How Predictive Analytics Works in Concert with ERP
In our last blog, we discussed how predictive analytics is the use of data, statistical algorithms and machine learning techniques to identify the[...]
April 4, 2018
Personalization: What Facebook got wrong vs. what others are getting RIGHT
Over the last two weeks the media has provided a daily IV drip of Facebook revelations around the compromised data of 50 million users. With each negative headline, tech stocks, especially “FANG”...
March 21, 2018
Salesforce’s Acquisition of Mulesoft Puts a Number on the Enterprise Integration Problem
By: Tom Brennan, Rootstock CMO
March 8, 2018
AI - Now Trending in Manufacturing
Fans of the Battlestar Galactica franchise are familiar with the Cylons, an advanced reptilian race that ended up taking over humans, ultimately creating their own robotic offspring to serve them,...
February 8, 2018
Millennials and Manufacturing - Why Personalization Matters
“Your groceries delivered in just one hour!” read the huge banner covering the front of my local Ralph’s, signaling it is now game on for most grocery stores. Brick and mortar are now firmly in the...
February 1, 2018
Top Tech Trends Manufacturers Need to Watch in 2018
An old episode of The Simpsons predicted how smartphones would someday need to self-correct annoying spelling mishaps on the phone’s keyboard. “Lisa on Ice” - a Season 6, Episode 8 show which aired...
January 16, 2018
Most legacy ERP replacements aren’t news these days. We think this one is.
The movement to take enterprise ERP systems to the cloud isn’t a new one. Manufacturers of all types and sizes are using the cloud already, making the transition, or actively considering their...
December 18, 2017
Manufacturing Quality and Compliance across Global Supply Chains
A recent news story tells of inspectors leaving a Walmart-certified factory in Guangdong Province in China after approving the production (and shipment) of more than $2 million in Walmart specialty...
November 27, 2017
The Challenge of Customization in Auto Manufacturing
Planning a trip to China? In Beijing, don’t even think of taking a roll of toilet paper out of a public restroom. The Chinese sometimes use video camera technology; think Big Brother meets Big Data....
October 30, 2017
A Brief History of ERP Software Part Three – From ASPs to the Cloud
Pat Garrehy knows ERP software. The founder, President, and CEO of Rootstock Software, Mr. Garrehy has over 30 years of management, sales and technical experience as a software architect and...
