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The transition to cloud applications is making unprecedented progress in many organizations. This comes with its challenges – for example, valuable data is regularly lost because it is “hidden” in different places in an organization and it is not communicated effectively between departments. This way, the available data within an organization is not used and eventually, valuable data is lost. A missed opportunity.

Your company is growing fast. You are breaking sales records and taking over other companies. Together with your team, you celebrate these victories and are positive about the future. However, you know that this growth comes with challenges. For instance, a rapidly expanding application landscape that is hard to stay in control of.

In July 2022, Gartner published the Magic Quadrant for Cloud ERP for Service-Centric Enterprises. This new Magic Quadrant focuses entirely on ERP for service organizations. Enterprises can increasingly be characterized as a service provider. This Magic Quadrant is therefore relevant to many enterprises. We summarized the main conclusions of the 26 page report for you.

You probably know Gartner’s famous two-by-matrix, the Magic Quadrant. It’s a great piece of research if you are looking for a new Core financial management suite. But did you ever take the time to read the 30 or so pages underpinning this graphic? Probably not and that is why you might be missing out on crucial insights.

The back-office is arguably the most critical asset of your organization. Yet, many organizations are stuck in legacy old-fashioned back-offices. According to Gartner, 87% of senior business leaders view digitalization as a top priority. At one point, management identifies bottlenecks and inefficiencies within your current back-office and announces to renew it. You are, in turn, asked to write a Request For Proposal (RFP). Where do you start? How can you write the best RFP? Download our free RFP template and use the PESTO-method!

Selecting a vendor for a new ERP solution should not be taken lightly. Buying an ERP platform is a costly and critical investment that affects your company’s future competitiveness and performance. Research shows that many initiatives fail to deliver the promised business value. Success limits factors like technical challenges, implementation time, resource constraints, scalability limitations, and upgrade problems.  

A new generation of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions is here. These cloud-based alternatives leverage in-memory database technology and offer front-ends on multiple devices. This new generation of ERP also provides analytical capabilities. What impact will these new capabilities have on the Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) arena? Will this new generation of ERP’s make EPM solutions obsolete?

Selecting the right ERP is something you don’t do every day. To help you get started with your ERP selection we selected three tips.

A new ERP?  Let’s say you need to figure out what ERP-system is the best fit for your organization. That shouldn’t be hard, right? I’m afraid I’ve got some bad news for you. There are more than 250 systems to go over!  Choosing the right one can be hard; that’s why we created a list with the top 7 ERP vendors of 2020 for you.