Manufacturing Industry
A market remade by mergers & acquisitions has new models for serving manufacturing enterprises.
Manufacturing Business Technology, December, 2006
By Jim Shepherd, Senior VP, AMR Research Throughout 2006, ERP vendors consolidated. The major vendors refocused business strategies on product offerings and capabilities that better suit the changing needs of global-oriented customers. Smaller niche vendors, by being acquired, have enriched the product suites of their larger, former competitors.
The past year featured Oracle's completed acquisition of Siebel, Lawson's acquisition of Intentia, and Infor's acquisitions of SSA Global and Geac. Many smaller deals also occurred as vendors tapped improved market values and private equity to purchase extensions to their product lines. In the past, ERP vendors typically had one product line with in-depth features and options for the markets they...
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