Cloud ERP: The rising alternative to hosting your own
By: Esther Shein One of the first tasks Tom Doria was charged with when he was brought on board as CIO of SeneGence International late last year was to evaluate cloud services for ERP. The global manufacturer and multilevel marketing company for women’s cosmetics is experiencing tremendous growth and its platform couldn’t match the pace […]
Best Buy Rolls Out At-Home Consulting Service
By Anne DInnocenzio Best Buy is rolling out a free service next month where salespeople will sit with customers at their own homes to help make recommendations on TVs, streaming services and more.The service, which was tested in five markets, will be expanded to more cities around the country. Best Buy CEO Hubert Joly said […]
Nimble disrupting CRM world with Microsoft Edge plug-in
Contact management specialist Nimble has strengthened its presence in the CRM market with the release of its Smart Contacts App with support for Microsoft Edge, the web browser developed as the successor to Internet Explorer. The new plug-in, offered free for the standard edition, makes available the social marketing and business functionality of the contact […]
Compare 12 leading ERP products at unique ERP HEADtoHEAD™ event
Twelve leading ERP vendors will go head to head to demonstrate their ERP solutions to attending businesses at the Lumenia ERP HEADtoHEAD™ event, taking place on 17th & 18th October 2017 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Dublin Airport. The event is facilitated by leading independent ERP consultants Lumenia Consulting. If you are planning to select, […]
Big Data Will Improve Your ERP Software
Unless you’ve been living in the high Himalayas for the last 5 years, chances are you’d have at least heard about big data, and you’ve probably also wondered: How does big data affect you? Collecting data —lots of it— is something that is important for all enterprises, whether small, medium, or big. However, collecting data […]
Microsoft partners weigh the choice to go vertical: Lots of potential, but not for the faint of heart
By: Dann Anthony Maurno Microsoft has certainly steered partners toward vertical-specific IP for several years. But, asks Malcolm Roach, is that a smart move for a three-year-old services firm? Or one in which the principal is 60-years old and looking to retire? Roach is Open Door Technology’s president and CEO, and founded the Alberta, Calgary-based […]
Accenture Positioned as a Leader in 2017 IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Cloud ERP Implementation
Accenture (NYSE:ACN) has been named a leader in the inaugural IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Cloud ERP Implementation Services (Doc #US41523417), excelling in the two primary categories: Strategies and Capabilities. “Accenture is a leader in global cloud ERP implementation services, offering clients a wider range of consulting and implementation services, with an emphasis on business as […]
Salesforce, IBM deepen partnership with new app integrations
Salesforce and IBM are joining forces again as they attempt to deepen their alliance. The partnership began last March when they agreed to sell each other’s artificial intelligence products, Watson and Einstein. Today’s announcement is all about data integration. Salesforce will be adding the ability to include IBM weather data in Lightning apps, while IBM will […]
Sorry Facebook: Teens Prefer Instagram and Snapchat
By: Adam Russell Research firm eMarketer has warned that there is a risk that Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ:FB) could lose the grip it has on teenagers in the United States to rival Snap Inc. (NYSE:SNAP). Analysts at the research firm have predicted that the biggest social network in the world will see a decline in the […]
Where CRM is Heading in 2018
By: Peter Kowalke While buzzwords such as artificial intelligence and IoT will be invading your CRM soon, most businesses won’t be substantively mixing their customer data with such tech in the next few months. These technologies are certainly on the way, but today’s CRM evolution is the rollout of a slightly older trend: the delivery […]