We’ve already covered what businesses need to know about enterprise content management (ECM), so now it’s time to move on to another popular business tool: enterprise resource planning (ERP). ERP is business process management software -- typically consisting of a suite of integrated applications -- that allows an organization to manage its entire business and automate many back-office functions. It is designed to be used by larger enterprises -- often requiring dedicated teams to customize and analyze the data -- and integrates various facets of an operation, including sales and marketing, product planning, manufacturing and inventory management, making sure everything… [Continue Reading]
Thanks to the likes of smartphones, the internet and big data, we now have access to more information in various shapes and sizes than ever before. In most cases, having more information is a good thing for businesses, but there comes a point where there is simply too much to keep track of. This is especially true in large enterprises, where invoices, word documents, receipts and purchase orders are in abundance and could be needed by anyone at any time. Keeping on top of all of this would be a challenge for even the most organized individuals, so that’s where… [Continue Reading]
The term DevOps is being thrown around a lot in the IT industry at the moment, but what exactly does it mean and, more importantly, how can it help an enterprise? As a combination of developer and operations, DevOps looks to bring these two different areas of digital business together to provide the perfect combination of innovation and user-focused processes during software development. Continuous deployment and continuous delivery are both important aspects of this and, when adopting DevOps, it is vitally important that businesses assess which one is right for them. It also looks towards the automation of delivering changes to… [Continue Reading]