The use of too many communication channels can actually hinder collaboration. That’s why many organizations are now moving toward a single interface for all business communications. “Enterprises realize they must improve the communication and collaboration experience but are still figuring out how social media integrates within corporate culture and business process.” This Yankee Group white paper explores how built-for-business social […]

MGI Research has just awarded Aria Systems with its highest ranking among cloud billing companies, in the 2015 MGI 360 Ratings. According to the MGI 360 Rating, customers cite Aria’s exceptional capabilities in managing complex billing requirements across corporate hierarchies, geographies, currencies, and billing modalities. The rating also notes “Customer satisfaction is high, in part due to the flexibility of […]

The funny thing about geeks is they like to work. The trick is to create an environment where technical professionals can let their natural motivation thrive and avoid demotivating them. This brief guide by Paul Glen, CEO of Leading Geeks, explains how to achieve these two critical goals when managing IT pros and other technical staff. (And yes, free food […]

A new generation of Industrial Distributors is defying convention. Rather than buying into the traditional rule book—scaling back investments during challenging economic times— innovative distributors see the upside. Leveraging technology and innovative approaches, a new generation of management writes new rules for the sector, extending their business models to gain market share.

As a distributor of goods in today’s challenging economy, you face increasingly global competition, growing complexity of supply chains and trade regulations, and continued volatility of oil prices impacting transportation cost. And to top it off, you most likely operate on razor thin margins. World Class Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implementations have been shown to address these challenges and produce […]

The talent gap and the technology divide are both widening, while global economic uncertainty and other supply chain disruptions are still looming. Is your distribution business positioning itself to face these and other challenges in 2015? Download this new benchmark report, based on a survey of nearly 200 distribution businesses by Modern Distribution Management in partnership with NetSuite. Get deep […]

Big Data analytics, mobile technologies, and cloud computing all can help finance move beyond number-crunching. Once they master these and other innovations, finance executives expect that they will be in a good position to improve the speed and depth of fact-based decision making at their companies — which, in turn, will drive their businesses forward in an increasingly complex, competitive, […]

Finance leaders have been talking about expanding the value-added role of their teams for a long time. The debate is no longer whether the finance and accounting function needs to become a more strategic partner to the rest of the business but rather how to get there. Technology innovation has caught up to this ambition, and what was once aspiration […]