Category: Industries

July 16, 2018

The #TimesUp movement has placed women’s voices at the forefront of the conversation about inappropriate workplace behavior. Thanks to many brave whistleblowers, organizations are purging their rolls of toxic characters and upending traditionally stifling workplace cultures. While the past few […]

July 13, 2018

Whenever its possible, I tell first-time entrepreneurs to bootstrap their own business ideas. If you want to be an entrepreneur, create something you can sell as soon as possible and start selling. That, or find an existing product to flip. […]

July 13, 2018

The glamorous dresses in front of me — the one festooned with bright fuchsia flowers really caught my eye — represented a completely new way retailers and designers can get closer to customers using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning. […]

July 10, 2018

The modern sharing economy is comparable to online shopping, which started in America 20 years ago. At first, people had concerns about security. But, after making a successful purchase from, say, Amazon, they felt safe buying elsewhere. Similarly, using Airbnb […]

July 9, 2018

Managing the accounting cycle in enterprise software can be a very repetitive and tedious task. However, the closure and reconciliation of the financial module is one of the most important tasks to ensure that your organization has accurate and timely […]

June 27, 2018

Accounting. Bookkeeping: The very words conjure up images of dusty ledgers and drudgery. Despite accounting’s boring reputation, however, it can’t be emphasized too much how essential it is that your business follow accounting’s best practices right from the start. In […]

June 20, 2018

What do some of the world’s most popular and successful websites have in common? While Netflix, Amazon, Facebook and YouTube all have different business models, each one does one thing very well: personalization. If you’re a member of any one […]

June 13, 2018

ERP selection has long-term effects on your business. Choosing the right system can be confusing when they offer many of the same competitive features. The needs of a small business are not identical to a mid-sized one, and neither would […]

June 12, 2018

The line between wholesale, retail and eCommerce continues to blur as more and more businesses are taking an omnichannel approach to selling product. Wholesale and distribution businesses now sell both B2B and B2C through eCommerce, marketplaces such as Amazon, at […]

June 7, 2018

SAP is planning to take on Salesforce on multiple fronts as it aims to tie its back-end financial software to front-office and redefine customer relationship management. SAP has assembled the CRM parts and now the challenge will be putting them […]

June 6, 2018

Сaught short by Salesforce, SAP targets ‘front office’ market” is more revealing than SAP might like but the headline on Reuters’ story is appropriate to the announcements coming out of SAP’s annual customer confab in Orlando, Florida. It describes SAP’s […]

May 30, 2018

Small to medium size businesses are becoming more confident in their ability to compete against larger competitors thanks to new technology helping to level the playing field. Chatbots, machine learning, AI and voice command tools are providing opportunities for small […]

May 25, 2018

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) brings big tax changes to the real estate sector, the likes of which haven’t been seen since the Tax Reform Act of 1986. Fortunately, the impact on real estate businesses should be mostly […]

May 24, 2018

As a business grows and the environment within which it operates becomes more complex with the demand for extensive analytics to stay ahead of the game and the need to share data and monitor several business process under one roof, […]

May 23, 2018

Although supply chain management has been slow to the game, advances in data science are now quickly changing the way supply chains are managed. With free and powerful tools like Python and R now routinely being used to solve some […]

May 18, 2018

“Founder/CEO of Some Company” sure sounds flashy. Feels good, too, until you realize the distinction between the two jobs and the amount of work that comes with each. But even with that, you keep on telling yourself, “This is how […]

May 15, 2018

Businesses often claim that talent is their greatest asset, but they’re not always able to track what’s working, what isn’t and why. For example, in Deloitte Consulting’s 2018 Global Human Capital Trends report, 71% of survey participants said their companies […]

May 10, 2018

It takes a lot of time to keep track of the total hours worked by employees, stay up-to-date with tax preparation and update employee profiles. It’s time to get a new Payroll system if the HR department can’t keep up […]

May 8, 2018

It’s not breaking news that manufacturing ERP systems help organizations solve their operational challenges. Implementing ERP into any manufacturing operation is a potentially powerful strategy to reduce production costs, streamline processes and in the long term, impact a company’s growth. […]

May 2, 2018

Keeping tabs on your company’s supply chain is no small task when you’ve got hundreds if not thousands of bits of data whirling by as materials come in the door and finished goods go out. To stay on top of […]