The E in ERP does stand for Enterprise, but that's more for marketing the name than anything. What the products actually aim to provide is a toolset for planning all of the resources managed by an organization.
A good ERP system when implemented to support solid business processes can drastically improve a company's productivity and operating efficiency. This is true for small, medium and large companies. The reason that most people associate ERP with LARGE corporations is because they typically implement a tier 1 ERP such as Oracle, SAP or JDE, which are the most well known (and expensive).
There are tons of small and mid-sized organizations that employ less well-known ERP systems. In fact these days it's damn near impossible to grow from small to mid-size without implementing at least a portion of an ERP system. This is why it is so important to have open source projects like Campiere. Trust me, the small companies do NOT have tons of cash to throw around (i.e. they are not evil).
The funny thing about ERPs though is that they have become largely Resource Tracking systems rather than planning systems (with the exception of production planning, which stems from MRP). The actual planning job is left to solutions that sit on top of the ERP like Cognos Enterprise Planning, Analytic Applications and SAP xApps.
Scott McNealy gave a talk at my work last week and was asked about this; whether or not he was afraid of Microsoft coming after StarOffice now that Sun is really pushing it. He basically referred to this as an IP Cold War and said that Microsoft knows that Sun has at least 20 IP patents over which it could sue M$ if need be.
If you combined the pagerank with the personal "whittling" and a statistical engine a la Amazon or Netflix, then it might be an impressive step in search engine evolution.
Then again those statistical engines bring privacy concerns, and we all know how much this crowd loves that!:)
They mention in the article the parallels between this service and how we consume tv entertainment.
Well, how would you feel about driving to the store every Sunday to purchase a copy of the latest episode of your favourite tv show probably for $50 because it's not ad-supported. Then you could take it home and watch it on your PC whenever you felt like it. Let's face it who would shell out $400 for a tv that could only connect to prescribed cable/sattelite channels plus pay a monthly fee to watch ad-supported shows when you have this option? Does this seem like a feasible business model for tv shows?
So either (a) the two types of entertainment (games and tv shows) are not comparable or (b) they are comparable and their current business models are interchangeable.
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The E in ERP does stand for Enterprise, but that's more for marketing the name than anything. What the products actually aim to provide is a toolset for planning all of the resources managed by an organization.
A good ERP system when implemented to support solid business processes can drastically improve a company's productivity and operating efficiency. This is true for small, medium and large companies. The reason that most people associate ERP with LARGE corporations is because they typically implement a tier 1 ERP such as Oracle, SAP or JDE, which are the most well known (and expensive).
There are tons of small and mid-sized organizations that employ less well-known ERP systems. In fact these days it's damn near impossible to grow from small to mid-size without implementing at least a portion of an ERP system. This is why it is so important to have open source projects like Campiere. Trust me, the small companies do NOT have tons of cash to throw around (i.e. they are not evil).
The funny thing about ERPs though is that they have become largely Resource Tracking systems rather than planning systems (with the exception of production planning, which stems from MRP). The actual planning job is left to solutions that sit on top of the ERP like Cognos Enterprise Planning, Analytic Applications and SAP xApps.
Scott McNealy gave a talk at my work last week and was asked about this; whether or not he was afraid of Microsoft coming after StarOffice now that Sun is really pushing it. He basically referred to this as an IP Cold War and said that Microsoft knows that Sun has at least 20 IP patents over which it could sue M$ if need be.
I don't know where you live, but in my world as demand increases, price goes up not down.
I know what you mean though. As economies of scale kick in the cost of supplying the service decreases thus increasing the supply side of things.
Of course this all assumes that the product is being sold in a competitive market so what the hell do I know?
Apparently it made someone mad :)
If you combined the pagerank with the personal "whittling" and a statistical engine a la Amazon or Netflix, then it might be an impressive step in search engine evolution.
:)
Then again those statistical engines bring privacy concerns, and we all know how much this crowd loves that!
They mention in the article the parallels between this service and how we consume tv entertainment.
Well, how would you feel about driving to the store every Sunday to purchase a copy of the latest episode of your favourite tv show probably for $50 because it's not ad-supported. Then you could take it home and watch it on your PC whenever you felt like it. Let's face it who would shell out $400 for a tv that could only connect to prescribed cable/sattelite channels plus pay a monthly fee to watch ad-supported shows when you have this option? Does this seem like a feasible business model for tv shows?
So either (a) the two types of entertainment (games and tv shows) are not comparable or (b) they are comparable and their current business models are interchangeable.
You decide.