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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

Odoo ERP: Editions, Pricing, and Where It Actually Fits

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ERP Compass cover: Odoo ERP modular application grid

Odoo ERP is the answer to a specific problem: you need a lot of business applications, you do not want to pay per-seat enterprise prices for all of them, and you are willing to accept that the software will not be as polished as a category leader. It is open source at the core, modular … Read more