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It’s always been a mystery to me why so many small and medium businesses rush down the route of buying and installing an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. The truth is that the vast majority simply don’t need one...

These are tough times for the non-profit sector. The cost of living crisis has led to a squeeze on everyone’s income and an inevitable reduction in vital donations. It’s never been truer that every penny counts and, with so many people needing the services of charities in these difficult days, it is vital for them to find ways to reduce costs...

The business of wholesale construction materials is not one that would usually grab headlines – or be held up as a great example of technology in action. Yet, here at Solutions Shared, we have been working with a number of significant companies in this sector to improve their systems away from largely manual and time-consuming paper-based processes that they have been using for years ...

We all know that every business is different and has its own challenges, issues, and processes. But, here at Solutions Shared, we are finding that there are a number of key niche sectors where organizations actually do face many of the same technology problems that can be drastically improved with a systematic approach to digital transformation ...

The rise of marketing automation software like Hubspot, ConstantContact and ActiveCampaign is leading many small and medium businesses to a complicated and potentially damaging decision point ...

One of the challenges for small and medium enterprises (SME) is how to build your operations using the right Customer Relationship Management (CRM) tools.

Many will start out with the right approach, eschewing Excel because they know it will quickly become unmanageable ...

Investing in a new CRM system can be a daunting prospect for any company.

There is a natural fear about moving from the old tried and trusted methods of Excel spreadsheets and sales meetings, and manual processes that take up a lot of time – but have always worked “just fine” ...

I make no excuses for coming back to the subject of Microsoft Power Apps in this blog: the level of interest in them is skyrocketing.

Companies are starting to understand that they can build their entire CRM system – with additional custom-built process tools – by using a combination of Microsoft Dynamics 365 and cost-effective Power Apps ...

There are a number of companies I am working with who are looking to move their Microsoft Dynamics CRM on-premise server to the cloud ...

When organisations decide that it is time to invest in a CRM or business management system, it is very easy to go in the wrong direction at a very early stage ...