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Maybe Your Next ERP Feature Should Start as an MVP

Posted by Peter Heinicke on Fri, May 29, 2026 @ 01:34 PM

The Problem with Big ERP Projects

Every ERP consultant has seen it. A company decides they need a new module — an e-commerce storefront, a customer portal, a warehouse management add-on. The project kicks off. Designers and developers disappear into a conference room for months, sustained largely by pizza and optimism. A requirements document the size of a small novel gets produced. A budget gets approved. And eighteen months later, a system gets delivered that nobody quite recognizes as the thing they originally wanted.

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Tags: Small Business, Sage 300, ERP systems, Sage Pro ERP, Minimum Viable Product, MVP, ERP Implementation, Lean Startup, Agile Development

Why Small Businesses Should Start Using Markdown (And Where to Begin)

Posted by Peter Heinicke on Mon, May 11, 2026 @ 10:07 AM

You don't have to be a developer to benefit from this simple, powerful format.

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Tags: IT Support, Small Business, Managed Services, ERP systems, Productivity, Business Continuity, Documentation

Sage One Complete: Cloud based accounting system for SMB's

Posted by PC Methods on Sat, Jul 30, 2022 @ 10:00 PM

How many of you have ever heard of Sage Accounting Software? Seriously, how many of you have ever heard of Sage? They make some of the best accounting software on the planet, but their marketing has been ineffective. Just think about how many non-franchise small businesses there are with 0-25 employees in the USA alone. What is your guess, 5 hundred thousand, 1 million, more? Sage has over 6 million customers worldwide, but so far only 10,000 businesses have signed up for Sage One, the latest Sage offering targetted specifically for small businesses. .

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Tags: Cloud Computing, Small Business, Peachtree, quickbooks Pro, Accounting systems

History of Accounting Systems since Before Da Vinci

Posted by Peter Heinicke on Wed, Jul 28, 2021 @ 10:43 AM

How Accounting Has Been Changed Over Time By Technology

Luca Pacioli (1494) was the first to describe the systems of debits, credits, journals and ledgers. Pacioli's writings are the basis of modern accounting. Summa de Arithmetica, Geometria, Proportioni et Proportionalita ("Review of Arithmetic, Geometry, Ratio and Proportion"), a twenty-seven page treatise on double-entry accounting, was one of the first items to be published on the Gutenberg printing press. Leonardo da Vinci was one of Pacioli's students in Milan.

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Tags: Cloud Computing, Small Business, quickbooks Pro, Accounting systems