2008 seemed to be the year for mergers and acquisitions (M&As) in the apple of action softwarewith companies like Oracle acrimonious up Primavera Softwares activity and portfolio administration (PPM) offering, and Symantec avaricious up MessageLabs messaging and web aegis offering. But it was aswell a year for some software firms to see their latest solutions shine.
With 2008 advancing its end, Technology Evaluation Centers (TECs) analysis analyst aggregation takes a abrupt attending at 10 of the newest vendors to accompany its analysis roster, as able-bodied as some of the added noteworthy action software solutions to hit the bazaar this accomplished year.
IFS
Visibility
Global Shop Solutions
Flexi
Targit
Oco
PTC
Ramco Systems
Saba
Callidus Software
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Solutions Alex Hankewicz
IFS For over 20 years, this all-around software abutting has provided a absolutely chip modular artefact that covers about 20 industry verticals, alignment in such technically assorted industries as aerospace, energy, telecommunications, and action accomplishment (e.g., pharmaceuticals). The authentic adeptness of this arrangement lies aural the artlessness of the products design. The artefact was developed over several years of applicant accepting and has affiliated to evolve.
The accepted seventh bearing of the component-based software, IFS Applications 7, is absolutely based on service-oriented basic architectonics (SOCA). The arrangement has such able-bodied appearance that abounding of the modules are accepting deployed as best-of-breed solutions in abundant chump locations. One of the agency that IFS stands out from the blow is through the use of open-source appliance programming interfaces (APIs), area the software modules can accommodate with accessible antecedent products. In conclusion, this bell-ringer may not get the columnist or advertising that some of its added acclaimed competitors do, but it can angle up toand in abounding instances can surpassthem, in agreement of carrying fit, form, and functionality due to the products scalability.
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Visibility Recently, I was accustomed an befalling to analysis two versions of this Boston, (US)-based vendors ERP amalgamation in both the engineer-to-order (ETO) and mixed-mode industry versions. I was abundantly afraid that, accustomed the beyond and ambit of both the abstruse and awful adapted attributes of the industries that use this software, the capabilities of the band-aid were annihilation abbreviate of remarkable. Afterwards allurement the bell-ringer to authenticate about 800 alone criteria, I was clumsy to accretion one instance area the software did not accomplish as Visibility adumbrated it could. The aggregation has a cogent applicant abject in both North America and Western Europein particular, the United Kingdom (UK). Visibility.net is a absolutely chip ERP solution, authoritative use of the .NET framework, accouterment a accepted user interface and a individual chip belvedere with accomplished functionality. At the end of the day, if youre searching to admission an ERP arrangement that has accomplished functionality, a solid abject of customers, abreast humans that angle abaft the product, and a acceptability of unparalleled chump service, again I acclaim Visibility as a solid bell-ringer aces of your consideration.
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Global Shop Solutions This Texas, (US)-based bell-ringer has served up ERP Texas style, with a robust, solid, and dependable solution. Just like the humans in Texas, the arrangement reflects a grass-roots philosophybuild from the basal up. This is aswell reflected in its adherence to amount accomplishment principlesnamely, eliminating decay and redundancy. If I may say, it is evocative of straight-shooting Texas folk whove been accepted to say just get on with it and get the job done. The aforementioned nononsense admission is reflected in anniversary of the vendors artefact offerings that serve the ETO, mixed-mode, and detached accomplishment spaces. Unlike addition Texan consign with a all-around presenceand I dont beggarly oilGlobal Shop Solutions agency what it says and says what it means. With an install abject in the US, Europe, Asia, and down under in Australia, it offers one of the everyman absolute costs of buying (TCO) in the industry. If youre searching for a artefact that is feature-/function-rich and scalable, again accede All-around Shop Solutions as an adorable bell-ringer offering.
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ERP Solutions Leslie Satenstein
Flexi Earlier this year, I certified Flexis cyberbanking apartment of software packages. As an IT able with added again 20 years of appliance development experience, including C++ programming and accouterment arrangement architectonics architectonics abutment to three Canadian banks and one acclaim union, if I apprehend that Flexi, founded in 1991, wrote its software in C++ and that it was geared to banking, acclaim union, and allowance fields, my absorption was piqued.
Common apropos that a broker has are the acceptability of the aggregation and the apprehension of it accepting about for the continued run. Flexis articles are banker approvedand added to the actuality that the software was accounting in C++, it matches my interests apropos abstruse operations.
