German ERP upstart eyes expansion

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A small German vendor of ERP software has laid out an ambitious plan, including a partnership with a local IBM subsidiary, to capture a bigger slice of the European midmarket. But the software upstart has to fend off rivals including SAP and Microsoft.

C.I.S. Cross Industrie Software offers a suite of ERP (enterprise resource planning) applications for small and midsize businesses, including programs for accounting, inventory management and customer relationship management. Called Semiramis, the suite is built entirely in Java, allowing it to run on most platforms including Windows, Linux and IBM's OS/400 and i5 operating systems.

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Founded in 1995, the Hanover, Germany-based company is privately held and won't reveal its sales figures. Semiramis is currently deployed at about 230 customer sites, making it a relative minnow in the software industry, but its license sales increased almost 150 percent last year, according to Karner.

C.I.S. targets small and midsize companies with up to 5,000 employees.

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Additionally, Microsoft is targeting the ERP midmarket in Europe, with its Navision family of products, and C.I.S. will also compete with an army of smaller vendors. Abas Software, for example, also targets the ERP midmarket and announced support for 64-bit platforms here at Cebit this week.

C.I.S. claims to be undaunted. Unlike SAP and Microsoft, C.I.S. is a midsized company itself, which allows it to understand its target customers and provide a level of personalized service that its bigger rivals cannot match, Karner argued.

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[Тимур_imported]

Еще есть Hansa Financials, Macola, Exact Globe и много других небольших ERP-систем.