Technology is a key driver of disruption across all industries, with companies like Zalora, Ensogo, and Fitbit and others shaking traditional business models to the core. Technological innovation, in particular capabilities and solutions driven by disruptive technologies such as cloud computing, is levelling the playing field, accelerating growth and capabilities for businesses of any size and …
The cloud is gaining traction in the enterprise resource planning (ERP) market and most vendors now have a cloud offering. After examining small and medium companies that have implemented cloud ERP, Nucleus found customers were able to achieve substantial benefits, including reduced IT costs, increased employee productivity, and better inventory management. This report analyzes the benefits of …
To discover how cloud-based ERP systems support and accelerate growing organizations, NetSuite’s Vishrut Parikh and Anand Misra engaged senior IT executives in discussions on the topic. These executives shared case studies of why they switched from on-premise to cloud-based systems, how the implementation process occurred, benefits they have experienced, and lessons learned. A prevailing them…
Over the years, QuickBooks has become the de facto standard financial software for small businesses, with more than 5 million businesses using it. QuickBooks is the best fit for many businesses on day one, but is it the right choice to enable rapidly growing businesses to sustain and accelerate growth? In many instances, QuickBooks is inadequate. It lacks many of the capabilities that growing b…
In an ideal world, every multinational organisation would run its entire global operations on a single enterprise resource planning (ERP) application suite. A few do achieve this financial nirvana–but often at significant cost. The rest have to make the best of reconciling conflicting requirements and historic investment decisions to manage what can often be a complex catalogue of different s…
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is a growing phenomenon in worldwide business today. From the original ideas of outsourcing the data center and having third parties manage the software (the ASP movement of the turn of the century) to true SaaS today, the tsunami of outsourced IT and new methods of accessing business software solutions has created a multi-billion dollar market.
Think about it. Businesses have a one-in-three chance of not making it through the next five years. As Boston Consulting Group astutely points out, this falls within the typical tenure of a Chief Executive as well as a standard time horizon for investors. 50 years ago, this same risk would have been only 5 percent