We sometimes abort to apprehend that abate banks can calmly action three actor affairs a day, and generally it behooves a cyberbanking software appliance to be robust, accurate, and able of calmly administration accumulation processing of ample volumes of transaction data.
What does a cyberbanking casework industry apprehend from a ancestors of products? Well, it should be simple to use, accept congenital aegis with admission controls, be Certified Accessible Accountant (CPA)-approved in the US and Certified Accountant (CA)-approved in Canada. The Flexi artefact has all this, and furthermore, auditors like Flexis SOX-Smart built-ins and its functionality for acquiescence with Cyberbanking Accounting Standards Board No. 52 (FASB52), International Cyberbanking Reporting Standards (IFRS), and Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).
Financial software should aswell acquiesce for simple maintenance. FlexiFinancials meets this criterion, and at the aforementioned time gives me that warm-fuzzy activity that it is advanced in its marketplace. Certifying this apartment of articles was a thrill, because all the things I basic to see in a cyberbanking casework amalgamation were approved and built-in. FlexiFinancials is the cyberbanking account industries kitchen sink.
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Business Intelligence (BI) Software Leslie Satenstein
Targit This accomplished Danish BI bell-ringer offers solutions for the babyish to average business (SMB) marketplace. I got to apperceive the aggregation and its artefact above-mentioned to accomplishing the accepting during a affable babble with Ruben Knudsen and Ulrik Pedersen, both Country Managers for Targits U.S. and Canadian operations. I abstruse that in acceptable times and bad, Targit has managed to accumulate its staff. This adherence has paid off in spades, with a agents that is conspicuously abreast in BI and a artefact that is about error-free. It contains all the functionality bare to attempt adjoin the big guys by alms a accepted apartment of applications and additionally by accouterment the applicant with a roll-your-own capability.
On the web website is a actual ample account of barter and case studiesas able-bodied as video testimonials from some of its clients. Although abounding of its barter are based in Europe, there are a abundant abounding from about the world, including Australia, North America, South America, and Africa. A fractional account of industries or applications for which they accept solutions awning aerospace, animal assets (HR), woodworking millwork, retail, bottle manufacturing, abundant apparatus manufacturing, bloom care, petroleum, food, and more. End-user training at Targit can be done on-site or at one of its offices. I alone would adore demography the Tampa Florida classes in backward January, aboriginal February. Golf, anyone?
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Oco Oco is called afterwards George OConnor, who founded the aggregation in 1999. Oco does not accommodate your archetypal BI online analytic processing (OLAP) software, but provides BI solutions. That said, with Oco there are no development accoutrement for the client; the applicant is provided with a accumulating of about 120 solutions, accoutrement all the above and accessory areas that are of absorption to any aggregation that has ERP software.
I had affable discussions with Jacques Hebert, Ocos business analyst, and Kristin Hambelton, from Ocos sales and business department, about the aggregation history and why they took that canned band-aid approach. They acquainted that the better check to SMBs new to BI was the abundant upfront costs of accepting started, and the abutment licensing fees. Ocos admission was to accommodate a arrangement with reports, dashboards, graphics, drill-down capability, maps, and acceptation and consign accoutrement as an on-demand BI solution. Typically, the vendors software-as-a-service (SaaS) alms allows the applicant to be up and active in beneath than twelve weeks. In fact, unless there is some exception, it offers to apparatus a new arrangement for a applicant in beneath again twelve weeks and at a anchored cost.
From Ocos experience, a lot of organizations set up to handle their a lot of acute BI needs. If these are already in the canned array of applications that are provided by Oco, again the accomplishing times will be badly cut. Of the software that Oco provides, all headings, acreage titles, etc, are software lookups, not hard-coded into the program(s) so that one affairs serves abounding customers. All the offerings are accurate from one individual angel system. This agency that any tweaking, enhancing, or bug acclimation is done on the server, and gets implemented for all.
Ocos a lot of annoyed chump is Welshs, ambassador and benefactor of grape abstract and added products. Welshs acquired a abounding acknowledgment on investment (ROI) aural the aboriginal ages afterward go live.
Oco BI solutions are experiencing abundant accepting in the SMB marketplace, due to the affirmed fixed-cost accomplishing fee.
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Product Lifecycle Administration (PLM) Kurt (Yu) Chen
Parametric Technology Corporation (PTC) Founded in 1985 and headquartered in Needham, Massachusetts (US), PTC develops, markets, and supports PLM software solutions and accompanying casework that admonition manufacturers advance the competitiveness of their articles and artefact development processes.
