The last 18 months have produced a lot of industry jockeying for cloud-based enterprise applications. SAP's high-priced acquisitions of SuccessFactors and Ariba -- it paid a combined $7.7 billion for less than $1 billion in cloud revenue.

Plex Systems is a software-as-a-service company that is focused on cloud computing ERP systems. Founded in 1995, Plex Systems is led by CEO Jason Blessing.

TROY, Mich., July 24, 2013 – Plex Systems — provider of the Plex Manufacturing Cloud, the only native cloud ERP system with manufacturing at its core — today announced that it is sponsoring the half-day Global Manufacturing Strategies track on Monday, August 5, 2013, at the 2013 CAR Management Briefing Seminars (MBS). Plex also is managing all social media during the four-day e

Read more about the ERP industry analyst discussion, revealing benefits of cloud vs. on-demand ERP platform as a service (PaaS).

Aberdeen Group discusses how the Plex community takes end user collaboration to the next level.

Cloud computing stocks continue to show wide variation in performance throughout the first half of 2013.

The era of the slow, apathetic ERP software vendor that peddles monolithic products that are difficult to upgrade may be coming to an end, according to a recent report from Nucleus Research, which finds ERP vendors are increasingly responding to user demands for more intuitive UIs and integrated mobile and analytic capabilities.

Technology Evaluation Center discusses their experience at PowerPlex 2013, where the focus was on the Plex Manufacturing Cloud, Plex's cloud-based ERP software solution for managing a lean manufacturing process.

In a Sunday piece called, "Detroit, Embracing New Auto Technologies, Seeks App Builders," the New York Times tells the story of a man who graduated from the University of Michigan and then moved as quickly as he could out of the Pleasant Peninsula and to Silicon Valley.

Discover some of the region's most innovative businesses, including Plex Systems, the leader in cloud-based ERP solutions for manufacturers.