The ERP Advisor

Microsoft announced results for the quarter ended June 30, 2023, as compared to the corresponding period of last fiscal year. ServiceNow reported its second-quarter 2023 financial results for the period ended June 30, 2023. In related financial investments, Haveli Investments, L.P., a technology-focused private equity firm, announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Certinia. Planful announced that Postal, a global offline engagement platform, has joined Planful’s pa...

2 Aug 20233min

The substantial growth in the ERP space continues this week, with SAP announcing their financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2023. ECI announced the launch of Spruce eCommerce, an e-commerce solution purpose-built for the unique needs of lumber and building materials (LBM) and hardlines businesses. Are you evaluating the need for an eCommerce solution? ERP Advisors Group has dedicated the Summer of 2023 to evaluating best-of-breed solutions on the market and recently publish...

26 Jul 20231min

Blackbaud announced the newest cohort of participants in its Social Good Startup Program. In other news, the ERP market continues to grow substantially, as demonstrated in recent financial results from OneStream for the second quarter ending June 30, 2023. Finally, Workday introduced the next generation of its patented Elastic Hypercube Technology (EHT), the intelligent modeling engine that powers Workday Adaptive Planning. Connect with us! https://www.erpadvisorsgroup.com 866-499-8550 Lin...

18 Jul 20232min

Manufacturing companies have unique operations that may require resources beyond the offerings of a standard Manufacturing ERP. Many businesses need best-of-breed manufacturing software solutions, whether MRP or MES offerings, to solve their organization’s pain points, including manual tracking and reporting on material movement, disjointed communication surrounding engineering designs, revisions, BOMs, and an overall lack of industry best practices baked into operations. In this episode of T...

14 Jul 202351min

All ERP vendors are looking for ways to innovate and provide deeper functionality to previously underserved markets with many looking to benefit the SMB space. Sage has followed this trend, announcing that US customers who are looking to implement Sage Intacct will now have first-time access to the technology on AWS. Speaking of ways to encourage growth and a greater sense of community, Infor announced that it has joined the Catena-X initiative. Finally, Deltek announced that it has developed...

11 Jul 20232min

The news is once again flooded with artificial intelligence announcements, including Oracle, Microsoft, and Salesforce releases. Aptean announced it has completed the acquisition of Affinitus Group, a provider of cloud-based enterprise resource planning solutions built to support the specific needs of fresh produce, food service, bakery, meat, dairy, and agricultural organizations. IBM announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement with Vista Equity Partners to purchase Apptio Inc....

6 Jul 20234min

Artificial intelligence continues to take the ERP industry by storm, as Qlik debuted a suite of OpenAI connectors that will help customers seamlessly and securely bring Generate AI content into Qlik to support a wide range of cloud analytics and automation use cases. Salesforce followed suit with the release of new innovations including Consumer Goods Cloud for Service, Trade Promotion Effectiveness dashboards, and Mulesoft Direct for Consumer Goods. Aside from technological advancements, ven...

27 Jun 20233min

E-commerce is much more than a virtual shopping cart – it can be a multi-channel solution that resolves complex pain points across the company or a best-of-breed solution nightmare that creates silos of data across many software applications. For many businesses, eCommerce solutions play an essential role in managing multiple selling channels to provide tailored shopping experiences to consumers, business customers, vendors, and employees. In this episode of The ERP Advisor, Shawn Windle will...

23 Jun 20231h