Author Archives: Tony Chiodo

Tips, Tricks & Tutorials: Import Mass Updates into Number Changers & Search Select Advanced Fields

Video tips, tricks and tutorials help you become more productive with your Sage 300 ERP (formerly Sage ERP Accpac) and Sage CRM systems. Featured this month: View our Entire Video Learning Library Adobe Flash Player is required Import Mass Updates … Continue reading

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The Role CRM Plays in Your Social Media Marketing Plan

Generally today the first place someone turns to for information about your company is the internet, where they find all sorts of data, good and bad, warranted and unwarranted. The web provides a forum for every single person to voice … Continue reading

Posted in Customer Relations Management (CRM), June 2012, Newsletter | Leave a comment

Procedure for determining if any of the database tables are locked in Microsoft SQL

Every so often, operations you perform can cause databases to have locking or blocking problems or an environment issue can cause a database table locking to occur, preventing other users from accessing or writing data to the table. Locking and … Continue reading

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Tips, Tricks & Tutorials: Sage Business Intelligence Report Designer & E-Marketing Campaign Setup

Video tips, tricks and tutorials help you become more productive with your Sage 300 ERP (formerly Sage ERP Accpac) and Sage CRM systems. Featured this month: View our Entire Video Learning Library Adobe Flash Player is required Introduction to the … Continue reading

Posted in CRM Videos, Customer Relations Management (CRM), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), ERP Videos, May 2012, Newsletter, Tips & Tricks Videos | Leave a comment

The Importance of Customer Data

The ability to manage information is playing an increasingly central role in competitive strategy.  In most industries, companies can no longer achieve sustainable competitive differentiation simply on the basis of the performance characteristics of their products alone.  The pace of … Continue reading

Posted in Customer Relations Management (CRM), May 2012, Newsletter | Leave a comment

ERP: “The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated” Why you may want to revisit your implementation

So said Mark Twain after hearing his obituary had been published in the New York Journal. Is ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) facing the same instance of misreporting, when we read that traditional implementations have run their course? If you track … Continue reading

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Business Intelligence Can Unlock the Secrets of your Organizational DNA

For decades, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software has provided organizations with essential integration of information between business functions, allowing for a single repository of data from a variety of applications. ERP serves as the circulatory system for your organization, keeping … Continue reading

Posted in Business Intelligence (BI), May 2012, Newsletter | Leave a comment

How to Find the Right Sales Tax and Use Tax Solution for Your Business

The market for sales and use tax solutions is harder to navigate than Times Square on New Year’s Eve. With all of the flashing lights, glitzy billboards, and noisy street vendors, it’s almost impossible to separate fact from fiction. On … Continue reading

Posted in April 2012, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Newsletter | Leave a comment

Key Ways to Advance Your Company’s Talent Management Strategy

Savvy leaders realize the importance of developing their internal bench strength today to competitively address the organizational demands of tomorrow. In reality, identifying and adopting the ideal components needed to support an integrated performance and learning management process is complex … Continue reading

Posted in April 2012, Human Resources (HR), Newsletter | Leave a comment

Five Ways ERP Solutions Increase Business Agility

Business agility is the ability for a business to be able to rapidly make informed decisions in order to react quickly and cost effectively to changes in their environment. In previous decades, business agility was a “nice to have” function, … Continue reading

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