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Rishabh Software's expertise in various technologies helps us provide a spectrum of custom application development services to our clients. Right from modifications of existing enterprise application, building new enterprise apps from ground up to integrating them within the enterprise - we do it all. Our services include planning, creating strategies, architecting, coding, testing and implementing out-of-the-box solutions depending on the technical and business need of the client.

Rishabh Software's Enterprise App Services:

With newer technologies like mobile, cloud & big data being introduced in the enterprise, a veteran with 19 years of experience like us can help your business embrace these changes. Our team of enterprise application developers focuses on multiple technologies to achieve the ideal solution customized for your business needs.

Rishabh Software's Technology Matrix

A peek at some of the technologies we are proficient in:

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Rishabh Software's expertise in various technologies helps us provide a spectrum of custom application development services to our clients. Right from modifications of existing enterprise application, building new enterprise apps from ground up to integrating them within the enterprise - we do it all.

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At Software Advice, we preach the good word of software and how it can benefit businesses. But when it comes to the complex world of enterprise resource planning (ERP) software and the top ERP benefits users can expect to realize, it can be a tougher sell.

There's one common refrain we hear from buyers using disparate systems to conduct their processes: "Why is an ERP system better than what we're using now?"

We're glad you asked. To start, let's first list seven of the top benefits of ERP software:

1. Use business data to improve and strengthen security

2. Make use of the community knowledge and support

3. Apply better data to make better business decisions

4. Stay on top of regulations

5. Give employees more power to be revenue generators

6. Be mobile accessible to bring your business with you

7. Choose from plenty of software options

Now let's look at these benefits in detail below and some solutions that can help you achieve these.

1. Use Business Data to Improve and Strengthen Security

Modern ERP systems offer advanced user-permission settings. No more unsecured Excel sheets and Google documents for your financial or inventory needs.

ERP software is more secure and robust for these functions. And setting user permissions can prevent sensitive data from ending up in the wrong hands. Users will be able to access only what they need to from the system.

Specify user access on Oracle Financials ERP Cloud (Source: Oracle Financials ERP Cloud)

However, in the rare event vendors discover a security exploit in their software, they can typically patch it quickly. Vendors are also able to quickly share the update with all users automatically.

2. Make Use of the Community Knowledge and Support

Hundreds of thousands of businesses use ERP software and have employees who are actively involved with their platform's online knowledge community. If you experience an issue or problem, chances are someone else has experienced it, too.

All you need to do is run a simple search on your platform's knowledge base for resolutions of less serious problems. These forums are pretty active, and you usually get answers from other users as well.

3. Apply Better Data to Make Better Business Decisions

Using disparate, poorly integrated business software systems can lead to messy, non-standardized data. This increases the chances of year-over-year comparisons being inaccurate, making the process more difficult and time consuming. This becomes a serious detriment to accurate forecasting.

A modern ERP system comes integrated with all the necessary applications. Meaning, your data is standardized and the tools to see year-over-year comparisons and forecasts are built in. These are often presented in an easy-to-read dashboard format.

4. Stay on Top of Regulations

You no longer need to worry about governmental hurdles making your employees' jobs harder. Most ERP systems are equipped to ease regulatory compliance required for business processes such as financial accounting, data security and product traceability.

Here are some examples:

Publicly traded companies need to ensure all their financial records are 100-percent accurate. ERP software helps keep everything in line through Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).

Small regional food manufacturers can benefit from the product traceability tools in a modern ERP system. These ensure that companies are able to trace any instances of contamination or improper handling back to the source in their manufacturing plant.

5. Give Employees More Power to Be Revenue Generators

Inefficient processes and decentralized data mean greater labor costs for businesses. These can be especially detrimental for small to midsize businesses (SMBs) that have limited resources.

ERP systems can automate and streamline daily processes, freeing up your employees' time to do things that actually generate revenue. For example, software can automatically tie sales orders to the accounting system, or run reports without the need for complicated spreadsheets.

According to Gartner's " Postmodern ERP Life Cycle: How to Start the Strategize and Plan Phase " (report available to Gartner clients), businesses should treat ERP as a technology strategy. It can efficiently automate and link administrative and operational capabilities such as finance, HR, purchasing, manufacturing and distribution to help achieve business flexibility and agility.

