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Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Is it Possible to Implement an ERP System in Just 3 Weeks?

A few months back there was a popular news release published about how an Epicor customer managed to implement a fully functional version of Epicor iScala within 3 weeks. The news left many businesses wondering if the same could happen for their organization.

What tools exist within Epicor iScala to support fast implementations and ensure that change control is maintained even when the implementation project is complete? Epicor has developed a number of tools to help speed up the implementation process and ensure consistency within the project and maintain the integrity of the solution going forward. Read more about this development in this information article from the Epicor blog.


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Monday, May 21, 2012

The Top 5 Technology Mistakes Distribution-based Business Can Make

Think your smart IT staff will create the perfect technology solution? Afraid they won't? Check out this article from the Association for High Technology Distribution. Where is your organization falling short?

"Isn’t it amazing how technology seems to have taken over almost every aspect of our lives? Can you live without your smartphone? What if you couldn’t see who was calling you before you picked up the phone? Do we ask humans for directions anymore when we have GPS-enabled devices? We hate toll road a bit less now that we don’t have to stop and pay the toll due to I-Pass, EZ-Pass and other Transponders. But when it comes to advanced technology in our distribution-based businesses, and actually many other B2B focused businesses in other sectors, we are lagging behind." Read more...


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Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Cloud Silos - Not a New Trend

These days all it takes to enter the cloud is the swipe of a credit card – Visa, MasterCard, or corporate AMEX will do. This has led many enterprises and line of business owners to turn to the cloud for their business applications, computing, and storage needs. However, in the rush to take advantage of these easy to procure and deploy solutions, a hidden threat is beginning to emerge. This challenge is the proliferation of cloud silos across the enterprise. According to David Linthicum of InfoWorld, if companies are not careful “in many instances clouds will just become a set of new silos, diminishing the value of IT if we’re not careful… the end result is an enterprise IT that becomes more complex and difficult to change, now on the new cloud computing target platform.”

However, the silo trend is not a new one. We have seen it before in the 1980’s and 1990’s as large enterprises in an effort to spur growth and reduce costs purchased a large number of on-premise solutions to improve both the efficiency and effectiveness of their operations.

Read more on the SAP on the Cloud blog...

 

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Sunday, May 13, 2012

Is it time for an ERP realignment?

According to the experts, most organizations replace their Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems every seven to ten years.

Think about where your business was ten years ago. Is it anything like what it is today? Over time, business systems can get out of alignment with the needs of the organization, driving up costs and decreasing productivity.

Here are five signs that your systems need an adjustment:
  1. Only a small number of people in your organization use the system.
  2. You have to create “work-arounds” to address new business processes.
  3. You’re concerned about staying compliant with new regulations.
  4. You can’t upgrade because you have more custom code than original application.
  5. Some departments or divisions are insisting on using their own systems.
To read more about organizations that realigned their ERP systems to keep up with the changing needs of their business, visit the Microsoft Dynamics Cafe blog...




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Wednesday, May 9, 2012

10 Critical ERP Upgrade Mistakes

Major ERP software upgrades are often seen as a long, arduous process. But avoiding certain mistakes can help companies maintain maximum performance when implementing software improvements without disrupting users comfort with their current system. This is especially important for organizations that rely on their ERP software but need updates to keep their systems running at full potential. Here are 10 missteps to avoid when you’re planning and implementing an upgrade...

Read more on TechRepublic. Interested in learning about implementing an ERP or CRM system? Sign up for a free consultationwith Brown Smith Wallace Software4Distributors today.


 

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Sunday, May 6, 2012

Have We Reached the Tipping Point in SaaS ERP?

In Malcolm Gladwell’s seminal book The Tipping Point, he defines a tipping point as “the moment of critical mass, the threshold, the boiling point.” For Software as a Service (SaaS), the traditional barrier to attaining the momentum implied by the tipping point has been ERP. Companies have been amenable to having applications that surround or extend ERP reside in a SaaS environment, but they have been less likely to place their most critical enterprise records in an environment they did not directly own or control. This is changing.

Read more on the Epicor blog. Interested in learning about implementing an ERP or CRM system? Sign up for a free consultationwith Brown Smith Wallace Software4Distributors today.



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Wednesday, May 2, 2012

NetSuite PSA Ranked #1 – Again

NetSuite PSA and SRP Customers Siemens PLM Software and Architech Achieve "Best of the Best" Ranking in SPI's Professional Services Maturity Benchmark Report  NetSuite PSA and SRP Drive Revenue Growth, Increase Billable Utilization and Bid-to-Win Ratios for Services Organizations

NetSuite Inc., the industry's leading provider of cloud-based financials / ERP software suites, today announced that for the fourth consecutive year NetSuite leads the Professional Services Automation (PSA) market with 26 percent market share in 2011, according to the SPI Research 2012 Professional Services Maturity Benchmark Report.

Eight of the 20 "Best of the Best" professional services organizations participating in SPI's study use NetSuite software to manage key processes. As evaluated by SPI, these "Best of the Best" NetSuite customers outperform their peers in such metrics as revenue, billable utilization and bid-to-win ratios, underscoring the value these firms derive from NetSuite's cloud-based, end-to-end services resource planning (SRP) and PSA solutions. NetSuite customers named as "Best of the Best" include Siemens PLM Software, NetSuite, Architech and Advent Software. A complimentary copy of the SPI report is available at http://www.netsuite.com/spi-benchmark-report.

Read more about this article by visiting the NetSuite blog. Interested in learning about implementing an ERP or CRM system? Sign up for a free consultationwith Brown Smith Wallace Software4Distributors today.



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