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The 2025 Top 10 ERP Systems Report
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Three Tips for Negotiating With Your Manufacturing Software Provider
While selecting a manufacturing software package can be overwhelming, it can be successful if your team takes the time to define its key business processes and business requirements as part of the software selection project. Steps for Maximizing Your Manufacturing...ERP Software Accelerators: Are They the Silver Bullet of Enterprise Software Implementations?
ERP software implementations can be tricky, so ERP accelerators are a welcome opportunity to help companies implement more quickly and cost effectively. As we’ve highlighted in our ERP research, 93% of the time an ERP implementation takes longer than expected,...What Do You Want for Christmas Little Girl? How About Another Policy?
As a Senior Consultant focused on ERP software selection and organizational change management, I have been working with a fascinating client over the past year. After completing the initial ERP software selection project, Panorama is now helping the organization...Why Organizational Change Management is So Important to ERP Implementations
Although it is one of the key success factors for any ERP implementation, organizational change management can be difficult to quantify and rationalize. However, a preview of our 2010 ERP benchmark study results begin to quantify the importance of a comprehensive...Manufacturing and Distribution Software Implementation Benchmarks
We recently published a video highlighting results from over 600 manufacturing and distribution software implementations across the globe. As we found in our study of manufacturers and distributors, enterprise software can deliver great business benefits, but...What Are Your Plans for ERP Software in 2010?
In follow up to my recent blog entry, Top Ten ERP Software Predictions for 2010, our latest poll asks what your ERP software plans are for 2010. Are you planning on replacing your current software, upgrading, or simply trying to utilize more of the existing...ERP Software Customization: The Ultimate Sin of Enterprise Software?
Customization is one of the most controversial topics surrounding ERP software. A majority of our clients have every intention of leveraging vanilla, off-the-shelf software during their software selection process. However, as project teams get into the...Enterprise Software Focus: Government and Nonprofit ERP Solutions
Based on our experience with government and nonprofit organizations, the public sector has unique needs that are not effectively addressed by all enterprise software vendors. Fund accounting, license tracking, and tax revenue tracking are just a few of the...Top Ten ERP Software Predictions for 2010
A new decade is upon us and the ERP software industry looks quite different than it did at the start of the decade. Ten years ago, the enterprise software space was booming, IT budgets were flush, and companies were replacing accounting systems left and right in preparation for Y2K.
Which ERP Software Module is Most Important to Your Business?
As part of our ongoing ERP polls, we release our newest poll requesting your feedback on ERP software module usage. Give us your opinion and check back to see how the results are shaping. [poll id=”13″] The results to this poll and all prior poll are...Enterprise Software Focus: Industrial Manufacturing and Distribution ERP Systems
Based on our experience with industrial and consumer products manufacturing and distribution firms, this industry has unique needs that are not effectively addressed by all ERP software vendors. Product configuration, job costing, and serialization are just a few of...Manufacturing Software Industry Focus: Chemical Products ERP
Based on our experience with chemical products companies, this industry has unique needs that are not effectively addressed by all enterprise software vendors. Units of measure, lot traceability, and shipping in multiple forms (e.g. liquid vs. gas) are just a few of...Armaggedon It: SAP vs. Oracle vs. Microsoft Dynamics vs. Tier II ERP Software Solutions
The ERP software space is brutally competitive, which is both good and bad. On the one hand, leading ERP solution providers such as SAP, Oracle, and Microsoft Dynamics are constantly improving functionality, targeting new industry verticals, and offering...Ground Control to Major Tom: Comparison of Leading ERP Software for Aerospace and Defense
Our ERP benchmark research, which was published this year, reveals some interesting facts about ERP software in aerospace and defense. In many ways, this is a unique industry with unique ERP software challenges. For example, there are several key differentiators...Mock Enterprise Software Selection Process: Are You Ready For ERP Software?
Evaluating and selecting the right enterprise software for your organization can be an overwhelming task. Clearly defining your business requirements, managing the evaluation process, and ensuring an objective comparison between your many options are just some of the...Three ERP Critical Success Factors
Given the high demands for our ERP software selection consulting services, we are often forced to pick and choose which clients we are going to work with. Although one of our goals is to focus on clients that are good cultural fits and good candidates for a long-term...Five Pitfalls of Selecting ERP Software For Make to Order Manufacturers
As we’ve outlined in our study of ERP implementations across the globe, the challenges facing ERP implementations are numerous. Obstacles related to business process, organizational change management, and project management are just some of the potential land...Two Reasons Why Manufacturers Are Investing More in Manufacturing Software
We aren’t economists, but based on what we’re seeing, manufacturers may finally be loosening their pursestrings to invest more in their operations and enterprise level manufacturing software.
ERP in Small to Mid-Size Businesses (SMBs or SMEs)
Ever since the early 1990s, Fortune 500 companies across the world have been on the ERP bandwagon. With millions of dollars required to implement and well-publicized coverage of ERP failures, many wonder if ERP is worth the cost and risk to small businesses....
