Microsoft ERP, CRM, Oracle Teleconference Deal
According to Gartner, by 2012 more than 35 per cent of the top 5,000 global companies will "regularly fail to make insightful decisions about significant changes in their business and markets," because of lack of information, processes, and tools. Given this, Jedox officials contend, it's not a surprise that the market's seeing "greater demand for products delivered via software-as-a-service models."
Palo BI Suite 3.0 is characterized by Jedox officials as an open source BI product that "combines the familiarity and productivity of a Web-based online spreadsheet with the centralized server capacity typical of BI applications, together with multi-dimensionality -- in-memory MOLAP."
Kristian Raue, founder and CEO of Jedox, says the advantage of the Palo BI Suite 3.0 is that it combines a BI core with "the flexibility that our corporate customers and community want, to apply BI to a number of scenarios that monolithic BI software packages could not rapidly adapt to support."
Sugar Express provides core sales, marketing and support features, Sugar Plug-Ins for Microsoft Office and access to SugarCRM Customer Support. Platform functionality includes the Module Builder to create custom modules and Cloud Connectors, "to integrate third-party data services from companies such as Hoover's and Jigsaw," company officials say.
Company officials say Express has 24x7 monitoring from both within and outside the Sugar Open Cloud. It's being offered as an annual subscription at $499 for up to five users or $799 for up to ten users per year. Sugar Professional is offered at $30 per user per month and Sugar Enterprise at $50 per user per month.
Evidently the CRM on offer has the ability to track contacts, accounts, leads, and opportunities, schedule tasks and appointments, automate quote and sales order generation, and interact with inventory and Web catalogs. Further, company officials say, WorkXpress CRM integrates with telephony and e-mail services.
"With the WorkXpress CRM, organizations can manage prospect and customer data... our CRM can be used as is, or customized for a company's unique needs." says Treff LaPlante, president and CEO of WorkXpress, The Company Formerly Known As Express Dynamics.
WorkXpress officials bill their flagship product as a "functional Platform as a Service without programming," providing non-programmers "the ability to create business applications using five building blocks in an intuitive, drag and drop, point-and-click Web-based environment, eliminating the need for coding, data modeling and database querying, while automating common systems administration tasks like maintenance or disaster recovery."
Additionally, WorkXpress offers integrations with other applications such as Skype, FedEx, Google Maps, currency conversions, Google language translation, FTP services, IMAP e-mail services, and others. The company offers a "try it free for 30 days" promotion.
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Now here's a clever idea: In light of all the hyperventilating about economic conditions, which includes increasing cutbacks on business travel, the Independent Oracle Users Group has announced the availability of virtual session offerings for its annual Oracle users group conference.
Forty virtual sessions are now available to choose from that will run concurrently with the conference. The Webinar sessions (30 minute, one hour and two hour) can be customized depending on educational interests.
"The virtual attendance option gives companies the flexibility to access COLLABORATE content without leaving the office," says Ian Abramson, president of IOUG. "We recognize companies everywhere are looking for ways to save."
Microsoft has announced what company officials are calling "three major incentive offerings" for its ERP and CRM customers.
The first is Business Ready Flexible Pay, which gives new Microsoft Dynamics ERP and CRM customers in the U.S. "the option to purchase the products today but pay for them in equal payments over three years." Microsoft officials say this isn't just financing with associated interest charges and application processes, but "an opportunity for businesses to manage their budgets." While other vendors have "significantly raised" their maintenance fees over the past year, Microsoft officials claim, Microsoft "has held its enhancement rates steady."
In the second incentive, designed to make it easier for companies to move to Microsoft's ERP, starting in May, select partners will be able to extend their customers an offer to move to Microsoft Dynamics ERP with a 50 percent discount on licensing, and receive a rebate equal to 25 percent of the suggested retail price of Microsoft Dynamics, up to a maximum of $25,000 "to help offset the costs of switching from Sage MAS 90 or MAS 200, or Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne."
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