Business Technology

Holistic, thought provoking, joined up thinking to help you develop capabilities and achieve your vision. We understand the ever increasing demands on IT resources, your capacity and capability challenges and the need to bring governance and a benefits driven approach. Contact us to see how we can help you navigate your way through the noise and focus on the important business outcomes. ... Read More ...

SAP Retail

We've been there since the first UK retail implementation and collected huge experience in what works and what doesn't. We understand the history, development and alignment of SAP for retail organisations of all sizes. We know the retail process model from the inside out. If you are considering SAP then contact us. ... Read More ...

Project Services

Much more than just fluent in Retail and qualified in PRINCE2 we can assist with your project planning, solution architecture, project assurance, roadmap development, people selection and people development. Contact us to see how we can help make your projects a success. ... Read More ...

SAP CAR

SAP Customer Activity Repository

Relatively little known outside of the SAP Retail Industry the CAR is a key piece of architecture for the retailer and brings “under one roof” a range of different functions that solve perennial business challenges. We’ll write a couple of different posts on CAR topics based on our recent implementation experiences……… More information can be found here: https://blogs.sap.com/2017/01/24/new-sap-customer-activity-repository-for-sap-s4hana-retail-rapid-deployment-solution-available/

Business Technology

Dynamics 365

Recently we’ve had the opportunity to evaluate Microsoft Dynamics 365 as part of a customer technology refresh programme. In the Enterprise Edition the solution is based on Dynamics CRM for the sales and service application, alongside AX for operations and the freshly integrated project service and field service functionality which each has its own application. During 2017 we should seeRead the Rest…

TeacherIS

PAWS

We have developed software to support primary and early years teachers capture their assessment of pupil progress in a configurable range of subjects. The software is called Pupil Assessment Windscreens or PAWS for short and allows senior school leaders to view a range of data on pupil progress and attainment. This data can be used for presentation to governors, schoolRead the Rest…

Architecture

The glue – process and architecture

We continue to see challenges when technology is utilised in silos to solve point problems across the enterprise. Its an attractive proposition to find technology that appears to solve a problem and focus on implementing it! Experience shows that this rarely delivers the supposed benefits either short or longer term because the implementation decision has been made in isolation ofRead the Rest…

Architecture

Business Process Modelling – Goals

Before we can determine pros and cons of the various BPM languages that we identified in the first post in this series, we need to understand why we might want to do modelling at all. At the Gartner Enterprise Architecture Summit 2013 it’s been interesting to hear from BPM practitioners of why they have embarked on a process modelling initiative.Read the Rest…

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