Does An Increased Focus On Field Service Mean You Have To RIP And Replace An ERP System?
There are two central truths when it comes to enterprise resource planning (ERP)software. The first is that it is a long-term investment, and you don’t rip and replace what you have implemented unless it is absolutely necessary. The second is that no ERP will do everything, or everything well, and you need smart ways to extend […]
The Significance of Inventory Lead Time for Manufactured items in Microsoft Dynamics AX & 365 for Finance and Operations, Enterprise
By: Scott Hamilton The inventory lead time for a manufactured item can serve one or more purposes for modeling supply chain activities. It typically represents the fixed lead time for the item’s production orders, but the significance of this fixed lead time depends on whether routing data has been defined for the item. Other purposes […]
Opinion: When will artificial intelligence (AI) impact ERP software? Don’t hold your breath
By: Peter Joeckel You’ve probably noticed that claims of AI-powered software solutions are starting to pop up more frequently, including in the context of ERP. To be clear, regardless of what breathless marketers and science fiction fans love to dream about, there is currently no such thing as artificial intelligence in its truest form, and […]
A year after Oracle buy, a focused NetSuite doubles down on verticals, midmarket
By: Marc Ferranti When Oracle first announced its agreement to acquire NetSuite, back in July 2016, there was widespread agreement in the tech industry that the deal could allow Oracle to serve a broader range of customers, including smaller businesses, expand to more vertical industries and more countries, and accelerate Oracle’s application software push into […]
A.I. perfectly predicted last year’s Super Bowl score. What happens to betting?
By: Dyllan Furness ompetitive sports are ultimately numbers games. Whether it’s a gymnast racking up points on a balance beam, a tennis player acing her opponent, or a football team scoring on a last second Hail Mary, all matches are won and lost by numbers. There are upsets, comebacks, and situations when the losing team […]
Microsoft Dynamics Partner Roundup: Nordic expansion; New CSP ally; CRM training; UK NFP Cloud CRM; Doc management update
Sonata Software forms partnership with IZARA to further its Nordic ambitions Sonata Software, a global IT solutions firm, has formed a partnership with Danish ERP house, IZARA, to further develop its presence in the Nordic region. To strengthen its footprint across Northern Europe, Sonata Software has taken a 15% stake in IZARA. The deal will […]
Research: Cloud race has Amazon far in lead, Microsoft showing rapid growth
By: Dann Anthony Maurno Synergy Research Group has revealed findings from Q4 2017 that show spending on cloud infrastructure services leaping 46 percent over the same quarter in 2016, “comfortably beating the growth rates achieved in the previous three quarters.” The expansion was driven by aggressive growth among market leaders Amazon (AWS), Microsoft, Google and […]
Lessons learned moving Dynamics GP customers to a cloud accounting platform
By: John Silvani Over the past four years we have moved many companies from their older on-premises Dynamics GP systems to browser-based applications built on the Microsoft Dynamics cloud platform. These new solutions give organizations easier access and more efficiencies than they had before. In making the decision to leave the on-premises world, similar concerns […]
The Significance of Inventory Lead Time for Manufactured items in Microsoft Dynamics AX & 365 for Finance and Operations, Enterprise
By: Scott Hamilton The inventory lead time for a manufactured item can serve one or more purposes for modeling supply chain activities. It typically represents the fixed lead time for the item’s production orders, but the significance of this fixed lead time depends on whether routing data has been defined for the item. Other purposes […]
What Oracle, NetSuite Believe Is in Store for Cloud ERP in 2018
By: Chris Preimesberger Enterprise resource planning software, otherwise known by the acronym ERP, became a huge trend late in the 1990s and early 2000s. Through no fault of its own, it since has been eclipsed in the news by sexier enterprise data management packages such as mobile device management (MDM), customer relationship management (CRM) […]