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Are you taking advantage of technology in the digital age to grow your company?

When people think of digital disruption Uber is the most often quoted example of how a startup is changing an industry. Amazon and Uber are that superstar athlete like Michael Jordan who is immediately recognizable. The majority of high school athletes will not play in college and an even smaller percentage will become a professional. Almost none will achieve superstardom. That does not mean there is not value from joining the team, learning about working together and participating in a smaller way.

Implementing a new business management software can be overwhelming to an organization,  Most companies undertake this endeavor once in a decade and are not experts in the process.  As the software has become more comprehensive and now impacts most everyone in the company, extensive coordination is necessary to get it right.

I-BN recently completed the recertification for hosting services by SAP. The audit is not just about our data center and its capabilties, but our ability to provide a stable, secure and reliable hosting services specifically for SAP Business One.  The audit covers many areas beyond the data center and equipment used:

The Sage Summit US 2017 Tour has just concluded. The event is billed as an opportunity to empower your business for success in 2017 at the most personalized, interactive, and experiential learning place of its kind for start-up, scale-up, and enterprise business builders, and truly lived up to the billing. 

Sage Summit has grown and evolved, but sponsorship of the conference has remained a staple of I-Business Network.

We have all heard the horror stories of failed ERP implementations and the lamentations over the cost of ERP implementation. At the most recent Sage Summit customer conference, Sage Software announced that it was removing the letters ERP from its product names and is coming out with a new line of its software. So Sage 100 ERP is becoming Sage 100c with a new user interface and more cloud connected services. 

Whenever I see comparisons of products I think about the bias of the writer, and I-BN is an SAP partner, so yes we are biased.  However, NetSuite is a leader in Cloud ERP and we always need to understand the strengths and weaknesses of the competition from the customer’s viewpoint in order to know when to compete and how to win.

In the first comparison we talked about the surface (look and feel) and the tablestakes (feature and function) between NetSuite and SAP Business One (SAP B1). Now we will compare platform differences between the two. After all, your Business Management software or Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems are the internal organs of your organization bringing the lifeblood and oxygen (information and insight) to your entire body!

Whenever a claim is made by a business that they can help you rise to greatness it always leaves you wanting some real, tangible proof, doesn’t it? How much of this is marketing hype and how much of it is reality?