10 biggest ERP failures of 2011

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	10 biggest ERP software failures of 2011 With the year drawing to a close, one thing seems abundantly clear: There are still an awful lot of ERP and other software projects running off the rails out there. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Cisco Systems, Inc. Cisco UCS with intelligent Intel® Xeon® processors Learn how the Cisco Unified Computing System, powered by intelligent Intel® Xeon® processors, signals an evolution in the data center: Cisco Unified Computing at Work, Unified Computing Design Zone, Build a Cloud Ready Data Center and Changing the Server Industry. Learn More In this Issue ERP makes a comeback SAP, Google gearing up Google Apps, Business ByDesign integration Apache forges ahead with OpenOffice.org suite Hadoop challenger works to add developers Nuance to acquire mobile speech software provider Vlingo 10 questions for Box CFO Dylan Smith QuarkXPress 9.1 for the Mac: A top choice for desktop publishing MAGIX Movie Edit Pro MX: Pro-level video editing for a great price The Best Hope for the Future of Firefox WHITE PAPER: Oracle Oracle Solaris on the Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud This paper provides a high level overview of the Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud and then describes the value that Oracle Solaris brings to the Oracle Exalogic offering. Learn More! ERP makes a comeback Most big companies rolled out their first ERP systems more than a decade ago. Now one in four businesses plans to upgrade or roll out a new ERP system Read More SAP, Google gearing up Google Apps, Business ByDesign integration SAP and Google executives on Tuesday provided a preview of the companies' plans to tie their respective cloud-based business applications together, but a number of details have yet to be finalized. Read More Apache forges ahead with OpenOffice.org suite Developer release planned; open source organization asserts trademark protection Read More Hadoop challenger works to add developers LexisNexis has worked for more than a decade to develop a large scale system for Big Data manipulation, and it believes that it has produced something that's better and more mature than the better known Hadoop technology. Read More WHITE PAPER: Comcast Bank Raises the Bar on Service Delivery with Comcast Read this exclusive case study to learn how Comcast and Eastern Bank teamed to maintain a secure, reliable network infrastructure for transferring and protecting an enormous amount of data, including customers' bank account and credit card information, financial transactions, mortgage payments and payroll processing for their businesses. Read Now Nuance to acquire mobile speech software provider Vlingo Consolidating the rapidly growing market for voice recognition systems and services, Nuance Communications is in the process of acquiring Vlingo, a provider of mobile voice recognition and analysis software, the two companies announced. Read More 10 questions for Box CFO Dylan Smith -- Name: Dylan Smith, co-founder and CFO Read More QuarkXPress 9.1 for the Mac: A top choice for desktop publishing The technology of ePublishing and eBook readers—and the market for their content—is swiftly accelerating, and reports indicate that ebooks for mobile devices are already in high demand. If you are a publisher who wants to get in on the action, QuarkXPress 9.1 is a great option for creating content for this medium. Read More MAGIX Movie Edit Pro MX: Pro-level video editing for a great price MAGIX Movie Edit Pro MX Plus ($100) offers many of the high-precision controls of Adobe's pro video editing software, Premiere CS5, in a significantly more user-friendly interface. Read More The Best Hope for the Future of Firefox The clock is ticking. Google has extended its revenue agreement with Mozilla for another three years. Last year, 98 percent of Mozilla's funds were from Google, and without it, development of Firefox would be severely hampered. Read More
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