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:
- Companies acquired, ERP product and customer base in limbo. This is the most common category. Examples: Baan, MANMAN.
- Company not actively investing in the product, future in question. Example: Qube.
- Company and/or product is just gone. Example: Flexware.
- 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)




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Baan Acquired Berclain supply chain company.
Peoplesoft acquired Skills Village.
So where do you think this will all end up? Will SAP just buy whoever is left?
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