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FinancialForce’s Spring 2022 Release Defines the Future of FP&A In Services

By Louis Columbus on May 3, 2022

Economic uncertainty sends shock waves throughout businesses, with service organizations seeing its brunt. The recent drastic drop-off in Netflix subscribers is a case in point. Services CFOs say there is an urgent need to track how well their overarching planning strategies linking finance and operations perform. However, getting the data to analyze has been challenging […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Cloud, Cloud Professional Services ERP, Enterprise resource planning, enterprise software, erp, Financialforce, FinancialForce Spring 2022 Release, FPA, Louis Columbus' blog, Operations Planning, Professional Services ERP, SaaS

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Gartner Predicts Public Cloud Services Market Will Reach $397.4B by 2022

By Louis Columbus on May 10, 2021

Worldwide end-user spending on public cloud services is forecast to grow 23.1% in 2021 to total $332.3 billion, up from $270 billion in 2020. Garter predicts worldwide end-user spending on public cloud services will jump from $242.6B in 2019 to $692.1B in 2025, attaining a 16.1% Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR). Spending on SaaS cloud […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged CIO, Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing ERP, cloud computing forecast, Containerization, CRM, Edge computing, Enterprise Resource Planning Software, enterprise software, erp, Gartner Public Cloud Services Market Forecast, Louis Columbus’ blog, virtualization

Which ERP Systems Are Most Popular With Their Users In 2021?

Which ERP Systems Are Most Popular With Their Users In 2021?

By Louis Columbus on May 3, 2021

Sage Intacct, Oracle ERP Cloud, and Microsoft Dynamics 365 ERP are the three highest-rated ERP systems by their users. 86% of Unit4 ERP users say their CRM system is the best of all vendors in the study. The survey-wide satisfaction rating for CRM is 73%, accentuating Unit4 ERP’s leadership in this area. 85% of Ramco […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Enterprise resource planning, enterprise software, erp, FinancialForce ERP, Louis Columbus’ blog, Microsoft Dynamics 365 ERP, Oracle ERP Cloud, Ramco ERP Suite, Sage Intacct, Unit4 ERP

How FinancialForce Is Using AI To Fight Revenue Leakage

How FinancialForce Is Using AI To Fight Revenue Leakage

By Louis Columbus on March 8, 2021

Bottom Line: Using AI to measure and predict revenue, costs, and margin across all Professional Services (PS) channels leads to greater accuracy in predicting payment risks, project overruns, and service forecasts, reducing revenue leakage in the process. Professional Services’ Revenue Challenges Are Complex Turning time into revenue and profits is one of the greatest challenges […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Artificial intelligence, Enterprise resource planning, erp, Financialforce, Louis Columbus' blog, machine learning, Professional Services ERP, Salesforce Einstein

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COVID-19’s Impact On Tech Spending This Year

By Louis Columbus on March 25, 2020

The human tragedy the COVID-19 pandemic has inflicted on the world is incalculable and continues to grow. Every human life is priceless and deserves the care needed to sustain it. COVID-19 is also impacting entire industries, causing them to randomly gyrate in unpredictable ways, directly impacting IT and tech spending. COVID-19’s Impact On Industries Computer […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Atlassian, avasant, Box, Computer Economics, Coronavirus, Coronavirus Impact Index by Industry, COVID, COVID-19, CRM, Dave Wagner, enterprise software, erp, Frank Scavo, GoToMyPC, Louis Columbus' blog, Microsoft Office365, salesforce, Slack, Technology / Software, Tom Dunlap, Zoho Remotely, zoom | 1 Response

Securing Multi-Cloud Manufacturing Systems In A Zero Trust World

Securing Multi-Cloud Manufacturing Systems In A Zero Trust World

By Louis Columbus on November 11, 2019

Bottom Line: Private equity firms are snapping up manufacturing companies at a quick pace, setting off a merger and acquisition gold rush, while leaving multi-cloud manufacturing systems unprotected in a Zero Trust world. Securing the Manufacturing Gold Rush of 2019 The intensity private equity (PE) firms have for acquiring and aggregating manufacturing businesses is creating […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Centrify, cybersecurity, Enterprise resource planning, erp, Louis Columbus' blog, Manufacturing, Private Equity Firms, PWC, Zero Trust Privilege, Zero Trust Security

Industry 4.0's Potential Needs To Be Proven On The Shop Floor

Industry 4.0’s Potential Needs To Be Proven On The Shop Floor

By Louis Columbus on May 30, 2019

99% of mid-market manufacturing executives are familiar with Industry 4.0, yet only 5% are currently implementing or have implemented an Industry 4.0 strategy. Investing in upgrading existing machinery, replacing fully depreciated machines with next-generation smart, connected production equipment, and adopting real-time monitoring including Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) are manufacturers’ top three priorities based on interviews […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Artificial intelligence, erp, Industry 4.0, machine learning, Manufacturing, Manufacturing execution system, MES

How To Improve Supply Chains With Machine Learning: 10 Proven Ways

How To Improve Supply Chains With Machine Learning: 10 Proven Ways

By Louis Columbus on May 20, 2019

Bottom line: Enterprises are attaining double-digit improvements in forecast error rates, demand planning productivity, cost reductions and on-time shipments using machine learning today, revolutionizing supply chain management in the process. Machine learning algorithms and the models they’re based on excel at finding anomalies, patterns and predictive insights in large data sets. Many supply chain challenges are […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged analytics, Artificial intelligence, Centrify, erp, Infor, Inspectorio, Louis Columbus' blog, machine learning, sap, Supplier relationship management, supply chain management, Supply Chains, Zero Trust Privilege

CPQ Needs To Scale And Support Smarter, More Connected Products

CPQ Needs To Scale And Support Smarter, More Connected Products

By Louis Columbus on December 16, 2018

  For smart, connected product strategies to succeed they require a product lifecycle view of configurations, best attained by integrating PLM, CAD, CRM, and ERP systems. Capgemini estimates that the size of the connected products market will be $519B to $685B by 2020. In 2018, $985B will be spent on IoT-enabled smart consumer devices, soaring to […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged CAD, Configit, Configuration Lifecycle Management, configure price quote, CPQ, CRM, CRM Integration, erp, ERP Integration, Louis Columbus' blog, PLM, Product Configuration, Product Models, Sales Configuration, sap, SAP Integration

10 Ways To Improve Cloud ERP With AI And Machine Learning

10 Ways To Improve Cloud ERP With AI And Machine Learning

By Louis Columbus on August 20, 2018

Capitalizing on new digital business models and the growth opportunities they provide are forcing companies to re-evaluate ERP’s role. Made inflexible by years of customization, legacy ERP systems aren’t delivering what digital business models need today to scale and grow. Legacy ERP systems were purpose-built to excel at production consistency first at the expense of […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged AI, Amazon Alexa, Artificial intelligence, CAD, Cloud Computing, Cloud ERP, CRM, Enterprise resource planning, erp, Factory of the Future, legacy ERP, Louis Columbus' blog, machine learning, Manufacturing, PLM

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