Manufacturing Industry
Projected SSA Global IPO says much about enterprise market's future.(THE ERP HORSE RACE)
Manufacturing Business Technology, May, 2005
Even as Oracle seeks through acquisitions to grow its enterprise applications business to the size of SAP's, less noticed is the horse race going on one tier below, where vendors are looking to quickly grow to a size ranging from $500 million to $1 billion. Companies in this tier include enterprise vendors SSA Global and Infor, as well as supply chain vendor Manhattan Associates.
"It's hard to imagine surpassing SAP or Oracle anytime soon," says Cory Eaves, CTO with SSA Global, speaking at National Manufacturing Week 2005 in Chicago. "But we are a viable alternative, and will be one of the five or six [second-tier vendors] left standing." SSA has two major enterprise system product lines: the first, SSA ERP LX, is descended from BPCS out of the...
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