Title: Why Chiquita chose SaaS apps from an upstart vendor | Computerworld
Headings: Why Chiquita chose SaaS apps from an upstart vendor
Why Chiquita chose SaaS apps from an upstart vendor
HR was shackled by lethargic legacy systems
Sticker shock
ERP + SaaS = Success?
Selling ERP F.U.D.
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Content: Several months later, he began a vendor-selection process with the usual Tier 1 enterprise software players. He declines to specify if those were Oracle and SAP, "but as a global Fortune 500 company," he says, "we only deal with the top-tier vendors." With the requirements in hand and vendors at the ready, Singh suffered some sticker shock. " Very rapidly we came to the conclusion that the amount of capital required to invest in those systems was going to be prohibitive to us," Singh says. " We'd rather divert that amount of capital into our transformational product sets instead of spending it on IT or HR." Into the vendor discussions soon entered Workday, the on-demand ERP vendor cofounded by Dave Duffield, who had himself founded ERP juggernaut PeopleSoft in 1987. " Obviously, Workday had a great pedigree," Singh says of his first impressions. ( Workday's other founder is Aneel Bhusri, who had been at PeopleSoft since 1993. For a profile of Workday, see "Can Two Legacy ERP Guys Get IT Executives to Buy into On-Demand Applications?") Duffield was well aware of the competition.