Rice Package Solutions has selected the Epicor AVP solution to replace its legacy accounting and homegrown solutions. The Epicor AVP solution is one of the few enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions designed specifically for the packaging industry. Epicor AVP industry-specific capabilities for folding carton manufacturers including costing calculations to for managing different cartons, displays, assemblies, and combo runs, and scheduling that understands tooling, materials, artwork, and die availability.

Epicor’s $155 million acquisition of Solarsoft in the fall of 2012 brought Epicor AVP into the fold. The acquisition was aimed at increasing Epicor’s strengths in key vertical industries and strengthening its manufacturing and distribution segments. Epicor hasn’t lost any momentum with Epicor AVP for packaging manufactures and continues to win against other solutions in this very focused vertical market.

Take a detailed look at discrete manufacturing ERP solutions on TEC Advisor today.

Workday, Inc., a leading provider of cloud applications for human resources (HR) and finance, unwrapped its latest update, Workday 19. In total, Workday 19 includes more than 170 new features, with approximately 70 coming from the Workday Brainstorm forum. Each Workday upgrade adds more capabilities, and Workday 19 is no different. The Workday press release doesn’t do justice to these new features, but I attended Workday’s analyst briefing and will give more insight into the new features.

Highlights of the Workday 19 release include the following: Read the rest of this entry »

Daptiv has announced that Delta Dental of New Jersey (DDNJ) selected the Daptiv Project Portfolio Management (PPM) solution to help it improve efficiency and accuracy in managing primarily information technology (IT) projects. DDNJ is a New Jersey dental benefits company, providing or administering coverage to more than 1.5 million people through contracts with employers in New Jersey and Connecticut. The Daptiv software-as-a-service (SaaS)–based PPM solution will help DDNJ streamline processes, standardize projects, and manage resources across the organization. Read the rest of this entry »

LiquidPlanner, a provider of project and portfolio management solutions, continues to improve on the LiquidPlanner offering. The company announced the addition of checklists which can be added to any task. In addition, the social collaboration features have been completely overhauled—comments are now threaded by conversation instead of being presented in streamed (date) order. Read the rest of this entry »

Smartling, Inc., a provider of cloud-based enterprise translation management solutions, announced support for a broad range of business documents, including those created using the Microsoft Office suite and Adobe InDesign, with other common formats to come.  The new features will be debuted at the GALA (Globalization and Localization Association) 2013 conference in Miami Beach.

The new document functions are integrated into the Smartling Translation Management System (TMS), which provides an automated, collaborative environment for managing the translation of a company’s digital content.  Read the rest of this entry »

IC-Tag Solutions has introduced an radio frequency identification (RFID) Jumpstart Kit called the “IC-DEMO.” IC-DEMO is a complete RFID demo system that allows users to determine how RFID will work in their environment. The kit allows users to become familiar with RFID and test or develop applications. The IC-DEMO Jumpstart Kit comes with a collection of tags that span a variety of types, forms, and vendors (Avery Dennison, Smartrac, and Alien Technology) which includes on-metal and low-cost tags. All that’s needed to configure and test the solution is IC-DEMO and a laptop.

Tag selection is a critical part of any RFID application. The kit allows engineers to set up a working demo and test the impacts of temperature, power, and an assortment of environmental factors easily and at a very low cost.

IC-Tag Solutions, Inc. is a credited manufacturer of customizable, pressure-sensitive labels and tags, specializing in passive RFID. The company provides security enhanced products such as RFID labels and tags, uniform identification (UID) labels, sensor tags, hardware, software, invisible printing, and professional services.

Infor has announced that the Iowa Health System (IHS) has chosen to implement a full suite of the Infor Healthcare products across IHS’s hospital network. IHS has relationships with 28 hospitals, sees 3.1 million patient visits per year, and has a network of more than 24,000 employees.

