Lisa Dodson
205 Articles Published
Data and Data Management
Madsen’s Custom Cabinets (1983) Ltd.
Madsen's Custom Cabinets, a family-run business in Alberta since 1962, upgraded to Epicor Kinetic and became early adopters of Epicor Prism to enhance usability, streamline data management, and improve communication, ultimately aiming to increase productivity and efficiency in their operations.
Data and Data Management
Frameless Hardware Company LLC
Frameless Hardware Company (FHC) transformed its custom glass product configuration and quoting processes through the implementation of Epicor CPQ, enabling automated workflows, 3D visualizations, and streamlined engineering, which significantly reduced quote processing time and increased overall revenue potential.
Automation
Novvia Group: Unpacking Success Across Multisite Implementations
See how industrial packaging distributor Novvia Group powered through 14 successful Epicor implementations across 17 different businesses in the past one-and-a-half years. Six S Partners played a critical role in helping Novvia Group understand the importance of unified core processes when developing a single source of truth, as well as the value of automation in driving real results.
Cloud Platform and Technology
Solex Thermal Science: Flexibility Builds Productivity
Learn how manufacturer Solex Thermal Science, an Epicor customer since 2017, found that Epicor cloud solutions helped alleviate data silos by implementing one unified ERP system across different departments.
ERP Strategy and Planning
Balancing sovereignty in RISE with SAP
As Europe navigates geopolitical tensions and regulatory changes, digital sovereignty has emerged as a critical consideration for cloud transformation in SAP, prompting organizations to strategically assess their data control needs and optimize workloads for cost efficiency.
ERP Strategy and Planning
Shape your RISE with SAP journey with sovereignty
In a world of volatile markets, new AI technologies, and mounting compliance pressure, the RISE with SAP journey becomes your chance to design an SAP landscape that is both cloud‑innovative and sovereign by default. With T-Systems orchestrating sovereign private cloud, hyperscalers, and a powerful European AI infrastructure, you can selectively protect your most critical workloads while accelerating digital transformation on your own terms.
ERP Strategy and Planning
Unlock Peak Performance: Partner with a Certified Expert
A successful business transformation relies on selecting a Certified Partner who not only provides an effective solution but also ensures optimized processes, centralized data, and automated success for maximum value.
Application Development and Integration
Solving the Migration Puzzle: SAP S/4HANA Transformation With MuleSoft and Deloitte Digital
Migrating to SAP S/4HANA from legacy systems involves complex challenges, including data migration risks and potential business disruptions, but adopting an API-led integration approach with platforms like MuleSoft can streamline the transition and enhance system resilience.
Application Development and Integration
Roche’s Co-Exist Integration Strategy for SAP S/4HANA Transformation
Roche's integration of diverse systems through a co-exist strategy using MuleSoft and SAP's Cloud Platform Integration has streamlined its SAP S/4HANA transformation, enhancing efficiency, scalability, and customer satisfaction despite the complexities of its operations.
Application Development and Integration
5 Steps for Accelerating Your SAP S/4HANA Integration
Transforming to SAP S/4HANA requires a strategic, multifaceted approach that includes cataloging existing systems, selecting the right integration platform, embracing a hybrid strategy, utilizing API-led connectivity, and partnering with experienced integration experts, all facilitated by MuleSoft's solutions to enhance efficiency and ensure a successful transition.
ERP Strategy and Planning
SAP S/4HANA Migration With MuleSoft Professional Services
SAP S/4HANA migration, set to replace SAP ECC by 2027, offers organizations a chance to transform their integrations through modern architectures and APIs while navigating challenges like legacy systems and process redesign.
Data and Data Management
Build vs. buy: How to best integrate Salesforce and SAP
PwC's Connected Journeys offers a streamlined integration solution for Salesforce and SAP S/4HANA, addressing the complexities of aligning CRM and ERP systems to enhance the order-to-cash process and deliver a seamless customer experience.
Analytics and AI
Secure Your SAP S/4HANA Transition in the Age of AI & Agents with PwC
PwC and MuleSoft highlight the importance of a unified integration platform for seamless SAP S/4HANA transitions, emphasizing how MuleSoft's capabilities tackle the challenges of AI-driven transformations.
ERP Strategy and Planning
Speed up your SAP S/4HANA migration
Streamline your migration process with pre-built connectors for SAP and third-party systems, allowing for flexible deployment while preserving your current on-premises configuration.
ERP Strategy and Planning
SAP Integration Solutions
Upgrade to SAP S/4HANA with MuleSoft to enhance your SAP integrations and create a robust, future-proof architecture.
ERP Strategy and Planning
CIO Guide to SAP S/4HANA and MuleSoft
Today's IT leaders drive digital transformation through initiatives like transitioning to SAP S/4HANA, focusing on systems integration, data quality, real-time decision-making, and leveraging MuleSoft for seamless integration and enhanced operational efficiency.
