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,

With the release of its Magic Quadrant for Single-Instance ERP for Product-Centric Midmarket Companies, Gartner has pointed to those vendors which are delivering the goods… While a considerable mouthful of a title, and consisting of a report which runs to well over 12,000 words, Gartner’s latest release (December

Enterprise applications company named a Leader in Single-Instance ERP for Product Centric Midmarket Companies… “We are proud to, yet again, be recognized as a leader in the industry, a position that we attribute to our business growth, our domain expertise, and, not least, IFS Applications 9, the

Oliver Strutt, UXC Eclipse Technical Manager – Microsoft Dynamics AX, looks at the different software development project factors… One of the early decisions to be made in any IT project implementation is the extent to which it makes sense to purchase an off-the-shelf solution, build a solution

Many large ERP platforms still don’t have fully functioned reconciliation, leaving many businesses, including Qantas in the past, to use spreadsheets to handle the task… Reconciliation isn’t sexy – but it is important as it ensures that the amounts being set aside for specific items are being

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

Cloud 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

A 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