Did you see the recent broadcast of Sixty Minutes, highlighting how local towns, hospitals and businesses are being hit with ransomware attacks, and often capitulating to their demands after being brought to their knees?  (We’ve had clients call us over this same issue in the past couple years.)  And did you know, meanwhile, that Microsoft is said to spend over a billion dollars a year on internet security?

It’s no wonder that folks are giving serious consideration to moving critical operations to the cloud.  It’s also said that Microsoft now derives half its revenues from Azure and cloud sales.  If you’re hacked, you pull down one of your cloud-stored, secure backups and presto… you’re back in business.  You may lose a day or two of transactions, but considering the alternative… well, it just makes sense.

As well, cost of ownership for enterprise software continues to come down, as bundles of functionality sold by the user, by month, become the new standard.  Meanwhile, the “roles” embodied in solutions today like Dynamics 365 Business Central are more tightly aligned with what corporate and small business users need than ever before.  In other words, it’s never been easier or less expensive to launch an enterprise-wide accounting or business management software solution.

And that momentum will only continue to move in one direction: forward, into the cloud.

PSSI has been implementing ALERE manufacturing and accounting software now for over 25 years, and we still think it’s one of the best-priced, best-functioning manufacturing software products you can buy anywhere.

Users appreciate ALERE’s flexibility over many other systems.  Company President Rod Hatcher describes a typical example of the system’s combination of ease-of-use and flexibility, when compared to systems that lack the flexibility to change, say, a work order route or a bill of material to meet shop floor production realities.  Hatcher writes:

“Unlike ALERE which APPENDS routes and bills from a library and attaches them to the work order where they can be fully modified, other products link them to a route or bill. Thus, no changes can be made without cancelling the work order and starting a new one. The problems this introduces extend considerably beyond this short explanation. The substitution of materials is not naturally supported. The actual changes to in-process work order routes are denied. And on and on it goes. In the real world companies operate in, changes happen.”

Recently, TIW released a pretty sweet 7 minute “Manufacturing Overview Video“ on YouTube that will give you a nice overview of what manufacturing software can do for you.  Click the link above to see why ALERE may be a great fit for your manufacturing operations.

To learn more, call us any time at 877.273.2444, or visit us on the web.