Wednesday, August 31, 2005

Can't tell the players without a scorecard

So one good place to start might be with an inventory of dead (or extremely sleepy) ERP systems. I propose the following categories:
  1. Companies acquired, ERP product and customer base in limbo. This is the most common category. Examples: Baan, MANMAN.
  2. Company not actively investing in the product, future in question. Example: Qube.
  3. Company and/or product is just gone. Example: Flexware.
Under category #1, there are a couple of primary aggregator/offenders:
  • SSA (Baan, BPICS, MANMAN, MK, CAS, KBM, PRISM, many other products in ALL CAPS)
  • infor (formerly Agilisys), acquirers of MAPICS, Frontstep/Symix, Lilly VISUAL, BRAIN, NxTrend, daly.commerce, FACTS, SCT, etc.)
  • Oracle (JD Edwards, Peoplesoft, many more just outside the scope of our ERP study)
  • Microsoft (Great Plains, Navision)
  • Sage (MAS 90/200, ACCPAC, Peachtree, Platinum, BusinessWorks, BusinessVision, ACT!, SalesLogix, many more niche products)
  • Epicor (ROI Manage 2000, Scala, Avante, ManFact, DataFlo)
  • Exact (Alliance/Mfg, MAX, Macola, JobBoss)
I know there are lots and lots I'm leaving out. Comments, additions?

2 comments:

  1. Baan Acquired Berclain supply chain company.

    Peoplesoft acquired Skills Village.

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  2. So where do you think this will all end up? Will SAP just buy whoever is left?

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