One of the first questions an ERP selection team asks is: “What ERP vendors should we consider?” To seek an answer, organizations typically turn to a variety of sources for information. Management often seeks insight from industry analysts, associations and…
To market your organization, a well-written website will not only increase visitors’ interest in your products or services, but also quickly identify the key messages you are trying to get across. The modern web user enjoys great content in the…
Every year we talk with hundreds of companies about their ERP selection or upgrade. What we find is many of these companies experience common issues, including poor access to information, core systems that are difficult to use, and an over-reliance…
Understand Business Process & opportunities for Improvement Do your current business processes decrease efficiency and productivity? Are they in place to make up for inefficiencies in the ERP system? Have they been dictated by the system because of lack of…
Most companies we talk to are pressured to balance ERP selection and business process improvement initiatives against challenging production schedules, customer demands and workloads. A company about to embark on an ERP journey has many choices. Management may elect to…
Considering an ERP investment ? When we speak with organizations, we note that many of these companies are challenged to take the important step of justifying their ERP investment. The effort involves determining an expected return on investment, anticipating total…
Company is the evaluation of the prospective company/provider as a strategic partner for today and tomorrow. This should include a review of financial results, company direction, and management team. You should do the same review on the company that you…
"Best in class” b2b companies are significantly more likely than average firms to integrate their social media efforts with their email marketing (65% vs. 51%), SEO (61% vs. 49%) and webinars (47% vs. 31%). As for “best in class” practices,…
Facebook’s IPO face-planted and Google+ needs to add more users. Yet except for a June outage, Twitter keeps on flying right in its quest to become a useful and competitive social network. The addition of new search features is another…
The right Intelligent Data Capture software automatically extracts, validates, and processes data directly from documents (invoices, contracts, remittance…etc), and puts the information directly into your back-end system / ERP system. Imagine reading documents without the need for templates, keywords, or…