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The 2025 Top 10 ERP Systems Report
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Digital Transformation and ERP Software Lessons From 30 CIOs
Last week, we hosted our first Digital Enterprise Boot Camp of 2017 in San Diego. The three-day training and networking event was a good way for us to interact with CIOs, IT Directors, CFOs, project managers and other project team members. In total, we interacted with...
Case Studies on ERP Project Recovery
ERP projects fail at an astounding rate. Fortunately, most can be recovered before litigation becomes necessary. We sat down with Richard Armitage, Manager of Client and Expert Services at Panorama, to hear some stories about his recent project recovery experiences....
Five Essentials You Don’t Want to Forget During Your Digital Transformation
Last week, I met with a large, Fortune 500 client to discuss their ongoing digital transformation efforts. It was a particularly enjoyable discussion from my perspective. The way the client executive and project team is approaching their initiative is particularly...
The Best ERP Systems in the Market
Our clients ask us all the time: “what are the best ERP systems in the market?” As you can imagine, this is a near impossible question to answer with any sort of accuracy.” You’re unique. It’s a good thing, but it makes that question incredibly difficult to...
The ‘Success’ Hierarchy
Hierarchy (Noun): A system or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above the other according to status or authority. Think about it when it comes to royalty. It’s like a pecking order. The King or Queen make the decisions and then everyone “under”...Four Digital Transformation Myths Debunked
As we plan for the coming year, it is helpful to look at trends in the market and understand how to piggyback on some of the options available to us. Digital transformation is one of those common trends and industry buzzwords. It’s a pretty broad term that can mean a...
Business Process Reengineering. It’s Iterative.
Coffee lovers, you know this too well. It’s early. You’re trying to get your “morning burst of energy” (aka caffeine), so you drive to your local coffee shop. There are two types of people: 1. The people who go through a drive thru line AND 2. The people who park...
The Top 10 ERP Software Blogs of 2016
The new year is always a good time to make resolutions to educate ourselves and expand our horizons. With that in mind, it’s also helpful to look at past blogs that have proven to be the most useful to our readers over the last year. Below are the top 10 blogs as...
New Year = New Business?
About this time of the year, people start making their new year’s resolutions. We all know that local gyms will get more crowded, grocery stores will go through more fruits and veggies and people will want to “spend less and save more” – especially after the holidays....
Five Common Mistakes in Public Sector ERP Projects
Any project, ERP or otherwise, will live or die by its project planning. I recently jumped in halfway through an ERP project to find that the project plan was a chocolate mess and had to be rebooted halfway through the implementation – the project team had to scrap...
What is Return on Citizenship?
Return on Citizenship– or “ROC” as we like to call it—is one of our key deliverables on the public sector side. It is very similar to what the private sector likes to call Return on Investment or “ROI.” What we look at in ROC is the value that we help...
ERP Software Lessons from Bob Dylan
Earlier this year, Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. I’ve become a big fan of his music and lyrics over the years, so I was particularly excited to hear that he received this honor. As a music buff, I’m always interested in connecting the dots...
‘Tis the Season to be Jolly…But Are You?
By now, Christmas is in full steam. There are Christmas tunes on the radio, every store has decked their halls in wreaths and bows and there are sales around every corner. While you may be in full on Christmas spirit, have you thought about if your employees are...
Five Tips to Define Your Digital Transformation Strategy for 2017
As CIOs head into the holidays and the new year, they often spend time thinking about what they want from their ERP software. For some, there is a need to reassess their organization’s current systems, business processes and people. For others, it may be time for a...
Why Organizations are Afraid to Pull the Trigger on ERP
There are several reasons that companies are hesitant to invest in ERP. Obviously, one of those is the cost. Whether it means bringing in a third-party or not, it is the sticker shock on the overall cost that can freak some executives and IT directors out. Other...
Top 10 Predictions for Your ERP Software Implementation in 2017
Let’s be honest…I’ve written a top 10 ERP software predictions list now for the last 10 years, and the truth is: I can’t predict the future any better than you or anyone else. Sure, my team and I help hundreds of organizations across the world with their...
Who Did Your Project Manager Vote For?
Like a lot of organizations – we try to stay quiet on our political choices. Not every person is going to agree with your points of view, so it’s best practice to keep your views to yourself. However, it is hard to stay in the middle with such a polarized...
Preventing ERP Failure (and What to do if You Can’t)
When you head into an ERP project, you may have hesitations, but you hope for the absolute best. The easiest way to avoid failure is to hire a third party to help in the decision making. They have experience doing all kinds of ERP implementations across a multitude of...
Infor, IFS, NetSuite and Sage: Four Surprises From the Top 10 ERP System Rankings
When companies search for new ERP systems, they often gravitate to the usual suspects. SAP HANA, Oracle Cloud and Microsoft Dynamics 365 are often the first – and sometimes the only – ERP vendors that come to mind. However, our 2017 Top 10 ERP System Rankings shows...
