Time and money are the biggest constraints related to a process of change in a business environment, but the most important issues are about the nature of ERP and IT Business…
“More than half (55%) of mid-market companies said they cannot make data and business process changes to their ERP software without the help of external consultants, which costs both time and money, according to a study undertaken by Technology Evaluation Centers (TEC) and provided by UNIT4.”
 
What about the rest 45%? How do they make changes to their ERP software?

ERPNEWS.net — IT consultancy Bluefin Solutions has claimed that SAP’s in-memory database, HANA, could cause the biggest paradigm shift since the introduction of IBM’s original PC in the 1980s.
Speaking at the SAP User Group conference in Birmingham, Bluefin’s information architecture and strategy capability lead Ian Brown made the strong claims.
Brown said that HANA has made it possible for a finance director to sit in his office with a box in a cupboard next to him running two billion rows of data.

ERPNEWS.net — Here’s something you don’t hear everyday: “Our SAP implementation finished ahead of schedule.”
Sorry, let me rephrase that. Hearing about an SAP implementation that finished ahead of schedule is like hearing that someone captured the Loch Ness Monster and turned it into a kiddie ride. It’s as likely as Bigfoot singing “La Traviata” at Lincoln Center. It’s as if you called a software company’s tech support line and the voice on the other end didn’t insist you reboot your PC.

ERPNEWS.net – NetSuite Inc. ( NYSE: N), the industry’s leading provider of cloud-based financials / ERP software suites, today announced that Empired Ltd. (ASX:EPD), a nationwide IT services provider, went live on NetSuite OneWorld Services Resource Planning (SRP) to better manage  its core services business operations.

ERPNEWS – SAP announced an update to its Business One ERP software, now at version 8.82, claiming product enhancements in line with existing customer requests. The latest version for manufacturing SMEs offers additional functionality for campaign management and MRP, as well as business partner, infrastructure and inventory enhancements. With SAP Business One 8.82, starter package availability has also been expanded to include all application localisations.

ERPNEWS – A greater number of professionals must be trained to specialise in SAP’s enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, if the UK market is to continue to thrive in the years to come.