Technology - enabled trends are making this a challenge and exciting time to shop for distributor ERP (enterprise resource planning) software.

Knowing what to do faster than the next guy is one of the things that gives best performing companies an important competitive edge.

Almost two decades ago, the advent of Internet and Information Technology has revolutionized the world and now Cloud Computing has radically transformed the way companies conduct business.

Small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs) know that a highly organized warehouse (or warehouses) and an efficient inventory management system are vital components in ensuring business growth, financial stability and a satisfied customer base; they also know how wrong it can go if these elements are not properly defined and supported by an end-to-end inventory management system, such as the one included in SAP Business One.

Your company's Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) suite may arguably be the most complex, difficult and mystifying application in your organization's entire business software arsenal, so incase of a neccesary replacement or upgrade, you need to prepare big time.

For computer users, a few mouse clicks could mean the difference between staying online and losing Internet connections this summer.

In its rise to leadership of the ERP market, SAP (SAP) shrewdly placed bounds around its strategy: it would stick to its knitting on applications and rely on partnerships with systems integrators to get critical mass implementation across the Global 2000.

In late February, Twitter began recruiting small businesses for a new advertising service by offering credits of up to $100 for those who signed up to help it beta-test its ideas.

In the technology world, we've been schooled to get excited about disruptive innovation. The computer industry wouldn't have had anything like the impact it has had if it hadn't been for game-changing technology breakthroughs large and small, from the transistor and the microcomputer through IP networking and hypertext linking.