7 steps to a connected enterprise
Considering integrating your systems?
Here’s what you need to know for a seamless integration.
Modern businesses today are presented with an array of choices when it comes to applications specifically designed to help with different functions of a business.
For Sales, CRM choices range from Salesforce.com and Maximizer to Zoho and Copper; for Accounting and Finance, the time-tested Microsoft Dynamics (Great Plains), Sage, or the more audience-targeted FinancialForce and QuickBooks. If your organization happens to be in manufacturing and services, or has the fortune to achieve enterprise stage, then you are faced with a variety of ERP, PSA, ATS, CMS, and HRMS.
While this is a blessing of our age that businesses from corner shops to global giants have choices for each area of need, an entirely new challenge has presented itself to the modern decision-maker: How do you integrate all of your business functions and systems to work together to achieve specific business goals, while maintaining cost-effectiveness?
It often surprises the decision makers when we start to count the number of applications that run a small operation – a business uses on average a minimum of 12 applications to function, and upwards of 1000 at the global enterprise level.
Over the years, we’ve worked with organizations big and small to create a seamlessly integrated operation and we’ve come to rely on these seven key steps when preparing to integrate your systems.
