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Like any business relationship, that between ERP vendor and client is a balance of trust and circumspection. That trust is built by both valuing your vendor’s expertise and demanding from them the highest standards. What should you know in order to ensure a successful ERP implementation? Here are 12 things most software vendors will never tell you.

Whitepapers, trade and business news stories, IT specialists and other usually solid information sources often talk about moving ERP to the cloud as a strategy. It is in fact a tool or enabler for ERP strategy and potentially for your infrastructure strategy as well. Nevertheless, a cloud solution can turn your ERP solution on its head – in a good way. It can free up IT costs, which you can then spend on other services that help move your business forward. What is the business case for moving your ERP solution to the cloud? When should you make the move? Which kind of cloud offer should you use? What will it take to bring the solution to the cloud? All these questions (and many more) have become relevant as the cloud transformation of complex software including ERP has become a viable option for many companies.

Fine, so you can detect a person’s waist size as they glance at your billboard and then tweet them an appropriate, branded fashion tip as they pass a beacon an hour later in the shopping mall. That’s all great, but can you actually send out the correct invoices for the campaign? The trend in marketing has always been to latch on to the sexiest new bit of tech while neglecting the core machinery of running an efficient business, the critical systems that do all the heavy lifting of accounting and project management. Maintaining inefficient business processes puts your clients at a competitive disadvantage as well as your own business.

The ebook "Building the Bridge Between Business and IT" discusses the critical need for aligning IT with business strategy to prevent project failures. It explores how disconnection between the two leads to costly mistakes, while providing practical guidance on fostering communication, stakeholder engagement, and top management involvement to ensure successful IT implementations that meet business goals.

This paper will introduce you to the primary success factors in running a Business Intelligence (BI) project that results in competitive value for your organisation.

This paper will introduce you to the key principles of building quality into a global ERP project and mitigating the risks associated with harmonising processes across your international organisation.

This whitepaper provides an introduction to the extraordinary possibilities of ERP for companies looking to reap the potential business benefits of exponential growth in the digital age.

This paper will briefly introduce you to the sociocultural and technical challenges of local ERP deployments, which are often ignored or underestimated by international organisations at their own peril.