There is plenty of news on ERP, though not much covered this week in full. The exception was the competitive win for Infor as Admiral Hotel, which saw it replace an old Oracle solution. Visma continued its acquisition spree. Will it ever end? RamBase continues to drive expansion into Poland and the UK with more hires and partnerships.
Rambase seems to be making more headway in a shorter time than other entrants such as Priority ERP, Rootstock and SoftOne. It is certainly making more noise about its expansion.
Pick of the Week
The Sauermann Group, manufacturers of innovative solutions in the industrial and HVACR markets, has selected QAD Adaptive ERP to support and consolidate their international structure into a globally manageable business. QAD is now used by 230 employees worldwide across 12 sites including 4 manufacturing plants.
Stéphane Verscheure, Chief Digital Transformation Officer of the Sauermann Group, commented: “Thanks in particular to QAD, we have the power of a real international group. The solution is the backbone needed to connect the entities to each other and allow us to operate as a unified group.
“QAD allows us to evolve towards a digitalization and an operational and managerial maturity in the different entities. So it’s the foundation on which we had to build something.
“The initial scope was to enable an exchange with the Group’s subsidiaries and without this digitalization, this would have been unthinkable. The arrival of digital in our corporate culture was more than important and allowed us to have a stabilization in 2021 on an operational and organizational level. I am convinced that if we had not engaged in this project with QAD, our revenue would not have been the same.”
Acquisitions
MYOB acquired cloud document management software provider Nimbus Portal Solutions to grow its suite of SaaS Practice Solutions. MYOB also acquired Tall Emu, a CRM and business operations software vendor
Visma has acquired Danish consulting firm Two-Many to strengthen its professional services business.
Appointments
The Access Group has appointed Wayne Fraser as its chief information and data officer.
ECI Software Solutions has promoted Chris Fisher to Vice President of the EMEA lumber, building material and hardware (LBMH) division.
Forterro has appointed Martin Zitz to its executive board and the newly created role of senior vice president, support, services and partners.
Workday appointed Patrick Blair to president of the Americas. Patrick will report to Workday Co-President Doug Robinson, who oversees the company’s global sales efforts.
Xero has appointed Brian McAndrews to its Board of Directors.
Business
The Access Group has integrated Experian’s Commercial Business Information into its financial management suite to help businesses effectively manage payment risk, improve sales targeting and streamline credit control.
RamBase published a business update boasting a growing international presence beyond the Norwegian market. It cited expansion in Poland and the UK with new hires and a growing partner ecosystem.
Rimini Street Foundation has announced its inaugural RMNI LOVE Grant Program, which aims to recognize the communities that Rimini Street works in worldwide. The program will initially award five $10,000 grants to certified 501(c)3 nonprofit organizations in the Las Vegas area.
Customer
Servi Group, Norway’s largest producer of hydraulic equipment, has advanced their long-standing relationship with IFS by moving to IFS Cloud to boost its operational efficiency.
Infor partner S&T has completed an enterprise resource planning (ERP) software implementation of Infor LN at the Warsaw underground company Metro Warszawskie.
Draper Knitting Company has implemented Infor SyteLine ERP for their manufacturing company, located in Canton, MA, assisted by the Copley Consulting Group.
SVP Worldwide, the world’s largest consumer sewing machine provider, has upgraded to the latest Oracle Point of Service (POS) and Retail Customer Relationship Management (Retail CRM) systems. The upgrade was led by Oracle Retail Consulting (ORC).
Sage partner Percipient has deployed Sage Intacct at Dakota Hotels group, replacing Sage 50 as the company had outgrown that software.
Priority ERP has published a case study demonstrating how ATG Access Ltd, a leading manufacturer of hostile vehicle mitigation bollards, road blockers, and barriers, has deployed its solution.
One of the largest global electronics connector manufacturers, JST has selected RamBase to replace a legacy ERP solution.
DLF Limited, India’s largest publicly listed real estate company, has upgraded its enterprise resource planning solution to Ramco ERP Software
Bath Spa University has selected TechnologyOne’s OneEducation enterprise Software as Service (SaaS) platform to digitally transform its financial and business management systems and streamline processes.
Sheralven, a major fragrance distributor in the Northeast United States, has migrated Sheralven’s ERP infrastructure from on-premise to the VAI Cloud.
Product
Xero users in Canada can now run the Québec GST/HST, and QST return in Xero to calculate what they need to file.
