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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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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...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...
