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...
Principles of Successful Supplier Relationship Management
A Shifting Landscape is Changing Supplier Relationships The past year underscored the impact and the importance of supply chains more than ever. For manufacturers and distributors, the criticality of a robust and flexible supply chain cannot be understated. Supply...
Prophet 21 Event: Servers, Financials & Supply Chains
With summer in full swing, distributors are on the move, crossing docks, splitting shipments, and delivering goods by the truckload to a diverse array of customers. It is a time for expansion—of old trade routes of supply chains and of new opportunities as our...
Understanding the New Client Architecture of Prophet 21
Software development never stands still. I remember a time where I felt like I had finally come to understand DataSets, DataTables, DataRows and DataViews, only to have a much more experienced developer inform me that the System.Data namespace was old, antiquated, and...
COVID-19 Remote Work Support: Message from CEO Bruce Grant
COVID-19 Remote Work Support: Message From EstesGroup Dear Clients, Partners & Friends-- I wanted to share an update on what EstesGroup is doing today to keep our community safe and our delivery services moving forward, as well as specific steps we are taking to...