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Cloud vs On-Prem ERP in 2025: A TCO Model CFOs Can Trust
By Nathan Rowan | Nov 14 2025
Why TCO for ERP Is Harder Than It Looks Choosing between cloud and on-prem ERP isn’t just about subscription versus perpetual licenses. Hidden costs lurk in infrastructure, upgrades, integrations, security, support, downtime, and talent. A ... Read More
Build an ERP Center of Excellence: The Operating Model for Scale
By Nathan Rowan | Nov 14 2025
Why You Need an ERP Center of Excellence In many organizations, ERP starts as a project and quietly turns into a permanent “cost of doing business.” Requests pile up in email, quick fixes accumulate, and ... Read More
Master Data That Doesn’t Melt Down: An ERP Governance Playbook
By Nathan Rowan | Nov 13 2025
Why ERP Master Data Keeps Falling Apart ERP is only as good as its master data. Duplicate vendors cause overpayments, messy item masters complicate planning, and inconsistent customer records skew reporting. Many organizations attempt a ... Read More
When IoT Meets ERP: Predictive Maintenance that Actually Lowers Cost
By Nathan Rowan | Nov 13 2025
From Reactive to Predictive: Why Maintenance Needs a Rethink Unplanned downtime is one of the most expensive surprises in asset-intensive industries. Traditional maintenance strategies either wait for things to break (reactive) or service equipment on ... Read More
CI/CD for ERP: How to Ship Changes Fast Without Breaking Finance
By Nathan Rowan | Nov 13 2025
Traditional ERP change cycles look like this: big bang projects, long freezes before quarter-end, and tense cutovers where everyone prays the GL still balances. As ERPs move to the cloud and become more tightly integrated ... Read More
Subscription & Usage Billing in ERP: ASC 606 Without the Headaches
By Nathan Rowan | Nov 13 2025
Why Recurring Revenue Breaks Legacy ERP Subscriptions, ramps, and usage blur the line between order, delivery, and revenue. ERP needs tight integration between contracts, billing, and rev rec to avoid spreadsheets and surprises. Architecting Contracts ... Read More
Two-Tier ERP: How HQ and Subsidiaries Share Control Without Killing Agility
By Nathan Rowan | Nov 13 2025
When Two-Tier Beats One-Size-Fits-All Global companies need standardization and speed. A two-tier ERP strategy keeps a hardened core at HQ (finance, consolidation, tax) while subsidiaries deploy lighter systems optimized for local markets. Data and Process ... Read More
Zero Trust for ERP: Lock Down Your Crown Jewels Without Slowing the Business
By Nathan Rowan | Nov 13 2025
Why ERP Needs Zero Trust ERP holds pricing, payroll, suppliers, and cash. Perimeter firewalls aren’t enough. Zero trust assumes breach and verifies every user, device, and request. Done right, it reduces fraud and data loss ... Read More
Process Mining + ERP: Cut Cycle Time, Boost Adoption, and De-Risk Go-Lives
By Nathan Rowan | Nov 13 2025
Why Process Mining Belongs in Every ERP Program ERP projects stall when teams debate how work should happen instead of how it does. Process mining turns ERP event logs into flow maps—revealing rework loops, shadow ... Read More
CSRD-Ready ERP: Turning ESG Reporting into a Real-Time Operational System
By Nathan Rowan | Nov 13 2025
Why ESG Now Belongs Inside ERP Environmental, Social and Governance reporting went from annual PDF to a regulated, auditable discipline. The Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) pushes enterprises toward granular, verifiable data. That data—energy, waste, ... Read More