To say we live in uncertain times would be a colossal understatement. There is barely any industry not oversaturated with products. From smartphones to SaaS software, we are inundated with options. This sparks the question, how can a company thrive when both competitors are clawing for market share and new startups are rapidly emerging? TheRead more
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The cloud movement has challenged how businesses operate on nearly every level. From finance to marketing, customer relationships and data management, cloud-based services are making the need to invest in costly on-premise infrastructure almost irrelevant. The humble old ERP, while late to the party, is seeing the same shift as other business tools have. ManyRead more
Modern businesses are faced with quite the conundrum. On one hand, they have safe, established IT systems they are familiar with, are well within their control and can be manipulated as desired. Such systems, however, are too rigid for the modern dynamic market, which is always looking to blindside a company refusing adaptation. Cloud basedRead more
The road to putting the right ERP in place can be an arduous one. Between conducting thorough organizational research to gathering requirements, scouting qualified offerings, meeting with vendors, product selection, then actual system implementation, there is a lot to be done. Vendors and resellers give customers a decent idea of how much their ERP willRead more
The history of the, now ubiquitous, ERP is an interesting one. The term, Enterprise Resource Planning, itself was first used by Gartner in the 1990s for software that added to the functionalities of older MRP and MRP II systems. The acronym was needed as resource planning software was evolving to address more business functions thanRead more
The vast majority of ERPs running today are based on monolithic architecture. This was the standard in the 90’s and early 2000’s. They were deployed in a world with unreliable Internet connection, limited hardware resources and local usage only. You needed everything in a software package or at least have everything installed on the sameRead more
