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We recently had the chance to be introduced to the Jeeves ERP solution at an informative briefing arranged by Jeeves’ North American Partner CompuTec Integrated Solutions (Hartland, Wisconsin). It’s an interesting time for Sweden-based Jeeves due to their growing North American presence. In June 2012, Jeeves was acquired by North American-based Battery Ventures, a multi-stage investment firm [...]
Infor has a great story to tell. They have rationalized their product offering and are extending the technology underpinning each of their go-to market products in manufacturing and distribution verticals (Baan, M3, Syteline, and SXe). Their multiple acquisition model enables Infor to offer a complete ERP solution. In a recent demonstration with Infor Syteline at [...]
New Release of JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Improves the User Experience This month the Ultra team met with Oracle representatives for an informative briefing on the latest advancements to a number of Oracle products. As independent ERP consultants, these briefings are important to our team and to the manufacturers we serve. Regular vendor briefings help us [...]
When is the best time to implement Business Intelligence? Many of our clients still operate with outdated ERP legacy systems. The common complaint we hear is “I cannot get access to the information that is stored in my ERP system!” Most commonly, issues are due to the fact that when these systems were built, paper-based [...]
I recently attended an Infor briefing webinar and came away with a great impression of the company and Infor’s ERP solution SyteLine, targeted to discrete manufacturers To set the stage, we heard about Infor’s overall market activity. Infor finished 2012 with over $2.8 Billion in revenues & $840 Million in profit. Infor currently has 70,000 [...]
VISUAL, which is now owned by Infor (formerly Lilly), continues to be ahead of the game when it comes to ERP systems technology. Two decades ago, VISUAL was one of the first entrants into the ERP market that offered a truly integrated visual finite scheduling tool, along with workflow. Well Rounded Functionality During an ERP [...]
Today I conducted a review of the demonstration Epicor plans to present at our ERP Vendor Webinar Series. The presentation will be done by Stephen Gregory, one of Epicor’s finest presenters. Stephen will present a demonstration on Epicor’s best practices for the complex manufacturing industry. He will follow a “best practice” script Ultra has designed [...]
ERP vendors employ a number of sales channel strategies to bring their ERP products to the mid market. There is no common theme. Some sell direct, and others use a reseller channel. The industry has applied many different labels to the reseller community such as Value Added Resellers (VAR), Systems Integrators (SI), and Independent Software [...]
JDE has had a clean, easy-on-the eyes user interface. The new release adds to this with some solid improvements. One of the advantages of JDE’s user interface is its familiarity. The application relies on a “grid view” – that has a strong resemblance to viewing data in MS Excel. The columns can be sorted, customized, [...]
Last month we caught up with Mark Symonds, CEO of Plex Systems, provider of Cloud ERP solution Plex Online. His company has become the “poster child” for the new ERP model – Software as a Service (SaaS model) for the manufacturing industry. Mark joined the firm in 2001. He gave us a little history of [...]
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