ERP Articles

Subscription business heralds a new era, if subscription software vendor is to be believed… While it was essentially throwing the covers off a couple of new products, subscription software company Zuora reckons the implications are much deeper and wider. Indeed, hot on the heels of our feature

Upon release of its 2017-18 ERP Buyer’s Guide, iStart reflects on factors influencing the market… Compiling iStart’s annual ERP evaluation toolkit has provided an opportunity to assess the state of the ERP software market. The past year has seen further industry consolidation, increasing pressure from ‘cloud-native’ ERP

These are the commonplace business processes which should kick digital transformation into gear… Regular readers know that we like to keep an eye on Panorama Consulting, because among other things it provides comparative insights into the top ERP vendors – and who doesn’t like winners and losers

Plug in a few of your favourite business services… The app centre is the delivery end of SAP-owned company Concur’s API, which has allowed a number (around 60) of local software providers to develop apps and services which integrate with the Concur mothership to ‘take better control

Panorama Consulting’s ‘Clash of the Titans 2017’ report compares SAP, Oracle, Dynamics and Infor… Assessing ERP solutions against one another is a devilishly difficult thing to do owing to the complexities of the software and the environments in which it is implemented. Be that as it may,

Value of human experience likely to increase on the path to 2040… Imagine how weirded out people from the offices of the 1970s would be should they be teleported into the workplace of today. They’d probably find it a bit perplexing. Now, imagine the office of the

The main reason ERP implementations fail to deliver adequate return on investment is because they are categorised as software, rather than business improvement, projects…

The manufacturing industry can be slow to take on new technology, but new technology can drive higher customer engagement and growth opportunities… The manufacturing industry has been expanding for the past eight months, according to the Australian Industry Group Performance of Manufacturing Index. This is due, in

Cloud ERP vendor growing rapidly, but no sign of profit… Having recently concluded its SuiteWorld annual conference, cloud ERP pioneer NetSuite is on a charge, with a rapidly expanding client base, revenues which have blown past the billion-dollar mark and growth which has seen the company become

You will get what you asked for, so be careful to ask for what you actually need when it comes to your next RFP… Over my 20 years in the SAP world I have spent many long nights and weekends responding to RFPs – big and small,