Frost & Sullivan Announces 2007 CXOs' Choice Award Candidates for Best Enterprise Software Suites in the United States.PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif. -- Frost & Sullivan announced its candidates for the 2007 CXOs' Choice Awards for Best Enterprise Software Suites in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . The CXOs' Choice Award for Enterprise Software Suites research asks various C-level executives (CXOs) and other leading organizational/department decision makers across the United States to evaluate attributes of Enterprise Software Suites. "The Choice Awards are part of Frost & Sullivan's global program to recognize outstanding companies who exhibit the best practices across key growth drivers," says Frost & Sullivan Chairman David Frigstad. "Our belief is that companies who excel will continue to grow and flourish." Frost & Sullivan asks CXOs to choose the "best" Enterprise Software developers in the following categories/features: After Sales Support, After Sales Training, Application, Customization, Functionality, Innovation, Maintenance, Quality Control, Return-on-Investment (ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). ), Security, Upgrades and User Friendly. The three general types of Enterprise Software Suites being tested are: Enterprise Resource Management (ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. ), Customer Relationship Management (CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. ) and Chain Supply Management (CSM CSM - ["CSM - A Distributed Programming Language", S. Zhongxiu et al, IEEE Trans Soft Eng SE-13(4):497-500 (Apr 1987)]. ). "This is the first time we are conducting this research and we are very interested to see what U.S. organizations have to say about the Enterprise Software Suites they have 'shopped' and are currently using," says Frost & Sullivan Director of Competitive Benchmarking Services Tonya Fowler. "Given that these products/services are largely concentrated within the manufacturing and service industries, we are specifically surveying organizational decision makers from those select industries." CXOs evaluated an exhaustive list of developers and also had the opportunity to rate any additional developers not included on the list. The major award candidates include: * Epicore * Infor Global Solutions Infor Global Solutions is a privately held U.S. software company that specializes in enterprise software[1] ranging from financial systems and resource planning to the supply chain and customer relationships. * Microsoft * Oracle * Ross Enterprise * Sage Software * SAP "We are excited about this new area of study in the Choice Award Program and are already planning to replicate this study in late 2008," adds Fowler. Specifically, Frost & Sullivan's panel of CXOs will be utilized for this research as well as other upcoming CXO CXO Chief Executive Officer (corporate title) CXO Chandra X-ray Observatory CXO Chief Experience Officer (corporate title) CXO Conroe, TX (Airport Identifier) research. If you would like to be a member of Frost & Sullivan's Professional Forums - as powered by Greenfield Online - please visit http://www.FrostForum.com. There are many panels in which to qualify beyond Frost & Sullivan's CXO Panel. As a member of any of Frost & Sullivan's panels, one can wield influence in the products and services routinely used, as well as glean glean v. gleaned, glean·ing, gleans v.intr. To gather grain left behind by reapers. v.tr. 1. To gather (grain) left behind by reapers. 2. information that is happening in markets right now. About Competitive Benchmarking Services Frost & Sullivan's Competitive Benchmarking Services is a division of the Customer Research team that conducts independent, non-sponsored research among end-users to evaluate and measure companies that are top performers for their products, processes and services. Specifically, Competitive Benchmarking Services surveys respondents that are deemed experts (i.e., CXOs, Automotive Technicians, Paint Contractors, etc.) in the wide range of industries that Frost & Sullivan supports. 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