by Gene Hammons | Jun 1, 2012 | ERP, Profitization, Software Selection
2020 Editors Note: Early summer, 2012, Facebook went through an IPO (Initial Public Stock Offering) and the stock failed to sell for the target price. At the time, Facebook hadn’t really hit upon a way to create regular ‘revenue’ and was mostly cat...
by Gene Hammons | Apr 14, 2012 | ERP, Food & Beverage, Software Selection
Don’t know if it’s time to strike up the band and belt out Happy Days are Here again at CDC Software – but the last few week’s news can only be positive. Back in August of last year I’d written some observations under the headline...
by Gene Hammons | Aug 22, 2011 | ERP, Implementation, Software Selection
Editor’s note: The following post was published in 2011 – an upcoming book manuscript was in the editing process but had to be scrapped in early 2012, since the book basically said ‘financial information in the cloud will never catch on’ and...
by Gene Hammons | Dec 6, 2007 | ERP, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Software Selection, Uncategorized
“We can’t afford to save 36 jobs and an $8m Company!” They didn’t use those words, but that’s what they said. The Partners Snoburst Bottling is the story of two partners, Jim* the Entrepreneur and Stuart* the Accountant. Jim’s...
by Gene Hammons | Jun 14, 2007 | ERP, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Software Selection
UPDATE: This 2007 Article predated our current drive to AI (Artificial Intelligence) and reliance on Big Data or BI (Business Intelligence) but caught the trend as it emerged and has served as the basic theory behind the monetization of data – or how exactly do...
by Gene Hammons | May 2, 2006 | ERP, Software Selection
This article ran in several business publications in 2006 and was updated for the Profit From ERP website in 2014 – since the theories and principles still fully apply – Ed. The goal of a software evaluation is to gather the available data and come up with...
