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:Elevating your company

(and ERP system) to best in class

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To become best in class, companies have to start

thinking of upgrading their ERP as a business

evaluation process that takes place every 2-3

years, asking “How can we do this better, smarter,

faster?”

True leaders realize that ERP systems need to

evolve - just as business processes do. Otherwise,

the disparity between what processes your ERP

supported 4-9 years ago vs. what process are

actually in place today becomes monumental.

This is why best-in-class midmarket organizations

are 94% more likely to be on the latest release.

BEST-IN-CLASS PRACTICES FOR SUCCESS

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Best in class organizations understand that upgrading goes beyond

the latest features. They know it’s about investment in the company,

its infrastructure and ensuring processes are always being improved.

WHAT MAKES UP BEST-IN-CLASS?

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Upgrading ERP gives

companies the opportunity

to take advantage of new

built-in templates to support

their current and evolving

processes.

WHAT MAKES UP BEST-IN-CLASS?

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UPGRADED USER BENEFITS

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UPGRADED USER BENEFITS

Leaders are able to dedicate

time to improve business

strategy while incrementally

updating their systems rather

than addressing the problem

too late, which often becomes

a costly and even more time

consuming undertaking.

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INCREASED FUNCTIONALITY

COMPANIES ON THE LATEST

RELEASE ARE MORE LIKELY

TO... Best-in-Class organizations have identified that

upgrading their solutions allows them to take

advantage of the newest advancements in

technology and use those tools to accelerate

their business performance.”””

ABERDEEN GROUP

The Value of Upgrading ERP, Maintaining

Modern Technology

“ “

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INCREASED FUNCTIONALITY

COMPANIES ON

THE LATEST

RELEASE ARE

MORE LIKELY TO...

Upgrading ensures your ERP system is evolving in the same strides

as your business, matching functionality at an even pace with the

needs of your organization.

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Waiting results in a system so

cumbersome that instead of an

upgrade, finance and operations

leaders must build a business case to

“rip-and-replace”−a far more costly and

disruptive process than incremental

upgrading.

ELIMINATE WORKAROUNDS / AVOID DISRUPTION

By choosing to upgrade as part of

overall ERP maintenance, business

leaders drive their companies to

eliminate many of the workarounds that

have become part of the “norm” and

address true issues hampering growth.

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As a Microsoft Dynamics Inner Circle Partner, the top 1% of

Microsoft Partners in the world, we work closely alongside

Microsoft and have early access to new releases and

resources that are unavailable to other partners. We’ve

developed tools to streamline the process and reduce costs,

which assist in identifying infrastructure or customization

risks ultimately enabling us to provide comprehensive

upgrade assessments.

What sets Armanino apart as a Dynamics Upgrade

Partner:

• Continuing Dynamics AX user education programs

• Ability to provide resources for every stage of your

business

• Cutting-edge industry solutions

• Award-winning service

Tom Mescall

Partner in Charge

p. 925.790.2812

e. tom.mescall@amllp.com

PARTNER WITH US

Information contained in this SlideShare is representative of “midmarket” organizations defined as 100-1000 employees

and was taken from Aberdeen Group’s “The Value of Upgrading ERP. Maintaining Modern Technology” 2014.