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The ERP upgrade conundrum: How to calculate the true cost

If you use an old on-premise financial management solution, you have a difficult decision to make over the next few years: do you upgrade the application one last time and get a few more years out of it or move to a modern cloud solution? This is the first of three parts that will help you answer that question

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Can You Improve ERP User Adoption (Without Starting Over?)

Even the most perfect ERP implementation won’t succeed in the long run if users are unwilling to come on board or resist using new aspects of the system – so how do you get users to embrace new ERP functionality? Here are three quick tips:

• Training: Continuous and easy to access
• Documentation: Provide users with what they need to understand the system and processes
• Improve user experience: Make it friendly

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5 Reasons to Avoid an ERP “Frakencloud”

What is a “frakencloud”? In a nutshell, it’s when your system is a cobbled together network of various applications that over time grown and create a monster.
Initially, these applications are intended to make a system more agile, more flexible, but over the long term they can create serious issues. Inefficiencies, security risks, and reduces a company’s ability to serve its clients.

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5 Ways an Effective ERP Helps to Grow Your Business

In today’s competitive market, it’s more important than ever that your company runs efficiently and has good data management in order to serve your customers quickly and effectively.

A great ERP strategy helps you save on costs, leaving more room in your operating budget for marketing. Meanwhile, your company will be able to react more quickly and plan ahead.

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Two-Tier ERP: What You Need To Know

In a two-tier ERP deployment strategy, enterprises keep their existing ERP Tier 1 systems at the corporate level, while allowing divisions, business units and designated departments to select a second ERP system – providing a few advantages.