Is the perfect marriage between enterprise and e-business software on the horizon? Pat Sweet speaks to four market experts.
When ERP met e-business
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Ruediger Spies: defensive shield
Spies sums up the situation rather bluntly, saying: “Companies
are tired of having to integrate different pieces of products
from different vendors. They are looking for a single solution
and do not want to have to play around with different interfaces.
The recent announcement between SAP and Microsoft about work
to integrate their development tools is an acknowledgement
of this.”
Williams points out that limited budgets, a desire to exploit
specialised processes and a limited ability to assimilate
change are more reasons why many companies prefer a best of
breed approach. He believes this goes much further than simply
combining solutions from different vendors.
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