PTC offers a apartment of automated computer-aided architectonics (CAD) accoutrement and a ambit of web-based accord technologies, accredit accomplishment companies to actualize basic computer-based articles (digital products), coact on designs aural the action and throughout the continued accumulation chain, and ascendancy the agenda artefact admonition throughout the artefact lifecycle.
The year 2008 saw some absolutely acceptable account from PTC. By accomplishing 14 percent GAAP year-over-year acquirement growth, PTC anesthetized the $1 billion (USD) mark for budgetary year 2008 (FY08). In July 2008, the aggregation was called by EADS (a all-around baton in aerospace, defense, and accompanying services) to accord action PLM solutions beyond all EADS business capacity as allotment of that companys PHENIX initiative. This was apparently the better arrangement in PTC history.
Looking advanced to the year 2009, I would apprehend PTC to accumulate growing both organically and by acquisitions. The contempo babyish accretion of Synapsis Technology shows the companys absorbed in blooming artefact architectonics and ecology authoritative acquiescence solutions. In 2009, SMBs may apprehend added offerings from PTC. Besides these, expansions in computer-aided engineering (CAE) and publishing are acceptable to yield place.
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Human Resource Administration Systems (HRMS) - Sherry Fox
Ramco Systems Abounding of the HR issues that businesses face today are accepted credibility of absorption for HR (and accompanying software) vendors. As such, software articles are advised to abode these issues by allowance organizations appropriately administrate new aptitude recruitment, agent abundance tracking, workforce or assumption planning and modeling, and babyish boomer retirements. While added companies like Ramco accept a agnate aim, Ramcos band-aid has an added affection that a lot of HR band-aid providers are just alpha to get a handle onanalytics.
This accomplished October, I had the befalling to accredit Ramcos Action Series animal basic administration (HCM) solution. In adjustment to be TEC Certified, vendors accept to accommodated specific and acrimonious requirements set alternating by our analysts. Overall, the accepting with Ramco went actual well. There wasnt one aspect of HCM that it did not apperceive about or authenticate to us through its solution.
During the certification, 200 criteria/functionalities were validated. I begin that the airheaded were able-bodied organized, with accepted functionalities aggregate together. Horizontal scrolling was acclimated if an access appropriate added abstracts than what a band could contain. Abstracts screens were convenient and calmly searchable, and their accepted blueprint was actual apple-pie and unclutteredmaking them simple to read.
As a all-around provider of action software and casework back 1989, Ramco has delivered its solutions to barter in 35 countries worldwide. Its HCM practice, while almost new, tackles old challenges, including analytics, by absorption on cardinal workforce administration issues that to date accept not been accurate able-bodied with technology or analytics in the HCM space.
Ramcos HCM band-aid provides altered technology and analytics platforms, and predictive accoutrement that admonition with agent assimilation and productivity. Together, these capabilities accommodate the adeptness for organizations to accept the appropriate abstracts and accoutrement at the appropriate time. In my opinion, Ramcos Action Series HCM band-aid anesthetized TECs accepting with aerial colors.
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Learning Administration Systems (LMS) Sherry Fox
Saba Back 1997, Saba has been a all-around provider of cardinal humans administration solutions and services. Sabas articles are acclimated by over 1,300 organizations and over 17 actor users worldwide. Its unified solutions accommodate HCM solutions that awning learning, collaboration, performance, compensation, and aptitude management.
This accomplished summer, my aide and I were advantageous abundant to accept Sabas administrator of artefact business allege with us to authenticate Sabas apartment of action software offeringsincluding its acquirements suite. During our discussion, we accustomed an overview of the company, as able-bodied as a attending at its altered strategies for training audience on how to use its software.
When Saba audience acquirement one of Sabas products, they accept the approved user training offered by a lot of software vendors. Saba, however, goes one footfall added by alms its audience the adeptness to accept in Saba Universitys acquirements programs. These acquirements programs are geared appear clients, new users, accomplished users searching for added training, activity managers, and business owners. I anticipate it says a lot about a aggregation if its accommodating to go that added mile for its audience and users; and just brainstorm how empowered they accept to be afterwards commutual their training.
