September 17, 2020 – Visionet Systems hosted live webinar “Doing It Right – The Cloud Native Way”. The event focused on getting a better understanding of cloud native – the latest trend in cloud computing – and how enterprises can realize its many benefits.
To ensure smooth, disruption-free operations, businesses must satisfy many requirements, including the personal health and safety of their workforce, electricity for their employees to use, and tools for consistent, reliable internal and external communication. If any of these most fundamental prerequisites is upset in some way, it could result in downtime for one or more of your organization’s offices.
Global commerce is severely affected by the disruption caused by the COVID-19 outbreak. This global health and socioeconomic crisis is spreading at an alarming rate, making the health safety of your workforce and other people a top priority. Business disruption is so widespread that it might affect your onsite workforce and outsourcing provider in similar ways. Many businesses have asked their employees to stay at home, but most of them aren’t equipped to allow their employees to work from home.
The COVID-19 outbreak has had a serious impact on global commerce. Many workers have been asked to stay home, most of whom aren’t fully equipped to work from home. Supply chains have been disrupted across most markets. Operational disruption and loss of business opportunities has shifted many organizations’ focus to cost control.
Distribution-intensive businesses like fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) must deal with millions of retailers spread across the length and breadth of the country. This becomes especially challenging in the case of new product launches in the FMCG industry; almost 85% of FMCG product launches fail.
Dynamics 365 Finance, Supply Chain Management, and Commerce combine to form a seamless ERP platform that unifies and streamlines your business processes. Dynamics 365’s comprehensive, modular design lets you add specialized capabilities like field service and talent management to these core ERP components as your needs change. Despite this extensibility, however, you might need features that fall outside the scope of Dynamics 365 ERP.
Businesses are collecting and using data about their sales, supply chain, financials, and operations at an unprecedented pace. As the Internet of Things continues to accelerate data collection, reporting solutions built into ERP platforms might struggle to keep up with the demands of these increasingly data-driven organizations.
Here are some important differences between built-in ERP reporting solutions and their more advanced standalone counterparts:
Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is a $1B technology industry that is growing at a rate of 63 percent per year. The top three software contenders, UiPath, Automation Anywhere, and Blue Prism each received investments of over $500M from investment funds in 2019. These companies have used those funds to deliver sophisticated technical capabilities to customers, and they are poised to deliver even higher-caliber solutions in 2020.
All three RPA vendors are now delivering four distinct capabilities that customers are demanding:
Digital transformation is both a key challenge and a fecund opportunity for businesses today. Businesses that are still waiting to embark on their transformation journey will soon depend on doing so for their very survival. Since the turn of the century, 52 percent of Fortune 500 companies have either declared bankruptcy, ceased operations, or been acquired by other companies due to a lack of digital transformation.
Winston owns and operates Winston’s Wristwatch Warehouse, a successful chain of stores dedicated to things that tick. They offer tens of thousands of high-end and mid-range watches from hundreds of international vendors. While Winston’s brand has been running like clockwork for years, he has noticed that several local competitors have begun to challenge his business. These rival watch merchants are now cutting into Winston’s share of the market.
How can Winston help his business prevail without sacrificing the quality and customer service that earned him his reputation?