Why Continuous Improvement is more than a buzzword, and the role that SaaS Business Applications play in Innovation Success: No matter what industry your in, chances are you're seeing many more articles, presentations and speakers discussing the idea of Continuous Improvement. This Business Management and Operations concept is not just the latest buzzword - it a philosophy that dates back to the early 1950s. Defined in Wikipedia as “an ongoing effort to improve products, services, or processes,” Continuous Improvement really gets to the heart of what is required to thrive in today’s competitive business environment.

NetSuite’s new release, Version 2015.2, is now available and customer accounts will be upgraded automatically over the next few months. To learn when your account is going to be upgraded, check the New Release portlet on your home dashboard. To do so, follow these steps:

This March, NetSuite customers’ accounts will be upgraded to version 2015.1. You can login to your release preview from the New Release portlet on your NetSuite home dashboard. If you don’t see this portlet by default, you can add the portlet to your dashboard by clicking “Personalize” on your home page.

While small companies and large organizations have different challenges, the scalability of cloud-based systems offers opportunities for both groups.

When you’re managing inventory and distribution, you want to put your time and resources toward projects that directly add value, rather than dealing with the nuts and bolts of your distribution business software.

Poor business process can slow down even the most successful managers and their teams. Unless a team is following a well implemented and thought-out process for maintaining efficient operations, managers will see harmful bottlenecks in sales, order processing and fulfillment. To avoid these issues, we’ve put together a few tips for process improvement. Separate and analyze – Don’t try to tackle the whole process at once. This is surely a fatal step. Of course most, if not all, of your business processes interact with one another on a daily or weekly basis. Sales reps interact with finance and the order processing department communicates with fulfillment operations all the time. However, these processes can and should be separated into individual teams/departments and tackled one at a time.

Data Migration is the process of transferring data from one computer system to another. There are many reasons that you would want to migrate your data including software or hardware system replacements, system upgrades, company or system consolidations, and relocation of data centers.

Wholesale distribution companies today are facing a complex and uncertain world. Where once there was simplicity of process, distributors must now fashion an interactive, easy-to-use and functional order management system. Due to these pressures, wholesale distributors are beginning to realize the benefits of cloud distribution software, according to an article on the Industrial Distribution website.