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Elastic Computing Revolutionizes Business Dynamics
Cloud Resources are Changing the Manufacturing and Distribution Industry Landscapes In the world of cloud options for businesses, elastic computing refers to the ability to dynamically scale computing resources up or down based on demand, without the need for...
SYSPRO UI & Layout Problem Solving
Troubleshooting user interfaces and personal layout issues in SYSPRO Throughout the various releases and versions of SYSPRO, user interfaces and layout issues are common. Despite several significant changes to the methods of how SYSPRO stores and saves user settings,...
SYSPRO Data Integrity: A Guide to Balance Functions
How to Ensure Data Integrity Within SYSPRO - Balance Functions Explained Ensuring data integrity is a top priority for any software product, especially for an ERP such as SYSPRO. As users go about performing their daily activities, various problems can arise, even...
How to Use SYSPRO Form Actions
SYSPRO Customization Station When it comes to Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), SYSPRO is the ultimate software choice for manufacturing and distribution companies in search of flexibility and customization. EstesGroup has an expert understanding of the SYSPRO User...
EstesGroup Fall ’23 Prophet 21 Summit
Mastering Prophet 21 in 2023 This past February, EstesGroup's own Brent Merritt presented to the Carolinas' Prophet 21 World Wide User Group chapter on the subject of P21 architecture best practices. Then we went out to a very fine Cajun restaurant with a live band...
How to Optimize Prophet 21 Performance
Load Balancing the P21 Server Stack into an N-Tier Architecture Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system scalability is always a concern. Your user count grows. The database gets larger. The organization adds branches. As this all snowballs, several interconnected...
5 Reasons to Visit BOOTH 40 at CONNECT 2023
Do you have questions about your Epicor Prophet 21 ERP software performance or its underlying technology? Come see us in Booth 40 this August in Dallas at P21WWUG CONNECT 2023! EstesGroup is proud to be a GOLD SPONSOR for this year's event!EstesGroup’s mission as an...
RPA DNA – What is Robotic Process Automation?
Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is a new software technology that has the potential, in conjunction with AI technologies, to transform business processes, policies, and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems.RPA removes workers’ mundane, time-consuming tasks so...
ChatGPT Security? Tell Me About Your Motherboard
ChatGPT security concerns reveal that business owners are hesitant to let AI replace humans. In November 2022, OpenAI introduced ChatGPT, an artificially intelligent, natural language chatbot. ChatGPT interacts with its users in uncannily humanistic and intelligent...
P21 Public Web Client Access – Who’s Your Proxy?
ERP systems have traditionally had a functionality-accessibility problem: ERP systems were highly functional, but not especially accessible – they normally required desktop fat-client applications for access, and these were often hamstrung by local access...
Epicor Prophet 21 Performance – Real-World Issues
Recently, I met with an Epicor Prophet 21 customer on a discovery call to review the issues they were encountering in relation to some ongoing P21 web UI slowdowns. ERP system performance is a common challenge across the ERP community, and in the Prophet 21 community,...
5 Ways Cloud Deployment Changes SYSPRO ERP
SYSPRO ERP Cloud Deployment vs. On-Premise Infrastructure Top manufacturers and distributors are choosing private or hybrid cloud deployment for enterprise resource planning (ERP) software. This is especially true for cloud-ready ERP systems, like Epicor Prophet 21...
Going for the Gold at P21WWUG CONNECT 2023
EstesGroup is proud to be a gold sponsor for the P21WWUG CONNECT 2023 conference in Dallas, Texas. That’s metal! This year, Estes is going for the gold as Gold Sponsor of the ultimate educational and networking event for anyone in the distribution industry! Are you...
How to Respect Data Privacy in 2023
Data Privacy Week is an annual expanded effort from Data Privacy Day -- taking place from January 22 – 28, 2023. The goal of Data Privacy Week is to spread awareness about online privacy among individuals and organizations. The goal is twofold: to help citizens...
License to Go Live: Accessing Epicor License Info
Manufacturing a License to Be Different No two Epicor implementations are quite the same. One of the primary reasons for the differences between the configuration of two Epicor® Kinetic environments has to do with licensing. The Epicor® application has a broad suite...