What a Sage migration exposes before the new ERP goes live
Acumatica published a useful comparison for businesses replacing Sage 50 or Sage 300 this week. It describes two broad routes. A finance-first move may suit
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Should you downgrade your ERP?
Eighty-odd episodes of this podcast and almost every one has pointed the same direction. Outgrow the spreadsheets. Get off the paper. Upgrade the system. Migrate
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Your second ERP migration is a different project
The thing keeping you on a system everyone hates isn't the system. It's the scar tissue from the first migration. And round two is a different project — easier, better understood, and mostly a matter of not squandering everything you learned the first time.
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Keeping your ERP upgrades boring
ERP upgrades shouldn't be exciting. If yours are, you're probably paying for decisions you made years ago. Here's why boring upgrades are the mark of a healthy ERP.
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What to extract before you replace your ERP
When you replace an ERP, you're ending a ten-year conversation between people and software. That conversation is messy, half-finished, and full of
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How to Choose an ERP: Where Do You Even Start?
Choosing the wrong ERP is one of the most expensive mistakes a business can make. A company sits through a slick demo, falls for the system
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Every ERP project ends up at the same fork in the road. Upgrade what you have, or migrate to something new. Most teams pick badly — not
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Can you actually implement an ERP in six months? The short answer is yes — but only if five specific conditions are true. If any one of them is missing, you're not running a six-month ERP project. You're running a twelve-month one with a six-month deadline strapped to it.
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Companies spend months selecting the right ERP. They go through procurement, get board approval, sign the contract, and everyone gets excited. Then, three months into the
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