This is a guest post by contributor Marla DiCarlo outlining how inventory and its value should be approached in any company which handles stock and its business depends on keeping detailed information about the inventory costs. Inventory has the potential to become quite the contentious issue when selling a business. If the seller and buyer…
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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…
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…
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…
Market research: erpnext.com – The open source ERP
This is the last on this series of posts reviewing the best and most popular online ERP vendors for our imaginary MegaComp company of 9 employees and 4 locations. So, last but not least, it’s erpnext.com. Features: Quite feature-rich itself, erpnext offers a lot of services a business may need and it is clear the…
Market research: brightpearl.com – All round SaaS ERP
Brightpearl is an online ERP and inventory management provider (among many other things as we’ll see in this post) which could cover the needs of a small or medium business, much like MegaComp. It’s the fourth we present in this series of posts after megaventory, erply and myerp. Features: Brightpearl will be able to cover…
Market research: Erply.com – the feature-full SaaS ERP
Following up on the previous posts and in an effort to help people decide what is the best ERP solution for them we will be looking into other service providers in the industry. If you don’t know what ERP is, you better read this thread instead and come back later. We’ll be looking into Software-as-a-Service…
Why megaventory?
In some previous posts, we have covered the business software basics. For a review, see series of blog posts on what is ERP, why you need ERP, how to choose ERP and why cloud ERP is better. We also posted a very interesting study regarding business software adoption and what’s necessary for people to use…
A study for business & manufacturing software
Our previous posts on what is ERP, how ERP software can help your company and how to choose what’s the best service for your business out there should give a nice introduction to our ‘software for businesses’ world. There’s another important aspect however, before a company can benefit from ERP – its employees need to…
What’s cloud ERP and why it’s better than traditional ERP?
Once you’re in the market for an ERP solution for your business sooner or later you’re going to have to choose whether to have one installed in your offices or whether to use the more modern subscription based Software-as-a-Service (or ‘in the cloud’) approach. The traditional solution means finding and approaching vendors who’ll make you…