As a lot of you will relate to, I am a one man IT department, looking after 200 users and everything they use to do their jobs (basically, anything with a plug on it!). I am a good jack of all trades, but master of pretty much none. I enjoy my role, and the challenges that come with it, but have to admit, this one seems like a real mountain to climb right now?.
We have had a website up and running for approx 4 years, which was bought as I started, and was basically a website in a box. But as the business has grown, this is no longer suitable and we need to develop a new website. This then led on to what we want from a new website, and the obvious thing was to stream line the whole ecommerce side of things.
I see the project being broken down into two stages, the first phase being getting the back end sorted out, and the second being the new website which is basically just the customer front end to whatever we put in place in phase 1.
Currently, our guys have a lot of data duplication to do. To get one order out of the door, the guys have to use 3 or 4 different systems. We need to use this opportunity to consolidate our systems into one, from which we will then have a platform on which to build our new and improved website (well, we will get someone in to do it for us) but I don?t have a clue where to start. We have a budget of approx ?10k which seems nowhere near enough from the research I have done so far.
I would appreciate any help you guys can offer in recommending something that will act as a stock system, CRM and have some form of accounts package built in. SAP Business One has been mentioned, but we?d need to at least double or budget for that. Same for Sage200.
Sorry it?s so long.
Thanks in advance?.
