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The 2025 Top 10 ERP Systems Report
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Back-to-School Spending Brings New Purchasing Patterns and Customer Demands
Tactics Wholesalers Must Adapt to Produce More For Less While Maintaining An Attractive Profit Margin Americans plan to spend nearly 69 billion dollars this year on back-to-school necessities, including everything from apparel to footwear to electronics,...Can Traditional Project Management Keep Its Place in the IT World?
Revelations about the IT failures of the new millennium suggest not! A recent study of over 1,400 organizations reveals some startling new facts about mega-failures in IT, including huge overruns. Whilst the study found average overrun was 27-percent, one in six...The IT Evolution
Until the late 90’s, the main role of the IT department (then known as data processing) was to write and maintain programs to run parts of the business. Much of its time and resources were consumed just to keep hardware and software running. With the advent of...Beware of Black Market, Voodoo ERP Systems
ERP systems come in all types of varieties, shapes, and sizes, ranging from the massive Tier I packages like SAP and Oracle, to the smaller, point solutions like Salesforce and Workday. In addition, there are a host of industry-focused solutions cropping up every day,...Beyond the ERP Core
As great as ERP suites are, organizations often have needs that outpace the core functions they offer. The good news is that integrating an ERP suite with other software or services is very common and tends to work out well (though not without some cost or...Back to School: When Will ERP Software Customers Learn to Avoid Failure?
As kids across the country begin heading their way back to school for the new academic year, CIOs and their respective organizations appear to still be getting schooled on the harsh realities of ERP implementations. In the last week, two fairly high-profile lawsuits...Externalities Affecting Your ERP Purchase
With the markets in turmoil around the world and the fear of a double-dip recession here at home, the externalities of our world right now make it increasingly difficult to commit to any major purchase — either in our personal lives or our professional ones. But...Vendor Snapshot: CDC Software
CDC Software (The Customer-Driven Company) is a global powerhouse, providing on-premise, hosted, hybrid and SaaS ERP solutions to more than 10,000 customers in more than 50 countries. And CDC’s focus on the customer is not just corporate-talk; the company prides...Defining an IT Strategy for Your Organization
Many of our clients hire us when they know they need help selecting and implementation a new ERP system. Often times, these clients know the general direction they want to go with their enterprise initiatives and simply need help navigating the options and...ERP Training Tips
You’ve heard us say time and time again that no ERP implementation is successful without focused, comprehensive end-user training. No matter how bright you think your people are, no matter how adaptive everyone is to changes and new technologies, there just is...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...
