Stuart Parkins
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Your Zoho CRM Has AI Built In — Have You Switched It On?
20.04.26 12:00 PM - Comment(s)
A practical guide to using ZIA, the AI capabilities in Zoho CRM
Is Poor CRM Admin Quietly Costing Your Business Money?
15.04.26 06:00 PM - Comment(s)
A practical guide to improving CRM and ERP performance across eight key areas — data quality, workflows, user adoption, integrations, reporting and more. Covers all systems e.g. Zoho, HubSpot, Pipedrive, NetSuite and Sage X3
Do Your CRM or ERP Backups Actually Work?
08.04.26 02:09 PM - Comment(s)
Most small businesses assume their CRM or ERP is backed up. This guide explains what cloud backups do and don't protect against, and how to check whether your data would actually be recoverable.
A Case Study from a Sage 50 to Sage X3 Migration
28.10.25 11:33 AM - Comment(s)
This article was on my previous website SPDATA. I have worked with many different companies covering manufacturing, retail and service industries. This is a case study outlining a manufacturing migration and more importantly the data elements to consider, which is equally if not more relevant for...
Why 64% of Small Business Data Migrations Go Over Budget (Don't Be One Of Them)
28.10.25 11:18 AM - Comment(s)
This article was on my previous website SPDATA. Moving data for data migrations has been a core area of my work for over 25 years. I have extracted, transformed and loaded data for ERP, CRM, website, ecommerce and legacy systems, without data loss or corruption. Data integrity, governance and ethics...