Predictive Analytics Uses the Past to Predict the Future for ERP

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Gartner analyst, Neil Chandler, recently discussed the Disruptive Nature of Analytics at the 2015 Gartner Symposium in Cape Town. The presentation showed us a shifting market, primarily moving from focusing on IT to the business, from the center to the edge and from amassing data to unlocking its intrinsic business value.

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What is the Best Starting Point of an ERP Selection?

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For whatever reason, your organization has decided it needs a new ERP system.  Your job is to find the best.  But where do you start?

Bing or Google will get you started.  A quick search will immediately narrow your options to not less than 5000+ best ERP systems for you, all of which claim to do everything you want.  This is good news because you now only need to write a list of requirements, send it to any of the 5000, and choose the least expensive.

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Experience or Technology? The ERP Selection Dilemma.

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The ERP landscape has changed quite a lot in recent years.

There is a consistent stream of new entrants into the ERP market and an ever-increasing range of products. This raises the question of whether to go with technology over experience or experience over technology. This has stirred the industry and with that has created a situation where buyers of ERP tend to pick one over the other. The question is though, who trumps who, experience or technology?

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5 ERP Selection Tips for a Harmonious Partnership

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My comparison of an ERP solution to a marriage has been met with varying degrees of skepticism over the years. For those of you who feel that it’s a tenuous link, let me ask you two questions:

Could you be charmed by an enticing vision crafted by a salesperson? Could you be influenced by your people who get along with the people at your ERP vendor?

Exactly. A relationship forged by your heart and not your head. A bit like marriage, right?

Whichever way you chose to make your decision, here are some common errors you should steer clear of when when going through an ERP section process:

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Crafting the Future of ERP in the Electronics Industry

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There can be little debate about two aspects of the electronics industry.

Firstly, few other industries can compare to this sector or keep up when it comes to extremely rapid changes and ever-shrinking manufacturing turnaround times and product lifecycles.

Secondly, the growth of the Internet of Things, Big Data and predictive analytics means we are poised on the edge of an explosive demand for electronics, semiconductors, sensors and readers, as machine-to-machine tracking and analytics are set to shiver, shakeout, and shape the very way that products are manufactured, all along the design, supply and production line.

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8 Steps to ERP Support Request Success

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I’m sometimes envious of Dr. John Dee, the 16th-century mathematician, astronomer, geographer and trusted adviser to Queen Elizabeth I. Despite being a man of science, Dee practiced clairvoyance – ‘clear-seeing’ – through the use of crystal balls. I find this rather inspiring. Because if Dr. Dee can use a crystal ball to help support a queen, why shouldn’t I use one to help support my SYSPRO clients? Ah yes, I work with software, managing a support desk in the twenty first century!

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