CRM

Best CRM: Salesforce vs Dynamics 2015 — Reporting

Determining the Best CRM for Your Business The question is inevitable: “What is the best CRM for my business?”. When considering options for your organization, the choices of CRM software can seem overwhelming, with every vendor promising the latest update and innovative new feature. How do you sort through all the marketing talk to really …

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Software Adoption Strategy — Everything You Should Know

Software Adoption Strategy — Everything You Should Know Businesses naturally invest in their vision, and innovators are now looking toward enterprise software to allow them to achieve it. However, even some of the most well-intentioned projects will ultimately fall flat because of a failure to include a comprehensive organizational change management plan and software adoption strategy in the project …

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Ultimate ERP Implementation Plan E-Book

Enterprise software projects are known for sapping funds and taking way longer than expected to complete. When it’s all said and done, jobs hinge on the ERP implementation plan or CRM implementation strategy employed, the end-system is responsible for the company’s future revenue growth, and the businesses that fail in this process often face difficult futures. …

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Dynamics CRM Implementation, Mapping, Epicor Integration

Dynamics CRM Implementation, Mapping & Integration Case Study Case Study: Aerospace, Defense Contractor Implements Dynamics CRM Download the case study PDF What: Microsoft Dynamics CRM implementation, a re-mapping of the sales and quoting process, and a custom integration with Epicor ERP version 10 When: Project occurred in 2014-2015 Where: Midwest, United States Download the full Dynamics CRM implementation case study …

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Salesforce Best Practices: 5 Ways To Improve CRM Use

Salesforce Best Practices When we work with businesses inside of our CRM consulting practice, we get dozens of inquires around how to implement Salesforce best practices, and make the software itself work better.  Organizations know that once the software is installed that it is an empty slate, and that the success of it’s implementation and adoption …

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Investing In Cloud Software As A Service | What To Consider

Investing In Cloud Software As A Service A phrase we use a lot is, “the right tool for the right job”. When we work with businesses inside of our ERP and CRM consulting practice, we get a lot of questions about if they should be moving their software and data to a cloud software as a service model, …

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The Shared Enterprise: Why Enterprise Data Matters To Millennials

Why Enterprise Data Matters To Millennials How does your company position itself? That’s what the millennial workforce, a new wave of successors for corporate and industrial America, wants to know. In fact, they want to know a lot of things that you might be surprised about; including your enterprise data. In a recent panel discussion, three …

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5 Ways to Improve a Software Implementation Process

5 Ways to Improve a Software Implementation Process Late last week we detailed the difference between optimal implementation process practices and traditional methods. The piece laid out the vital differences between the two methodologies, and why modern best practices can mitigate the many risks that a large software implementation process can present. This time, we will …

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Improve Sales Using ERP Systems

Improve Sales Using ERP Systems For many, ERP suites serve as a costing tool; configured to mine for operational efficiencies and assign costs to revolving tasks induced by a surfeit number of transactions made by machine, man, and consumer. When configured around business processes, ERP systems can eliminate unnecessary waste and improve compliance reporting. Yet, while these results …

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Where An Out of the Box CRM Falls Short

2 Functions Out of the Box CRM Software Can’t Do We’ve spoke at length previously about how to best extract value from enterprise software. The core of this content is always to emphasize the importance of processes and system use over software functionality. Before you opt to expense those long-term subscription costs for out of the …

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Why Management Software Is A Bad Investment

Why Management Software Is A Bad Investment Why is a software consulting firm that provides some of the world’s leading management software writing about how investing in enterprise technology should be considered a poor financial investment? The fact of the matter is that it’s true. Management software itself —in this day and age—is a poor investment. So, …

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Future IoT Technology Trends

Future IoT Technology Trends We posted a popular article about the IoT and enterprise software yesterday that ended up being shared across social media. As a top enterprise software company focusing on integration, we find IoT technology fascinating. We thought it might be helpful to share further information about this new business technology revelation Technology …

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The New Essential: Business Intelligence Integration

The New Essential: Business Intelligence Integration According to a recent Nucleus Research study, business intelligence projects are yielding a return on investment of nearly %10,000. Wait, what? How can something so successful fly under the radar of so many? As one of the top business intelligence integration and enterprise software consulting firms to the mid market, …

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Past, Present, Future – Business Intelligence Tools

Past, Present, Future Business Intelligence Tools Both people and businesses are growing ever-more dependent on the ability to connect, share, and access information like never before. Even consumer goods are now providing remote information accessibility—from watches, to shoes, and even your coffee maker. Almost everything around you is leaning in to observe how you operate. If you …

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