Tag Archives: Integration

Trust, Responsibility, Competitive Advantages and NetSuite

By Marty Zigman | Published April 14, 2010

Marty Zigman speaks about trust and responsibility as key factors to drive growth and the role that business systems play in helping organizations conscientiously act to expand revenue while lowering costs. It is not obvious and those that understand it enjoy significant competitive advantages. NetSuite is one platform for the few that “get it”.

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Innovation, Testing, and Fully-Integrated Systems

By Marty Zigman | Published March 18, 2010

The standards for being competitive are rising as organizations innovate and test their speculations with greater precision and frequency. Fundamentally, this competitive practice can be gained at a fraction of the cost through adoption of fully-integrated systems.

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Best-of-Breed Business Systems: Traps & Lies

By Marty Zigman | Published January 26, 2010

Be skeptical. The Best-of-Breed appeal obscures the challenges and lost opportunities afforded in a fully-integrated business management software suite. This article discusses important concerns that are often missed in selecting business systems such as Salesforce.com CRM, Microsoft Great Plains, and Magento eCommerce.

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Developing Brand Awareness through Outlook and NetSuite

By Marty Zigman | Published December 9, 2009

Are you looking to leverage Outlook to produce branded email messages? I discuss a closed loop practice that leverages Outlook, NetSuite, and blog technology.

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Is Single Instance ERP Losing Momentum?

By Marty Zigman | Published November 29, 2009

There is some talk in the marketplace about people moving away from the single instance utopia offered by most fully-integrated business system platforms. In this post, I talk about some of the costs that should be considered when thinking about going with best-of-breed systems.

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Integration is Primary Obstacle to Advanced Personalized Marketing

By Marty Zigman | Published November 27, 2009

I just completed reading a research paper by the Aberdeen Group titled “Next Generation Web Content Management”.  It confirmed what we have been saying for some time now, “Integration is ultimately what is necessary to scale and produce competitive advantages in marketing”.
The study confirmed that companies that are able to deliver personalized web content (this [...]

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MRP based Manufacturing in the Cloud

By Marty Zigman | Published November 9, 2009

With Rootstock Software and NetSuite, the vision to bring Manufacturing to the Cloud is now a reality.

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SharePoint SSL Integration Challenge with SQL 2008 Report Services

By Marty Zigman | Published October 7, 2009

(note: for the solution to this challenge, please read this article)
This one is a challenge.  We are so close yet so far.  This is a follow up to this article SQL Date Error article as we wanted to go with a clean installation.
What we are trying to do is provide a secured Internet enabled SharePoint [...]

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Voice Enabled NetSuite

By Marty Zigman | Published April 22, 2009

NetSuite can now be updated using any phone. We have developed a demonstration of two scenarios that illustrates the power of voice-enabled business management systems.

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