Question

Background:

There are a large number of accounting-system related vendors.  All have websites that describe the company, their products, their target markets, their components, their strengths, their relative cost, etc.

Exercise:

·     Pick two (2) separate ERP/EBS system vendors.  

·     Answer the following questions:

1.   What is the name and address of the ERP vendor?

2.   What are the Company’s products?  Does the Company have a single product or multiple competing products?

3.   What are the major parts of the product?  (If the vendor has multiple products, pick the vendor’s primary product.)

4.   What are the target market(s) for that product/vendor?

5.   What are the product’s strengths according to the vendor?

6.   What limitations does the vendor identify related to the product?

7.   What is the approximate cost of the product? (If available)

8.   Is a demo available?

9.   Identify any other distinguishing information regarding the vendor and/or the ERP product.

Note:  

Do not includeIntuit or Quicken or QuickBooks in your responses.

While Quicken and QuickBooks are extremely popular among small businesses, Quicken and QuickBooks are notrepresentative of this class of business software.  For classification purposes, Quicken and QuickBooks are more aptly classified as automated bookkeeping systems although functionality has expanded significantly since its inception.

Answer 1

ERP VENDORS:-

A)ORACLE PARTNER NETWORK

1) Name:- Oracle PartnerNetwork

Address:-

   SYDNEY 4 Julius Avenue

North Ryde,New South Wales,2113

Email:[email protected]

2)Oracle is having multiple range of competing products.

Some of its product are :Software as a service(SaaS) Enterprise Applications:SCM,EPM.

Platform as a service(PaaS)

Database Software: MYSQL

3)Complete,Open,Integrated,Hardware and Software Systems are its primary products.MYSQL is the primary one among its databases.

4) It targets customers needy modular solutions,Oracle's Open,Architecture and Multiple operating Systems,Options also gives customers unmatched benefits allowing them to build the best infrastructure for their enterprise.

5) It offers an optimized and fully integrated stack of buisness hardware and software systems that helps organisations overcome complexity.

Oracle Systems:

- Provide better performance,security and flexibility

- Lower the cost and complexity of IT implementation and management

6) -There is no built in support for XML or OLAP in MYSQL

   - Support is available for free version,but you will need to pay for it.

7)MYSQL-Annual Subcription

   standard edition USD 2000

   Enterprise Edition USD 5000

   Cluster CGE USD 10000

B) Microsoft Dynamics

1)Name:-Microsoft Dynamics

Address:- One Microsoft Way

Redmond,Wa 98052-6399 USA

(800) MICROSOFT

2) There are six seperates products that make up the microsoft dynamics family:

- Dynamics AX

-Dynamics CRM

- Dynamics GP

-Dynamics NAV

-Dynamics SL

-Dynamics RMS

3)Primary Product for larger Enterprise is Dynamics AX and Dynamics GP for small & medium enterprise

4)Dynamics AX is a good option for companies with multi-site and /or multi-country operations.

Dynamics GP is popular in professional services,finance and the public sector.

5) Dynamics AX is known for having strong functional support for manufactures and distributors.

6)Dynamics AX incurs higher cost and risk associated with partner hosting,

Microsoft is extremely behind in recognising and delivering enterprise 2.0 and social business solutions.

7)Price for Microsoft Dynamics AX 7 2016 -$20K-750K