What Cloud is Your Cloud Provider On?
ERP Hosting is Better Than a Trip to the Ice Cream Parlor The age of “mass customization” pervades many areas of our business and personal lives. The general populace has grown accustomed to being able to “dial in” solutions as needed, especially when it comes to...
5 Signs Your Business Needs Cybersecurity Training
Cybersecurity Education Begins With Ownership Small and medium sized business owners beware! 65% of attacks that originate in cyberspace are aimed at companies that think they’re too small to be of interest to cybercriminals. If you think you're at low risk, read on...
October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month
EstesGroup is a Cybersecurity Awareness Month Champion Are you mitigating both old and new cybersecurity threats? Are you navigating the vulnerabilities at both on-site and remote office locations? Are you communicating current best practices for cybersecurity across...
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...
Preventing Ransomware in the Automotive Aftermarket
How to Secure the Automotive Aftermarket To help develop awareness of cybersecurity needs in the manufacturing and distribution industries, EstesGroup conducted a joint education session with the Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA). SEMA is a trade...
ERP Culture & Digital Transformation
Who says you have no culture? Eric Kimberling and the team at Third Stage Consulting serve as thought leaders in the digital transformation community, helping customers through software selection, change management, system implementation, and the integration of...
ROI of ERP: Software Money Games & Executive Moves
Once you calculate ROI (return on investment) of ERP software and determine that a new system will result in new profitability, the most important step appears: your software selection decision. But who should make this final and most important decision about the...
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...
Total Cost or Total Loss: New Software, New Budget
The cost of a software budget Software selection can be a lot like car shopping. You do a few test drives. You talk to happy drivers. You ask for the price and then ask for a better deal. You begin to investigate how much this new vehicle is going to cost. One part of...