The book was written in 2019. Since then how have these five vendors product offering changed? Do these vendors have new products? Have they made important acquisitions? Have they been acquired? Have any new companies made important inroads into their market share?

Question 1: ERP Market Company Rank Remarks Future Epicor 5 Strong industry-specific Epicor 9 designed for flexibility (SOA). solutions, especially retail. Highly configurable ERP. Lower cost. Microsoft 4 Four products acquired: Products not well integrated with Office. Dynamics AX, Nav, GP, and Not integrated at all with Microsoft Solomon. AX and Nav more development languages. Solutions not comprehensive. Solomon on integrated and product direction the way out? Large VAR uncertain. Microsoft Azure hosts Oracle and channel. SAP products. Conflict with Azure hosting of Microsoft ERP products. Infor 3 Privately held corporation that Many solutions, not integrated, particularly acquired an ERP product specialized for manufacturing and supply named Baan, along with more chain management. Will evolve with than 20 others. revolution in 3D printing practices. Watch for public offering in 2014. Oracle 2 Combination of in-house and Intensely competitive company with strong acquired (PeopleSoft, Siebel) technology base. Large customer base. products. Expensive. Flexible SOA architecture. Will leverage strong technology base into innovative and effective cloud-based solutions. Strong challenge to SAP market leadership. Claims number 1 in CRM. SAP 1 Led ERP success with Technology older. Expensive and seriously client-server hardware. Largest challenged by less expensive alternatives. vendor, most comprehensive Huge customer base. Future depends on solution. Largest customers. effectively migrating to cloud. Claims Expensive. number 1 in CRM. Google or Bing each of the five vendors. In what ways have their product offerings changed since this text was written? Do those vendors have new products? Have they made important acquisitions? Have they been acquired? Have any new companies made important inroads into their market share?