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Independent ERP & CRM implementation advisory

SAP, Oracle, JD Edwards, Sage and CRM advisory: vendor selection, delivery governance and business adoption. We take no licence margin from any vendor, which is the whole point.

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Fit

You probably need this if

  • You're choosing between ERP vendors and every proposal is written by someone who earns more if you pick them
  • An implementation is running long and you can't tell whether that's normal or a warning
  • The system went live and the business is still working around it in spreadsheets
  • Scope keeps growing and nobody can say which additions were always necessary
  • You need someone to read the contract who isn't being paid by the winner

Scope

What the engagement covers

Requirements that reflect the business

Written from how the operation actually runs, not from the vendor's demo script, so you're comparing proposals against your needs rather than their strengths.

Vendor selection and evaluation

Structured comparison, reference checks, and a recommendation with the reasoning written down. No licence margin, no partner relationship to protect.

Contract and commercial review

What is actually included, what is billed later, and where the change-request exposure sits.

Delivery governance

Independent oversight through implementation: milestone verification, scope control, and early warning when a date is going to slip.

Adoption and handover

The part that decides whether the investment returns anything: getting the business to use the system rather than route around it.

Process

How it runs

Every engagement starts the same way, whichever service you need.

01

A conversation

You tell us what's going on. We ask what you're running, what it costs and where it hurts, and we tell you plainly whether we can help. No sales deck.

02

Findings & proposal

A written view of priorities, sequencing and cost, with the trade-offs stated plainly. You'll know what we'd do first and why.

03

Execution & oversight

We stay accountable for delivery: vendor governance, architecture decisions and the board-level reporting that keeps technology on the agenda.

Independence

We're nobody's reseller

We take no licence margin on SAP, Oracle, JD Edwards, Sage or any CRM. There's no partner relationship to protect and no rebate behind the recommendation, so when we tell you which option to take, the recommendation is the whole business case. We have also made the expensive mistakes already (vendor lock-in, an integration that looked fine in the demo, a migration that ran long) on our own balance sheet rather than yours.

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Eight platforms in production. We designed, built, deployed and still operate every one of them, across two regulatory jurisdictions. That's why we can tell you what a system really costs to run. We pay those bills ourselves.
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