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Software Suites Still Not Meeting Business Needs
January 22, 2010
This article by Doug Colbeth, CEO of Kinaxis, a supply chain management solution vendor, highlights the problems with business software suites such as ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), SCM (Supply Chain Management), etc.These products were designed and developed piecemeal for departmental silos and functional parts of a business. Although vendors provide integrations across these parts in solution suites, they still don't meet the real needs and cause many project failures for customers.