Attitudes towards cloud and Software as a Service (SaaS) have changed dramatically over the past few years, particularly with respect to software that runs your business. As recently as five to ten years ago, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) could easily have been called the last bastion of resistance to SaaS. “Cloud” had yet to become…
As fast-growing companies achieve greater market penetration, gain more customers and their organization grows, they often run in to a wall where internal processes struggle to keep up with continued demand.The key challenge to supporting that growth is laying the groundwork to scale the business effectively and efficiently while maintaining customer service and support. When…
The cloud is gaining traction in the enterprise resource planning (ERP) market and most vendors now have a cloud offering. After examining small and medium companies that have implemented cloud ERP, Nucleus found customers were able to achieve substantial benefits, including reduced IT costs, increased employee productivity, and better inventory management. This report analyzes the…
Businesses have a one-in-three chance of not making it through the next five years. As Boston Consulting Group astutely points out, this falls within the typical tenure of a Chief Executive as well as a standard time horizon for investors. 50 years ago, this same risk would have been only 5 percent. Beyond the obvious, what…
As the pace of innovation accelerates, customer needs change and industries converge, many companies find it challenging for their information technology to support the rapidly changing needs of the business. To maintain relevance and drive growth, companies must innovate through new products, new lines of business, new customer-enabling and supply chain capabilities. Many companies are…
In the past decade, companies have increasingly been opening factories and offices in China, India and other countries in an endless chase for lowest-cost, high quality labor and to enter new markets. The result has been mergers, acquisitions, consolidations and new subsidiaries. In the midst of this global expansion, enterprises have turned their focus to global efficiency,…
Managing your company’s financials is the backbone of your business and is vital to the long-term health and viability of your company. Yet attention to your bottom line often takes a back seat during times of increasing revenues and growth. To continue applying the necessary financial rigor to support rapid growth, the accounting department needs the…
When was the last time you upgraded your ERP system? Not just patched, fixed or tinkered with it—but implemented a substantive upgrade that enabled real business innovation, generated excitement and unleashed a wave of ideas and productivity from your users? You know—the same kinds of enthusiasm that greets web or iPhone apps like Instagram, Spotify,…
There is no longer even a question. Modern business requires a cloud-based platform to stay out in front of the competition you know and the innovative disruptor you might not know yet. It is a world of pivoting these days. Bold leaders fully grasp that to win they must compete on customer experience. This requires their companies…
We are living in an age of unprecedented industry change, as industries as diverse as retail, media and manufacturing are undergoing rapid, and often unpredictable, transformation. This accelerating rate of industry disruption is driving companies to adapt far more quickly to the changing business environment in order to survive. The “Kodak moment” has evolved from…
