Lisa Dodson
269 Articles Published
A guide to Embedded Analytics in SYSPRO ERP
SYSPRO Embedded Analytics provides manufacturers and distributors with integrated business intelligence tools that enhance visibility, decision-making, real-time reporting, cross-functional data management, and performance tracking, leading to improved operational efficiency.
Boca Terry
Boca Terry LLC transitioned from outdated software to Acumatica Retail Edition, enhancing operational efficiency, visibility into business processes, and customer service while automating tasks and supporting their growth strategy.
IOC Construction
IOC Construction improved its financial management by deploying Acumatica Advanced Construction, consolidating its four divisions into a single entity, automating workflows, reducing errors, and enhancing visibility into project data, ultimately enabling scalability and better customer service.
Polywood Success Story
New private investors helped recycled plastic furniture maker POLYWOOD pump more than $100 million into new facilities in the past seven years, which doubled its furniture and recycle plastic plant capacities. When the pandemic hit, a 10-fold increase in transactions illuminated the many flaws of its back-office legacy systems. POLYWOOD deployed Acumatica Enterprise Manufacturing Edition, gaining real-time data visibility and operational efficiencies that allowed the company to scale effortlessly.
Multicompany Financials
Streamline financial management across multiple entities in different countries while improving decision-making. Acumatica Global Financials optimizes global operations by maintaining multi-national entities on a modern cloud platform. Take Acumatica’s sophisticated multi-currency translation, revaluation, and advanced financial management capabilities to the next level with automated multi-national transactions and robust reporting.
AI That Works for You
Acumatica's AI-powered cloud ERP integrates intelligent capabilities into its platform to enhance efficiency, automation, and decision-making. It offers industry-specific AI solutions that provide practical value, including real-time data extraction, anomaly detection, and predictive forecasting. The AI features are designed to be intuitive and seamlessly integrate into existing workflows, empowering businesses to leverage AI without added complexity.
Acumatica General Business Overview
Acumatica's Cloud ERP solution helps small and mid-market businesses streamline operations, improve productivity, and enhance decision-making. Key features include comprehensive financial management, integrated CRM, project accounting, and real-time reporting and business intelligence. The cloud-based platform offers scalability, cost savings, and automation of routine tasks, enabling businesses to grow without additional infrastructure. Customer testimonials highlight significant improvements in cash flow, operational efficiency, and data-driven decision-making.
Hedstrom Fitness
"When it was spun out of Hedstrom Plastics, Hedstrom Fitness, the sole distributor of BOSU kettlebell weights, balance pods, and other gear, continued to operate on Macola through its transition. But the antiquated, legacy software didn’t provide what the new company needed. Hedstrom Fitness deployed Acumatica Distribution, streamlining processes, improving inventory accuracy, and gaining insights that are helping the company thrive. KEY RESULTS • Gained a single, easy-to-use business platform with data in one system • Improved inventory management • Reduced number of accounting support people from 6 to 2 • Streamlined and reduced time to complete inventory • Improved visibility with automated accurate reporting from customizable dashboards • Brought shipping in-house, speeding order fulfillment while decreasing times out of stock • Reduced time to look up and verify orders by more than 66 percent (5 minutes to 2 or less) • Decreased fulfillment time from 4 days to same day shipping, improving customer experience • Reduced printing and paper costs"
Calculating ERP Software ROI
Explore how businesses can achieve significant ROI by implementing a modern cloud ERP platform. Discover the importance of transitioning from entry-level accounting systems or legacy ERP platforms to modern solutions. Understand critical components to calculating the total cost of ownership (TCO) as well as the importance of setting goals, capturing benchmarks, and evaluating results. Learn from real-world examples and testimonials from over 60 small and midsized companies across various industries, showcasing the tangible and intangible benefits of ERP systems.
Assessing ERP Software TCO
A comprehensive guide for small and midsized businesses on calculating the total cost of ownership (TCO) for ERP systems. It highlights the challenges of determining TCO due to varied pricing models, infrastructure requirements, and implementation costs. Traditional ERP systems are licensed perpetually, while modern cloud ERP applications are hosted online and licensed annually, offering lower TCO by eliminating costly infrastructure and system administration. The document emphasizes the importance of understanding software pricing, implementation costs, infrastructure costs, and internal expenses. It also discusses industry-specific considerations and provides cost comparisons between perpetual on-premises and cloud SaaS deployments.
Digital Transformation and the CFO Journey
Digital transformation is crucial for organizations in today's cloud computing environment. CFOs and strategic executives leverage digital technologies to drive financial performance, enhance operational efficiency, and gain a competitive edge. This whitepaper outlines the importance of digital transformation, key areas where digital technologies deliver benefits, and guidance on a successful implementation.
Successfully Transitioning from Basic Accounting to ERP
Relying on basic accounting software can limit your business's ability to scale and operate efficiently. This guide explores how transitioning to an ERP system can transform your business and ensure a smooth and successful shift through strategic change management.
