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A Brief Overview of EDI Integration with Acumatica

Manually handling and processing documents such as invoices is a costly affair, and the bigger your company, the more those costs add up—not just the monetary cost, but the time it takes to manually process them and the risk of manual transmission errors as well.  Electronic data interchange (EDI) is…
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Systems Health Checks: Microsoft Dynamics Application Environment

This blog, originally written by Lisa Shechter, Team Leader for Enavate, is being reprinted with permission.  The words popularized by T. Bert Lance, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” definitely do NOT apply to your software application environment. As with any big investment, maintenance is key to performance. Follow…
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Forrester’s Case for Microsoft Dynamics 365 and the Cloud: 60% ROI

This blog was written by Robert Ruppert, Regional Sales Manager for Enavate, and reprinted with permission. Leading technology research firm Forrester recently interviewed seven Microsoft Dynamics 365 customers that implemented the cloud-based ERP to replace aging, siloed ERP systems that offered bad user experiences. As in most cases, the decision to…
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If Your ERP Isn’t Keeping Up, Your Operations Are At Risk

This blog was written by Patric Timmermans, Head of Marketing for Enavate. Ben Franklin famously said the only certainties in life are death and taxes. If the founding father were alive now, he might add one more item to that list:  You will eventually have to update your ERP solution. And when you do, you need to migrate to the…
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Dashboard Dreams

Our company serves supply chain clients who operate their own on premises systems for handling EDI activity as well as clients who rely on our managed services for handling some or all such B2B activity. We’ve been exploring how best to leverage the latest technology to deliver useful, actionable information…
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Change in EDI is the Only Constant

Photo appears courtesy of Gabriel Villena. The only thing that is constant in EDI is change.  Coming up on 30 years in EDI we’re observing lots of change in our customer’s EDI. Companies are moving to new VAN or adopting AS2 after sometimes decades on one of the older VANS. Along…
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Why Your EDI Processes Should Be Automated

Photo appears courtesy of Phill Dolby. We spend a lot of time each summer trying to streamline and automate as many of our processes and procedures as we can.  It saves time and, if done correctly, makes our data more accurate and timely.  Taking the time to do this is…
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Why We Love Liaison’s Delta/ECS Data Integration Package

Photo appears courtesy of Tony Hisgett. Nowadays, there’s all kinds of products that have multiple uses.  My new favorite kitchen gadget is a flexible spatula/spoon sometimes known as a spoonula, that scraps, stirs, flips and is heat resistant.  Not any ordinary spoon from the dollar store, you need to pay…
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Are Your EDI Maps Made of Straw, Wood or Brick?

Over the years as EDI consultants, we have done modifications to many maps-ones we created and ones created by others. We have seen a great variety of maps, from well thought out and well constructed to “what were they thinking!” Once an EDI map is written, tested, and in production it should run with…
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Common Misconceptions about On-Premise EDI Software

Photo appears courtesy of William Warby.  I have a customer using a web-based EDI solution and they are just too big for it.  They are currently weighing their options.  But it got me thinking, how many organizations are out there using a solution that is really not working for them?  Reasons why…
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Think You’re Ready for Data Integration? Take this Quiz

Photo appears courtesy of Rhonda Oglesby.  As I have said many times, in many blogs – if you’re processing more than 20 transactions per day then you should be integrated.  There are other considerations however when you’re thinking of pursuing an integration solution.  Take this short quiz to find out if you’re…
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GraceBlood’s Best Practices for Integration

Photo appears courtesy of Social Innovation Camp.  We have offered a lot of advice about integration over the two and a half years that we have been blogging.  Rather than make you look for those pearls of wisdom, we thought it would be nice to create a handy digest for data integration best…
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