Field notes, not marketing
Written by the engineers doing the work.
- ERP2
- Infrastructure2
- Security2
- Practice1
ERP projects fail on data, not software
The single best predictor of an ERP go-live going badly is the state of your master data — and almost nobody budgets for it.
- ERP
Should you customise Odoo, or change your process?
When customising Odoo is worth it, and when you end up paying for it at every upgrade.
2 May 20266 min read - Security
The DNS records nobody sets, and the fraud they allow
SPF, DKIM and DMARC take an afternoon to configure, cost nothing, and are missing on most Egyptian company domains. Here is what that exposes you to.
14 April 20265 min read - Security
The cheapest security wins, in order
Before you buy a firewall, three changes that cost mostly configuration time and stop most of what we see in the field.
9 March 20266 min read - Infrastructure
The backup you have never restored from
A backup job reporting success is not evidence of anything. Here is what to test, how to test it, and what we usually find.
11 February 20265 min read - Infrastructure
Cloud or on-premise? Do the arithmetic
The answer depends on the workload. Here are the four questions that decide it, and why vendor sizing calculators lead you astray.
20 January 20267 min read - Practice
What a discovery report should contain
If you are paying for a technology assessment, here is what you should receive — and the questions to ask before you commission one.
8 December 20255 min read
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