Archive for the ‘business process software’ Category
The software industry seems to be confronting large-scale challenges as new models, including on-demand software-as-a-service (SaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS), are having an increasingly disruptive impact on the traditional, licensed software models.
Use of SaaS is gaining ground with business process and applications professionals to outsource their key processes. According to Gartner, 25% of all software will be deployed with the SaaS model by 2011. Deutsche Bank predicts 50% by 2013.
Does the SaaS model spell the end for the traditional perpetual license model in software? If so, will the established software vendors weather the transition? What are the implications for software innovation, the VC community and the entrepreneurs? Will the end customers have more bargaining power over the vendors or less going forward? What can the IT organization expect in quality and service of software?
Join Marc Benioff, founder, chairman & CEO of salesforce.com, the world’s leading independent SaaS provider, and Hasso Plattner, co-founder, ex-CEO and chairman of SAP, the world’s largest business software company, as they face off on the future of enterprise software. Moderated by Quentin Hardy of Forbes.
Churchill Club Great Debate on The Future of Enterprise Software ()04/03/08) with Marc Benioff, Hasso Plattner, Quentin Hardy
Duration : 1:31:38
Which accounting software is best to use for a small business which can track inventory and also automatically create custome invoices based on orders input. Right now we track orders and create invoices in Excel and track our financials with Quicken Home & Small Business. But it would be better if we could automate some of the process and not spend as much time manually updating items.
Go with Quickbooks Pro (not simple start or standard) and don’t waste your money on Premier. Pro can do the same thing but may take a bit of extra set up. Invest the extra money in a good bookkeeper to set it up for you.
KaviCorp1http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/kavicorp1portland, orTechKavi, Workspace, Business, Process, Management, SoftwareKavi Workspace – Business Process Management Software
Duration : 0:3:15
A demonstration of the MRP (materials requirements planning) capabilities of xTuple Manufacturing Edition.
Duration : 0:8:42
This video shows you how to build business Mashup Applications using our on-demand platform, called MashApps Composer.
Duration : 0:5:56
It’s a question related to Enterrise Resource planning, required for information systems in an organisation for customisation or modifications of business processes.
Gurpreet,
That’s a very interesting question. Indeed, "plain vanilla vs. customer satisfaction" is a fierce, ever lasting debate in the software industry.
==== What is vanilla version ? ====
Vanilla software is a software system that is not customized in its delivery form—this concept applies to many other products non related to software though.
Vanilla software is also known as:
—turnkey software
—out-of-the-box software
—commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) software
—off-the-shelf (OTS) software
==== What are concerns of vanilla version in ERP Software? ====
(Sorry, I couldn’t help but putting more than 3 concerns 
While its main benefit is reduced costs related to licencing and maintenance, hence reduced total cost of ownership (TCO), vanilla software may come with abscond tradeoffs—particularly in case of complex systems like ERP systems:
(in no particular order)
—Cultural gap (software may not be the best fit, so you pay for feature you don’t need, and don’t have features you’d be willing to pay for)
—Requires the organization to change its business processes to accommodate the best practices the software is built over (because the software cannot be adapted to the organization via customization)
—Reduced sense of ownership, hence lower adoption (end users are less involved or not at all in the design and implementation of a solution addressing their needs)
—Increased integration costs (ERPs need a hell of integration work to be done to legacy systems and other information sources)
—Higher coupling between applications (organizational pressure to buy 3rd-party components to do the work the vanilla system is not able to do)
—Any modification to the vanilla software by its vendor is out of control of organizations using it, running the risk of obsolescence of needed components and, to some extreme, of the whole software system
—Bugs fixes usually available in the next release—or next releases
—In case of critical applications, need to escrow source code in order to survive potential vendor’s lethal problems (e.g., product cannibalization due to company acquisition, bankruptcy)
What makes ERP systems stand out of the software crowd is that they—are supposed to—become the organization’s information backbone, its nerves. So answering this dilemma may have significant consequences to the organization bottom line.
—Pascal
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Video from our FREE Online Business Course
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Session 4 – Business Organization
Question:
“What are the benefits to outsourcing payroll?
Ken Blake
Certified Public Accountant (C.P.A.)
Topics covered in this video:
Small business accounting, payroll, outsourcing
Transcript:
Well, there are a number of benefits for outsourcing. There are probably three of them that are the best to keep in mind. The first one is there is a privacy factor in the sense that the payroll isn’t available for the employees to see the various salary levels.
The other thing is that it helps on your cash flow because most payroll services will pay the payroll and the payroll taxes as part of the payroll, so you don’t have a bump in your payroll requirements when the payroll taxes are due. So it has a tendency to level out your cash flow.
The third element has to do with reduction in time. It’s a little easier to deal with an outsource company because all you have to do is call in the payroll vs. when you do it yourself. Someone has to sit down and calculate the payroll or at least feed the data into a program and thereby taking up the employee’s time which could be better spent doing other things.
Duration : 0:1:21
This movie explains the ARIS Solution for Process-Driven SAP Management from IDS Scheer.
You will find more details here:
http://www.aris.com/
SAP software helps enterprises to implement business processes. But how can companies ensure that the processes incorporated in the standard software properly reflect their corporate strategy? What is the best way to meet the requirements of the sales, marketing, procurement and production departments in your SAP system?
ARIS Solution for Process-Driven SAP Management supports companies throughout the entire SAP lifecycle, from strategy and requirements analysis, through blueprinting to configuration, testing, training and rollout. Business processes are documented using ARIS for SAP and analyzed within the context of the SAP system environment.
Taking a comprehensive, process-centric approach to SAP initiatives by using the ARIS Value Engineering (AVE) approach and procedural model, this solution helps analyze, define, validate and manage the business value of enterprise SOA technologies by SAP.
ARIS Solution for Process-Driven SAP Management currently supports application scenarios for SAP implementation, SAP upgrade and enabling enterprise SOA.
Duration : 0:5:46
Organizations of all sizes are working smarter with dynamic business processes to increase agility. By continously improving key business processes with BPM from IBM, businesses in any industries can adapt and respond dynamically to marketplace changes wile reducing costs. To learn more about BPM from IBM please visit http://www.ibm.com/bpm
Duration : 0:2:51