Cloud ERP - Business Management Anywhere

Choosing an ERP system is not something you can do over night, and it isn't something you can stop thinking about once you have made your choice.  Once you get on board with your new ERP System, you need to continue evaluating things like: Support Experience Cost of ownership Ease of use Consultant costs All of these factors play into your overall satisfaction with your current ERP solution.  I am sure you can think of some other items to add to this list, but for now let's just focus on those areas above. Support Experience There are 3 key factors to how well your provider stacks up in this area, and it might just be the most important area in using an ERP, or any other software solution for that matter.  We need to answer some questions to see if there is a hole in your current offering: Do they respond quickly when there is an issue that is affecting your business? Is their support affordable? Do they break their own published SLA rules often? If ...

Hard to imagine running a business with out a computer aiding you.  But that is exactly what businesses did, more than 40 years ago.  Some of the biggest companies today, started before computers came on the scene.  So, how did they manage things before computers?  Can a business succeed today without the use of software and computers?  The simple answer, yes.  Is that the smart choice?  Simple answer, no. No Computer, No Problem? In 1950 if you owned a business, and wanted to succeed, it was important to fill a need and at a reasonable price.  Just like today, you needed to save money by keeping your running costs down.  To do this effectively, you must be organized, very very organized, and disciplined.  This also means you have to record everything, on paper...remember, there isn’t a computer yet.  So you have books, books for inventory, books for accounting, books for orders, books...well you get the point.  The amo...