What does it take for an architecture, engineering, or construction business to be profitable? Many look toward aggressive growth and expansion, either by geography or acquisition or both. However, growth requires significant spending on resources from new employees to acquisitions, and it takes time to see a return on your investment.

The quick and dirty definition of data mapping is the process of connecting different types of data from various data sources. Data mapping is essential for integration, migration, and transformation of different data sets; it allows you to improve your data quality by preventing duplications and redundancies in your data fields. Data mapping is a crucial step in data modeling and can help organizations achieve their business goals by enabling data integration, migration, transformation, and quality.

Implementing a PIM or PXM* solution will bring numerous benefits to your organization, in terms of improving efficiency, increasing sales and conversions, reducing returns, and promoting customer loyalty through more accurate, more complete, and more engaging product content. Here we explore these benefits in more detail.

Put simply, data literacy is the ability to translate data into insights, a capability that every technology buyer is seeking this year. The importance of data has been well established and technology leaders understand the value sitting dormant in their ever-growing databases. When researching the right application for their teams, features that boost data literacy will be front of mind for your buyers.

The landscape of business intelligence (BI) is undergoing a metamorphosis, demanding solutions that transcend static reports and siloed data. At insightsoftware, we’re not merely keeping pace with this evolution – we’re spearheading it with the transformative rebirth of Logi Symphony. Gone are the days of cumbersome BI 1.0 and self-service limitations of BI 2.0.

Monitoring your carbon footprint aligns your company with global efforts to address climate change and serves as a cornerstone of responsible corporate governance and cutting-edge sustainable business practices. Understanding your SAP data to its fullest is the first step on the journey towards a more sustainable future. With an advanced operational reporting solution that delivers proper data analysis, you can put your best foot forward.

As technology advances, so do user expectations. Advanced analytics has emerged as a hot topic and a key area of focus for buyers looking to provide higher quality analysis to inform business decision-making in a turbulent market. Furthermore, the era of cheap money is over. Funding is scarce and Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) must ensure their offer is seen as an essential expense for financially constrained buyers, delivering quick value, quality, and innovation.

As we assess the technological landscape for the new year, one of the only guarantees is that technology will continue to evolve. Cloud migration and support are top-of-mind for worldwide organizations–this year, cloud computing is forecast to surpass $1 trillion worldwide for the first time. Cloud-based ERPs reduce operating costs, can help automate processes, and provide finance teams with greater autonomy.

Between soaring material costs and the impact of inflation, the construction industry has had to practice extra agility and resilience in recent years. Market upheaval, including skills shortages and supply chain disruptions have made financial reporting in the construction industry even more challenging. Manually exporting data into static spreadsheets adds another roadblock–when reports are manually exported or input, information grows stale quickly.

Picture it with me: a time when you were a child and someone read your favorite story to you, or when you were an adult and you read someone their favorite story. I want you to focus on the emotions remembering that experience generated. Personally, I thought about reading the book, “Guess How Much I Love You,” to my daughter when she was young and how she would sit on my lap and hang on to every word.