Outgrown your Old Accounting or ERP System? DGG Can Help!
If your business is using an old system, whether it's DOS, QuickBooks, an in-house custom developed system, or an AS/400, your data can be migrated. Data Guidance Group specializes in smooth data migration and our process for
Legacy System Migration makes your job easier.
Efficient and cost-effective transfer of your data is possible, particularly if you are using a database-based software solution. Data Guidance Group has developed expertise and software tools to assist you in moving to a solution that better suits your business needs
Give us a ring if you would like to discuss your situation. You might also want a copy of our
Guide to Selecting Business Software. Get your copy emailed now.
How To Select Business Software
Sometimes businesses decide that they've outgrown their business software, or that their business software is not working for them any longer. Data Guidance Group helps businesses select and implement the right ERP software for them. If you're thinking about new software, get a copy of the DGG
Guide To Selecting Business Software. It's designed for companies selecting manufacturing, distribution, warehousing, ERP, or accounting software.
Our clients tell us this is one of the most helpful resources they can find. It helps them consider all the options effectively and ask the right questions. But it doesn't champion any particular solution. Data Guidance Group believes that successful ERP software implementations begin with being sure that the software selected is the right software.
We have also collected some research that you might want to review on the
Top 10 Accounting and ERP software packages.
How To Drive More Profit Through Technology ROI
Many small and mid-sized businesses look at technology as a tool to solve problems. Technology is often good at solving problems like inaccurate inventory, inefficiency in warehouses, invoicing, accurately calculating costs of contracts, tracking fixed assets, and so forth.
ERP software can also be a strategic tool to move a business forward. How? By ennabling measurement and better management of existing resources, and by making growth possible.
Here's an example: one of our clients told us that their salespeople spent 40% of their time checking inventory (on paper or in the warehouse) because their current system wasn't "real time." By implementing a system that kept all of this information current, they freed half of this time (20% of the salespeople's time). What is the chance of getting an increase in sales from this change? Pretty good, I'd say!
Other businesses have saved significant amounts by reducing warehouse errors, implementing automated order systems (EDI), and improving sales and marketing by collecting hard dollars to base decisions on.
You might miss these opportunites just because you don't know they are there!
Give us a call or drop us a line; we'd love to see if we can help.
Drive Technology Decisions With Strategy
Business tends to drive technology decisions with
operations. Unfortunately, this results in investing in the wrong technologies to move the business forward. Often, businesses that make decisions this way wind up spending technology dollars on tools that simply automate what they are already doing.
One way to improve this is to focus first on process, then on technology. Another way is to drive technology investment with strategy. This often means reallocation of resources in a more effective direction.
If you're interested in learning more, Bob Palmer's book
On-Target Technology provides a pragmatic introduction to strategy and technology. In addition, DGG's podcast
ceoTechCast often discusses this topic.