Golden Gate Capital and Infor (which is owned largely by Golden Gate Capital) will acquire Lawson Software for approximately $2 billion in a transaction that is expected to be completed sometime in this year’s third quarter. Lawson is the latest in a string of enterprise software acquisitions made or financed by Golden Gate that began almost a decade ago. Today, Infor is made up of legacy companies such as Baan, Comshare, ePiphany, Dun & Bradstreet Software, SSA, Sun Systems and Symix, to name...
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Topics:
ERP,
Human Capital Management,
Operational Performance Management (OPM),
Business Analytics,
Business Technology,
Oracle,
Business Performance Management (BPM),
CFO,
Customer Performance Management (CPM),
Financial Performance Management (FPM),
Infor,
Sales Performance Management (SPM),
Supply Chain Performance Management (SCPM),
Talent Management,
Workforce Performance Management (WPM),
Corporate Finance,
Financial Performance Management
Companies (especially in high technology) that sell through an indirect channel face a difficult challenge because global sales channels are complex, fragmented and changeable, with different business practices and customs than direct channels. Keeping track of which products have sold in and sold through which partners can be a difficult task. Unless a company is working with only a handful of channel partners, just collecting the data is time-consuming. Not only is the data complex, much of...
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Topics:
Sales,
Salesforce.com,
Human Capital Management,
Operational Performance Management (OPM),
Zyme Solutions,
Business Analytics,
Business Collaboration,
Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC),
channel,
CRM,
Financial Performance Management (FPM),
Sales Performance Management (SPM),
Supply Chain Performance Management (SCPM)
Back in the old days (20 years ago or so) companies that wanted to expand or update their telephone systems had to do what was called a “forklift migration.” In other words, they had to remove big, heavy and very expensive boxes of electronics from an equipment room and replace them with newer big, heavy and very expensive boxes. The process of adding, deleting or changing people, offices and phone numbers was equally burdensome and costly. This all seems quaint now because digital telephony...
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Topics:
SAP,
ERP,
Office of Finance,
Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC),
Oracle,
Business Performance Management (BPM),
Financial Performance Management (FPM),
Infor
Alight Planning sells planning and budgeting software mainly to midsize companies and stresses its software’s ability to support a more effective approach to corporate planning and budgeting. It calls this “agile planning,” a term used to contrast a traditional, highly deterministic method of drawing up and executing plans with an “agile” mindset that is better able to deal with the high level of economic volatility that most businesses confront today. In many respects Alight’s approach is...
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Topics:
Planning,
Forecast,
Office of Finance,
Operational Performance Management (OPM),
budget,
Budgeting,
CFO,
Financial Performance Management (FPM),
Sales Performance Management (SPM),
Supply Chain Performance Management (SCPM),
agile,
budgeting software,
CEO,
Integrated Business Planning
Although I continue to believe that governance, risk and compliance (GRC) is not a firm software category, software vendors continue to add depth and breadth to their offerings that support corporate governance, help manage risks systemically in business and IT and provide greater visibility into compliance efforts. For example, with its release of OpenPages 6.0 IBM had made an important enhancement by marrying the document management capabilities of its OpenPages acquisition with Cognos’s...
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Topics:
Governance,
GRC,
Office of Finance,
Operational Performance Management (OPM),
Chief Risk Officer,
Business Intelligence,
Business Performance Management (BPM),
compliance,
Financial Performance Management (FPM),
IT Performance Management (ITPM),
Risk,
Internal Audit
While Europeans have long had to adapt to working in many languages, currencies and legal jurisdictions, a generation ago most midsize companies in the United States did all their business in their home country and in U.S. dollars. Today, though, the relentless globalization of the world economy means that an increasing number of midsize companies in North America are functionally multinational and face the challenges of managing a more complex and demanding accounting and financial management...
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Topics:
ERP,
Office of Finance,
Sunsystems,
Business Performance Management (BPM),
CFO,
Financial Management,
Financial Performance Management (FPM),
Infor,
Corporate Finance,
FMS