March 2008
Global Logistics & Supply Chain Strategies
If Supplier Portals Were So Great, Then What Went Wrong?
The first Web-based portals dedicated to enhancing buyer-supplier relationships got an underwhelming reception from the trade community. But the survivors have evolved into networks with real value. [more]
February 2008
Managing Automation
Glovia Aims to Help Manufacturers Lean Out
On-demand manufacturing software provider Glovia Services today announced a new stand-alone software module meant to help manufacturers boost their kanban efforts and enhance related business processes, including inventory, production, engineering, shipping, and receiving. [more]
September 2007
Industry Week
A Sampling of SaaS
The SaaS "software delivery service" has so many potential business advantages that on-demand applications are appearing across the manufacturing business model, coming from companies as small as startups all the way up to the sluggers of the software field. Here's just a few of the companies involved in making your life easier, and their current on-demand offerings. [more]
August 2007
Managing Automation (pg 22-23)
ERP SaaS May Finally Be Ready for Prime Time
The software subscription model promises cost savings and fewer maintenance headaches for a core application category... [more]
May 2007
Manufacturing Business Technology
Industrial goods maker takes ERP SaaS plunge
Tapping the small and medium business (SMB) market has been the goal of every major ERP vendor over the last 10 years. Now Glovia Services, a new business unit of Glovia International, is considered the first midmarket ERP vendor to deliver a manufacturing operations-oriented ERP solution based on software-as-a-service—or SaaS. [more]
IndustryWeek - USA
Hosted ERP Done Right
Control Center's service provider at the time, Glovia International, was in the process of launching GSInnovate its own ERP SaaS software solution through a... [more]
March 2007
Managing Automation (pg 12-15)
Battle for the SMB Software Market Intensifies
The conventional wisdom in the enterprise software market these days is that key ERP and other application decisions have been made within many large manufacturing companies... [more]
February 2007
SmartBiz.com
Five Ways SMBs Can Successfully Navigate the Selection, Implementation and Utilization of a SaaS ERP Solution.
In his article in SmartBiz, an online information resource for small and midsize businesses, Glovia Services Inc.'s VP Bill Lyons offers business owners, managers and executives five practical guidelines on how to select and implement an ERP solution to achieve maximum value with minimal cost and risk. Click on this link to read the full article. [more]
November 2006
Manufacturing Business Technology
Summary: Software-as-a service (SaaS) as a delivery model for ERP solutions is still a relatively new concept. Glovia Services, subsidiary of and backed by $40 billion company Fujitsu, recognizes the unique opportunity to provide a SaaS solution for small and midsize companies in the discrete manufacturing, electronics and automotive suppliers markets. Glovia Services' solution -- GSInnovate -- is based on the 30-year rich heritage of Glovia International's ERP system, but streamlined for the midmarket. The cost-effective GSInnovate solution eliminates the costs of hardware, licenses and technical staff, offers the services needed to support a robust ERP solution and guarantees a 90-day or less implementation. [more]
October 2006
Modern Materials Handling - Supply Chain Software News
Summary: Small and medium-sized manufacturers have a new tool for increasing productivity. Glovia Services-a new company operated as a subsidiary of enterprise resource planning (ERP) provider Glovia International-today launched its first product, GSInnovate. The product is essentially a scaled-down version of Glovia's traditional ERP package, targeted specifically at companies with annual revenues of $10 million to $50 million. [more]
AMR Research
This is an interesting approach to help manufacturers with $50M or less in revenue that operate on slim IT budgets. GSInnovate offers a low cost of entry for enterprise technology to manage processes such as core MRP, order management, sourcing and procurement functions, and core financials. Also, manufacturers tasked with updating their existing systems to handle comprehensive traceability and genealogy requirements should find the shorter implementation timeframes that a SaaS delivery model promises. While this is a new approach to servicing this sector of the market, the ultimate success metric for Glovia Services is ultimately going to be adoption by small and midsize businesses (SMBs). [more]
Global Logistics & Supply Chain Strategies
Glovia Unveils Hosted Services Unit for Smaller Manufacturers
Glovia International Inc., a vendor of enterprise resource planning (ERP) software for manufacturers, has formed a new company to provide hosted applications to manage the operations of small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs). [more]