6. Be Mobile Accessible to Bring Your Business With You

Many ERP vendors are offering native applications on Android, iOS and Windows smart devices for ease of use. These applications typically offer updates in real time with crucial business KPIs, including:

Sales

Revenue

Customer acquisitions

Web traffic

Manufacturing output

One of the predictions in Gartner's " Forecast Overview: ERP Software, Worldwide, 2016 " report (available to Gartner clients) is that 60 percent of SMBs will be selecting ERP in the cloud by 2020. This will only increase the mobile accessibility for users- a trend that's increase more as more and more tech-savvy professionals enter the marketplace.

This generation prefers a connected network of applications, which can be easily managed on a tablet or better, their phones. They'll automatically prefer ERP vendors who offer integrated apps with other software so that they can easily switch between functions within seconds.

7. Choose From a Number of Software Options

There are plenty of fish in the ERP sea, from giants such as SAP and Oracle, down to niche vendors that cater to a handful of clients in a specific industry. A surplus of players in the market is great for customers-and every vendor has its own unique advantages and target industries.

Whatever your needs and budget are, there is an ERP vendor out there that will fit your organization like a glove. You can start with the popular ones, listed in the FrontRunners for ERP software to see the features and capabilities of some of the top rated solutions in the market.

Conclusion and Next Steps

Now that you've seen the benefits of ERP software, it's time you switched up from your manual methods to automated processes. Here's what you can do next:

Shortlist a suitable solution(s): With the FrontRunners for ERP software as a great place to start, you already have a shortlist of vendors you could demo. You should check each solution's offered features to understand the software better and match them to your needs.

Talk to an advisor for more clarity: It won't hurt to get some expert advice as well, especially when it'll help you address your unique needs. Our advisers are available for a free FastStart consultation at (844) 680-2046

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What is ERP - Enterprise Resource Planning? Webopedia

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Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is business management software to integrate all facets of an operation including planning, development, sales and marketing.

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The benefits of Enterprise survey software are far-reaching. We understand that a powerful, integrated survey platform can benefit teams of any size, in any industry. Read on to find out how an Enterprise level account can help you and your team...

Ask yourself, what would help your team achieve better results? What features would improve your productivity and customer satisfaction? We did a bit of research of our own and put together a list of the top 5 benefits an Enterprise account provides:

1. Advanced Features - Powerful features for teams to create surveys to suit their needs

2. User Management - Scalable to suit teams of all sizes

3. Branding - A fully branded experience from start to finish

4. Reach - Send surveys across a variety of platforms to engage with users anywhere

5. Reporting - Slice and dice your data for detailed, segmented analysis

The Smart Choice

What exactly does it mean for your organisation to have a SmartSurvey Enterprise account? How can you make optimum use of the benefits?

Imagine exceeding your targets every quarter, improving customer satisfaction month on month or constantly achieving better conversion rates! Let's look at a couple of the features that could help you achieve all that....

Advanced Email Triggers - Send automated email messages upon completion of a survey/form that are timely, personalised and relevant to the person you are sending them to.

Page Randomisation - Sort and flip your survey pages, to randomise the order they appear. This will help minimise the risk of survey bias and, therefore, improve the quality of your survey results.

Customise Language - Give your audience the choice of which language to complete their survey in. All languages are supported, including Welsh, Arabic, and Chinese.

Send by SMS - Deliver a branded browsing experience, consistent across a range of devices. Check on the status of your invites; track open rates, views, failures, and opt-outs.

Find out more about Enterprise Survey Software

We spoke with Norfolk County Council who have chosen a SmartSurvey Enterprise Account, as they had to have a UK based survey provider who is fully compliant with the latest UK & EU Data Protection laws...
"We needed an online survey solution that could not only support our on-going data collection & measurement requirements but also guarantee that all data would be safeguarded." (Information and Business Support Officer, Norfolk CC)
Read this case study to find out how an Enterprise account benefited their team and provided efficient cross-department collaboration.

Why SmartSurvey?

SmartSurvey's Enterprise platform is built for teams and provides flexibility throughout entire organisations. It is built to be adaptable to meet the various needs of the user but robust enough to manage large amounts of respondent's data. With advanced features, fully flexible template branding and extensive reporting functionality, Enterprise helps teams deliver!