Sabas acquirements apartment itself has a actual affluent set of functionalities and is actual user-friendly. From what I saw during the artefact demo, acquirements how to use the software would be almost easilygiven its blueprint and card structure. However, by accepting contiguous training through Saba Universitys altered acquirements program, attendees can leave the advance with the affirmation that they accept the abilities all-important to use the software appliance to its abounding potential. Sabain my opiniongets an A (for awesome).
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Enterprise Allurement Administration (EIM) Sherry Fox
Callidus Software Callidus Software was founded in San Jose, California (US) in 1996. It provides account to added than 180 companiesincluding those in industries such as banking, pharmaceuticals, telecom, and insuranceand to over 1.9 actor salespeople worldwide.
In 2002, Callidus appear its TrueComp 2.0 sales achievement administration (SPM) solution, which was aimed at acclamation the abounding challenges faced by advantage administrators about the worldincluding the administration of quotas and territories. Back its birth in 2002, TrueComp has gone through several releases. Its latest adaptation is TrueComp 5.2.
Earlier this year, I had the amusement of speaking with Jock Breitwieser, Callidus administrator of accessible and analyst relations. Afterwards seeing TrueComp up abutting and personal, I was absolutely afflicted by its capabilitiesand absolutely destroyed abroad by its graphics. Its able-bodied sales achievement and allurement enhancement functionality includes analytics, allocation management, and area optimization. Such functionality enables users to activity the appulse of new advantage rules application side-by-side comparisons.
Essentially, TrueComp allows advantage managers the adeptness to actualize business rules and account payments. And with its adeptness to automatically account advantage benefits, the band-aid can admonition abbreviate administration costs and annihilate the achievability of overpayments. Its is able-bodied abundant to administrate the a lot of circuitous advantage plans, but its aswell simple abundant to administrate after accepting to heavily await on the IT department. TrueComp is accessible through SaaS supply and can be calmly chip with key sales systems.
While Callidus is currently accouterment software and casework to beyond enterprises, one of its goals for 2009 is to aggrandize into the mid bazaar and babyish to average enterprises (SMEs).
One endure account that I just accept to acknowledgment is Callidus TrueConnect Chump Community. This is an online association forum, area humans can accommodated to barter their expertise, ideas, and accord advice. There are currently 240 associates from 21 altered countries application TrueConnect (which, incidentally, represents about 46 percent of Callidus chump base). Its a abundant way to accumulate audience affiliated and ultimately helps Callidus advance aloft what they are already appealing abuse acceptable atEIM.
With 2008 advancing its end, Technology Evaluation Centers (TECs) analysis analyst aggregation takes a abrupt attending at 10 of the newest vendors to accompany its analysis roster, as able-bodied as some of the added noteworthy action software solutions to hit the bazaar this accomplished year.
IFS
Visibility
Global Shop Solutions
Flexi
Targit
Oco
PTC
Ramco Systems
Saba
Callidus Software
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Solutions Alex Hankewicz
IFS For over 20 years, this all-around software abutting has provided a absolutely chip modular artefact that covers about 20 industry verticals, alignment in such technically assorted industries as aerospace, energy, telecommunications, and action accomplishment (e.g., pharmaceuticals). The authentic adeptness of this arrangement lies aural the artlessness of the products design. The artefact was developed over several years of applicant accepting and has affiliated to evolve.
The accepted seventh bearing of the component-based software, IFS Applications 7, is absolutely based on service-oriented basic architectonics (SOCA). The arrangement has such able-bodied appearance that abounding of the modules are accepting deployed as best-of-breed solutions in abundant chump locations. One of the agency that IFS stands out from the blow is through the use of open-source appliance programming interfaces (APIs), area the software modules can accommodate with accessible antecedent products. In conclusion, this bell-ringer may not get the columnist or advertising that some of its added acclaimed competitors do, but it can angle up toand in abounding instances can surpassthem, in agreement of carrying fit, form, and functionality due to the products scalability.
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Visibility Recently, I was accustomed an befalling to analysis two versions of this Boston, (US)-based vendors ERP amalgamation in both the engineer-to-order (ETO) and mixed-mode industry versions. I was abundantly afraid that, accustomed the beyond and ambit of both the abstruse and awful adapted attributes of the industries that use this software, the capabilities of the band-aid were annihilation abbreviate of remarkable. Afterwards allurement the bell-ringer to authenticate about 800 alone criteria, I was clumsy to accretion one instance area the software did not accomplish as Visibility adumbrated it could. The aggregation has a cogent applicant abject in both North America and Western Europein particular, the United Kingdom (UK). Visibility.net is a absolutely chip ERP solution, authoritative use of the .NET framework, accouterment a accepted user interface and a individual chip belvedere with accomplished functionality. At the end of the day, if youre searching to admission an ERP arrangement that has accomplished functionality, a solid abject of customers, abreast humans that angle abaft the product, and a acceptability of unparalleled chump service, again I acclaim Visibility as a solid bell-ringer aces of your consideration.
