by Panorama Consulting Group | Jul 25, 2011 | ERP Blog
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...
by Panorama Consulting Group | Jul 22, 2011 | ERP Blog
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...
by Panorama Consulting Group | Jul 20, 2011 | ERP Blog
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...
by Panorama Consulting Group | Jul 18, 2011 | ERP Blog
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...
by Panorama Consulting Group | Jul 13, 2011 | ERP Blog, Implementation
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...
by Panorama Consulting Group | Jul 11, 2011 | ERP Blog, Software Selection
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...
by Panorama Consulting Group | Jul 8, 2011 | ERP Blog
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...
by Panorama Consulting Group | Jul 1, 2011 | Change Management, ERP Blog
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...
by Panorama Consulting Group | Jun 28, 2011 | ERP Blog
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...
by Panorama Consulting Group | Jun 27, 2011 | ERP Blog, Software Selection
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....
by Panorama Consulting Group | Jun 24, 2011 | ERP Blog, 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...
by Panorama Consulting Group | Jun 22, 2011 | ERP Blog
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...
by Panorama Consulting Group | Jun 20, 2011 | Digital Strategy, ERP Blog
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...
by Panorama Consulting Group | Jun 17, 2011 | ERP Blog
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...
by Panorama Consulting Group | Jun 15, 2011 | ERP Blog
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...
by Panorama Consulting Group | Jun 13, 2011 | ERP Blog
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...
by Panorama Consulting Group | Jun 10, 2011 | ERP Blog, Implementation
Lets take a look at how risk can make or break an ERP implementation. To begin with, the term “risk” has a negative connotation. Whenever we talk about risk factor/s, we think we need to focus on mitigating the risk to ensure success. In reality, risk can also be...
by Panorama Consulting Group | Jun 7, 2011 | ERP Blog
Most of the clients we work with grow at least to some degree via mergers and acquisitions of other companies. Either they want to branch into new markets, acquire new customers, and/or leverage operational competencies of other companies. Regardless of the drivers of...
by Panorama Consulting Group | May 31, 2011 | Change Management, ERP Blog
When organizations implement new ERP systems, they often think that the biggest change is in the software that employees will be using. Sure, they usually understand that the change will be fairly significant, but they also usually think that some end-user training...
by Panorama Consulting Group | May 24, 2011 | ERP Blog
Several weeks ago, I published one of my more controversial and thought-provoking blogs in quite some time. In it, I make the argument that when it comes to ERP systems, software and technology are a distant second to business in terms of critical success factors...