{"id":9689,"date":"2015-11-13T14:09:42","date_gmt":"2015-11-13T20:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/?p=9689"},"modified":"2022-11-22T16:04:02","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T22:04:02","slug":"weekly-recap-the-true-costs-of-erp-customization-mobility-best-practices-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/weekly-recap-the-true-costs-of-erp-customization-mobility-best-practices-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Recap: The true costs of ERP customization, mobility best practices, and more&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-725\" title=\"Education\" alt=\"Education\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Education.jpg\" width=\"76\" height=\"100\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>Summary: In this week&#8217;s article roundup, we learn why IT needs to change their mindset to adapt to the mobile revolution, why you don&#8217;t need big data to capitalize on analytics, and more. <br \/><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<a name=\"20151110\"><\/a><!--more--><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #1772af; font: normal bold 12pt\/1.2em Arial, Verdana, Helvetica;\">The true costs of ERP customization<\/span><br \/>\nERP customization is the fastest way to solve a problem the first time. It is also the worst way to solve a problem long term. The often misunderstood complexities of this approach can result in an unacceptably high level of risk to all those that are involved in running and growing a business. How can you <a onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Blog', 'Inside Link', 'erp module']); \" href=\"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/how-to-avoid-erp-module-fees\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: red;font-weight: bold\">add custom features to your ERP<\/span><\/a>, without going through the risks of customizing the system itself?<\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Blog', 'Outbound Link', '20151113_TrueCostsERPCustomize_Mobile']); \" href=\"http:\/\/searchmobilecomputing.techtarget.com\/opinion\/IT-needs-to-change-its-mindset-around-mobile-data-access\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #1772af; font: normal bold 12pt\/1.2em Arial, Verdana, Helvetica;\">IT needs to change its mindset around mobile data access<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nTo successfully support enterprise mobility, IT admins need to change the way they think about mobile data access, security and more. How? They must focus on <span style=\"color: red;font-weight: bold\">securing the data, not the device<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Blog', 'Outbound Link', '20151113_TrueCostsERPCustomize_Analytics']); \" href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/teradata\/2015\/11\/11\/analytics-dont-have-to-be-big-to-be-awesome\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #1772af; font: normal bold 12pt\/1.2em Arial, Verdana, Helvetica;\">Analytics don\u2019t have to big to be awesome<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nMany companies have a lot of data sets and not all are \u201cbig.\u201d However, the value of data isn\u2019t necessarily related to size. Companies of all sizes can <a onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Blog', 'Inside Link', 'big data']); \" href=\"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/5-ways-that-all-businesses-can-capitalize-on-big-data\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: red;font-weight: bold\">capitalize on the value of both BI and Big Data<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Blog', 'Outbound Link', '20151113_TrueCostsERPCustomize_Mobility']); \" href=\"http:\/\/www.enterpriseappstoday.com\/management-software\/6-enterprise-mobility-best-practices.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #1772af; font: normal bold 12pt\/1.2em Arial, Verdana, Helvetica;\">6 enterprise mobility best practices<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nCompanies continue to put their money where their mouth is when it comes to mobile apps and other enterprise mobility initiatives, found a recent IDG Enterprise study. With 68 percent of CIOs and IT managers saying mobility is critical for success, it is no surprise that 70 percent of respondents plan to spend nearly a fifth of their IT budgets on mobility. But, how can you ensure that your mobile efforts don\u2019t go to waste?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: In this week&#8217;s article roundup, we learn why IT needs to change their mindset to adapt to the mobile revolution, why you don&#8217;t need big data to capitalize on analytics, and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","slim_seo":{"title":"Weekly Recap: The true costs of ERP customization, mobility best practices, and more... - mrc&#039;s Cup of Joe Blog","description":"Summary: In this week's article roundup, we learn why IT needs to change their mindset to adapt to the mobile revolution, why you don't need big data to capital"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9689"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14150,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9689\/revisions\/14150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}