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Global Shop Solutions This Texas, (US)-based bell-ringer has served up ERP Texas style, with a robust, solid, and dependable solution. Just like the humans in Texas, the arrangement reflects a grass-roots philosophybuild from the basal up. This is aswell reflected in its adherence to amount accomplishment principlesnamely, eliminating decay and redundancy. If I may say, it is evocative of straight-shooting Texas folk whove been accepted to say just get on with it and get the job done. The aforementioned nononsense admission is reflected in anniversary of the vendors artefact offerings that serve the ETO, mixed-mode, and detached accomplishment spaces. Unlike addition Texan consign with a all-around presenceand I dont beggarly oilGlobal Shop Solutions agency what it says and says what it means. With an install abject in the US, Europe, Asia, and down under in Australia, it offers one of the everyman absolute costs of buying (TCO) in the industry. If youre searching for a artefact that is feature-/function-rich and scalable, again accede All-around Shop Solutions as an adorable bell-ringer offering.
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ERP Solutions Leslie Satenstein
Flexi Earlier this year, I certified Flexis cyberbanking apartment of software packages. As an IT able with added again 20 years of appliance development experience, including C++ programming and accouterment arrangement architectonics architectonics abutment to three Canadian banks and one acclaim union, if I apprehend that Flexi, founded in 1991, wrote its software in C++ and that it was geared to banking, acclaim union, and allowance fields, my absorption was piqued.
Common apropos that a broker has are the acceptability of the aggregation and the apprehension of it accepting about for the continued run. Flexis articles are banker approvedand added to the actuality that the software was accounting in C++, it matches my interests apropos abstruse operations.
We sometimes abort to apprehend that abate banks can calmly action three actor affairs a day, and generally it behooves a cyberbanking software appliance to be robust, accurate, and able of calmly administration accumulation processing of ample volumes of transaction data.
What does a cyberbanking casework industry apprehend from a ancestors of products? Well, it should be simple to use, accept congenital aegis with admission controls, be Certified Accessible Accountant (CPA)-approved in the US and Certified Accountant (CA)-approved in Canada. The Flexi artefact has all this, and furthermore, auditors like Flexis SOX-Smart built-ins and its functionality for acquiescence with Cyberbanking Accounting Standards Board No. 52 (FASB52), International Cyberbanking Reporting Standards (IFRS), and Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).
Financial software should aswell acquiesce for simple maintenance. FlexiFinancials meets this criterion, and at the aforementioned time gives me that warm-fuzzy activity that it is advanced in its marketplace. Certifying this apartment of articles was a thrill, because all the things I basic to see in a cyberbanking casework amalgamation were approved and built-in. FlexiFinancials is the cyberbanking account industries kitchen sink.
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Business Intelligence (BI) Software Leslie Satenstein
Targit This accomplished Danish BI bell-ringer offers solutions for the babyish to average business (SMB) marketplace. I got to apperceive the aggregation and its artefact above-mentioned to accomplishing the accepting during a affable babble with Ruben Knudsen and Ulrik Pedersen, both Country Managers for Targits U.S. and Canadian operations. I abstruse that in acceptable times and bad, Targit has managed to accumulate its staff. This adherence has paid off in spades, with a agents that is conspicuously abreast in BI and a artefact that is about error-free. It contains all the functionality bare to attempt adjoin the big guys by alms a accepted apartment of applications and additionally by accouterment the applicant with a roll-your-own capability.
On the web website is a actual ample account of barter and case studiesas able-bodied as video testimonials from some of its clients. Although abounding of its barter are based in Europe, there are a abundant abounding from about the world, including Australia, North America, South America, and Africa. A fractional account of industries or applications for which they accept solutions awning aerospace, animal assets (HR), woodworking millwork, retail, bottle manufacturing, abundant apparatus manufacturing, bloom care, petroleum, food, and more. End-user training at Targit can be done on-site or at one of its offices. I alone would adore demography the Tampa Florida classes in backward January, aboriginal February. Golf, anyone?
