BPCS Count Down

Some curious statistics ... one set or the other has got to be a misreporting 
or misunderstanding - I cannot believe that SSA's customer base would be cut 
to 1/3 in such a short time period.

June 2000 Supply Chain Technology News received this week
http://www.supplychaintech.com
Page 9 says SSA claims a BPCS customer base of 6,500

June/July 1999 Midrange ERP Magazine had the annual ERP Buyer's Guide (this 
year's not yet out) charted by vertical markets with data supplied by the ERP 
vendors
http://mfg-erp.com
Page 49 claims 18,000 plus installed eBPCS sites of which 12,000 are midrange 
defined by the magazine as AS/400 & NT & Unix (and zero new sites for 1998).  
It did not say what the remaining 6,000 non-midrange are on or what the 
figures are for versions of BPCS prior to eBPCS.  The only other ERP claiming 
a larger installed base, to the Midrange ERP Magazine = 19,346 SAP R/3 with 
10,989 midrange (6,000 new sites in 1998).

Al Macintyre  ©¿©
http://www.cen-elec.com MIS Manager Programmer & Computer Janitor
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