Modular Cloud Transformation and Composable ERP
ERP Strategy and Planning
SAP S/4HANA Transformation Guide
SAP has updated its core offerings with SAP S/4HANA to enhance operational efficiency and productivity through AI, but emphasizes the need for careful preparation and integration strategies to mitigate risks during the transition.
Analytics and AI
MuleSoft Vibes
Move from idea to production faster without sacrificing quality, governance, or reuse. MuleSoft Vibes brings agentic and generative capabilities directly into the MuleSoft platform, helping the entire IT team design, build, test, and operate integrations with confidence. Learn more here!
Analytics and AI
MuleSoft Agent Fabric
Intelligently orchestrate and govern every AI agent, regardless of where it’s built, to maximize ROI, increase productivity, and continuously improve agent performance. Learn more here!
Analytics and AI
MuleSoft
The agentic enterprise is here. With MuleSoft Agent Fabric, harness your cross-ecosystem agents to work together seamlessly. MuleSoft is the open foundation to govern, orchestrate, and unlock the full potential of the multi-agent enterprise. Learn more here!
Financial Management
Recognized by Gartner®, Trusted by CFOs: How Zuora and Workday are Teaming up to Unlock New Tech and Media Business Models
Zuora and Workday, both recognized as Leaders in Gartner’s 2025 Magic Quadrants, are partnering to deliver a modern finance platform that combines flexible monetization with enterprise-grade ERP to support evolving, usage-based business models.
ERP Strategy and Planning
Innovation Across Borders
Epicor's channel partners, TCP and Auros, are driving significant transformation in Latin American manufacturing by combining local expertise with global technology through the implementation of Epicor Kinetic, enabling companies to enhance operational efficiency, adapt to market changes, and achieve sustainable growth.
ERP Strategy and Planning
From Humble Beginnings to Industry Leaders
Epicor Authorized Partners, essential for successful ERP implementation, exemplify commitment to service and innovation, as seen in the journeys of ComTec and 2W Tech, both of which have evolved to support diverse industries and embrace emerging technologies like AI while striving for continued growth.
Supply Chain Management
Aptean Acquires OpsVeda to Bring End-to-End Agentic Orchestration to the Logility Supply Chain Planning and Execution Platform
Aptean has acquired OpsVeda to enhance its supply chain capabilities, integrating operations command center solutions with Logility's AI-focused software to enable real-time, AI-driven orchestration and decision-making across enterprises.
Analytics and AI
Aptean Launches Paragon Route 360 on AppCentral, Transforming AI-Driven Real-Time Routing and Scheduling for Logistics Teams
Aptean has launched Paragon Route 360, a revolutionary AI-native routing and scheduling software on the AppCentral platform, designed to enhance logistics efficiency through real-time visibility, continuous scheduling, and intelligent resource management.
Analytics and AI
Aptean Unveils Aptean Intelligence as a Service, Delivering Industry‑Ready AI Agents That Drive Real Operational Results
Aptean has launched 'Aptean Intelligence as a Service,' a tailored AI solution that partners with businesses to enhance operational efficiency through custom AI agents, helping them transition from AI experimentation to impactful implementations.
Analytics and AI
Aptean Launches the Next Generation of Fashion & Apparel Technology – AI that Puts Brands Fully in Control
Aptean has launched Aptean Fashion & Apparel, a cutting-edge AI operations solution that integrates apparel-specific intelligence to enhance decision-making speed and operational efficiency for fashion brands, enabling them to navigate the complexities of the industry more effectively.
ERP Strategy and Planning
RISE with SAP: More efficiency through clean core
Deutsche Telekom is transforming its complex SAP landscape through RISE with SAP and T-Systems, aiming to reduce its applications from 83 to 10-30 by 2030, enhance efficiency with a clean core, and leverage cloud solutions for future growth and innovations.
Cloud Platform and Technology
Clean core: Paving the way for the SAP transformation
RISE with SAP facilitates the consolidation and optimization of complex SAP environments by embracing the 'clean core' principle, which enhances efficiency, reduces costs, and enables companies to leverage SAP's latest innovations without excessive customization.
Cloud Platform and Technology
Digitalization: From vision to reality
The article discusses the ongoing challenges and critical importance of digital transformation for organizations, emphasizing that while many invest in digital technologies, a significant gap remains between their aspirations and actual implementation, and highlights the necessity for a coherent strategy, cultural change, skilled workforce, and robust technological infrastructure to succeed.
Analytics and AI
Clarity in the Data Jungle
SAP is embedding AI into its systems to transform raw data into actionable intelligence, enhance operational efficiency, and drive innovation, thereby helping organizations lower costs and improve customer satisfaction.
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