In manufacturing, managing a global supply chain requires a proactive and agile approach. Market factors force supply chain changes that manufacturers must quickly overcome or run the risk that the entire delicate infrastructure will fail.

If you run a small business, new software may be the last thing on your mind. Perhaps you’re more worried about finding better employees or increasing cash flow. Maybe your A/R is too high or there’s a supply chain issue holding you back. We know that small business owners have all kinds of worries.

Salesforce vs. Dynamics: In a review of the top CRM tools, it’s usually these two behemoths that go head-to-head when enterprise organizations consider new sales and marketing software.

Healthcare is increasingly driven by value. Under the influence of our digital devices, healthcare consumers are increasingly aware that they have choices in services. Whether it’s seeking help at a minute clinic or urgent care, traveling to the ER, or seeing a family practice doctor, most consumers know there is a plethora of resources at their fingertips

2019 has been the year that enterprise organizations finally moved to the cloud. TechRepublic reports that nearly 70% of enterprise organizations moved data to an off-premise data server this year. This encroachment by cloud vendors into the formerly on-premise space has led many software companies to add cloud software options to previously installation-only software.

The old Dynamics CRM received an upgrade in 2016 to the new rebranded Dynamics 365. The new platform combined the existing customer relationship management (CRM) software with Microsoft’s enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform and a full suite of tools covering finance, marketing, sales, operations, and more. The goal of the upgrade was to eliminate the silos between these departments in a repacking of some of the Dynamic suite of products into one integrated whole.

2020 may be a breakthrough year for AI in business. As you probably know, AI stands for artificial intelligence, a concept that has been around for more than 50-years. While true AI (sci-fi movie style) isn’t here quite yet, it’s also used to refer to for computer algorithms that are making our lives a lot easier. You’ll find AI tools all around us, from the natural language processing that lives in your smartphone to the machine learning programs that help your Alexa respond to your request.

Markets are increasingly competitive, but software can help sales teams more effectively influence the buyer journey and close more deals. Customer service teams can leverage that same software to improve the client experience and increase their retention over the long term.

Everyone is moving to the cloud. Right Scale released their annual state of the cloud survey, where they polled IT professionals on their use of cloud services for infrastructure, platform, data storage, software, and more. Their survey found 2018 to be the year of the cloud for even the most reluctant and slow to switch enterprise organizations:

Having the right tool within your organization makes all the difference, especially with many teams having members working in disparate locations. The distance can make collaborating on high-priority projects a challenge. It’s the reason so many software-as-a-service SaaS providers felt the impetus to step up to the plate, developing quality document storage and collaboration tools that help teams get work done.