Following a disappointing half-year result, ASX-listed IT consultancy Oakton has put its enterprise resource planning (ERP) business under a microscope.
A lack of information from the global headquarters of software giants Oracle and SAP has left the pairs' Australian divisions completely in the dark about what actions to take in the wake of the closure of SAP's Oracle services subsidiary TomorrowNow.
German software giant SAP today said it would shut down its TomorrowNow subsidiary, following damaging legal action with arch-rival Oracle.
Microsoft last week launched a hostile US$44.6bn takeover bid to buy Web giant Yahoo. If the deal goes ahead it will be the latest in a line of multibillion-dollar mergers and acquisitions the tech sector has witnessed in recent years.
Oracle customers want better product support through improved call centres and more information about services.
The construction giant's AU$15 million, JD Edwards OneWorld implementation was initially intended as an upgrade to a struggling decade-old internal system but Thiess has found more than one reason to embrace a future version of the product.
Co-president Charles Phillips says his former brethren are doing a poor job of grading the company's performance.
To move ahead, big software companies are reaching back to a familiar strategy: offering customers a soup-to-nuts "stack" of software products.
A user conference in Melbourne almost goes pear-shaped for Oracle.
Consolidation of Oracle's business applications into a single code base has passed the halfway mark, but the company's customers won't be forced into an upgrade before they're ready, Oracle executives promised an attentive crowd of more than 400 primarily JD Edwards users at this week's Quest '06 conference in Melbourne.
"Open to new ideas. Plays well with others."
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