Selecting Business Software

Maybe the time is right for new Business Management Software. So what's next?

The following articles can provide important guidance for you in making the right decisions and managing the process successfully. These articles are educational in nature. The information provided is important and will serve you well whether SAP Business One is your ultimate software choice or not.

How Technology Can Help You Expand Your Business

With the right business management software, you can integrate your business, improve customer service, make more-informed business decisions, and move into online sales... Learn More

How to Select the Right Business Management Software

Business management software connects and automates daily tasks and provides clear visibility into business operations. It’s usually a single application, and it can increase productivity, efficiency, and collaboration. It typically leads to decreased operating costs and simplified business processes, including audit trails for regulatory compliance mandates. But a successful business management software project is more than finding the "right software"... Learn More

ROI--What Does it Really Mean?

Will the purchase of new software be cost effective? Return on investment, or ROI, is a technique that helps you understand the benefits your business can obtain from a specific technology purchase. It can show you how long it will take you to see tangible, positive results from your investment. There’s no standard means of measuring ROI; results depend on your specific goals and the benefits you’re trying to achieve... Learn More

Top Five Reasons Software Implementation Projects Succeed

How can I insure that our software implementation project is successful? If you implement it the right way, you can see the benefits from your new software faster and avoid some common implementation challenges, such as expanding budgets and timelines. Here are some key factors to ensuring a successful implementation... Learn More

Maybe the time is right for new Business Management Software. So what next? SAP, the leader in Enterprise wide software, may be able to help.

With the right business management software, you can integrate your business, improve customer service, make more-informed business decisions, and move into online sales... Learn More

Business management software connects and automates daily tasks and provides clear visibility into business operations. It’s usually a single application, and it can increase productivity, efficiency, and collaboration. It typically leads to decreased operating costs and simplified business processes, including audit trails for

regulatory compliance mandates... Learn More

Will the purchase of new software be cost effective? Return on investment, or ROI, is a technique that helps you understand the benefits your business can obtain from a specific technology purchase. It can show you how long it will take you to see tangible, positive results from your investment. There’s no standard means of measuring ROI; results depend on your specific goals and the benefits you’re trying to achieve... Learn More

How can I insure that our software implementation project is successful? And if you implement it the right way, you can see the benefits from your new software faster and avoid some common implementation challenges, such as expanding budgets and timelines. Here are some key factors to ensuring a successful implementation... Learn More

Making tough decisions easier

At Carolina Cipher, we have talked with many business executives about their companies and their business management software needs. Each of these executives has made decisions regarding whether to invest in a new information system at all, and if so which software to choose out of many possibilities.

It is a complex decision whose importance cannot be overstated. Bad decisions are easy but will become very costly. Good decisions require more effort but will repay the investment many times over. Some considerations to think about include:

Have you taken a good look at both the company who has created the software and the company who will help you implement it? You need to be comfortable with both. Look for strength, stability and longevity.
Have you educated yourself regarding the many ways that today's business management software can become the key to making your company great?
Have you done a careful needs analysis of what business management software tools your employees and your executives need to do their jobs better and more productively?
Avoid the trap of purchasing software that is so limiting that you will suffer through perhaps years of inadequacy only to end up replacing it with yet another conversion to something better.