Making a Business Case for ERP: Functions to Look Out For
Key ERP Functions When making the business case for ERP, senior executive buy-in is very important. You need both the resources and the will at the top of the organisation to make it happen. [...]
What are the factors that effect cloud ERP costs?
Big migration Cloud migration is underway with a vengeance. Various surveys have tried to place a figure on it – for example CIO says two thirds of businesses currently have plans to move existing ERP [...]
Digital Champion behind Aspen Pumps’ ERP Success
ERP Project Secrets: Business ByDesign There are many lessons you can learn from Jonathan Phillips at the Aspen Pumps Group – chief among them is the value of a sense of humour when it comes [...]
What can we learn from the Private Equity CFO?
The challenges faced by the private equity CFO I recently came across an article from McKinsey on the challenges faced by the private equity CFO. It distilled and magnified so many of the challenges [...]
Digital Trends Shaping the Media and Entertainment Industry
Getting to grips with digital trends in the media: Disruptive change has swept through the media industry in recent years. It’s a familiar story, digital technology has merged with access to faster Internet and [...]
CEO and CFO – The greatest double act of all time?
What do CEOs want from their CFOs? Which is your favourite double act? Laurel and Hardy, Morecambe and Wise, Ant and Dec. Or how about French and Saunders, Thelma and Louise, Key and Peele? [...]
How Cloud Technology is Transforming Finance
Key business partner or number cruncher – you decide? Finance leaders have a key place at the management table, which makes you well placed to drive change. Leveraging data and providing analysis is a [...]
Cloud ERP: Current Outlook and Future Trends
With so many businesses looking seriously at cloud ERP as a result of the pandemic, it seems like a good time to take stock of the cloud ERP landscape.
Why SMBs Purchase an ERP System
When is the right time for a growing company to step up to the next level of technology and purchase an ERP system? If you’re lucky it is the sheer speed of growth that [...]
5 Ways to Strengthen Your Supply Chain
The need to strengthen supply chains has become urgent during the Covid crisis. Now, not only have issues arisen with backlogs of essential health equipment but stockpiling ahead of Brexit has added to the [...]
ERP Implementation Strategies for Faster ROI
Benefits of an ERP System Running a business efficiently today means streamlining your processes so that teams spend more time on tasks that create value rather than shuffling paper across departments. Valuable time wasted [...]
Why mid-sized companies are stepping up adoption of cloud ERP
5 reasons why mid-sized companies are stepping up adoption of cloud ERP Nobody expected to be trading in a pandemic but like it or not, that is where we find ourselves. Ambitious companies with [...]
Business Issues and Challenges – in a Covid World
What are your Business Issues and Challenges? Getting back to work? We never stopped and I bet you didn’t either because for most of us the struggle to keep going has been real. As [...]
ERP implementation failures: Common ERP mistakes to avoid.
How to get your ERP project right How to avoid implementation failures? We have the best consultants in the business - they work alongside mid-size companies who are implementing ERP all the time and [...]
What are the Advantages & Disadvantages of Cloud?
Is The Cloud Right For You? Cost-effective and flexible - the cloud gives you access to all your data and processes wherever you are. With so many of us working from home now, it [...]
Technology Selection Advice for SMBs You Can’t Afford to Ignore
Choosing New Technology for SMBs According to BizTech magazine Laurie McCabe is currently Number 1 out of 30 must follow small business influencers – so she knows what she’s talking about. Lucy Thorpe caught [...]
Cloud ERP: Your Gateway to Growth
Are you hitting a wall as you struggle to upgrade your current business systems? Are you fighting to get the data you need in a form you can share with others? Cloud-based ERP solutions [...]
ERP Prediction 2020 – Analytics Come of Age
Cloud Analytics - Top Predictions for the ERP Software Industry in 2020 Analytics come of age We are often asked for our opinion on the future of the software industry. As the UK's centre [...]