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Oco Oco is called afterwards George OConnor, who founded the aggregation in 1999. Oco does not accommodate your archetypal BI online analytic processing (OLAP) software, but provides BI solutions. That said, with Oco there are no development accoutrement for the client; the applicant is provided with a accumulating of about 120 solutions, accoutrement all the above and accessory areas that are of absorption to any aggregation that has ERP software.
I had affable discussions with Jacques Hebert, Ocos business analyst, and Kristin Hambelton, from Ocos sales and business department, about the aggregation history and why they took that canned band-aid approach. They acquainted that the better check to SMBs new to BI was the abundant upfront costs of accepting started, and the abutment licensing fees. Ocos admission was to accommodate a arrangement with reports, dashboards, graphics, drill-down capability, maps, and acceptation and consign accoutrement as an on-demand BI solution. Typically, the vendors software-as-a-service (SaaS) alms allows the applicant to be up and active in beneath than twelve weeks. In fact, unless there is some exception, it offers to apparatus a new arrangement for a applicant in beneath again twelve weeks and at a anchored cost.
From Ocos experience, a lot of organizations set up to handle their a lot of acute BI needs. If these are already in the canned array of applications that are provided by Oco, again the accomplishing times will be badly cut. Of the software that Oco provides, all headings, acreage titles, etc, are software lookups, not hard-coded into the program(s) so that one affairs serves abounding customers. All the offerings are accurate from one individual angel system. This agency that any tweaking, enhancing, or bug acclimation is done on the server, and gets implemented for all.
Ocos a lot of annoyed chump is Welshs, ambassador and benefactor of grape abstract and added products. Welshs acquired a abounding acknowledgment on investment (ROI) aural the aboriginal ages afterward go live.
Oco BI solutions are experiencing abundant accepting in the SMB marketplace, due to the affirmed fixed-cost accomplishing fee.
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Product Lifecycle Administration (PLM) Kurt (Yu) Chen
Parametric Technology Corporation (PTC) Founded in 1985 and headquartered in Needham, Massachusetts (US), PTC develops, markets, and supports PLM software solutions and accompanying casework that admonition manufacturers advance the competitiveness of their articles and artefact development processes.
PTC offers a apartment of automated computer-aided architectonics (CAD) accoutrement and a ambit of web-based accord technologies, accredit accomplishment companies to actualize basic computer-based articles (digital products), coact on designs aural the action and throughout the continued accumulation chain, and ascendancy the agenda artefact admonition throughout the artefact lifecycle.
The year 2008 saw some absolutely acceptable account from PTC. By accomplishing 14 percent GAAP year-over-year acquirement growth, PTC anesthetized the $1 billion (USD) mark for budgetary year 2008 (FY08). In July 2008, the aggregation was called by EADS (a all-around baton in aerospace, defense, and accompanying services) to accord action PLM solutions beyond all EADS business capacity as allotment of that companys PHENIX initiative. This was apparently the better arrangement in PTC history.
Looking advanced to the year 2009, I would apprehend PTC to accumulate growing both organically and by acquisitions. The contempo babyish accretion of Synapsis Technology shows the companys absorbed in blooming artefact architectonics and ecology authoritative acquiescence solutions. In 2009, SMBs may apprehend added offerings from PTC. Besides these, expansions in computer-aided engineering (CAE) and publishing are acceptable to yield place.
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Human Resource Administration Systems (HRMS) - Sherry Fox
Ramco Systems Abounding of the HR issues that businesses face today are accepted credibility of absorption for HR (and accompanying software) vendors. As such, software articles are advised to abode these issues by allowance organizations appropriately administrate new aptitude recruitment, agent abundance tracking, workforce or assumption planning and modeling, and babyish boomer retirements. While added companies like Ramco accept a agnate aim, Ramcos band-aid has an added affection that a lot of HR band-aid providers are just alpha to get a handle onanalytics.
This accomplished October, I had the befalling to accredit Ramcos Action Series animal basic administration (HCM) solution. In adjustment to be TEC Certified, vendors accept to accommodated specific and acrimonious requirements set alternating by our analysts. Overall, the accepting with Ramco went actual well. There wasnt one aspect of HCM that it did not apperceive about or authenticate to us through its solution.
During the certification, 200 criteria/functionalities were validated. I begin that the airheaded were able-bodied organized, with accepted functionalities aggregate together. Horizontal scrolling was acclimated if an access appropriate added abstracts than what a band could contain. Abstracts screens were convenient and calmly searchable, and their accepted blueprint was actual apple-pie and unclutteredmaking them simple to read.
