Data analytics is transforming many types of business, enabling companies to measure nearly anything. But as any manager knows, data is not the same as insights. You need to have the right information to understand business performance and make better decisions. Too much data can also cloud your thinking. As an ERP system, Prophet 21® has always offered […]
How to Use Team Chat Tools to Improve Collaboration
When it comes to business communication, few categories of software have more buzz than Team Chat tools. The prominent example is Slack, a hot Silicon Valley startup. But many enterprise vendors have also unveiled similar services for businesses, including Cisco, Google, IBM and even Facebook. Cloud-based project management tools, like Atlassian and Basecamp, have also incorporated […]
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5 Important Questions for a Better Network Strategy
Does your office or facility suffer from network issues? You are not alone. Unless your company hired a professional to carefully create a network strategy, intermittent problems will almost certainly occur. Networking requires a certain level of specialized knowledge, as well as the right hardware. Many customers who come to us are relying at the […]
Why the Latest AWS Outage Provides Familiar Lessons
The dust has settled on the latest major Internet outage — this one due to problems with Amazon Web Services S3 cloud storage — and we’ve all moved on with our daily business. These things happen, right? Yes, unfortunately, they do. But we still ought to learn a couple of important lessons from it and get smarter […]
Troubleshooting P21™: One Simple Strategy to Get Users Back to Work
For all the features and efficiencies that Prophet 21® provides distributors, not everyone picks up how to use it right away. It requires a lot of training. But as your operations’ central nervous system, it must work for you and your users to stay productive. So when something gets glitchy, troubleshooting P21 and the user’s whole desktop experience quickly […]
5 Guiding Principles for Planning a Practical IT Strategy
Technology has woven itself into nearly every aspect of business today, powering organizations’ productivity and competitiveness. Despite IT’s important role, many organizations never get around to planning a real IT strategy of any kind. And as a result, IT infrastructure becomes hard and costly to maintain, and incapable of adapting to business needs. (We’ve touched on this before in our […]