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: small business
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,…
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 – Sales Order APIs launched!
We are pleased to announce that three API functions have just been released for the CSV, JSV, JSON, XML, and SOAP protocols. The API functions are related to: Retrieving Sales Orders [API name: SalesOrderGet] Inserting & Updating Sales Orders [API name: SalesOrderUpdate] Cancelling Sales Orders [API name: SalesOrderCancel] With those in place, a developer can…
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…
Customer Analytics
So far we’ve come a long way both in terms of features development but also in growing our relationship with our customers. Now, having just launched a major upgrade, we feel ready to take on more businesses which can benefit from our new features and so, we thought it’d be a good idea to look…