Enterprise Applications

Retail Tech: Whose IT Is Tops, Who Needs to Restock

In a new report, Citi's influential retail analyst Deborah Weinswig takes a deep dive into retail IT shops--and offers up 2009's leaders (CVS, JCPenney) and laggards (BJ's, Costco). As for Wal-Mart? It's surprisingly somewhere in

Open source under threat from ‘grey’ IP laws

Rating ERP Vendor Names: Good, Bad and the Ugly

Which software vendors have good brand names--and which vendors should have spent some more time considering the alternatives.

Top 6 Sites to Get Products for Free

We have heard the adage 'Nothing in life comes for free' a thousand times, but in the wonderful online world you can be sure that the above saying can be proved otherwise.

Oracle Is “The Teflon Don” of ERP Software Maintenance

Why is Oracle so untouchable when it comes to maintenance and support fees?

CRM Deployment: Users Can’t Set Timetable

CRM users are vocal, articulate, and politically powerful. So what do you do when they're asking for the wrong things, or are asking for them in the wrong order?

Oracle and SAP Are Big: Too Big for Their Own Good?

The billion-dollar behemoths are top dogs in enterprise software. But they just might be too big to manage the change that's happening all around them.

SAP’s Tough Choice: Maintenance Revenues or Happy Customers?

After much customer griping, it chose customers by revising its plans -- but some critics still aren't thrilled.

Office 2010: The Pros and Cons for Businesses

Office 2010, set to launch in June, has handy new features for businesses and is more Web-friendly, but will come with a potentially clunky merging of new technologies and upgrade headaches. Is it worth it? A Forrester research report weighs the good

The End of Traditional Software Licensing? Not So Fast

A Forrester prediction that enterprise software vendors will walk away from lucrative tradition doesn't add up.