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by Alan Alper, MA Editorial Staff Posted on Friday, June 17, 2005 7:15:00 PM Sign Up to receive Daily News Alerts in your E-mail Inbox    | Abstract: | Arena Solutions and Intacct to integrate on-demand, hosted application services to help smaller, mid-size manufacturers extract greater value from proliferating distributed engineering, enterprise applications. |
The push to tie the distributed design chain with run-the-business applications has segued into the software as a service (SaaS) space as PLM purveyor Arena Solutions and ERP software developer Intacct Corp. late this week disclosed plans to integrate their hosted application services. The rationale to integrate the two SaaS offerings was driven by multiple motivations, executives of both companies said, in separate interviews. Both vendors share a significant number of customers, some of whom have expressed interest in tighter connectivity between their PLM and ERP solutions. Also, the two Silicon Valley companies (Arena of Menlo Park; Intacct of Los Gatos) are well acquainted with one another. Both are acknowledged leaders in the SaaS space (Intacct is IBM's only partner in the on-demand accounting and ERP segments; Arena pioneered SaaS in the PLM business). Moreover, Arena practices what it preaches: it relies on Intacct's on-demand enterprise application service to run its business. [Click to continue] |
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