Frenetic to Kinetic: 5 Tips for Epicor Kinetic Upgrades
Transforming ERP Upgrades into Smooth Operations As your manufacturing company considers upgrading its current Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system to Epicor Kinetic, the prospect of navigating potential challenges and complexities might seem daunting. However,...
Connecting the Clouds: Website vs. ERP Hosting
Manufacturers and distributors can benefit significantly from a Managed Services Provider (MSP) managing one website or kin websites as part of an integrated IT services, IT security, and enterprise cloud strategy. An external IT provider ensures that the world will...
Turning the Degenerative into Generative AI in ERP
Generative AI in Enterprise Resource Planning Generative AI (GenAI) is currently revolutionizing work dynamics and interactions. Despite initial societal skepticism and perceived risks, the majority of individuals are embracing and enjoying its capabilities. GenAI...
Epicor Kinetic Cloud Options: Cloud Mastery for Manufacturers
Do you understand your Epicor Kinetic cloud options compared to on-prem ERP history? In the realm of managed service providers (MSPs) and systems integrators (SIs), the names of giant cloud computing corporations like Azure and Google often loom large. However, the...
Overcoming Epicor Cutover Challenges: A Tale of Cryptic Errors
Epicor Admin Quick Tip: Regen After a Refresh I once had an Epicor go-live brought to its knees by an administrative snafu – as cutover weekend neared, the Epicor admin refreshed the Epicor production environment with a copy of the Epicor Pilot database. Such a step...
Best Practices for Evaluating a Next-Generation B2B Platform
How to Think about E-Commerce as a Manufacturer E-commerce continues to be a pivotal topic in the manufacturing world – distributors caught on to e-commerce comparatively quickly, as the demand for streamlined processing became a core competency. But in the...
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...
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,...