PLM vendors eye SMBs with alliances, tools
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A growing interest in product life-cycle management capabilities by small and midsize manufacturing companies is fueling vendor attempts to make PLM technologies easier to deploy and use.
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An acquisition and an alliance give Microsoft new tools to target market leader VMware.
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Many organizations allocate large resources to implement and deploy packaged ERP, CRM and SCM applications. Now these organizations need to move away from operational efficiency gains achieved and into leveraging their data for performance management and business intelligence.
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Ziff Davis - Microsoft CRM leans on partners to fill functionality gaps.
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Microsoft Corp. will participate in a meeting later this month with vendors and organizations that are backing several different identity management systems, an indication that cooperation between the software giant and its peers is improving.
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A group of technology vendors that includes AMD, Dell, Intel, Microsoft and Sun Microsystems, last week published a new Web services specification designed to simplify network administration across a range of devices.
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A host of new products are designed to work and compete with leading enterprise management products, the company says. By Darrell Dunn.
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Cisco Systems&#39; collaboration with Microsoft to target the SMB market is starting to bear fruit as the networking vendor Monday launched a new application that integrates Microsoft CRM with its VoIP platform.
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Software vendors have proceeded cautiously on the core question, with rivals IBM, Oracle, Sun, Microsoft and others waiting to see how the others approach the issue, partly to learn what works and partly to have the opportunity to counter.
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Some business software vendors are determined to steer their own ships in a sea of acquisitions.
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Open-source collaboration software vendor depends on its partners to compete.
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Some vendors and analysts are critical of the open-source application stacks that some major vendors are offering as an integrated software alternative to similar proprietary products.
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New hosted CRM package offers customizable platform services, highlighting company's attempt to compete with SAP, Oracle, Microsoft.
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Company looks to juice its application server business with a version tuned for smaller organizations.
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Two leading midmarket CRM vendors released expansions of their platforms this week, branching further into the service side of CRM.
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Small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) still view cost-cutting as their primary reason for making enterprise software purchases. But customer acquisition and retention ranks second, and for that reason they will spend more on CRM functionality than any other enterprise software area this year, according to data gathered by Aberdeen Research.
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Tools and hardware maker Stanley Works has deployed IP-based business communications software from Interactive Intelligence as part of a strategy to improve its customer service.