ERP
Katana, an ERP for SMB manufacturers, raises $34M
Katana, an enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform for small- and medium-sized manufacturers, has raised €35 million ($34 million) in a Series B round of funding. ERP is a form of business manag
Y Combinator, Global Brain back Tailor, a Japanese headless ERP startup
Tailor, a Japan-based back-end enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform, said today it has raised $4.3 million in seed funding from Y Combinator and Global Brain. Founded in 2021 by Yo Shibata and
Packworks makes operations easier for sari-sari stores in the Philippines
Sari-saris are small neighborhood stores in the Philippines that are often run on pen and paper ledgers. Inspired by a motorcycle journey, Packworks is on a mission to change that, with a mobile enter
SAP CEO Christian Klein looks back on his first year
As he looked back on the one-year mark, Klein sat down to discuss the unique set of challenges he faced.
SAP shares fall sharply after COVID-19 cuts revenue, profit forecast at software giant
SAP announced its Q3 earnings yesterday, with its aggregate results down across the board. And after missing earnings expectations, the company also revised its 2021 outlook down. The combined bad new
SAP decision to spin out Qualtrics 20 months after spending $8B surprises industry watchers
When SAP announced on Sunday that it was spinning out Qualtrics, a company it bought less than two years ago for an eye-popping $8 billion, it was enough to make your head spin. At the time, then CEO
Recurrency is taking on giants like SAP with a modern twist on ERP
Recurrency, a member of the Summer 2020 Y Combinator cohort, was started by a 21 year old just out of college. He decided to take on a highly established market that is led by giants like SAP, Infor,
Koch Industries closes nearly $13B Infor acquisition
Koch Industries announced today that it has closed on the acquisition of Infor, announced in February. The company never officially announced the purchase price, but sources indicated that it was clos
Microsoft Dynamics 365 update is focused on harnessing data
Microsoft announced a major update to its Dynamics 365 product line today, which correlates to the growing amount of data in the enterprise and how to collect and understand that data to produce bette
Koch Industries acquires Infor in deal pegged at nearly $13B
Infor announced today that Koch Industries has bought the company in a deal sources peg at close to $13 billion. Infor, which makes large-scale cloud ERP software, has been around since 2002 and count
Infor lands $1.5 billion investment ahead of IPO
Infor, a NYC-based enterprise software company, announced a massive $1.5 billion investment today that could be the precursor to an IPO in the next 12-24 months. One analyst is estimating that the val
SAP gives CRM another shot with new cloud-based suite
Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is a mature market with a clear market leader in Salesforce. It has a bunch other enterprise players like Microsoft, Oracle and SAP vying for position. SAP decid
Oracle delivers bevy of updates to its cloud suite
Oracle might not be the first company you think of when it comes to cloud computing, but the company has made significant strides in recent years. Today, it announced the bi-annual update to its Oracl
SAP wants to bridge the gap between IoT and business data
SAP announced a new tool today called the Leonardo IoT Bridge designed to help bridge the gap between data coming from sensors in the field and business systems operating inside a firm. The manufactur
New Microsoft tools integrate LinkedIn data directly into Dynamics 365
Microsoft announced some significant integrations between LinkedIn, the professional social network it bought last year for over $26 billion and Microsoft Dynamics 365, the company’s CRM and ERP
Google announces significant partnership with SAP at Google Cloud Next Conference
Google announced onstage today at Google Cloud Next a partnership with SAP to deliver SAP HANA, the company’s in-memory database on Google Cloud Platform. It’s a big deal for a number of
SAP adds AI and integrated analytics in latest cloud release
SAP is about as traditional a legacy vendor as you are likely to find, delivering complex on-prem ERP solutions for the largest organizations on the planet. But like everyone else, SAP sees a future i
FinancialForce selects former Salesforce and Heroku exec to be new CEO
FinancialForce, a cloud ERP solution built on the Salesforce platform, announced today that Tod Nielsen, an experienced executive from a Who’s Who of tech companies, will become the company̵
Microsoft announces GA of Dynamics 365 with AI features
We’ve been hearing all artificial intelligence, all the time from the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) industry over the last several weeks. Microsoft is the latest to trumpet its AI capa
Oracle takes the cloud revenue fast track with $9.3 billion Netsuite deal
When Oracle bought NetSuite yesterday for a cool $9.3 billion in cash, it let the world know it was now totally serious about growing cloud computing revenue. That wasn’t always the case. In t