Practical AI, Powerful Results
Discover how Acumatica is revolutionizing ERP systems with practical, industry-specific AI solutions. This blog post explores how AI can transform your business operations by prioritizing security, usability, and customer success. Learn about Acumatica's strategic approach to AI, designed to solve real-world business challenges and deliver immediate value. Dive into the principles of innovation that guide Acumatica's development of transformative technologies, ensuring that AI serves a purpose beyond just technological advancement. Ready to see how AI can work for you? Read on to find out more!
How Thales is Going ‘All Smartphone’ in its Factories
Thales is pioneering digital transformation in its factories by replacing traditional PCs with smartphones and tablets through the SmartMobility project, which enhances mobility and operational efficiency while maintaining cybersecurity.
SNCF Réseau modernizes its IT management: how Inetum contributes to the implementation of ServiceNow
SNCF Réseau's transition to the ServiceNow platform through the HARMONIS project has centralized and standardized IT service management, improved data quality in its CMDB, and introduced agile methodologies, with plans to enhance user support through AI innovations like a virtual agent.
What Is ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) And How Does It Work?
This article discusses the significance of enterprise resource planning (ERP) software for businesses, emphasizing its role in integrating and streamlining various departments to enhance efficiency, data visibility, and decision-making amid common organizational challenges.
Power Your Business with Aptean
The video highlights industry-specific software solutions that enhance business operations and growth across various sectors, featuring AI capabilities for precision and adaptability.
The Impact of AI in the Food and Beverage Industry: An Expert Q&A With Benny Dor and Chad Merck
The article discusses the transformative impact of AI on the food and beverage industry, highlighting its potential to automate processes, improve decision-making, and drive sustainability, while Aptean collaborates with Microsoft to integrate AI capabilities into its ERP systems and support companies in overcoming adoption challenges.
Unlock the Next Level of Inventory Management with GS1 Standards
Consumer and regulatory pressures are driving the need for enhanced food traceability from farm to table, necessitating global standards like the Global Trade Item Number (GTIN) to fully realize the benefits of the Food Traceability Final Rule under the Food Safety Modernization Act.
From GLWand to GLSense: Transforming Financial Reporting for Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP with AI-Powered Excel Integration
As organizations shift from Oracle E-Business Suite to Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP, the migration leaves a gap in Excel-based financial reporting previously filled by GLWand, which is now addressed by Orbit GLSense, a modern reporting solution that combines intuitive Excel integration, AI-powered insights, and cloud architecture to enhance financial analysis and decision-making.
Orbit Analytics: User Demo Recap
In a video demonstration, pre-sales engineer Rick showcases Orbit’s reporting and analytics software features, highlighting report creation, sharing, visualization, and dashboard functionality using an Excel dataset.
Optimize Accounts Payables with Orbit Analytics for Oracle Fusion Cloud
Orbit Analytics enhances the management of accounts payables for businesses using Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications by providing seamless data integration, prebuilt KPIs, and real-time reporting, ultimately improving financial decision-making and supplier relationships.
Drive Success with Optimized Data Management
Effective data aggregation and management, exemplified by Orbit's user-friendly tools and comprehensive data security measures, are crucial for businesses to gain actionable insights and maintain competitive advantage in today's data-driven landscape.
Inetum UK&I Empowered an International Fashion Retailer’s Digital Transformation, Deflecting 98% of Calls
Inetum UK&I successfully assisted a major fashion retailer in transitioning from an outdated ticketing system to ServiceNow, achieving 98% automation in user conversations through Virtual Agent and providing over 500 self-serve knowledge articles, thereby boosting operational efficiency and enhancing user experience.
Building custom applications for a FTSE 100 financial services organisation
A financial services organization transformed its finance department by standardizing workflows and eliminating outdated processes, resulting in improved service quality, enhanced user experience, operational efficiency, and better visibility of status information for management.
Virtual Agent launch reduces agent interactions by 85% for top financial services firm
A financial services organization reduced person-to-person support chats by 85% and maintained pre-COVID incident levels by implementing a Virtual Agent to facilitate self-service solutions for common queries, ultimately freeing up agents to handle more complex issues and improving overall support efficiency.
Streamlined operations and increased efficiency for a fast-growing technology service provider
A technology managed service provider, having rapidly expanded through growth and acquisitions, improved customer experience and internal efficiency by unifying their service management platform, resulting in better processes, reporting, and a reduction in SLA breaches.
Unlocking Digital Impact: Inetum Redefines Transformation Through Platform Ecosystems and AI Innovation
Lightsource bp enhance end-user experience and strengthen business model
Lightsource bp, a leader in solar energy project management, upgraded to ServiceNow to enhance user experience, streamline operations, and support their rapid growth, leading to improved communication and service fulfillment across the organization.
Multiplex gains confidence in the ServiceNow Platform following health check with Inetum UK&I
Multiplex, an international construction contractor, engaged Inetum UK&I for a health check of its ServiceNow implementation to improve platform performance and ensure future upgrades won't cause issues, resulting in increased confidence and a roadmap for future enhancements.
Companies House increases collaboration and developer efficiency by integrating ServiceNow and Jira with Inetum UK&I
Companies House collaborated with Inetum UK&I to enhance their Change and Problem processes by successfully integrating Jira with ServiceNow, resulting in improved efficiency, streamlined communications between teams, and reduced reliance on external development expertise within just 10 days.