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Concerned about Driving Performance Improvement? Break your Manual Spreadsheet Addiction with ERP and Business Intelligence (BI)! Getting Started.

01/31/2012 at 10:00 am

LAST WEEK I CONFESSED THAT I WAS MARRIED TO AN ACCOUNTANT THAT IS ADDICTED TO SPREADSHEETS. IF YOU MISSED THE INTRODUCTION IN THIS SERIES, TAKE A LOOK AT MY CONFESSION . ITâ€™S IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND THE PROBLEM, BEFORE YOU CAN UNDERSTAND THE STEPS TO THE SOLUTION. THE GOAL, OF COURSE, IS PERFORMANCE EXCELLANCEâ€”AS ANYTHING LESS…

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Embrace tablet PCs as valuable ERP tools

01/10/2012 at 12:32 pm

New technology that penetrates any market will eventually penetrate all markets, assuming that it is sufficiently applicable and affordable.

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Don’t think outside the box-make your box bigger!

11/22/2011 at 11:35 am

I’m a strong proponent of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) as a means to business agility, improved insight, and streamlined processes-what we call transformation. (See my last post here). We repeat theÂ mantras of this perspective-”keep everything within the system” and “one version of the truth.”Â And yet, one of the challenges of taking such a holistic…

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The Perfect ERP Recipe (Like Mom Used to Make!)

01/10/2011 at 2:14 pm

If you’ve ever watched the Food Network – and who hasn’t? Personally, we find Iron Chef reruns a late-night guilty pleasure – you know that the perfect recipe produces a dish that’s not just delicious, but also visually pleasing and intriguing. Whether you’re a pro in the kitchen or you can’t boil water without almost…

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Business Intelligence is More Than Software

01/04/2011 at 3:25 pm

We’ve been saying it at Sage for ages, but the analysts at Gartner have finally confirmed what we already knew: If business intelligence projects are to succeed, they need to be treated as part of a larger, broader change and more than just a software implementation. “Traditionally, BI has been used for performance reporting from…

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What Does ERP Project Success Look Like to You?

12/10/2010 at 2:37 pm

ERP buyers today are smart. They do their homework, define their selection criteria, compare systems, and do research on their selected business partner. Surprisingly though, determining project success criteria is often overlooked even by the most diligent firms. Starting with the end in mind At the completion of your project, what will make you look…

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How to Achieve the Paperless Office

12/02/2010 at 4:33 pm

The paperless world is here – really? If there’s one thing that’s exaggerated it’s how quickly the business world is going paperless. Everyone likes to joke about it, and there are a lot of things that we all do online now – renew our licenses, paying bills, and ordering all sorts of things. And then…