| An ERP Vendor, with its Powerful Parent Backing, Tackles Software as a Service P.J. Jakovljevic - January 24, 2007 A Glimpse of glovia.com 9 Glovia International, a subsidiary of Fujitsu Limited (TSE:6702 [Tokyo Stock Exchange listing]), recently released glovia.com 9, an on-premise suite that attempts to solve some traditional usability drawbacks rather than deliver any new functional modules. Thus, Glovia is the first full-fledged and versatile manufacturing-oriented, on demand enterprise resource planning (ERP) vendor to offer a software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution. The foundation of this solution includes the acquisition of the intellectual property rights to Northgate's PRO-IV highly scalable development platform's kernel. The extension of this kernel's capabilities is such that the two development environments, PRO-IV and glovia.com 7, are no longer fully compatible... |