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Your Data Is Talking. Are You Listening?
Every business generates data. Sales figures, customer enquiries, website visits, stock movements, production output, invoices, support tickets, and marketing campaigns all produce valuable information every single day. The question is not whether your business has data. The question is whether you’re using it to make better decisions. Too often, businesses collect huge amounts of information…
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Why Your Business Doesn’t Need More Software. It Needs Better Connected Software.
Every year, businesses invest in new technology to improve productivity. A new CRM is introduced to manage sales. An accounting package handles finances. Inventory software keeps track of stock. HR adopts another platform for employee records, while marketing uses its own tool for campaigns. On paper, every department has the software it needs. So why…
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Front Office vs. Back Office: 5 Signs Your CRM and ERP Are Having a Communication Breakdown
A business can have the best CRM in the world and a powerful ERP system managing operations, but if the two don’t communicate properly, problems quickly begin to appear. Sales teams promise delivery dates that operations can’t meet. Finance chases invoices for orders that haven’t been fulfilled. Customer service can’t answer simple questions because information…
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From Excel Chaos to Automated Operations: How Power Apps Transformed a Field Service Business
For many field service businesses, spreadsheets and emails are where operations begin. A customer raises a request. Someone records it in Excel. Updates are shared through email. Approvals happen separately. Managers chase progress updates. Technicians receive information manually. At first, the process works. But as service requests increase, what once felt manageable quickly becomes difficult…
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Power BI vs Excel: Which Reporting Tool Is Right for Your Business?
When it comes to business reporting and data analysis, two Microsoft tools dominate the conversation: Excel and Power BI. Both are powerful. Both are widely used. And both help businesses make better use of their data. But despite being part of the same Microsoft ecosystem, they are designed to solve different problems. Excel remains the…
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Smarter Call Scheduling with Power Automate, SharePoint and Microsoft Teams
Scheduling a meeting should not take longer than the meeting itself. Yet for many businesses, organising a call still involves a surprising amount of manual work. Checking calendars, confirming attendees, finding a suitable time, creating the Teams meeting, sending invitations, and making sure everyone has the right information all adds up. It might seem like…
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We’re Heading to the Odoo Business Show in Birmingham: Here’s What We Want to Talk About
On 9 June, the Odoo Business Show comes to the Hyatt Regency in Birmingham, and we will be there as sponsors. If you are a manufacturer, distributor or food and drink business in the region (or anywhere in the UK) this is worth an evening of your time. Here is what we are planning to…
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Only One in Six UK Businesses Are Using AI. Is Manufacturing Falling Behind?
Artificial Intelligence dominates headlines. Every week there seems to be a new AI tool, a new breakthrough, or a new prediction about how technology will transform the way we work. Yet despite all the attention, the reality inside many businesses looks very different. According to research published by the UK Government’s Department for Science, Innovation…
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Financial Services companies: The Hidden Cost of Your Tech Stack
Industry Report | May 2026 The Hidden Cost of Your Tech Stack How disconnected software systems are quietly draining financial services firms — and what integrated infrastructure actually delivers for mortgage brokers, insurance brokers, wealth managers, credit unions and building societies across the UK and Ireland. Published by Target Integration · May 2026 · …
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