IHS will use Infor products for finance, supply chain, and human resources.  The Infor Healthcare suite of products to be implemented at IHS includes Infor Lawson Enterprise Financial Management system, Infor Lawson Supply Chain Management, and Infor Human Resources Management. The suite of Infor Healthcare applications are tailored to the healthcare industry and will enable organizational efficiencies across all of the hospital system’s critical support services. Read the rest of this entry »

Awarepoint Corporation announced an agreement with Baystate Health to install the Awarepoint real-time location system (RTLS) at the first of the health system’s three hospitals. The initial deployment will occur at Baystate Medical Center. This deployment will cover 1.3 million square feet and track 3,000 assets. The installation at Baystate facilities will focus on tracking and managing assets. Read the rest of this entry »

TEC is pleased to announce that Visibility.net by Visibility Corporation is now TEC Certified for engineer-to-order enterprise resource planning (ETO ERP) manufacturing under the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Evaluation Center. Read the rest of this entry »

On February 26, KeyedIn™ Solutions formally launched its new KeyedIn Manufacturing cloud solution at the Houstex manufacturing conference in Houston, Texas. KeyedIn Manufacturing is the latest entrant into the enterprise resource planning (ERP) for small to medium businesses (SMBs) space. TEC wanted to get more background on the product and had the opportunity to speak with Karen Adame, chief product officer at KeyedIn Solutions. We’ll share some highlights from that discussion here. Read the rest of this entry »

To ERP, or not to ERP, that is the question:
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous ERP vendors,
Or to take arms against a cloud of component solutions…

Whether your organization is looking to take the leap into an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system for the first time or seeking to add to the current ERP system’s functionality, the words of the Bard of Avon (updated for the present day) might be considered before making your decision. No longer does an organization have to be bound to a one-size-fits-all ERP solution. One can pick and choose from the best of the best from ERP component vendors to fit their needs.

ERP as a Suite of Components
When you look at an ERP system, it can be viewed as a set of functional component modules that, when put together, provide the entire suite of enterprise functionality needed by your organization. Read the rest of this entry »

HighJump Software and ProcessPro Software formally announced a partnership making HighJump’s TrueCommerce EDI solution ProcessPro’s preferred electronic data interchange (EDI) partner. The partnership will ensure smooth integration between the ProcessPro enterprise resource planning (ERP) system and the TrueCommerce EDI solution. Read the rest of this entry »

Technology Evaluation Centers (TEC) is proud to announce the 16th Vendor Shootout for ERP. This year the Shootout will take place in beautiful Miami, Florida. The event will be held from February 20–21, 2013. For more information and to register for the event, visit the Vendor Shootout Web site.

TEC once again be moderating the event where top enterprise software vendors will present their solutions to attendees. This unique event offers a one-of-a-kind opportunity for you and your team to see solutions from eight of the market leaders all in one place. The Vendor Shootout for ERP is a great opportunity for companies looking for a new enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution to evaluate some of the important players.

The eight solutions being demonstrated at the 16th Vendor Shootout are listed below. The participating vendors belong to what are commonly classified as tiers one, two, and three of the ERP market. Read the rest of this entry »

UNIT4 has successfully completed a new TEC Certification process for Agresso Business World, its global enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution for people-centric businesses and organizations such as professional services, education and local government.

TEC Certification is designed to help organizations evaluate enterprise software solutions so they can make more informed buying decisions. For a product to be certified, the vendor must complete a detailed research questionnaire and deliver a formal product demonstration to show our analysts the product’s support for a specific set of real-world business processes. Read the rest of this entry »

Bunchball, a vendor of gamification solutions, announced a new release of its Nitro for Salesforce product. The new release extends Bunchchall’s game mechanics service organizations using the Salesforce Service Cloud. This release makes Nitro for Salesforce the only fully integrated gamification solution available from within the Salesforce Service Cloud and Sales Cloud.

The product uses motivational techniques like goal-setting, real-time feedback, competition, and virtual rewards to engage and motivate service agents. For example, members of the service team can be rewarded for achieving various productivity milestones like training course completions. The solution is also integrated with Saleforce Chatter which lets users manage social networks like Facebook and Twitter. Read the rest of this entry »