Lisa Dodson
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ERP Strategy and Planning
Join our vibrant Epicor partner ecosystem!
Our partners are essential to Epicor, enabling us to sell, implement, extend, and support our solutions worldwide. Because we’ve forging long-term relationships with our partners for many decades, we know the value of your expertise and capabilities. That’s why we offer a best-in-class program that launches and rewards your success.
Supply Chain Management
Training Tomorrow’s Supply Chain Leaders Today
The future of supply chain depends on the next generation of leaders—and education is the key. Epicor’s partnership with Texas A&M University is bridging the gap between classroom learning and real-world ERP experience. By giving students hands-on access to Epicor Prophet 21, we’re helping them develop the skills needed to drive innovation and efficiency in distribution and supply chain management.
ERP Strategy and Planning
The Quebec Advantage
Quebec’s manufacturing sector is unlike any other in North America—where language is more than communication, it’s identity and law. Epicor and gold-certified partner Concerti are helping manufacturers thrive in this unique market by combining world-class ERP solutions with cultural intelligence. From navigating French-language requirements to building trust in close-knit business communities, this partnership ensures SMBs can compete globally while honoring local values.
Supply Chain Management
Building the Future of Distribution
Digital transformation in distribution isn’t just about technology—it’s about people. Epicor’s partnership with Conveyance Solutions shows how combining technical expertise with deep industry insight creates real impact. From family business roots to becoming the largest independent Prophet 21 service provider, Conveyance brings empathy and experience to help distributors thrive in a rapidly changing world.
ERP Strategy and Planning
Unlock New Growth Opportunities – Become an Epicor Channel Partner
Join a global network of trusted partners and deliver industry-leading ERP solutions to businesses worldwide. As an Epicor Channel Partner, you’ll gain access to exclusive resources, training, and support to help you grow your business and maximize profitability.
Digital Commerce
Epicor for Retail
One cloud-based retail management platform to grow faster and sell smarter, in store and online. Purpose-built for single and multi-store retailers.
Supply Chain Management
Epicor for Distribution
Drive Growth and Manage Workflows. Simplify, streamline, and stay on top of all your moving parts with the only ERP designed by distributors for distributors.
Manufacturing Systems and Automation
Epicor for Manufacturing
Grow, thrive, and compete in a global marketplace with Kinetic—an industry-tailored, cognitive ERP that helps you work smarter and stay connected.
Zuora and Workday
Financial Management
Case Study: Emaar
Emaar decided to replace Spreadsheet Server with Orbit Analytics GLSense to modernise its financial reporting stack without disrupting existing ERP investments. With Orbit GLSense technology, users were able to build consolidated reports and statements that helped in budgeting and forecasting along with closing their period quickly and reliably.
Analytics and AI
Case Study: The Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA)
MARTA needed Oracle Fusion data to land in Databricks reliably, repeatedly and with the right level of control without turning every new flow into a custom development project. Orbit Analytics implemented Orbit Data Pipelines, a no-code ETL and ELT framework purpose-built for Oracle Fusion.
ERP Strategy and Planning
The key to successful Oracle Fusion Cloud migrations
This article highlights the challenges organizations face when migrating to Oracle Fusion Cloud and emphasizes the critical role of test automation in mitigating risks and ensuring successful transitions.
SmartRecruiters
Quality and Testing
Protecting business continuity: The importance of thorough integration testing for Oracle Applications
This eBook addresses the risks associated with updating Oracle Applications, highlighting the need for comprehensive integration testing and providing strategies for improving testing coverage and building resilient test automation to ensure business continuity.
Quality and Testing
Modernizing Oracle: Deliver quality and reduce risk with a unified, AI-driven test management strategy
Modernizing Oracle Applications is a high-stakes process where test automation serves as a critical initial step to ensure quality and mitigate risk, but is not sufficient alone for comprehensive modernization.
ERP Strategy and Planning
Superior Usability
Discover how Acumatica redefines usability in ERP systems with its intuitive interface, unlimited user licensing, and cloud-based scalability. This video showcases real customer stories, highlighting flexibility, automated workflows, and seamless navigation that boost productivity and drive growth. See why industry experts and users alike trust Acumatica to empower smarter, faster decisions.
Cloud Platform and Technology
Why Cloud ERP?
Explore the transformative power of Acumatica Cloud ERP through real customer experiences. This video reveals how businesses are leveraging its cloud-based scalability, real-time insights, and seamless integration to thrive. From supporting hybrid work to ensuring business continuity, discover how Acumatica streamlines operations, enhances decision-making, and future-proofs processes with intuitive, reliable technology.
