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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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Organization, Know Thyself: Questions to Ask Before Changing Your ERP System
Last week’s blog post, When Is It Time to Replace or Rejuvenate Your ERP System?, discussed the feasibility of updating or upgrading an existing ERP system rather than starting afresh with an entirely new solution. This week? We explore the decision-making...Cloud ERP: The Silver Lining of Enterprise Software or Just a Foggy Mess?
Cloud ERP is clearly the talk of the ERP software industry. The marketing engine supporting cloud options such as software as a service (SaaS) and hosted ERP systems is very strong, even reaching into the consumer-facing side of things with Microsoft’s push into...When Is It Time to Replace or Rejuvenate Your ERP System?
We see it every day with our current and prospective clients: company installs ERP system, it costs more time and money — and causes more pain — than it should have, and after years of usage, the business and software become misaligned. When this happens,...CSR and ERP: A More Likely Duo Than You Might Imagine
In the past few years, corporate social responsibility (CSR) has become one of the most frequently tossed around phrases in business. Designed to help businesses become better corporate citizens (and glean the positive publicity and consumer interest such initiatives...Vendor Snapshot: Deacom, Inc.
Founded in 1995 in President Jay Deakin’s mother-in-law’s basement, Deacom, Inc. has risen above its humble beginnings to become a well-respected and rapidly growing player in the ERP software market. The vendor’s core offering is the DEACOM Integrated Accounting and...Is SaaS ERP Right for Your Organization?
Software as a Service, or SaaS ERP as it’s known in industry circles, has been receiving its share of media and business attention in recent years. The allure of SaaS – including potentially lower up-front costs, no software to implement, and relatively...Challenges For Your Organization, Changes For Your ERP System
To build a visionary company, you need to counterbalance its fixed core ideology with a relentless drive for progress. While core ideology provides continuity, stability, and cohesion, the drive for progress promotes change, improvement, innovation, and renewal. – Jim...Special Challenges of Public-Sector ERP Implementations
As we’ve covered in great detail in this blog over the last several years, ERP implementations can be a grind. It’s tough to finish on time and on budget while at the same time delivering expected business benefits. Whether you are working for a commercial...Tips for Managing ERP Software Vendors
In 2009, Panorama published our Tips for Managing ERP Software Vendors During the Software Selection Process white paper (it’s the fourth from the top if you click through that link). Reading through it recently, I was a bit surprised at both how little and how...Building an Emergency Response Plan
It’s summertime and the living is easy. Unless you’re in a high-risk area for natural disaster that is. I mean please, tornadoes, earthquakes, floods? Those are things that happen to other companies, in other parts of the world. It’s time to chill out and...Change Management: The Key to a Successful ERP System Implementation
Simply put, widespread organizational change management (OCM) is critical to ERP system implementation success because an ERP system – and the changes it necessitates – affects every aspect of an organization. As a result, end-users across the spectrum are often...No Law and Order in New York: Uncovering and Preventing Fraud in Government ERP Implementations
Like their counterparts in the private sector, most CIOs and project managers in the government space are concerned with implementing their ERP, CRM, payroll, financial, and other enterprise systems on time and on budget. Some even want to see actual improvements to...Finance: The Hub of Your ERP System
The ERP finance module is at the core of many modern ERP software systems for one simple reason: finance and accounting transactions touch every area of business operations. Without a doubt, the state of an organization’s finances is essential to its well-being....The Four Macro-Ingredients of a Successful ERP Implementation
Years ago, as a new sales associate, I watched Olie Wight’s MRP videotapes sitting in the library of IBM’s Harrisburg office. Little did I realize that I was viewing the recorded birth of an approach that soon would generate billions of dollars of revenue for my...Is Your ERP System Bringing Your Organization to its Knees?
Organizations typically implement ERP systems to help improve business operations, whether it be to increase efficiencies, streamline business processes, or increase revenues. However, our research shows that a full 54-percent of companies have a high level of...The Woe of Idaho: How Ignoring End-Users Derailed an ERP Implementation
In late March, state auditors in Idaho released a damning report about a host of issues surrounding the implementation and usage of a state ERP system meant to process health care provider claims for Medicaid patients. The ERP system (which was provided by Unisys, now...ERP Vision For Your Company – Making Dreams Come True
All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them. – Walt Disney Very likely, you have dreams for your company. As a leader, you have a vision of what you’d like you’re company become. Dreams and vision and plans need articulation and...Three Things To Ask Your ERP Implementation Consultant
This is the time of year when our clients are either in the midst of ramping up their ERP implementations or are on the verge of selecting an ERP system to implement later in the year. While the ERP selection process is critical to the success of an enterprise...A Lesson from the Cloud: Know Thy Vendor
Last month’s much publicized outage at Amazon’s cloud service has many cloud users and potential cloud users wondering about the reliability of cloud-based infrastructure and applications. Recent posts from this blog, including The Effects and Inevitability of IT...
