Three Ways to Make Compliance Everyone’s Business
Compliance acronyms often become the “inside jokes” of an industry, a sort of alphabet soup, but the language of business governance can quickly result in confusion. Clever letter combinations echo the rules and regulations of businesses, especially for companies in...
Five Ways to Ensure ERP Satisfies Financial Compliance
Every business has financial compliance requirements from many sources. ERP is your primary tool — helping you prepare the required reports easily, timely, and consistently.Set up ERP to produce the reporting needed. The first step toward financial compliance is a...
Managed Services vs. Break-Fix IT
What happens when break-fix IT breaks? As a business owner, you make daily decisions on how to serve your customers and how to improve your company. As part of this, you choose partners and solutions to create a support system that guarantees the quality of your work....
Case Study: How a Sheet Metal Manufacturer Improved Cost Visibility and Competitiveness
This company didn’t know where they were losing money. By implementing ERP software, they were able to learn their costs and discover areas for cost reduction.
Case Study: Why Technical ERP Support Mattered for a Complex Publishing Company
This company publishing 40 business publications and having over 3.6 million readers, needed our help to bridge the gap between their current software interface and their Epicor program.
Case Study: Why and How Two Redundant ERP Systems Became One
Founded in 1954, this electronics company needed a system environment that could respond more effectively to customer demand.
Case Study: ERP Recovery Project – Rescuing a Stalled Implementation
When an ERP implementation lost direction, exceeded budget, and left the client with more confusion than progress, EstesGroup stepped in to reset the project, simplify the solution, and guide the company to a successful outcome.
Case Study: From Spreadsheets to $30 Million in Growth
A defense electronics manufacturer replaced fragmented manual processes with Epicor ERP, improved visibility across the business, and grew revenue by 50 percent over two years without adding headcount.
cGMP Compliance & ERP
What is cGMP? cGMP stands for current Good Manufacturing Practice and, more than just initials, it is at the center of the US Food and Drug Administration’s efforts to protect citizens from potential hazards related to food and beverages, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals,...
ERP Training After Go-Live
Make Training Part of your ERP Project Plan Your employees just had a grand celebration. Your ERP project is complete! The months of hard toil, testing, trepidation, and training are in the past. Or, maybe the education has only begun?Here are some considerations for...
3 Ways to Spring your Epicor Installation Ahead
Spring Cleaning & New Growth for Epicor ERP While individuals differ in their opinion of daylight savings time, the metaphor of “springing ahead” feels perfect for the enterprise resource planning (ERP) season. Spring is, after all, the time of growth and...
Partnering with your ERP Consultancy
How the Right ERP Consultancy Can Take the Risk Out of ERP Implementation Implementing ERP presents many challenges. One of these involves the simple dilemma of finding good help. Implementing ERP is not a one-man band, but rather a symphony of interconnected members,...
5 Takeaways from the Microsoft Exchange Server Attack
A Microsoft Exchange Server Attack Caused Hours of Downtime for Businesses Around the Globe Last week's Microsoft Exchange Server attack underscores the liabilities of on-premise architectures compared to their cloud counterparts. On Friday, March 5th, 2021, a...
3 Signs It’s Time For a Server Upgrade
Is Your Server Seeing Stars? Sometimes called a "super computer" or simply a "computer bigger than yours," a server is a technological infrastructure that hosts a shared resource pool. Servers become more complicated as small businesses grow and require multiple...
3 Things to Consider When Upgrading From Epicor 905 to E10
People, Infrastructure, and Scope in an Epicor 905 Migration A customer on the front end of an upgrade from Epicor 905 to E10 asked me for advice on ERP upgrade planning. I’ve long reflected on some of the keys to a successful Epicor 905 upgrade to E10—the lessons...
Epicor Part & MOM Settings: Learning By Example
Epicor Cover: Lessons From the Trenches Sometimes the best way to understand the inner workings of an ERP system is to review examples of its activities and to trace them back to the underlying setup that generated the activities themselves. In the Epicor ERP context,...
