SAP HANA as a platform for the SAP Business Suite (‘Suite on HANA’) is a topic with very high relevance for both SAP users and SAP partners. In our new market insight “Evolution of ERP: SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA” we examine: The perception of SAP users and SAP partners considering “Suite on HANA” Opportunities and challenges for users [...]

This week’s announcement of a ‘global partnership’ between Fujitsu and UNIT4 is interesting news for both parties. The goal is to address the needs of large and medium companies seeking both hardware and software to support IT transformation initiatives, with Fujitsu and UNIT4 able to offer reduced costs to prospective clients through the partnership. For UNIT4, this sees yet another [...]

At a recent conference in Paris, IBM France CEO, Alain Bénichou, shared his strategy with IT industry analysts based in France, PAC included. He made clear that the French market, as for the rest of Europe, is not where IBM seeks to achieve new growth. Unlike Brazil, Mexico, and Asia Pacific, the strategy for France will be to maintain and [...]

Malgré le contexte économique difficile, les utilisateurs de SAP en France entendent montrer leur dynamisme et leur volonté de mettre en oeuvre les conditions du redressement. Et cela passe par l’innovation, maître mot de la journée organisée aujourd’hui par le club des utilisateurs SAP francophones (USF). Alors que l’USF avait adopté le thème du Big Data l’an passé, le thème [...]

PAC attended UNIT4’s user conference yesterday at the ICC in Birmingham, UK, where a number of announcements demonstrated how the company is sailing a course toward joining the premier league of software firms in the UK market. For starters there are the numbers: UNIT4’s UK revenue increased by 16% in 2012, to reach over £75m. As PAC’s recently published figures [...]

In February, PAC was analyst partner to the CIO30 DACH – a three-day event gathering 30 CIOs from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. CIOs of companies such as Adidas, Credit Suisse, Danone or Merck participated.

Over the years, business applications provider Infor has been seen in many quarters as a significant market player, but with more focus on financial management than product development. That perception is looking out of date, thanks to a new common architecture and product capabilities and a fresh user interface. But we think Infor’s progress is being hampered by an overly [...]

Sopra qui rachète HR Access, cela mérite les félicitations d’usage. Mais aussi un certain nombre de réflexions sur la nature de ce rapprochement et sur les perspectives d’avenir. Pour un analyste, habitué à réfléchir en termes d’opportunités et de menaces, cette transaction soulève en effet de nombreuses questions. La cession en elle-même de HR Access par le fonds Fidelity n’est [...]

CEO Guy Berruyer continues to make his presence felt at Sage, the UK’s biggest software company and its only global top-10 business applications provider. When M Berruyer took over as CEO a couple of years ago, one of his biggest decisions was to exit Sage’s north American healthcare business – a business line which had long been criticised by investors [...]

The latest output from the European Commission on e-security makes for interesting reading for software and services providers. Entitled Cybersecurity Strategy of the European Union: An Open, Safe and Secure Cyberspace, it is remarkable in its focus on common sense. For decades cyber-criminals have operated more or less with abandon as separate governments and industries have been in permanent reactive [...]