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The 2025 Top 10 ERP Systems Report
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RPA Overview: Robotic Process Automation Explained
Along with machine learning and artificial intelligence, robotic process automation (RPA) is becoming more prominent across industries. If you’re considering RPA, you must understand how this technology works. Today, we’re providing an RPA overview to help...![What is Digital Transformation? [& What’s the Roadmap for Success?]](https://www.panorama-consulting.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/what-is-digital-transformation.png.webp)
What is Digital Transformation? [& What’s the Roadmap for Success?]
What is digital transformation? It depends on who you ask, but typically it refers to the process of IT modernization or the process of developing new digital business models. As you optimize your digital capabilities, you radically change the way you operate and the...
SAP vs Oracle: Which ERP System Should You Choose?
Companies with a long-term IT digital strategy that involves rapid growth and innovation often look to large ERP vendors, like SAP, Oracle and other Tier I vendors. This is not surprising. After all, one advantage large vendors have over smaller vendors is other...
Machine Learning in Retail Supply Chain Management: What are the Benefits?
Future-focused retailers are using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning technologies to improve transparency, balance inventory, and meet buyer demands. As they do so, they are achieving benefits such as: Smarter demand forecasting Quicker anomaly...
Individual Change Management: Have You Told Employees What’s in it for Them?
By nature, digital transformation is an enterprise-wide initiative. It affects every employee, on every level. So, when it comes to change management, you might view the effort with the same widescale lens. However, it’s important to view change management not...
Supply Chain Planning and Control: How to Get it Right
The unpredictable global economy has taken its toll on almost every industry, underscoring the need for robust supply chain planning and control. In other words, organizations need to efficiently coordinate assets as goods, services, and information are delivered...
ERP System Integration Risks That can Lead to a Data Disaster if Unaddressed
When an organization is ready to begin ERP implementation, they are understandably apprehensive. One of their top worries typically involves systems integration. How will the new ERP solution interact with our existing systems, and how will we ensure data integrity?...
6 ERP Implementation Risk Mitigation Tips
Any time you begin an ERP implementation, there are inherent risks involved. In fact, this is the case for any type of digital transformation project. Why is this the case? For one, you’re replacing familiar software systems with a brand-new platform. This...
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...