Supply Chain Management
CoachComm Success Story
CoachComm implemented Acumatica’s Manufacturing ERP to streamline operations, unify data, and enhance decision-making. The platform reduced inventory costs, automated workflows, and improved quoting and customer service. With real-time insights and seamless integration, CoachComm eliminated manual processes, optimized supply chain management, and empowered teams with intuitive tools, driving efficiency and scalable growth.
Analytics and AI
AI-Handbook
The document outlines how SMBs can leverage AI-first ERP platforms to enhance efficiency, automate workflows, and improve decision-making. It contrasts traditional systems with modern AI-driven solutions, emphasizing benefits like real-time insights, scalability, and intuitive interfaces. It also highlights the importance of assessing organizational readiness for AI adoption and provides a checklist to guide SMBs in transitioning to AI-powered tools for competitive growth.
ERP Strategy and Planning
Modern Shipbuilding Demands the Right ERP and the Right Partner
Digital transformation is imperative for shipbuilders facing increasing complexities, and employing a capable ERP platform alongside a knowledgeable partner is crucial for achieving sustainable competitive advantages.
Security
Public Administrations and Secure SAP Operations
Germany's public administration struggles with digitalization, lagging behind EU standards, prompting the need for BSI-certified cloud solutions like the SAP platform from T-Systems to enhance cybersecurity and meet increasing demands for digital services.
Analytics and AI
A Secure AI Environment for SAP Customers
ABAP, SAP's programming language essential for system customization, is transitioning to the ABAP Cloud Development Model, enhanced by AI tools that aid in code analysis and optimization while addressing documentation gaps left by past developers.
ERP Strategy and Planning
E-book: Business transformation with RISE with SAP
RISE with SAP empowers organizations to become more agile, scalable, and innovative by transitioning to cloud-based ERP systems. With T-Systems as a trusted partner, businesses can navigate this transformation securely and efficiently, leveraging AI, compliance, and customized cloud strategies.
ERP Strategy and Planning
Why Deutsche Telekom moved to RISE with SAP | Insights | Deutsche Telekom IT and T-Systems
In an interview, Joop Jansen and Frank Scharpenberg discuss Deutsche Telekom's strategic migration of over 500 ERP systems to the cloud via RISE with SAP, detailing the transformation roadmap and offering insights for other companies embarking on similar journeys.
Cloud Platform and Technology
SAP and T-Systems – Partners for your Digital Journey
T-Systems, a trusted SAP partner for over 20 years, has achieved certification for SAP Business Technology Platform operations and RISE with SAP Premium Supplier status in Germany, facilitating seamless cloud migration and access to innovations like AI and sustainability solutions.
Human Capital Management
White Paper: Future-Proof HR Management with SAP HCM
SAP’s shift to cloud-only HR solutions presents both a challenge and an opportunity for companies to reevaluate and modernize their HR systems. T-Systems supports this transformation with comprehensive SAP services, helping organizations implement scalable, AI-enhanced, and future-ready HR infrastructures.
Human Capital Management
SAP HCM transformation
We guide HR and IT decision-makers on maximizing the benefits of SAP SuccessFactors cloud technology (HCM Suite).
ERP Strategy and Planning
RISE with SAP, Thrive with T-Systems
As a premium supplier of RISE with SAP, T-Systems offers a bundle of end-to-end SAP transformation services that includes consulting, migration, implementation and operation of RISE with SAP.
ERP Strategy and Planning
End-to-end SAP Solutions
Transform into an intelligent and sustainable enterprise with our complete gamut of SAP solutions and services.
Taming Landed Costs
Supply Chain Management
How Agile is Your Supply Chain in the Age of AI?
The 2025 Agility Index highlights the critical role of AI in supply chain management for manufacturers, distributors, and retailers, urging organizations to adopt real-time data-sharing and automation to enhance agility and competitiveness amid various market challenges.
Application Development and Integration
Epicor Propello | Built for Modern Retailers
Epicor Propello is a comprehensive cloud-based retail management solution tailored for both single and multi-store retailers, aiming to enhance operations, boost sales, and facilitate growth across various channels.
Supply Chain Management
Customer Success: TAL Building Centers
TAL Building Centers, a family-owned business with over a century of history, has experienced rapid growth and operational transformation through the implementation of Epicor's BisTrack ERP solution, which has streamlined processes, enhanced pricing strategies, and improved inventory management while fostering a long-term partnership aimed at maximizing efficiency and customer value.
Security
Protect Your Valuable Data
With ransomware attacks occurring every 11 seconds and projected to rise to every 2 seconds by 2031, ensuring robust cybersecurity for vital ERP systems is crucial for businesses, demanding constant attention to people, processes, and technology.
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