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Personal tablets and laptops pose a system threat to our IT infrastructure....
There are several easy to remember actions one may take when outside the office. I’ll break them down into 2 categories: “Internet” or “No Internet.” “No Internet” assumes you aren’t connecting...
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3 Mistakes of Personal Backup Strategies
MISTAKE #1 – NO BACKUP AT ALL It’s the perennial excuse by everyone who has yet to forever lose irreplaceable pictures and data similar to teenagers surfing on top of cars. “I’ll never fall off, I’m...
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ERP Upgrade, 5 Reasons Why You Don’t.
Your ERP Time Is Valuable, Don’t Waste It. ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) Resellers will give you a multitude of reasons why you should change your ERP system. (Here’s one such article.) I’m here...
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RMAs: Your Company Issues Them, But Does Your Software Handle Them Correctly?
ERP Class Systems have strong RMA processes Almost any accounting software with an inventory module handles selling product out the door. What separates them from ERP class software is the ability to...
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ERP Upgrade, Should Your Data Join You?
Your ERP Upgrade Should Include A Data Upgrade Your company has decided it needs a change; you’ve spent weeks discussing your processes, forms, & personnel with a number of resellers. You’ve sat...
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ERP Upgrading, 3 Similarities To “The Walking Dead.”
ERP Upgrading is just like “The Walking Dead” except for the zombies. I’ve spent the last couple of weeks binge watching “The Walking Dead” and I see some similarities to ERP (Enterprise Resource...
View ArticleNew Year, New ERP Perspective: Changes To Your ERP In 2015
New Year’s predictions abound this time of year. With software that often involves trying to pick which future features will be released in the coming year. Sometimes it even involves describing...
View ArticleWhere To Stick Your ERP? Cloud vs Hosted vs On-Premise
I know some of you reading this have an idea where you’d like to suggest we stick ERP, but it isn’t one of the 3 options above and we’d like to keep this more “family” oriented. In the last few years...
View ArticleCustomer Service. Looking Forward To The Past.
Clients are so difficult to obtain these days or has it always been that way? Once you’re servicing a client, what are you doing to ensure they are happy, their needs are being met, and they aren’t in...
View ArticleERP Deflate-gate. Has Your ERP Deflated Over Time?
With the recent flap over football regulations and who’s responsible and who’s not, I thought it might be just the right time to take a similar look at your ERP system and how it’s working or not...
View ArticleERP Valentine. Does Your ERP Really Love You?
It’s that time of year again, when expressing your love means big money for greeting cards, flowers, and chocolates. Well, with your outdated ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) accounting system you’ve...
View ArticleERP Lucky Charms, 3 Paths To Your Pot O’ Gold
St. Patrick’s Day is behind us for this year, but you can still grab your ERP Lucky Charms by taking the 3 paths laid out below to your ERP Pot O’ Gold. 1. PROPER DISCOVERY The key to a successful ERP...
View ArticlePhishing Email, An Anatomy Lesson
I often ask clients to send me a suspicious email rather than clicking on an attachment or link. I will send back a hint or two as to why the email looks like SPAM or worse, a phishing email. The past...
View ArticleMotherly ERP, Taking Care of Your Company Like Mom
On Mother’s Day after I called my 90 year old mother it got me thinking, “Does your ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system take care of you the way Mom did?” Of course not! Your mom loves you! But...
View ArticleERP Software, What is it?
Hearing the word ERP can make even a CEO wonder, “what is that?” Simply explained, ERP is an industry acronym describing business management software that a company can use to collect, manage, and...
View ArticleERP Lucky Charms, 3 Paths To Your Pot O’ Gold
St. Patrick’s Day is behind us for this year, but you can still grab your ERP Lucky Charms by taking the 3 paths laid out below to your ERP Pot O’ Gold. 1. PROPER DISCOVERY The key to a successful ERP...
View ArticleSecurity Sandbox, Sand-boxing Your Company’s Cyber Threats
If you’ve not heard of the term “Sandbox” or “Sandboxing” as it relates to internet security, you aren’t alone, but read on as this is an excellent tool, albeit not an inexpensive tool, to have in your...
View ArticleERP Search, Like Hiring An “Employee” Approach, Part I
As with anything we do infrequently, buying a house or a car, we often don’t know where to start. We inevitably end up at Google, Yahoo, or Bing. The same can be said in beginning a search for ERP...
View Article3 Reasons to Turn A Part of Your Network Into Your Private Cloud
Work out of the office much? Yes, me too. Unless your entire office is on your hard drive, (if it is, we need to have another discussion about that.) there’s always a chance you left a critical file...
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