If you’ve been following the steps outlined in our previous blogs, then your journey to ERP selection is nearly complete. You’ve gathered an ERP selection team to discuss your business drivers and software needs. You’ve analyzed the cost of ERP ownership versus the gains. With these thoughtful conversations behind you and comprehensive reports in hand, you are prepared to make the biggest decision of all: choosing an ERP solution ..read more

After your ERP selection team has factored the cost of implementing a modern ERP system, it is time to assess its value. As discussed in the previous blog, without this key piece of information for the decision-makers, all your ERP selection team’s hard work may be for naught ..read more

You have your power team, you’ve determined your top business drivers, and you’ve even developed your short list of business needs your ERP system must meet. What next? Time to factor in the cost versus the value of a new ERP system ..read more

Now that your ERP selection power team has identified your top-tier business drivers, what’s next? The good news is that you’re halfway to the finish line, and you’ve successfully set yourself up for the next step: generating and prioritizing the short list to help you select the best ERP system to meet your established goals ..read more

Now that you’ve built your power team for the ERP selection process, what’s next? Time to begin building your case. And to do that, you must first establish ERP goals based on your specific business needs. It is important to envision how the technology can be leveraged to improve activities not only within your business but also across the ecosystem your business serves ..read more

Building a Power Team:  The first major step in the journey toward adopting a new ERP system for your organization is assembling an effective project team. A well-appointed team can help you not only select the best possible ERP system suited to meet your organization’s needs but also mitigate employee resistance and secure leadership buy-in ..read more

Real-time data and predictive analytics are the talk of the town, but what if we could see into the future? Prescriptive analytics moves us several steps beyond predictive, allowing businesses to analyze possible outcomes of future decisions before they are even made ..read more

Mobile Business Intelligence: The New Normal The Mobile business intelligence (BI) market value is expected to top $20 billion by 20241. And no wonder; we are a mobile working population, glued to our phones and now, even to our watches. But we’ve been programmed to expect that everything on our phones provides us instant gratification, yet mobile BI apps have long operated very differently to that ..read more

Imagine a future where the dashboard is not the first-place executives go after they pour themselves a cup of coffee. Although dashboards will never truly disappear, artificial intelligence (AI) is on a mission to fundamentally transform them, and perhaps one day, render them obsolete ..read more

If anything good came out of 2020, it’s this: adversity can speed up innovation years, or even decades, ahead of schedule. Technologies that were deemed futuristic and advanced, such as highly interactive videoconferencing and uninterrupted wireless networks, are now as mainstream as electricity. Each day, new technological breakthroughs occur, and it seems no sooner than a business embraces one, better ones show up the next day ..read more