ERP: new developments

The Evolution of Enterprise Software (may 2013)

NetSuite CEO Open to Partners as He Swings for SAP and Sage

Light ERP, in the cloud, configurable?

Is it really configurable? Let's have a look at NetSuite, small size ERP, competes with the big ones, Lary Ellison invested in it.

Forget “Enterprise-Class Software”

"The term “Enterprise Software” is poisonous because it implies a scalability ceiling for a solution serving a few 10,000 people that used to be ambitious, but that’s no longer the case. It’s also no longer the hardest class of software solutions – not at all."
Read here, Enterprise Software is much much simpler than, example, multi-players games. Think of scale and availability.

Enterprise Software Sucks but it Doesn’t Have To

Very good ideas from Jesus Rodriguez blog. Helps a lot to understand why Enterprise Software sucks. Also that this sad situation is mainly limited to Enterprise Software. And that there are alternatives.

The trouble with Enterprise Software

Cynthia reviews the problems with Enterprise software: The proliferation of complexity, the cost of implementation. She also thinks that re-usable software is a myth when complexity is high (is it?). Original article at MIT Sloan Management Review. Copy here. Critic review here and here. An also here, on SOA to fix ERP.