SAP/R3, Oracle (PeopleSoft), MAPICS, move over. There's a new guy in town.By: Brian Kelly | |
| Gene Bonett's company Xperia took the mainframe portion of Apparel Business Systems, the premiere package for apparel developed in the 1970's by Paul Harkins and others, and brought it to the AS/400 platform and with continual enhancements from his 30-person firm of analysts and programmers created a very successful software business for himself. Based in Allentown PA, about 75 miles from Wilkes-Barre where I live, Bonett has taken this leading edge package designed for apparel manufacturers and importers and has recently created a generic ERP package from it with many of the avante garde features that were the hallmark of its success in the apparel industry. | |
| Having designed cut and sold systems and accounting systems for apparel manufacturers myself in the 1970's, I know how much more difficult it is to design and write software for the apparel industry than any other industry. Apparel requires more because of the many dimensions of a product, such as style, color, fabric, seasonality, and size. Adding dimensions to a generic manufacturing system (the ERP version) can only serve to increase its utility in function and implementation. | |
| Years ago in the vaudeville days, the traveling troupes had a little saying about Scranton PA. It went like this: "If you can play Scranton, you can play anywhere." The company referenced in this Link uses Xperia's apparel software to be successful. They are from Scranton. I would like to add my own little ditty from experience. "If you can play apparel, you can play any industry." If you can play apparel and play Scranton, you've got to be doubly good. | |
| That's why I am convinced that Gene Bonett's generic ERP package has the potential to take on the biggest and the best and win the ERP satisfaction game. Gene is a pro. Xperia is a professional outfit, and their ERP software is just waiting for a few good trials to become a major force in the manufacturing segment. | |
| It's nice to see David fighting Goliath. In this case, Goliath, played by Larry Ellison does not even know there is a Davey out there that can make his life miserable. Maybe it's time we tell him. | |
| Brian Kelly retired as a 30-year IBM Midrange SE in 1999. He formed Kelly Consulting in 1992 as an IT education and consulting firm. Brian has written twenty-five books and numerous magazine articles about current IT topics (Midrange Computing, IT Jungle, News/400, iSeries Network, AS/400 Systems Management, AS/400 Internet Expert, Showcase, etc.). In 2002, along with Joe McDonald, former publisher of the Scrantonian / Scranton Tribune, he formed the Lets Go Publish company. The company's emphasis area is AS/400 technical books. Brian is currently on the faculty of Marywood University in Scranton, Pennsylvania, where he also serves as iSeries technical advisor to the IT faculty. | |
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