Microservices or monolith: which architecture fits your growth
How the choice between a monolith and microservices affects scalability, costs and time-to-market, and how to tell which one your company needs now.
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How Much Should a Company Spend on IT? Benchmarks and a Budgeting Method
What counts as IT spending, how much companies of different sizes typically spend, which budgeting mistakes cost the most, and how to split the budget so technology supports growth.
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Digital transformation roadmap: from process audit to full automation
Digital transformation works best in stages, each building on the last. This article lays out a five-stage roadmap, from process audit and CRM to integration, automation and analytics, plus the mistakes that most often derail it.
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Backup and disaster recovery: how to keep your business running after a failure
According to Gartner, unplanned IT downtime costs more than $5,600 per minute on average. This article explains the difference between backup and disaster recovery, how to set RTO and RPO, and where companies most often go wrong.
- 8 min read
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How to Plan an IT Budget That Supports Growth
According to Gartner, IT spending ranges from 1.4% to over 10% of revenue, depending on industry and company size. This article shows what goes into an IT budget, how to compare yours with benchmarks and where investment pays back.
- 8 min read
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How to Build an IT Project Roadmap When You Run a Small Business
According to the Project Management Institute (PMI), only 35% of projects worldwide finish successfully, meaning on time, on budget and with all goals met. This article shows small and mid-sized companies how to plan an IT project in phases, whether it is a CRM, workflow automation or system integration.
- 10 min read
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Start with an MVP: how to launch an IT system without risking the whole budget
According to the Standish Group, 66% of technology projects go over budget, run late or fail outright. An MVP lets you test a CRM, ERP or automation project on a small scale first, and we explain how to plan the budget and what to avoid.
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Technical debt: what it costs a business and how to keep it small
Technical debt slows releases, inflates maintenance bills and drives good developers away. Here is how to recognise it, what it costs, and how to stop it building up.
- 11 min read
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Modular ERP: how to build a system from the modules you actually need
Many ERP projects go over budget because companies buy a full package and use a fraction of it. Here is how to choose modules, connect them and roll them out in stages.
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How we test custom software before we hand it over
A new CRM goes live on Monday. By noon, sales reps can't save meeting notes, the contact form drops data now and then, and the pipeline report disagrees with the spreadsheet. Industry estimates put the yearly cost of poor software quality at over $3 trillion worldwide, and most of these failures can be prevented with testing. Here is how we do it for CRMs, ERP systems and process automation.
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