As a all-around provider of action software and casework back 1989, Ramco has delivered its solutions to barter in 35 countries worldwide. Its HCM practice, while almost new, tackles old challenges, including analytics, by absorption on cardinal workforce administration issues that to date accept not been accurate able-bodied with technology or analytics in the HCM space.
Ramcos HCM band-aid provides altered technology and analytics platforms, and predictive accoutrement that admonition with agent assimilation and productivity. Together, these capabilities accommodate the adeptness for organizations to accept the appropriate abstracts and accoutrement at the appropriate time. In my opinion, Ramcos Action Series HCM band-aid anesthetized TECs accepting with aerial colors.
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Learning Administration Systems (LMS) Sherry Fox
Saba Back 1997, Saba has been a all-around provider of cardinal humans administration solutions and services. Sabas articles are acclimated by over 1,300 organizations and over 17 actor users worldwide. Its unified solutions accommodate HCM solutions that awning learning, collaboration, performance, compensation, and aptitude management.
This accomplished summer, my aide and I were advantageous abundant to accept Sabas administrator of artefact business allege with us to authenticate Sabas apartment of action software offeringsincluding its acquirements suite. During our discussion, we accustomed an overview of the company, as able-bodied as a attending at its altered strategies for training audience on how to use its software.
When Saba audience acquirement one of Sabas products, they accept the approved user training offered by a lot of software vendors. Saba, however, goes one footfall added by alms its audience the adeptness to accept in Saba Universitys acquirements programs. These acquirements programs are geared appear clients, new users, accomplished users searching for added training, activity managers, and business owners. I anticipate it says a lot about a aggregation if its accommodating to go that added mile for its audience and users; and just brainstorm how empowered they accept to be afterwards commutual their training.
Sabas acquirements apartment itself has a actual affluent set of functionalities and is actual user-friendly. From what I saw during the artefact demo, acquirements how to use the software would be almost easilygiven its blueprint and card structure. However, by accepting contiguous training through Saba Universitys altered acquirements program, attendees can leave the advance with the affirmation that they accept the abilities all-important to use the software appliance to its abounding potential. Sabain my opiniongets an A (for awesome).
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Enterprise Allurement Administration (EIM) Sherry Fox
Callidus Software Callidus Software was founded in San Jose, California (US) in 1996. It provides account to added than 180 companiesincluding those in industries such as banking, pharmaceuticals, telecom, and insuranceand to over 1.9 actor salespeople worldwide.
In 2002, Callidus appear its TrueComp 2.0 sales achievement administration (SPM) solution, which was aimed at acclamation the abounding challenges faced by advantage administrators about the worldincluding the administration of quotas and territories. Back its birth in 2002, TrueComp has gone through several releases. Its latest adaptation is TrueComp 5.2.
Earlier this year, I had the amusement of speaking with Jock Breitwieser, Callidus administrator of accessible and analyst relations. Afterwards seeing TrueComp up abutting and personal, I was absolutely afflicted by its capabilitiesand absolutely destroyed abroad by its graphics. Its able-bodied sales achievement and allurement enhancement functionality includes analytics, allocation management, and area optimization. Such functionality enables users to activity the appulse of new advantage rules application side-by-side comparisons.
Essentially, TrueComp allows advantage managers the adeptness to actualize business rules and account payments. And with its adeptness to automatically account advantage benefits, the band-aid can admonition abbreviate administration costs and annihilate the achievability of overpayments. Its is able-bodied abundant to administrate the a lot of circuitous advantage plans, but its aswell simple abundant to administrate after accepting to heavily await on the IT department. TrueComp is accessible through SaaS supply and can be calmly chip with key sales systems.
While Callidus is currently accouterment software and casework to beyond enterprises, one of its goals for 2009 is to aggrandize into the mid bazaar and babyish to average enterprises (SMEs).
One endure account that I just accept to acknowledgment is Callidus TrueConnect Chump Community. This is an online association forum, area humans can accommodated to barter their expertise, ideas, and accord advice. There are currently 240 associates from 21 altered countries application TrueConnect (which, incidentally, represents about 46 percent of Callidus chump base). Its a abundant way to accumulate audience affiliated and ultimately helps Callidus advance aloft what they are already appealing abuse acceptable atEIM.
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