Panorama Consulting, one of the consulting companies we keep an eye on, recently published a study regarding the trends for 2012 in the world of business software which holds some interesting results. (credit) They based their study on a survey running for the entire year of 2011 on their website and have managed to aggregate…
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Dimitris Athanasiadis oversees Operations and Customer Relations in Megaventory.
Customer survey winner of Kindle Wi-Fi e-Reader
As some of you may know we’ve recently undertook a survey of our customers in order to better understand their needs and the market we’re trying to serve in the best possible way. All participants would participate in a lucky draw for the chance to win a Kindle Wi-Fi e-Reader and out of those who…
Industry roundup: consumerisation, speed and an interview
As some of you may know, we’ve recently ran a successful survey for our megaventory customers and one of the insights that emerged, is that a significant fraction of people out there prefer a shorter form of content and analysis/opinion articles. In order to accommodate both of these preferences we thought of the following idea…
The most important aspect of cloud ERP
As long as your business is smaller than a certain size software-as-a-service ERP makes all the sense in the world for a number of reasons. Cost, efficiency, scalability, multi-location benefits, mobility, even security are all factors to make you choose the online instead of the traditional approach. Once that decision is behind you however the…
Online ERP Guide for Small and Very Small Businesses
In our effort to make the life of small and very small business owners that much easier, we decided to collect all useful content that’s been posted in this blog in a handy PDF guide. The ‘Online ERP Guide’ is made up by two sections. The first part introduces the basic concepts (what is…
Open or closed cloud?
As a small business owner you have the choice of running your business software either on your own server/PCs or in the cloud. Each choice has some pros and cons but overall, the scale weighs towards the cloud. When it comes to small businesses in particular the choice is pretty straightforward: there isn’t really any…
What the cloud doesn’t do doesn’t matter
Much as I can admit to learning and being inspired by reading other people’s rants on the blogosphere, it’s very easy to be disoriented and misguided by certain staff. Case in point this post by Alex Haislip in Techcrunch itself. Alex Haislip’s main premise is that cloud computing only expands and doesn’t make obsolete computing…
New feature – Spanish Language in Megaventory
We are extremely happy to announce to our Spanish speaking users that the Spanish translation of megaventory has been 100% revamped and its beta tag has been waived! Here is a screen-shot of the ‘On-hand Inventory and Alerts’ page in Spanish: On-Hand and Inventory Alerts in Spanish Major localization improvements will follow for the rest…
The long tail of business software
Following the previous post about where things seem to be going, here’s another one that offers a similar insight into the future. (credit) This Techcrunch guest post by Robert Scoble – in usual Scoble style – rants about a number of things but here’s what intrigued me: Scoble notices that, nowadays, large cloud computing companies…
7 Reasons Why Cloud Computing Will Boost Your Business
Editor’s Note: This blog post was originally published in March 2012 and has been fully updated and improved in July 2023 to be comprehensive and easily understood. During the last few years, there’s been an increase in consumerization. This means people want to use simple yet effective tools that will boost their businesses. In other…