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Marussia F1 Tour: My Intuition About ERP for the Mid-Market

05/16/2012 at 12:00 pm

At the end of April, I had the privilege of visiting the Marussia F1 Team in Banbury, England. Marussia F1 has been a Sage ERP X3 customer since August 2011 and our solution sits at the heart of their business. I was accompanying a group of six journalists from the UK and France and I…

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Proper planning leads to ERP success

05/15/2012 at 1:23 pm

Although enterprise resource planning solutions are considered beneficial for many businesses, companies that have not carefully planned their migration to ERP software may experience more trouble than expected.

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ERP solutions have helped companies for decades

05/14/2012 at 1:16 pm

Despite the fact that many companies have recently adopted enterprise resource planning solutions to improve their operations, the technology has actually been around for decades.

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Making environmental decisions using enterprise resource planning

04/30/2012 at 11:05 am

There are many factors that have appeared over the course of the last decade that can have a significant impact on how enterprises manage their operations.

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Make parallel business changes when implementing ERP technology

04/30/2012 at 11:01 am

Companies in the planning stages of an enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementation are likely to be occupied with several things.

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ERP – The Brain Behind the Business

03/26/2012 at 5:15 pm

A retail client of mine had an older point-of-sale system which updated store inventories in a nightly batch job. The vendor referred to this process as “the brain.” Unfortunately, the system’s behavior changed and for many products it would not decrement the quantity on hand based on the day’s sales. For example, if the store had 50…

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The Chief Information Officer – The New Business Leader

03/22/2012 at 7:00 am

Prior to 1995, many corporations had centralized applications that ran on a mainframe or minicomputer. Processors, storage devices and printers often resided in a data center called a “glass room” with special air conditioning and limited access. Users in those days were not empowered. Screens were not WYSIWYG, print jobs had to be picked up…