Business Software: 5 Things You Need to Know Now
Business Software - The Help You've Been Looking For! There is one urgent message for business today - transform or get left behind. Are you fed up with hearing it? It can feel relentless [...]
What Is The Future Of Finance: Technology Trends
Finance professionals are up against it. They need to deliver better a quality service at lower cost. It is a pressure that never seems to go away. But we're in a good place because [...]
10 Tech Tools Finance Staff Will Love: Saving Time & Money
Finance Technology is booming! There has never been a better time to buy user-friendly finance applications. Built around the changing needs of you, the customer, cloud technology has made a new generation of products [...]
7 Questions When Choosing Cloud ERP
When choosing cloud ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning System) you want to make sure that you are getting something that meets the needs of your growing business. There are so many vendors in the market [...]
Why Choose SAP Business ByDesign for Professional Services?
Your guide to Professional Services Software Winning new customers, delivering high quality services and getting the best from your expert staff - consistently and repeatedly can be tough. Add in the frustrations of trying [...]
ERP Implementation Best Practices
Best practices when it comes to ERP implementation come down to one central theme – preparation! From selecting a partner, to choosing a system, to going live – success is there for those who [...]
The Big Benefits of a 2-Tier ERP
This blog post first appeared in Solutions Review and was written with input and expert knowledge from the following four members of United VARs: Bob Atkinson, Managing Director, InCloud Solutions, United VARs Member in [...]
Cloud ERP Systems – The Big Guide Part 2
Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Cloud ERP Systems Part 2 Last time… In Part 1 of Everything you ever wanted to know about cloud ERP, we found out that an enterprise resource [...]
All you ever wanted to know about Cloud ERP – The Big Guide Part 1
Cloud ERP - The Big Guide Part 1 ERP has evolved tremendously over the past ten years with businesses of all sizes now having access to the technology across many different sectors. The picture is [...]
Legacy Systems Letting You Down?
Legacy Systems - How to get out from beneath unsupported software Many businesses today rely on old enterprise software that is no longer supported or enhanced. It’s a situation that leaves companies that were [...]
Why SAP?
Why SAP? Best run businesses run SAP - that's why. Most people have heard of SAP, it’s one of the largest technology companies in the world – creating software solutions that run thousands of [...]
Cloud Accounting Solutions for Medium-sized Business
Cloud accounting solutions - What are the options? When you think of “cloud accounting solutions” you may think of something designed with the sole trader in mind – perhaps Quickbooks or Sage - a [...]
3 Tips for ERP Success
Looking for ERP Success? Here's 3 Hacks to Help Like spring and the return to school in autumn, the new year is a time for new beginnings. That means dusting off your plans for [...]
How to Choose Cloud for the Public Sector
Government On-board for Cloud The government has been fully behind cloud for the Public Sector since the launch of its supplier marketplace G-Cloud or Digital Marketplace. This offers public sector organisations a straight forward [...]
What is Cloud ERP?
If you are not familiar with cloud ERP then this is a very good question and one we have been addressing with customers this week. Cloud ERP - is it for me? As your [...]
Intelligent Cloud ERP Solves Problems!
Intelligent Cloud ERP solves problems - it's true. Take the Bristol food flavour manufacturers TasteTech. They were struggling with several different software systems, none of which talked to one another, when they decided to [...]
Great Advice For Choosing Cloud ERP
Sound Advice for Choosing Cloud ERP? Choosing Cloud ERP for your business can be a tough task. There are so many different offerings on the market and you want to make the right choice. [...]
5 Business Benefits of Scaling in the Cloud
Cloud for Rapidly Growing Business 5 Business Benefits of Scaling with Cloud Fast growing companies soon get to a point where they need standardised systems in place – we know, we've been there. It's [...]
Fast Growing Companies – 3 Things To Ensure Growth
3 Things Fast Growing Companies Must Do to Ensure Growth From start up to global player – we’re as ambitious for you as we are for ourselves and we know that with great ideas [...]