ErpSeal Podcast

- Andy Nunez has been in the Mid-Market ERP space since 1997, climbing the ranks for 11 years at NexTec Group, then 12 years at SWK.- He then served as CEO of Endpoint (formerly Scanco) for 4 years, so I think we can officially call him a seasoned executive at this point.- Not many people can think strategically like an executive while simultaneously applying tech to real-world problems. Andy is one of those people.- Let's find out what he's up to these days with AI.

- There is no “easy button” when it comes to implementing ERP in an organization with 15 Operational Companies (not just Financial Companies)- But hopefully this episode can make it a little easier as we learn from Ralph’s battle scars.- How did you align on a common Chart of Accounts across the business? Got reporting tips & tricks?- I’ve got a bunch of questions like that for Ralph

- Ryan has spent 20 years building analytics systems that people actually trust. The last 3 years taught Ryan what happens when you put AI on top of a strong BI foundation.- Most AI deployments fail before they start because the data underneath it is ambiguous, inconsistent, and disconnected from how decisions are made.- So Ryan built the DataTools Pro AI Blueprint.- Let’s learn about Business Semantics and why that matters more than ever in an AI world.

- Jim and Tim haven’t met yet, but Jim was tagged on a LinkedIn post by someone that Tim respects.- Jim comes from the Marketing world and has a product that helps companies get discovered by LLM tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, etc.- What does Marketing have to do with ERP? It’s all about getting the right information discovered at the right time, whether you’re going out to the public market to look for something or whether you’re looking for something in your internal ERP.

- There are 2 main ways to build something that interacts with an ERP:- 1. Build within the ERP framework- 2. Build outside and interact with APIs- #2 is what we’d like to talk about on this episode- When you build outside, you then need a way to schedule what you built and be able to handle errors when what you built breaks at random times- I think that’s where n8n comes in, but I want to learn more about it from Aleks

- Managing multiple eCommerce sites (website, Amazon, Shopify, etc.) with your ERP is trickier than you might think- Lessons learned from over 20 years in this space and how Artificial Intelligence is making an impact- What does a modern enterprise ERP / eCommerce technology stack look like in the age of AI and how do we apply AI to Commerce in the real world without getting taken in by smoke and mirrors- OmnifiCX - What Rahul has been working on lately

- My favorite feature in Acumatica is the ability to connect directly to the data in a Generic Inquiry over OData- It's my favorite feature because both Microsoft Excel and Power BI understand OData so you can design reports that are refreshable at the click of a button instead of having to Export to Excel every time you want new data- But OData can time out on large datasets- That time out problem could be solved with a differential refresh on OData, but I've never figured out how- Kaden thinks he has a way to do it so let's find out