7 ways to ensure a successful cloud ERP implementation
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White, director of IT at ACG Materials, a mining and mineral producer, said: "The better an organization understands the processes and requirements it generates, the better it can guide the design and implementation of its ERP instance and thus ensure success.FinancialForces Lagan said: "The most successful firms are those that rapidly adopt industry best practices versus trying to customize an ERP system in every way possible to match the way theyve historically done business.Robin Wishart, director of corporate support for the city, settled on a cloud ERP service from Unit4, in part because it required no customization to work with existing business processes."Customization traps you in the pain cycle where you just go in a huge circle of regression testing, fixing issues, finding incompatible underlying software structures and repeating the entire process," Wishart said.Cloud ERP implementations include tools for extracting and posting data, but this is not always easy to scale or customize, said Sashi Narahari, CEO at HighRadius, an accounts receivable software provider.