Category ERP

How to Evaluate ERP Software

Many ERP projects are deemed failures because of budget overruns and lengthy implementation delays. Panorama Consulting’s 2013 ERP Report found that 53 percent of its survey respondents experienced cost overruns in their ERP implementations in 2012, while 61 exceeded their…

Microsoft Moves ERP to the Cloud

Microsoft ERP solutions are now available in the cloud, with a little help from channel partners. The company announced on June 18 that Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 and Dynamics NAV 2013 enterprise resource planning (ERP) platforms for small to midsize…

HCM No Longer an ERP Afterthought

Human capital management (HCM) software used to be a mere afterthought when it came to enterprise resource planning (ERP) purchasing decisions, but not anymore. In fact you could argue that cloud-based HCM and financial planning software companies like Workday are…

Is Cloud-based ERP Inevitable?

In the 1990s enterprise resource planning (ERP) startups were a dime a dozen. But then came a period of consolidation, resulting in a relative handful of larger players. Any analyst round up typically listed mega-vendors IBM, SAP and Oracle as…