Joshua Greenbaum Quotations

Neither traditional ERP applications nor project planning software is designed to meet these needs. Making low-volume prototypes and managing a complex array of suppliers, designers, and marketing initiatives requires software that can link all these activities together within a project planning framework.

For years, the database has been an extremely vigorous competition between DB2 and Oracle database. The heat has gotten more intense because middleware has been added to the mix.

Because they are under pressure to cap costs, corporations are searching for ways to make better use of their application infrastructure.

Oracle has tremendous problems being industry expert. SAP has had more success at that end.

I saw the plane dive. Next thing I knew -- boom -- it came down.

This proves to me that there is still a lot of competition in the marketplace and, particularly, that SAP does not have a lock on the market. What this says is that there's a lot of issues in a competitive deal and that the market system still works for enterprise software.

The explosive growth in the size and quantity of databases is a well-known phenomenon in virtually every vertical industry. Making intelligent use of this data is now seen as a major part of companies' efforts to improve their operational efficiency; to better serve customers and partners; to develop, market and sell better products; and to stay on top of their regulatory and compliance requirements. SAND Technology's SAND/DNA reveals a unique and creative way to solve the problems endemic to data warehouse archiving.

Edge Dynamics is taking the right approach to delivering its hosted offerings. Similar to leading vendors like Siebel, and most recently SAP, Edge Dynamics is taking a delivery-agnostic approach that is focused on providing the full range of options to enable customer success. Edge's vision is also unique in that not only do they provide the needed functionality to manage the channel, but also they have integrated the ability to access multiple data sources directly into their hosted offerings.

Customers that have been sitting on fence now have a good decision point that is really powerful for them and has full flexibility to grow and change as their business needs change.

The trend toward project-based operations is gathering momentum. Since IFS is one of the few companies offering a comprehensive, completely integrated, project-based solution, the company is well positioned to support enterprises in their transition toward the Project Economy.

The good news is that Microsoft has cracked the nut. The bad news is, the more successful they are with making the story public, the more they show that the SAP product line is a reasonable option as well.

So the volume per user will go up probably significantly, which may make up for the lower overall deal size.

This is not necessarily the best thing that's ever happened to Microsoft Dynamics .

They are missing functionality, process and data models that are going to go into the functional areas. These are very complicated things that have to be dealt with to build the suite. At the end of the day, I walked away saying Oracle is going to have serious trouble meeting a 2008 deadline.

You can swap, but the better thing to do is use the threat of swapping as leverage for getting a better deal. That's what keeps the vendors honest and competing against one another.

The conflict comes when companies try to reconcile what software says they should be doing with the way they've always done things. Companies that spend millions of dollars on ERP software would like to think that the software works for them and not the other way around.