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POKEMON GO AND THE GAMIFICATION OF HR INCENTIVES PokemonGO took the world by storm in a very short amount of time this year; with cute graphics and simple gameplay, the Augmented Reality (AR) smartphone-game encouraged users to go out into the world to...

Every business requires some sort of accounting and financial software package to function, whether it is the latest full accounting suites provided with ERP packages, spreadsheet programs with custom logic, or an old fashioned paper ledger. Many small to mid-sized...

If you’ve been keeping track of tech trends in recent years, chances are you have heard of “Cryptocurrency”. Such names like BitCoin and Dash have probably been overheard, and the notion of a digital or internet-based monetary transaction system may have been...

You’ve probably heard of Nike; the world’s largest supplier of athletic apparel (most notably shoes), one of the most adorned brands by top athletes, and headquartered practically next door to us at ECI in Beaverton, OR. However, you may not have heard how Nike became...

Throughout the years after ERP technology became the industry norm, there have been many town criers tolling the bell on this modern enterprise-industry technology. “ERP is over”, “Failed ERP’s are ruining business”, and other such hyperbolic click-bait articles came...

Across the web and through industry channels, you’ll likely hear most of the same “benefits of ERP”; lowers costs, increases productivity, customer service improvements, etc. It can become exhausting reading variations of the same talking points over and over again....

As explained in our previous blog post, we are here to add a little more detail to the usual “benefits of ERP”. Instead of the same buzz-phrases and slogans claiming to lower costs and increase productivity (which are legitimate benefits, to be fair), we want to delve...

As mentioned in our last two blog posts, the internet is filled with articles and websites dedicated to extolling at length on the “benefits of ERP”. However, many of them choose to focus purely on the vague surface-level benefits of “costs” and “productivity”. What...