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The 2025 Top 10 ERP Systems Report
Our experts have highlighted ten vendors that can help your organization make data-driven decisions.
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What is Digital Manufacturing and What are the Benefits for Early Adopters?
What is digital manufacturing? It is about using digital technologies to improve the manufacturing process. It’s become somewhat of a buzzword lately and for good reason. This approach helps manufacturers create a transparent and integrated supply chain that...
ERP Vendor Disputes: How They Arise and How to Prevent Them
In an ERP implementation, your software vendor can be your greatest ally. However, there can be circumstances that strain this relationship and lead to conflict. If you find yourself embroiled in ERP vendor disputes, it can lead to setbacks, delays, and cost overruns....
Changing Your Organizational Culture to Align With Your ERP Project
Throughout your company, there are values, expectations, and best practices that guide your team members. Collectively, this is known as your organizational culture. Whether you’re aware of it or not, this force exists, and it can have a major impact on your ERP...
Lessons Learned from the GE Digital Transformation Failure
A world energy leader and global powerhouse, GE has made a name for itself with just two letters. Yet even the biggest companies realize they have room for improvement, and GE was no exception. For years, GE talked about a digital transformation that would propel it...
An ERP Upgrade Checklist for Organizations With No Time for Nonsense
ERP upgrades and updates might seem time-consuming, but they’re critical. They ensure that your system is always running at top capacity. With this improved performance, you lower your risk of system slowdowns and employee workarounds, which reduces...
Questions to Ask ERP Vendors During Software Selection
Are you in the ERP selection phase of your enterprise software implementation? With so many interests from various stakeholders, you might be wondering what’s most important so you can ask ERP vendors the right questions. Today, we’re sharing the top questions...
Lessons Learned from the Rent the Runway Failure
Since its inception in 2009, roughly 11 million subscribers have used the eCommerce fashion service, Rent the Runway, to score deals on more than 650 designer brands that might have been otherwise unobtainable. However, ten years later, the brand was the subject of a...
What Change Management Assessments are Essential to ERP Success?
It’s easy to get caught up in the excitement of an ERP implementation. The technology is new, the software is promising, and the CTO is revved up. However, once go-live rolls around, many companies find that the majority of employees are resistant to use the new...
A List of 7 ERP Business Functions Found in Most ERP Systems
Are you a department manager trying to make a business case for ERP? Convincing your executive leadership to embrace an implementation can be a herculean task, but it’s a critical one. Without executive buy-in, it’s impossible to obtain the resources you...
How State Governments Should Evaluate Cloud ERP Functionality
State governments want their software to be secure, compliant, and designed for the 21st century. As such, many state governments are evaluating their current ERP platforms to determine how to modernize financials, procurement, human capital management, and payroll...
Lessons Learned from the BBC Digital Transformation Failure
While a digital transformation can take a company to new heights, it can also open a company up to new risks. This was the case in 2013 when the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) officially canceled its Digital Media Initiative (DMI). A complex program designed...
Should You Re-Implement ERP or Upgrade it?
The pace of technological innovation is relentless, and what’s new in the morning could become obsolete by lunchtime. Like any other type of software, ERP platforms are constantly being improved and modernized. However, just because a vendor is innovating its...
How to Develop an IT Strategy to Guide Your ERP Selection
Feeling overwhelmed by the sheer number of enterprise software solutions on the market today? You can shorten the list and save your sanity by building an IT strategy. The right strategy will help you sift through the options to reveal the best ERP vendor for your...
An Organizational Change Management Checklist for Your ERP Implementation
Organizational change management is a critical part of any enterprise software implementation. Without it, your employees will become confused and frustrated, which lowers morale and productivity. That said, don’t jump head-first into a change initiative. Instead,...![What is an Industry Specific ERP Solution? [7 Benefits]](https://www.panorama-consulting.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/what-is-an-industry-specific-ERP-solution.png.webp)
What is an Industry Specific ERP Solution? [7 Benefits]
What is an industry specific ERP solution? In short, it’s a feature-rich system that caters to the unique needs of your niche. These ERP systems include specialized modules and functionality that your specific industry requires. Many out-of-the-box ERP platforms...
How Private Equity is Evolving in Response to the Increase in Cybersecurity Attacks
Private equity cybersecurity attacks are on the rise, and the threat isn’t only a problem for corporations with deep pockets. For private equity firms, data breaches have far-reaching consequences. They negatively impact valuations, spook investors, create...
Lessons Learned from the TSB Software Failure
In 2018, the UK’s Trustee Savings Bank (TSB) experienced a massive IT migration failure that left nearly 2 million customers locked out of their accounts. The events were so catastrophic that by the beginning of 2020, TSB had abandoned the project...![ERP Steering Committee Roles and Responsibilities [6 Roles to Assign to This Team]](https://www.panorama-consulting.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/erp-steering-committee.png.webp)
ERP Steering Committee Roles and Responsibilities [6 Roles to Assign to This Team]
Without direction and governance, an ERP project could fall short of the goals you hoped to achieve. An ERP steering committee is a great way to keep these projects on track. Comprised of executive-level leaders and other ERP stakeholders, a steering committee is an...
Excel vs ERP: As Different as Night and Day
Since its launch in 1985, Microsoft Excel has been the go-to business management software that executives around the world use to store and manage their day-to-day operational data. However, brand recognition and longevity can only take an application so far. In the...
