This Old IT: The Modify vs. Rebuild Software Quandary
When should you start from scratch? When I was about ten years old, my family lived in an old frame house. I have a lot of fond memories from our time there, but it had some quirks.Originally a two-bedroom house, a third bedroom had been added onto one side. Built in...
Trailer Telematics: How Cloud Technology is Driving Success
As trucking companies move closer to the goal of driverless vehicles, the technology that will enable this mission continues to improve. With this improvement comes a vast amount of information regarding the status of a given load. Enter the fleet of trailer...
6 Tips to Save Time & Money When Customizing Your Epicor Application
Here at EstesGroup, we do a lot of customizations for Epicor ERP and P21 systems. These include adding new logic to processing, adding / changing reports, updating screens to add custom information and creating new dashboards to simplify business understanding. We...
Paying the Piper in Epicor E10, Kinetic & Prophet 21
Best Practices for Paying Supplier Invoices in Epicor ERP There are many challenges when it comes to paying supplier invoices in Epicor E10, Epicor Kinetic (E11), or in Epicor Prophet 21. In simple terms, a company purchases goods from a supplier according to...
Scaling Up & Scaling Out in a P21 Ecosystem
P21 System Performance in Accordance When deploying any enterprise-level application such as Epicor’s Prophet 21 ERP, system performance is an extremely important consideration, one that can have significant impact on the successful use of the application. Memory...
EstesGroup Partners with RIPEN for Digital Commerce
ESTESGROUP & RIPEN ANNOUNCE DIGITAL COMMERCE PARTNERSHIP EstesGroup has announced a partnership with RIPEN, a leading digital commerce experience agency. The strategic alliance allows the two tech leaders to join forces and offer best-in-class Prophet 21 and...
Prophet 21 E-Commerce Integration Tips
E-Commerce is Drawing Interest from Epicor Prophet 21 Users Trend lines are never a function of simple math. As much as I’d like my world around me to conform to the simple y=mx+b along a clean Cartesian plane, the world around me thinks otherwise. Life, they say, is...
Views from Booth 25 – P21WWUG CONNECT 2021
Prophet 21 Trade Show Truths Dining and whining with the end users in the trenches of Prophet 21’s annual conference can elicit frank and poignant sentiments regarding the state of software and the state of the broader markets that it works to support. Listening to...
9 Questions to Answer at P21WWUG CONNECT
P21WWUG CONNECT - BOOTH 25 The 2021 Prophet 21 user conference (P21WWUG CONNECT) is less than a week away. For those of us in attendance, it is an exciting time for collaboration and discovery. User conferences are a great opportunity to trade ideas with other users...
Custom Cloud: Public Cloud Choices, SaaS Challenges
What to Do When ERP Turns SaaS I once sat in at a sales conference for an ERP vendor and listened as the CEO explained sales strategy as it related to their ongoing movement to the cloud. He described the situation as one of configurability vs. customizability. There...