Executive Summary This article is part of our honest vendor series, which is one of the only ratings of vendors rather than applications. Introduction Business Forecast Systems is a small software vendor that has been in forecasting since 1987. Business Forecast Systems is the type of software vendor that we typically recommend to work with….
Executive Summary This is the Brightwork Research & Analysis software rating series. We rate both the software and estimate the risk of implementing each application. MUFI Rating & Risk for SAP APO DP MUFI: Maintainability, Usability, Functionality, Implement ability Vendor: SAP (Select For Vendor Profile) Introduction This is SAP’s demand planning application, which is out of the…
Executive Summary This article is part of our honest vendor series, which is one of the only ratings of vendors rather than applications. The vendor quality is critical to the decision making process as software purchases have a high long term involvement by the software vendor. Introduction Demand Works is a small and highly innovative…
Executive Summary This article is part of our honest vendor series, which is one of the only ratings of vendors rather than applications. The vendor quality is critical to the decision making process as software purchases have a high long term involvement by the software vendor. Introduction Tableau is the most innovative, and we think…
Executive Summary This article is part of our honest vendor series, which is one of the only ratings of vendors rather than applications. The vendor quality is critical to the decision making process as software purchases have a high long term involvement by the software vendor. Introduction SAS is one of the most stable and…
Introduction When forecasting applications were first developed external to the ERP system, a narrow spectrum of applications was developed for demand planning, and these were primarily designed for the statistical forecasting process. However, statistical forecasting is only one of several forecasting processes, and over the years, the variety of demand planning applications has increased significantly….
Introduction CRM is the fastest growing software categories in enterprise software. CRM has been forecasted by Forbes to surpass ERP in revenues by the year 2017. If that occurs, that will be a fantastic accomplishment as this is the first time that any other category of enterprise software has even come close to ERP sales…
Introduction ERP implementations are high-risk affairs. Much of the ERP functionality difficult to implement, many of the vendors are offering dated technology – that if it were not for how the word “legacy” is controlled by software vendors and consulting companies would be called legacy. (Hint, legacy is a term of propaganda, and can only…
Introduction ERP implementations are high-risk affairs. Much of the ERP functionality challenging to implement, many of the vendors are offering dated technology – that if it were not for how the word “legacy” is controlled by software vendors and consulting companies would be called legacy. (Hint, legacy is a term of propaganda, and can only…
Executive Summary This is the Honest Vendor Rating for SAP. SAP ranks as one of our lowest-rated vendors in topics ranging from SAP’s sales tactics to their value. Introduction SAP is the world’s largest enterprise software company. However, as a company, like the most significant consumer software company in the world, Microsoft, SAP lives in…