SQL Server: Turning Tips and Playing Tricks
SQL Server Configuration, Tuning & Optimization The perspectivism of an ERP system shifts based on one’s point of reference. To an end user, an ERP system might simply be a series of screens from which one enters and extracts data. But to an ERP administrator, the...
On-Premise vs. Hosted vs. SaaS
Which is right for your business? On-Premise, Hosted or SaaS? Technology changes at such a rapid pace that it can be hard to keep up. Today we are going to dive into the key differences of on-premise vs. hosted vs. SaaS (software as a service) and provide some great...
IT & Managed Services vs. Healthcare
Managed Services vs. Healthcare: Similar Strategies, Similar Outcomes I would like to start with a little self-reflection. If we are all honest with ourselves, we’d admit that no one enjoys purchasing or paying for health insurance. The process is cumbersome. There...
How to Create a Strategic BDR Plan
The Right Data For Backup & Disaster Recovery For backup and disaster recovery (BDR) planning, you need more than a trusted solution. You need a data center that can’t fail. You need an IT team that won’t keep you up at night. Server room aside, you might want to...
Epicor Process Set Maintenance: Bundle Up
Scheduling ERP Processes Batch processes have been with us since the inception of business computing. You can complete a batch of tasks as a single process for sake of efficiency. The benefits of such processes are clearly time-saving for an Epicor administrator....
Epicor Server File Download: Serving the Process Server
The Pandora's Box of ERP Epicor processes can be a Pandora’s box of complexity. Rumbling under the surface, these processes perform innumerable tasks that allow an ERP system to function effectively. But when these processes fail to deliver the expected functionality,...
Epicor Data Fix Workbench: Balancing the Balance
The Weight of the ERP Data World My old friend Thanos was a big believer in the principle of balance. In an ERP context, data integrity is the epitome of balance. But sometimes unexpected issues corrupt data and throw this precious balance askew. Read further to...
After The Disaster Plan, The Disaster
What Happens After You Choose A Disaster Plan? If you've already settled on a backup and disaster recovery (BDR) strategy, you need to know that this is not a "set IT and forget IT" business solution. Yes, you now know that your backups are more reliable. Yes, you...
ERP Implementation Best Practices: Closing the Gaps
ERP Implementation Challenges Bridging functionality gaps in ERP is one of the great challenges in an Epicor implementation, or of any enterprise resource planning project. There are often visible gaps between a company’s business requirements and the system’s ability...
Backup Disaster Recovery: Saving Your Solution
The Aftermath of a Backup & Disaster Recovery Plan Backup, disaster recovery, business continuity. Are you ready? 2020 proved that every business needs a recovery strategy. Data loss occurs when there's an unexpected event (like a pandemic). A natural disaster,...
How to Move Your Business to the Cloud
How to Choose a Cloud for Your Business Companies are moving to the cloud in droves, swift to flock to new IT solutions. Fortunately, there are a lot of birds wise to the server sky. When you're choosing to put your data on a remote server ("the cloud"), you'll need...
Cyber Verify “A” Risk Assurance Rating
The MSPAlliance Cyber Verify rating gives customers of cloud & managed services the assurance their provider is using the most current cyber security practices. EstesGroup Receives Cyber Verify "A" Risk Assurance Rating Loveland, Colorado - EstesGroup has...
Malvertising Rising and Malware Mayhem
What is Malvertising? Malvertising is a pet name for malware that’s delivered through online advertising techniques. The ads look authentic. Often, legitimate third-party marketing companies distribute them to reputable websites. Cybercriminals circulate this malware...
Epicor ERP Database Upgrade Considerations
Technical Considerations for an Epicor Upgrade As more and more Epicor users moved from Epicor 905 to E10, the new world of upgrade challenges leveled off into old world reflection. As a customer, I once watched my company implement Epicor’s Vantage 803 platform and...