for SolidWorks and Microsoft Dynamics/GP. Agni Link is touted as “the only application of its kind that offers a unique and reliable way to unify SolidWorks and Microsoft Dynamics/GP databases” and “typically pays for itself in 60-90 days.” Established in […]
Infor Spain
Representatives of Infor closed out their week with the announcement that the company’s Infor ERP LN had been selected by Aurrenak Sociedad Cooperativa, a provider of tooling design and manufacturing for the automotive industry in Spain. The business-specific ERP solution was implemented in order to update Aurrenak Sociedad Cooperativa’s IT systems by centralizing and streamlining […]
Putting on the Red Hat
Red Hat held its Red Hat Summit 2007 this week in beautiful San Diego, California, and so came quite a few announcements of the development going on at the biggie in open source solutions. Today (Saturday!) the Red Hatters released the Red Hat Exchange (RHX) into general availability. RHX extends Red Hat’s open source architecture […]
EDSify?
EDS recently announced the signing of a customer self-services agreement with Voxify to support the company’s hosted speech applications. EDS’ Customer Self-Services is a managed, hosted service focused on interactive voice response and speech recognition enabling enterprises to provide self-service capabilities for delivering customer support, completing customer transactions and providing content-rich information. Voxify enables contact […]
News of finances and transformation from Autobytel
Internet automotive marketing services company Autobytel Inc. today announced financial results for the first quarter ended March 31. “We are off to a solid start for the year,” said Autobytel president and CEO Jim Riesenbach. “After spending much of 2006 laying a solid foundation for the future, we now are focused on our transformation to […]
CGI’s AMS in LA
CGI Group Inc. announced today that its web-based AMS Advantage human resources management system was selected by Los Angeles County, California, for the next phase of its enterprise resource planning system project. Even more impressively, CGI scored a six-year contract worth up to $84 million. CGI and Los Angeles County first entered into partnership on […]
Spectra goes Deacom
Spectra Colors Corporation, a specialized supplier of dyes for inks, coatings, foods, drugs, cosmetics, paper, household products and wood stains, recently selected the Deacom Integrated Accounting and Enterprise Resource Planning software system in replacing its homegrown UNIX System. Prior to the DEACOM ERP selection, the Kearney, NJ-based Spectra Marrero chose to deploy Deacom ERP based […]
Evolving
A proper CRM industry news junkie hears about “revolution” in the biz all the time, but rarely is an “evolution” announced. Nevertheless, this week Sage Software did just that, with announced that it is “evolving its business organization to better address its customers by aligning business units more closely to its customer segments.” Sage will […]