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Do You Need Best of Breed ERP and CRM?

  Do You Need Best of Breed ERP and CRM for Manufacturing? In the modern world of the interconnected enterprise, it’s going to be impossible to stay competitive without a combined CRM and ERP solution that allows your business to collect and analyze data from every single point of your company’s production; providing end-to-end intelligence from the …

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CRM and ERP Training Strategy for Your Next Project

CRM and ERP Training Strategy for Your Next Software Project It’s no secret that enterprise software like CRM and ERP can truly revolutionize the way your business operates, connecting your shop floor with your sales team in entirely new (and more efficient ways) to share data and streamline processes across your entire operation. Partly because …

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Need ERP Help? Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Go to Your Software Vendor

Why You Shouldn’t Go to Your Software Vendor When You Need ERP Help Looking for ERP software help can feel like no easy task, especially when some function has failed drastically and you need support immediately or your system is just not running efficiently on the whole and you don’t even know where to begin.Unfortunately, the …

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5 ERP Failure Stories and How to Avoid Becoming One

  5 ERP Failure Stories and How to Avoid Becoming One It’s a fact that not many like to acknowledge, especially those embarking on a new project: ERP failure stories happen. Because ERP implementations take up so much of a company’s resources and are intended to support such a wide range of processes, failures can …

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Recover From ERP Implementation Failure: 5 First Steps

Recover From ERP Implementation Failure: 5 First Steps Failure: Unfortunately, it can happen to even the most well intentioned software project. Whether it comes about as a direct result of a planning error or an occurrence out of your control—like a server meltdown—ERP implementation failure is always costly and discouraging. It also has the tendency …

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Enterprise Integration: 8 Crucial Considerations

Enterprise Integration Infographic: 8 Crucial Considerations Enterprise Integration Through Software If the whole varied and diverse world of enterprises can agree on one thing, it is that the customer is king. And as with any other successful business (B2C or B2B), we know that you are constantly focused on your customer and delivering the best …

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4 Reasons Your Software Integration Project Is Failing

  4 Reasons Your Software Integration Project Is Failing Our last post covered some early steps that you should be taking should you notice an enterprise software project failing. Today, we are turning to the other side of the coin, going over some of the biggest red flags there are for software integration failure so …

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The 5 Essential Stages of Software Process Integration

The 5 Essential Stages of Software Process Integration Modern business in all sectors of the economy are these days becoming more invested in connecting their back office with their customer-facing services through integration of their enterprise software systems; largely because this connectivity provides greater, more valuable insight into the relationship between the company and the …

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Salesforce and Epicor Integration: What’s Stopping You?

Why You Need Salesforce and Epicor Integration Salesforce and Epicor are two of the most talked about giants in their respective software corners, providing CRM and ERP solutions for businesses of all sizes and industries. As certified partners of both vendors, we have extensive experience with each system and often come across clients running both …

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The Many Benefits of CRM Integration

The Many Benefits of CRM Integration With the rising popularity of best of breed software suites, a widening field of vendor options and functionality along with the advent of of the Internet of Things connecting them all, it’s not unusual for a modern company to running a veritable laundry list of enterprise software options at …

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Why You Need to Know About SalesforceIQ

  Why You Need to Know About SalesforceIQ What Is SalesforceIQ? How Salesforce’s New Tool Will Change CRM For Good In our quick recap of the Sales Cloud keynote at Salesforce’s Dreamforce conference, we mentioned the announcement of a new software product named SalesforceIQ for Sales Cloud. While we noted the amazing possibilities that came …

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How CRM and ERP Integration Can Boost Your Business’ Growth

    CRM and ERP Integration: How It Can Help You Too complicated, too expensive, unnecessary: these might be excuses you keep giving for not integrating your company’s CRM and ERP software systems. In truth, these excuses do not hold up when you truly begin to understand the results you can achieve when you connect your …

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Leverage CRM For Manufacturing: 3 Key Tips

Leverage CRM For Manufacturing: 3 Tips As a manufacturing business, you may think that you don’t need CRM; whether you’re currently getting by on just an ERP system or (heaven forbid) mere Excel sheets. After all, CRM is for sales companies, and your focus needs to be on the quality of your product, right? However, …

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