An ERP software can be said to be well-configured when it places an emphasis on providing the right benefits without requiring too high of an investment. Today, with the help of a well-configured ERP software solution, organizations are effectively able to streamline and better manage a wide array of operational responsibilities.

Still, most ERP solutions in the market have some flaws in one way or another, such as flexibility issues, highly fragmented operations, and lack of operational visibility. 

Mobile applications are becoming an important extension to ERP software. With the fast adoption of mobile applications for business functions, CIOs have realized that they need to extend the ERP functionality so managers can better communicate with their field service teams. As a result, enterprises are adopting mobile solutions to empower their crews with real time analytics, reports and company data through smartphones and tablets. This helps them to stay updated, perform faster and accurately on-the-go.

Enterprises are utilizing an enterprise resource planning (ERP) software to help maintain, manage and integrate their core business processes and functions. Any decision you make should follow careful thought process and analysis of current conditions, before purchasing an ERP software. This is no game.  Once you have made the investment in the selected ERP software, you would have a hard time telling anyone that it might have been better to choose different software instead.  

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015 features significant advances to facilitate collaboration between sales, marketing, and customer service departments. It is the first release that attempts to bridge the gap between sales and marketing, removing the need for marketers to use many disparate systems and allowing the sales executives to really engage with the marketing process.

It is clear that mobility is driving change in enterprises and leading to a more productive mobile workforce as well as fostering better collaboration with employees, partners, customers, and consumers. As mobility matures from an outlying concern to a primary IT service, it's inevitable that enterprises will adopt mobility solutions for their business functions.

Workflows are tools that manage personal, office, department or an entire organization’s processes. A SharePoint workflow is an automated flowchart that takes a lot of the effort, guesswork, and arbitrariness out of your regular work processes and makes it simpler for you to streamline your tasks. It is most useful in automating existing conceptual or manual work processes of the company and reducing human dependence on enterprise as far as possible. 

The manufacturing vertical is witnessing a remarkable transformation in the form of process re-engineering and product refinement. Customers, competitors and supply-chain partners are constantly forcing manufacturing enterprises to increase their potential in terms of faster speed to market, customization and dealing with emerging business opportunities.

As we near 2015, we see some interesting trends in enterprise mobility to watch for in the coming year!

2014 was the year of BYOD and we are now entering a world that’s changing both in terms of how stakeholders are collaborating with each other and how all devices wired or wireless are performing at the same productivity levels. Enterprises are switching to a stronger mobility base with newer business models to meet with the global transformation as to how information is shared and accessed.

For every field technician, mobile access to information, communication, and systems have become an essential component to serving customers and managing operations. Today, companies investing in mobile apps for their remote workers are receiving excellent results. Solutions such as a field service app have helped technicians to significantly boost their productivity, improve delivery of their services, build customer relationships and increase customer satisfaction. 

How often have you planned your sales strategy around a previous quarter’s result or the latest competitive wins rather than building a well-planned strategy built upon data-driven analysis of historical trends and future predictions? Sales teams can crush their sales goals by seeking to implement a fact-based decision model, that provides continuous access to unbiased data to perform past, predictive and prescriptive analysis.

By leveraging sales analytics, sales management can effectively recognize, understand and respond to emerging trends in sales cycles and markets. Successful sales analytics positioning delivers competitive rewards in improving agility, and exploiting opportunities quicker than competitors.