The manufacturing sector is a prime example of an industry vertical that has embraced technology. MRP & ERP systems have transformed productivity and efficiency in a sector whose margins were squeezed by globalisation. Now retail is under similar pressures with the growth of online retailing. Here Anthony Doesburg uncovers the lessons that the retail sector can learn [...]
Read MoreCloud ERP vendor NetSuite has confirmed its offer to switch Australian and New Zealand users of SAP’s Business by Design system to its platform for free for a year… There has never been much love lost between NetSuite and SAP, and the confusion recently over whether SAP was pulling the plug on Business by Design, [...]
Read More2013 Opinion: Warren Muir discusses his top tips for mitigating risk when choosing and implementing a new ERP system… Enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementations continue to be regarded as a high-risk undertaking by most companies. Ten years ago, purchasing and implementing an ERP system was a complex issue and this hasn’t changed. If anything, it has [...]
Read MoreA growing number of ERP users are seizing scheduled technology refreshes as an opportunity to consider moving workloads onto virtual servers… Server virtualisation is finally considered mature and secure enough for a growing number of enterprises to take the plunge with their ERP workloads. In the past mission-critical systems such as ERP have generally been [...]
Read MoreA rigorous business case establishes a foundation for discovering the potential benefits of a new technology solution… Failed IT projects frequently hit the headlines and can even be so disastrous that the vendor is banned from replying to future tenders, as happened to IBM at the hands of the Queensland Government this year. But, as [...]
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