By Marty Schillaci, CEO of The Resource Group

As the CEO of The Resource Group, I’ve done a lot of research on the future of enterprise resource planning (ERP). Needless to say, I’ve learned some interesting things.

By Marty Schillaci, CEO of The Resource Group

Since I started The Resource Group in 1988, I have seen four major changes in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, which has caused clients to change their solutions.

By Saeward Schillaci, The Resource Group

In 2018, The Resource Group is celebrating its 30th anniversary as a company! What can our journey of the past 30 years teach your business? What are our predictions about upcoming developments in business management applications and accounting solutions? As we look back on what has developed in the past three decades, we are also excited to think about what the future of accounting will hold.

A few years ago, one of our clients came to us with a challenge. The client was using Microsoft Dynamics GP ERP software, and needed to send payment files to Wells Fargo's Payment Manager.

While Payment Manager is a popular service that allows clients to send large batches of AP files to Wells Fargo for payment processing, the system has a complicated file format that makes it difficult to get the data out of GP into a format that can be uploaded to the Wells Fargo website.

When our consultant tried to make it work with some out-of-the-box software, it turned out to be too big a task.

It was passed to our development team, who, we are proud to say, has a pretty rare mix of programming knowledge. The result was AP Connect – a cost-effective, easy-to-use solution built directly into Microsoft Dynamics GP, so no external applications or integrations are required.