Food Recalls In 2015, food recalls rose by 78% according to the Food Standards Agency. Only this month, there have been recalls of chemically contaminated fish, baby food that possibly contained wire mesh, and soft drinks likely to produce yeast fermentation. Each of these – along with a further 76 UK recalls this year – have […]
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In his keynote speech at the recent NetSuite SuiteConnect event, CEO Zach Nelson spelled out his three rules of the cloud economy, and explained how he thought NetSuite was following those rules. Embed AI into your business processes Adding artificial intelligence into your business processes sounds like a tall order. How can you trust something
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Several of the Balloon team visited NetSuite SuiteConnect 2016 earlier this week. Held at the Park Plaza Westminster Bridge Hotel in London, the theme this year was “Make Bold Happen”. The overall message from SuiteConnect 2016 was that the cloud has changed everything. It has accelerated global competition and has forced companies to rethink their
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Here’s a roundup of some upcoming events that you might be interested in attending: Balloon One’s Accellos End-User Event, Aberdeen Our annual Accellos warehouse management user event takes place on 20th and 21st September 2016. It is primarily aimed at our existing Accellos users, but would also be useful for anyone considering using the Accellos
The “cloud” as an everyday business concept has been talked about since around the end of the 1990s. With the advent of web 2.0, increased bandwidth and technological developments, the cloud started to gain traction and companies like Salesforce started to offer cloud-based business solutions. Since then, over the past twenty-odd years, the shift to
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Business has seen so much change and it has come at such a pace over the past few decades. Technological advances have significantly altered how companies undertake their everyday activities and how they deal with suppliers and buyers. We’ve witnessed the advent and massive uptake of the internet, and then its evolution into a more
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NetSuite is big, and is growing. It is the most widely-used cloud-based business system, employed by more than 30,000 organisational entities. And it grew by 45% last year, making it the fastest growing ERP solution on the planet. The largest proportion of NetSuite’s users are in the wholesale distribution sector. It’s easy to see why
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ERP systems have a limited lifespan, especially in growing companies, and as technology evolves and improves, many companies come to realise that their outdated ERP system needs to be replaced. Replacing an entire business management system is a serious undertaking though, so often an organisation will delay, preferring to remain denial for as long as
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Last week, we visited NetSuite SuiteWorld in San Jose, California. SuiteWorld is NetSuite’s annual user and partner conference and it’s an important event for us to go to as it allows us to enhance our knowledge of NetSuite, learn about the future development plans for the product and to meet and network with 10,000 other
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If you’re thinking about a new ERP system, then come to the IT Showcase in London on Tuesday 17th May 2016. You will be able to see which systems are available and from which suppliers. The show takes place in The Atrium Suite, Wembley Stadium, London, HA9 0WS. The exhibition is open from 10am to
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