6 Simple Tricks to Keep Your ERP Team Excited
Rick Carlton has been around the enterprise resource planning software world for some time. In a recent edition of ERPFocus, he shares with us 6 pointers on how to he has been able to keep his teams...
September 15, 2016
Needed - A Close Relationship between Manufacturing and Distribution ERPs
If you’ve reviewed the September 9 (2016) feature of Manufacturing Business Technology, you probably saw the article with this heading by Rootstock CEO Pat Garrehy. More than once, an interviewer has...
September 12, 2016
News Flash* - IDC Reports Salesforce Customers Will Add $389 Billion in New Business from 2016 through 2020
Last year, Salesforce asked research firm IDC to measure the impact of the Salesforce ecosystem. Today, they released the report. Among the findings - public cloud computing will grow at 6x the rate...
September 8, 2016
The Appeal of Cloud-based ERP for Midsize Companies
Most anyone reading this blog understands that enterprise resource planning (ERP) software lets businesses integrate and manage key aspects of their operations. This is especially important to those...
August 29, 2016
Manufacturers / Distributors: Leverage Your Time Selectively at Dreamforce!
If you’ve never been to Dreamforce, be aware. It’s big. All those things that you want to do will not get crossed off of your present list because of the sheer size of the event and the number of...
August 22, 2016
How to Sell New Cloud ERP Systems to CFOs
When hoping to move to a new manufacturing cloud ERP system, sooner or later, you will need to have a discussion with the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) or the person who acts as such for your...
August 15, 2016
The Oracle-NetSuite Acquisition - Good for Cloud ERP, Not So Good for Manufacturers
And why Salesforce-Rootstock – Salesforce’s ecosystem is a better combination than Oracle-Netsuite! Oracle’s recent acquisition of NetSuite is great news for cloud ERP, but may not be such great news...
August 11, 2016
How Cloud ERP Is Often the Lead Item for a 2-Tier Enterprise System
According to Gartner, companies need to move beyond simple two-tier hybrid ERP systems by adopting a postmodern ERP strategy. Postmodern ERP deconstructs the old suite-centric ERP into loosely...
August 8, 2016
Introduction to ERP for Manufacturers & Distributors
The first installment of our ERP101 Webinar Series, Introduction to ERP for Manufacturers and Distributors, was successfully held last Tuesday (August 2). Many participants emailed us, congratulating...
August 1, 2016
Watch Out for These 5 ERP Implementation Hazards
We recently were sent a blog that appeared in late July in the Topeka Capital-Journal with the title we share above. The piece quickly and concisely picks out five reasons why organizations can have...
