Guides
What we would tell you if you were not a prospect
Choosing business software badly is expensive and largely avoidable. These guides set out how the decision actually works - what things cost, what goes wrong, and which questions separate a supplier who has done this before from one who has not. No email gate and no download form.
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- 30 July 202613 min read
ERP implementation: how to do it without losing a year
A realistic account of what implementation involves, where projects go wrong, and how to sequence the work so the business keeps running.Read the guide - 16 July 202612 min read
How to choose an ERP system: a practical checklist
How to run a selection that produces a decision you can defend - the questions to ask, the demonstrations to insist on, and the answers that should worry you.Read the guide - 2 July 202611 min read
What an ERP system actually costs in the UK
The pricing models, the costs that are not on the quote, and how to build a total figure you can take to a board without embarrassment.Read the guide - 25 June 20268 min read
ERP vs accounting software: where the line actually is
What accounting packages do well, what they were never built for, and why keeping yours is usually the right decision.Read the guide - 18 June 20269 min read
Signs you have outgrown spreadsheets and your accounts package
How to tell the difference between a business that is busy and a business whose systems have stopped keeping up - and what to do about it.Read the guide
Why these exist
We would rather you bought the right thing
A badly chosen system is not a neutral outcome for us. The businesses that end up unhappy with ERP software rarely bought a bad product - they bought a reasonable product for a problem they had not defined, from a supplier who was happy not to ask.
If these guides talk you out of buying anything this year, they have done their job.
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