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ERP Software: A Practical Buyer’s Guide for US Companies

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ERP Compass cover: ERP software buyer's guide showing market segments from 5 to 50 users up to enterprise

Most US companies do not wake up one morning and decide to buy ERP software. They back into it. A controller is closing the month in QuickBooks with four spreadsheets taped together, inventory lives in a warehouse system nobody trusts, and the sales team keeps its own customer list. At some point the workarounds cost … Read more

Cloud ERP: Deployment Models, Costs, and Contract Traps

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ERP Compass cover: cloud ERP deployment spectrum from on-premises to multi-tenant SaaS

“Cloud ERP” has become one of those phrases that means whatever the salesperson needs it to mean. A multi-tenant SaaS product is cloud. A 20-year-old on-premises system running on a rented server in a data center is also, technically, in the cloud. The difference matters, because the two arrangements carry very different costs, upgrade paths, … Read more