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The 2025 Top 10 ERP Systems Report
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Addressing the Challenges and Opportunities of ERP in Developing Countries
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems have proved effective in streamlining business processes in many highly urbanized countries. The enhancements it brings to organizations like private institutions and even governments are significant, especially in terms of...
Is Your ERP Software Implementation in Trouble?
Most ERP software implementations don’t fail overnight. They fail over weeks, months, or even years of poor decision-making and execution. Unfortunately, most organizations and project teams don’t recognize the signs of pending failure until it’s too late. Much like...Would an Effective ERP System Help Grow Your Nonprofit Organization?
A nonprofit organization (NPO) can improve its capabilities through the Internet and advanced system capabilities. With the click of a button, raising awareness for social issues has never been easier and more attainable. The online world also provides nonprofits a...
Digital Transformation Lessons From a Room Full of CIOs
We recently hosted a Digital Enterprise Boot Camp in Toronto. We hold these boot camps a few times a year and it’s always eye-opening. I marvel at how much I learn about the nuances and realities of digital transformation from groups like these. It’s highly...
Why Your ERP Evaluation Process May Be Rigged
Recently, I was working with a potential client whose ERP evaluation process was rigged. The potential client didn’t realize it at the time, which made the situation especially risky. I started Panorama 12 years ago, because of this very concern. Most ERP consultants,...
Does Your Business Need an ERP System?
When a start-up entrepreneur, or any business owner for that matter, dives into the nitty-gritty of his or her operations, then he or she becomes well-aware of the intricacies involved in the processes. Managing processes and transactions can be helped greatly with...
How Football Can Help Your Digital Transformation
American football is my favorite sport for many diverse reasons, paramount among them being: Tactical dexterity – it’s strategic and agile Physicality – it’s a tough and hard-hitting sport Criticality – with only 16 games in a season every game...
Read this Before Beginning Your ERP Implementation
Our clients typically get excited at the conclusion of their ERP software evaluation and selection process. Momentum is high, employees are energized by the prospect of a new ERP system and are often ready to dive right into an ERP implementation. A word of caution:...
A Basic Overview of Cloud ERP
The search for an ERP (enterprise resource planning) infrastructure that fits your business is a herculean task. It’s never easy because there’s no designated right software, really. There’s not even one direct way of predicting long-term ERP system specifications due...
Tales from an ERP Failure: A Story of Lies, Deception, and Greed
Over the last few months, one of our project teams began helping a client recover a failed ERP implementation. Like most ERP failures, this project is turning out to be an interesting and eye-opening story. Long story short: this client’s ERP implementation has been a...
How Growth Can Undermine Your Digital Transformation
Earlier this week, I met with a Panorama client that is experiencing explosive growth. Not your run of the mill 10 to 20% year-over-year growth, but more like hockey stick, doubling-in-annual-volume type of growth. This company is struggling with how to best implement...
ERP and Effective Project Management. How to Drive Project Results
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) project management is a full-time job that requires dedicated resources. Although it’s not as simple as it seems, it’s one of the keys to the success of software implementation. For this reason, business owners, Chief Information...
Ten Questions to Ask Before Starting an ERP Software Implementation
Let’s say you are about to choose and implement a new ERP system. You’re excited about the prospect of finally letting go of that old legacy system, and you and your team probably couldn’t be more eager to get started. A lot of our clients find themselves in this...
Is Your Business Falling Behind? Your Antiquated ERP Might Be to Blame
An Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system is the backbone of business innovation. As a matter of fact, an antiquated ERP might just be the only thing standing between your business and growth. In today’s competitive business environment, a robust, well-integrated,...
You Give Change a Bad Name: 5 Ways to Overcome Organizational Change Management Fraud
There’s a reason why some companies have a gag reflex to the term organizational change management. It’s because most change initiatives fail. Organizational change management is one of the most misunderstood, nebulous, and ignored terms in the world of digital...
The Cost of Delays with System Enhancements
An Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system is an enormous boost to the productivity and profitability of any business at any scale. It manages sensitive data, increases organizational transparency, and streamlines the business process, thus effectively reducing lead...
5 Tips When Transitioning from ERP Selection to ERP Implementation
It’s easy to get pumped once you’ve selected new ERP software as part of your organization’s digital transformation effort. Typically, the team is ready to move on from that old system and hopefully excited about the possibilities that modern technology can bring. But...
Flexibility vs. Standardization: How the Answer to this One Question Should Drive Your ERP System and Digital Transformation
Choosing and implementing new ERP software has more to do with your desired business strategy and operational model than specific software solutions. When evaluating and implementing potential enterprise software, it can be easy to get lost in the technical details,...
Now is a Terrible Time to Purchase New ERP Software
If you regularly read my blogs, you know I’m a big proponent of the theory that there is never a good time to embark on an ERP software initiative. In past blogs, I’ve discussed how businesses typically have competing priorities. Limited time, too few resources, and...
