Duffield's Back In Business
News The PeopleSoft co-founder was due to launch his new company last week at the AMR Research Strategy conference, but at the last second, his handlers changed their minds. Bruce Richardson, AMR Research's chief research officer, agreed.
[January 24, 2006, 11:45]
Searching For The Next Salesforce
News Salesforce reported $176m (£96.6m) in revenue last year while Taleo revenue was about $60m (£33m), according to AMR Research estimates. The software has helped companies fill positions more quickly and reduced paperwork, according to IT researcher...
[June 27, 2005, 13:00]
PeopleSoft Acquisition Move 'provoked' Oracle
News To analysts Jim Shepherd and Randy Weston of research firm AMR Research, such talk is not hype. Potential European clients, for example, tended to view PeopleSoft as more of a human resources software company, said Nathan Schneiderman, an analyst...
[June 9, 2003, 9:32]
ERP Market Hit By Licence Surplus
News According to a report released by AMR Research, based on the Boston firm's recent survey of 271 companies that have already purchased the systems, some 46 percent of all ERP "seats" remain uninstalled.
[August 3, 2005, 9:50]
Pay-tracking Tools A Sign Of The Times
News Technology research firm AMR Research calls such products "enterprise incentive management" applications, and analysts say they are a small but growing part of an otherwise languishing business software industry.
[August 15, 2002, 16:38]
SAP Ready To Release Mendocino For Testing
News But the companies need to put a little more meat on the product first, according to AMR Research. Similarly, employees can enter vacation time in their calendar and the information will be relayed automatically to SAP's human resources system.
[December 13, 2005, 9:30]
SAP And Microsoft Unveil Fruits Of Collaboration
News Bruce Richardson, senior vice-president with market watcher AMR Research called the Mendocino tools a significant step forward for both companies. Agassi showed how customers using the new system can access information in SAP's applications, such...
[May 20, 2005, 9:15]
Veritas Helps Firms Track Data
News According to AMR Research, companies will spend up to $2.5bn to comply with the law this year, with nearly 77 percent of companies saying they will spend more on information technology, business process change, corporate governance and/or consulting.
[November 4, 2003, 12:25]
Oracle Announces Thousands Of PeopleSoft Layoffs
News The next two weeks is going to be challenging," AMR Research analyst Bruce Richardson said. Oracle was expected to notify many PeopleSoft workers of their terminations over the weekend, via Express Mail to their homes -- a practice human resources...
[January 17, 2005, 7:55]
Making Sense Of SAP-Microsoft Talks
News The thing to realise is that the ERP market is a very small market," said Jim Shepherd, an analyst at AMR Research in Boston. Companies only replace systems every 15 to 20 years, according to AMR, which means that major deals are few and far between.
[July 7, 2004, 13:05]
Oracle's 'de-support' Deadline Draws Ire
News In addition, customers and consultants say making the 11i upgrade is a major undertaking, "a challenge akin to a re-implementation" of the entire software package, according to a report from AMR Research released in May.
[November 12, 2002, 7:42]
