Insights

Resilience over Optimisation

When times were stable, your business was focused on optimising. Now you should be making a priority of resilience, including in your ERP.

How We Use AI

We work on your system, so you should know how we use other systems.

HMRC and an example of the problem with defaults

The big thing, the obvious thing, what everybody does ... is not always the right thing.

What's Wrong with Excel?

Excel is a great tool. So why is it a bad word around ERPs?

Getting Out What You Put In

Business systems like ERPs work as force multipliers for information, so you need to think about why people will trouble to put information in

The Pitfalls of Process

Processes are what make ERP run at all, and key to success. But there are limits.

What Makes an ERP Expert?

There are different routes to expertise in ERP work, and this is one of them.

What Is It About Cloud?

Cloud, or SaaS versions of software are presented as inevitable and that's misleading

Kinetic Menu Layer Management

Careful With That AI in Your ERP

Somebody, somehow, is probably making you feel as though you should be using AI in your ERP. They might not be wrong, but here's how to think about that.

Moving on from the Classic client to Kinetic

Epicor's classic client soon won't exist. Like it or not, you need to get to grips with Kinetic and the browser.

What Implementing an ERP is Really Like

What's the problem with implementing an ERP?

How to Do Modern Epicor Development

Epicor Kinetic is different to the previous ERP10, and we need to change how we think about Epicor development.

What a Good Epicor Solution Looks Like

Robust Work With Epicor Functions

What is needed for Epicor Kinetic system work to be maintainable

What You Get With an Independent Epicor Expert

If you're wondering what it's like to get someone independent involved, here's one independent's take

Types of Epicor help

When you need some expert help or consultancy with your Epicor ERP, what type will suit you?

Can you use AI practically in business?

ChatGPT and AI tools have a lot of hype. Are there practical business uses an independent ERP developer can find? Maybe.

New ERP or Re-work? Changing the engine while the plane is flying, part 1

If your ERP isn't working for you, the problem may be how you're using it rather than the ERP itself. Here are some things to consider about choosing a way to fix that.

Should We Upgrade to Epicor Kinetic?

Epicor ERP10 has turned into Epicor Kinetic, and maybe that's a reason to be nervous? Upgrading doesn't need to be a big deal, actually, and lets you take advantage of improvements.

Setting a Custom Task or Process to run on an Epicor Schedule

Epicor is good at standard scheduled tasks, but there's no obvious way to set custom tasks or processes to run after a delay. Here's how it can be done.

Epicor CRM - better than an Opportunity?

Epicor's CRM module is very powerful, but one part of the standard way it's configured holds most users back. Here's what works better.

Should you still be using Epicor Service Connect?

Epicor Service Connect feels like an unloved integration solution these days. META eight discusses whether it's still a useful solution, and what to do if you want to future-proof.

Dynamic Query and Epicor Client Customisation Made Easy - part 1

Using Epicor's Dynamic Query object and classes within client code can make customization much richer and easier to manage. META eight shares a proven way to do it, starting here.

This website is static

Static websites are faster and more responsive. Why we chose to go the modern old-school way for the META eight website.

Do your customers care who sees what they're asking about?

How to selectively filter Epicor records so confidential information isn't shown to unauthorised users.

Who wants cookies?

Why META eight isn't tracking you.

What you need to know to integrate with Epicor ERP

If you've been told that some software can't connect to Epicor ERP, or that it's really easy, don't believe either. The basics of integration.