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• Ego Pharmaceuticals wins SAP CEO choice award

  Ego Pharmaceuticals has taken out SAP Australia’s ‘CEO’s choice award’ for its go live with SAP Business All-in-One and BusinessObjects Edge Business Intelligence software.

• County will rip and replace ailing SAP system

  Officials in Marin County, California, decided on Tuesday to replace the county's ailing SAP ERP (enterprise resource planning) system, an option that would cost less than trying to fix widespread problems with the software, according to officials.

• Ray White IT manager in Ingenero shift

  Real estate giant Ray White has lost its IT manager Steve Berg to growing solar power company, Ingenero.

• Di Bella Coffee upgrades ERP system

  Coffee maker Di Bella Coffee has completed a SAP Business One project that will go live in September.

• SAP extends Sybase offer, awaits EU approval

  SAP said Friday that it has extended its US$5.8 billion bid for Sybase while it awaits approval under European merger regulations.

• Consona buys cloud ERP vendor Compiere

  Consona has purchased on-demand ERP (enterprise resource planning) vendor Compiere, a move that gives it a place at the cloud-computing table, it was announced Wednesday. Terms were not disclosed.

• NetSuite takes a crack at discrete manufacturing

  NetSuite is stepping up its vertical strategy with an on-demand ERP (enterprise resource planning) edition aimed at discrete manufacturers, the term for companies that create customizable products by assembling parts.

• Construction group AJ Lucas adds ERP on private cloud

  Local engineering and construction company AJ Lucas Group (Lucas) will transform its core business processes by consolidating on one ERP platform for financials, payroll, HR and business intelligence.

• SAP Ventures sinks cash into instant-on platform vendor

  SAP's venture capital arm is leading a US$10 million investment round for DeviceVM, maker of Splashtop, an "'instant-on" platform aimed at mobile users, the companies announced Wednesday.

• What Getting IT Right Means to a CEO

  The CEO of Owens & Minor, an $8 billion medical device company, values CIO Rick Mears' industry knowledge.

• Epicor aims at manufacturers with new SaaS app

  Epicor is joining the on-demand ERP (enterprise resource planning) fray with a new application aimed at small manufacturing companies as well as competing vendors such as NetSuite and SAP's Business ByDesign.

• Microsoft GP 2010 features integrations, BI

  Microsoft on Tuesday pulled the wraps off Dynamics GP 2010, the latest version of its ERP (enterprise resource planning) application for smaller companies.

• NetSuite rolling out 'codeless' customization tool

  NetSuite customers and partners have long been able to make tweaks to the on-demand ERP (enterprise resource planning) suite, but on Wednesday the vendor unveiled a new tool called SuiteFlow that could make the work easier.

• Lawson puts its ERP on Amazon's cloud

  Lawson Software announced a partnership on Wednesday that will make its ERP (enterprise resource planning) and other applications available on Amazon Web Services' cloud-computing infrastructure service.

• Widespread discontent persists with ERP projects

  More than half of companies that implement ERP (enterprise resource planning) systems end up garnering no more than 30 percent of the business benefits they expected, according to a new study released by systems integrator Panorama Consulting Group.