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 […]
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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 […]
The Single Most Common Mistake in Data Backup Processes
Most companies we talk to understand why it’s important to implement regular, systematic data backup processes. You don’t have to be an IT expert to acknowledge the value of protecting the data your business relies on. Many even acknowledge the common sense of the 3-2-1 Rule of Backup: Have at least three copies of your data; Store the copies on […]
How to Protect Your Business from the Rise of Ransomware
The latest reports about global cyberthreats are alarming. Ransomware is on the rise, and small and mid-sized businesses are the victims. Incidents of ransomware, which holds your data hostage until you pay up, increased a shocking 167 times in 2016. That’s 167 times (not 167 percent), from 3.8 million attack attempts in 2015 to 638 million in […]
How to Simplify P21™ Reports to Generate Timely Business Insights
As an ERP system, Prophet 21® clearly offers wholesale distributors a lot of value for many different reasons. The platform creates the central nervous system for these types of businesses, enabling them to manage incredibly diverse inventory. But to really get the most out of P21™, you need to customize it to your company’s requirements—and that requires highly […]