Continued, personalised support

SmartSurvey never tires of providing new ways to help customers achieve their goals. Norfolk County Council sent us some great customer feedback that we are proud to highlight here...
"Since we signed up, SmartSurvey has provided valuable training, constant account support and regular advice to improve and enhance our current surveys. New feature releases mean we constantly develop our questionnaires".
Want to learn more?

Our team is ready to help you on your journey to get the most from your research in order to improve productivity and customer satisfaction. If you want to discuss your Enterprise survey software requirements and how our services can benefit you, please contact us or fill out this Enterprise enquiry form and tell us what you need.

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The benefits of Enterprise survey software are far-reaching. We understand that a powerful, integrated survey platform can benefit teams of any size, in any industry. Read on to find out how an Enterprise level account can help you and your team... Ask yourself, what would help your team achieve better results?

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Selecting technologies means committing to solutions that will support an active, growing business over the long term, so it requires careful consideration and foresight. When an enterprise bets on the wrong horse, the result is often significantly higher development costs and reduced flexibility, both of which can stick around for the long haul.

In the past decade, adoption of open source software at the enterprise level has flourished, as more businesses discover the considerable advantages open source solutions hold over their proprietary counterparts, and as the enterprise mentality around open source continues to shift.

Enterprises looking to make smart use of open source software will find plenty of great reasons to do so. Here are just some of them.

Community. Open source solutions geared toward the enterprise often have thriving communities around them, bound by a common drive to support and improve a solution that both the enterprise and the community benefit from (and believe in). The global communities united around improving these solutions introduce new concepts and capabilities faster, better, and more effectively than internal teams working on proprietary solutions.

The power of the crowd. Many hands can deliver powerful outcomes. The collective power of a community of talented individuals working in concert delivers not only more ideas, but quicker development and troubleshooting when issues arise.

Transparency. Open source code means just that-you get full visibility into the code base, as well as all discussions about how the community develops features and addresses bugs. In contrast, proprietary code produced in secrecy may come with unforeseen limitations and other unwelcome surprises. With open source, you're protected against lock-in risks and can see exactly what you're getting.

Reliability. Because there are more eyes on it, the reliability of open source code tends to be superior as well. With a worldwide community supporting a code base-rather than one team within one company-code is developed on online forums and guided by experts. The output tends to be extremely robust, tried, and tested code. In fact, open source code now powers about 90% of the internet and is being rapidly adopted across major enterprises for this reason.

Better security. As with reliability, open source software's code is often more secure because it is much more thoroughly reviewed and vetted by the community (and any issues that do arise tend to be patched more diligently). Long a point of hesitation for enterprise adoption of open source, concerns about security just aren't an issue today.

Merit-based. With open source code, the sole motivation behind decision making around the direction of a solution is to make the best, most useful product possible. Corporations making proprietary code usually put the bottom line foremost, which is not always ideal. When choosing a technology integral to your business, it's best to ensure its agenda supports your own interests.

Faster time to market. Because open source solutions are openly available and can be explored for free, it's often much faster to investigate options and get solutions off the ground.

Cost effective. Although open source solutions should be thought of as more than just free software, the fact that they require no licensing fees remains a decisive advantage when looking at the total cost of deploying a solution.

Freedom from lock-in. Proprietary software for core infrastructure increases the risk of becoming locked in by the vendor or technology. If this happens, enterprises can be at the mercy of vendors' price increases and experience a lack of flexibility they can't easily and readily escape. Enterprises should be careful to use true open source solutions, rather than those from providers that repackage open source software to include proprietary hooks.

Becoming the norm. The many large enterprises implementing open source solutions-and often making policies out of doing so-are bringing the strength of their resources to the communities that support open source solutions.

In addition to these advantages, open source software has the long-term viability to outlast proprietary developers that come and go. And, thanks to supportive communities that are energized to continually introduce innovations, open source software remains at the forefront of advancing technology as a whole and meeting enterprises' needs as they evolve going forward.

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Selecting technologies means committing to solutions that will support an active, growing business over the long term, so it requires careful consideration and foresight. When an enterprise bets on the wrong horse, the result is often significantly higher development costs and reduced flexibility, both of which can stick around for the long haul.