This post is the first of a series of posts aimed primarily in helping small businesses understand how to better pick a consulting company for their ERP, Inventory Management, Order management or Sales software implementation. We’ll be doing this by discussing with a different consultant or consulting company in each post. First up is Pemeco…
Category: business software
Customer perspective: how nevadaseal.com benefits from Megaventory
Yet another short series of posts is starting in this blog in which we’ll be presenting some of our customers who talk about their small business and what they do. In addition to promoting their work we’ve asked them to give us a hint how or why the inventory management and order management capabilities of…
How to employ a consultant to implement ERP for my business?
Assuming you’ve been hooked up with our latest ERP related posts and you actually want to implement one in your business, you may start to wonder, “OK, so how do I actually do it?” Broadly speaking, there are two ways to go about doing it. The first is to bite the bullet, do the research,…
Study: ERP trends for 2012
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…
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…
Megaventory May 2012 Upgrade (code named: Paris)
After 4 months of hard work, we will launch our May 2012 upgrade on Sunday the 27th. This upgrade introduces breaking changes to the way Inventory Transaction documents (Goods In/Goods Out/Goods Transfer/Goods Returns) are handled. It also adds new megaventory modules and functionality to the existing ones. We explain the breaking changes below: 1. New…
The Future of Business Software & ERP
If you do not know what ERP is, it is software that maps real-life business processes in the computer for analysis and reporting. A business process for a project manager may refer to adding a note to call a group of project engineers for a Skype meeting; for a salesman, a business process may refer…
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…