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- Platform Strategy · 13 Jul 2026 · 4 minWhen Tally stops being enoughEight signs that accounting software no longer covers stock, dispatch and approvals, how to score them, and your options: extend, add billing, or build.
- Delivery & Process · 11 Jul 2026 · 5 minCustom ERP timeline: five phases and what moves the dateA custom ERP runs in five phases from discovery to operation. What each phase produces, five factors that move the date and how to read a bidder's plan.
- Platform Strategy · 9 Jul 2026 · 4 minCustom ERP cost in India: the five driversFive factors set a custom ERP's price: process variance, integrations, data, first-release modules and on-site work. Measure yours in a week.
- Platform Strategy · 7 Jul 2026 · 4 minMoving data into a new ERP: where it goes wrongDuplicate item codes, mixed units, opening stock that never matched the count: five master-data faults that delay an ERP and how to find them early.
- Platform Strategy · 20 Jun 2026 · 5 minCustom ERP or off-the-shelf: how to decideFour counts show what a packaged ERP costs you in workarounds. Then a five-year cost formula and the cases where buying the product is the right call.
- Delivery & Process · 18 May 2026 · 4 minWhy software projects fail before the code startsMost failed builds were lost in discovery. Four questions to ask, how to write testable requirements and what a discovery phase should hand over.
- AI Engineering · 22 Apr 2026 · 4 minProduction RAG: how to make retrieval dependableA RAG demo answers from three PDFs. A production system needs structure-aware chunking, query-time permissions, evaluation sets and fresh indexes.
- Platform Strategy · 10 Mar 2026 · 4 minLegacy modernisation without a big-bang rewriteReplace an old system in stages: why rewrites fail, how the strangler pattern works, and how a parallel run proves the new system before the old one goes.
- Platform Strategy · 5 Feb 2026 · 5 minBuild or buy AI: how to decideBuy AI for common tasks, build where your process sets you apart. Three tests, five lock-in questions and the hybrid most companies end up with.
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