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News and information about Skyytek and the enterprise software industry.

Monday
Feb132012

Why we left CapsuleCRM ? Not personal just business !

Six months ago we decided to move one of our business units ( that deals with e-Learning ) from ZohoCRM to CapsuleCRM. We were excited

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Monday
Feb132012

The NetSuite Workflow Builder Module - THE tool for implementation teams

In 2011 we have seen an uptick in customers that want to customize their NetSuite ERP deployment. More specifically around workflow actions.

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Wednesday
Feb082012

Using CRM in your NetSuite account after ERP has been deployed

Some NetSuite customers have deployed financials and order management in NetSuite but never bothered deploying the CRM part to manage sales and support processes.

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Wednesday
Aug242011

SugarCRM with a social touch. CRM for consumers ?

SugarCRM is a commercial open source product that is available as a software as a service cloud offering.

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Tuesday
Aug162011

Has NetSuite got the best channel environment for SaaS enterprise software?

NetSuite has had a successful channel since near inception. It is well thought out and has developed significantly over recent times. From 2003-2008 Skyytek was involved in the NetSuite channel as a solution provider; selling subscriptions to customers. Over the last six months we have looked at several SaaS ERP offerings with a view to selling subscriptions to compliment our SaaS enterprise consulting initiatives.

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Friday
Jul292011

Is Google Plus useful for the enterprise today? short and sweet!

We are going to keep this short and sweet. The invite only Google Plus social platform has been around for a month or so. It has created a firestorm. It is not officially available for the enterprise until later this year.

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Wednesday
Jul202011

Rip and replace social media. Rip and replace ERP. Rip and replace CRM. The same?

Something dawned on me today while I was messing around with GooglePlus (G+), the new social initiative by Google aimed along the lines of a Facebook/Twitter/LinkedIn thing. I FELT FREE!.

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Thursday
May052011

Careerminds, a Skyytek customer, receives $1.3M in funding - for outplacement?

We are definitely becoming a nation of change in tech. Now it is hitting the outplacement industry. The outplacement industry is a traditional industry that deals with servicing displaced employees of companies during their career transition by providing services to assist these employees to get back to work.

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Wednesday
Apr272011

#CFO fraud. Is it on the rise in #SMB's? Who is to blame?

A bit off topic here - but never-the-less, something we feel we need to address since we are involved in Management Consulting and ERP deployment. So, we have come across two cases in the last few months involving our customers where CFO's have been linked (and in one case imprisoned) to fraud schemes that are relatively massive in nature considering the customers revenues.

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Wednesday
Apr272011

Cloud Line of Business Solutions versus All-in-One #ERP?

With web 2.0 apps coming out every day to run aspects of your business - this begs the question: Do I choose line of business (LoB) solutions or bite the bullet and try to find a all-in-one solution that can run at least 80% of my entire business?

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Thursday
Apr142011

Cloud ERP - Is Microsoft Just Confusing Everybody?

With the recent announcement that Microsoft is moving its ERP (Dynamics) solution to the cloud - what exactly does that mean?

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Tuesday
Apr122011

Are consulting companies changing fast enough in a cloud web 2.0 world?

With the proliferation of many feature-rich on-demand CRM/ERP solutions on to the market place and emergence of modern “social” enterprise applications to make your corporate life more efficient – We ask why has the consulting industry not really adapted ?

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Thursday
Mar032011

SAP Business ByDesign - Partner Summit 2011 - What went on?

Skyytek attended its first SAP Partner Summit in Savannah, GA this past weekend and we walked away very impressed with this gathering.

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Friday
Feb252011

SAP Business ByDesign - Adding Color to the In-built Solution Configurator

Dennis Howlett ( @dahowlett ), a popular SaaS ERP writer, recently posted SAP Business ByDesign - An update. In this great SAP Business ByDesign article he touches on a couple of things...

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Friday
Jan282011

Some traditional ERP consultants and developers confused about the concepts of SAP Business ByDesign 2.6 and its new SDK?

Since becoming an SAP Business ByDesign (SAP ByD) partner, Skyytek (a company that has been deploying SaaS ERP solutions since 2003) has had the opportunity to interact with many third-party SAP developers, consultants, and business process people.

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Thursday
Jan202011

SAP Field Services Kick-off Meeting 2011 ( FKOM ), Las Vegas - A partners perspective

The purpose of SAP's FKOM for SAP Business ByDesign is for field sales to gain focus on missions that are expected of them in the upcoming year; also giving them a chance to collaborate amongst their peers and senior management.

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Tuesday
Jan182011

Is 2011 the year of SAP Business ByDesign for SMB's ? - We think so!

After general release during the mid part of 2010 and the subsequent hiring of a quality partners in Q4 2010 ( including Skyytek !) - SAP Business ByDesign, an on-demand ERP offering for the SMB space, seems poised to take 2011 by storm.

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Thursday
Dec232010

SAP Business ByDesign - eCommerce to Sales Order to Delivery and to Cash

This cute video shows how Paul is in desperate need to get his girlfriend a present for her birthday. Paul shops online and SAP Business ByDesign is used to fulfil his urgent request for a music player.

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Friday
Dec172010

SAP Business ByDesign - InformationWeek article and pending detailed report by Accman @dahowlett

Jeff Greenbaum of InformationWeek who attended the SAP Analyst Summit did a report on SAP Business ByDesign prospects in the new SaaS ERP world. He goes on to say:

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Wednesday
Dec152010

Skyytek actively selling SAP Business ByDesign - Its real - We have sold it!

Referring to our recent partnership announcement with SAP for selling and deploying SAP Business ByDesign; a cloud-based ERP offering aimed at smaller companies.

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