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Build an IT roadmap with no CIO by starting from the dates you do not control. Four quarters, one page, and a clear split between the lines that need a fractional CIO and the lines that need contract project staff.
AI readiness is whether a firm’s important work survives without the colleague everyone asks where the data is. It is built in records, written rules and named owners, not bought.
By Colin Boothe, CIO at Foretopia A Shopify NetSuite integration usually breaks at peak in three places: orders edited after they sync, refunds that lose their line detail, and Shopify Payments payouts that land as one net number nobody can match. Choose connector, iPaaS, or custom build by doing the call arithmetic for your busiest … Read more
Data quality is whether a value can support the decision it feeds. An uncertainty tag marks what a number cannot support yet, why, and who will settle it.
By Colin Boothe, CIO at Foretopia NetSuite AP automation is a choice between the native stack (Bill Capture, SuiteApprovals, Intelligent Payment Automation) and a third-party AP tool synced to NetSuite, decided by invoice volume, approval complexity, and where your vendors get paid. Native usually holds for U.S. companies with mostly PO-backed spend. A bolt-on earns … Read more
Entity resolution decides which records describe the same borrower. One borrower, five systems, five names, and the crosswalk that puts them back together.
By Tom Kenaley, President and Senior Partner, KORE1 A contractor knowledge transfer plan keeps you from getting locked in when it’s written at signing, names an employee to receive each item, and proves every transfer with a test instead of a document. Most lock-in doesn’t come from a contract clause. It comes from accounts, pipelines, … Read more
By Jennifer Burdick, Recruiting Manager, KORE1 SQL Server 2016 reached end of life on July 14, 2026, and the choices now are paid Extended Security Updates through July 2029, an upgrade to SQL Server 2022 or 2025, Azure SQL, or a migration to PostgreSQL. Nothing switched off that day. The databases still start. The reports … Read more
By Colin Boothe, CIO at Foretopia The best Shopify ERP for a brand adding wholesale, EDI, and a 3PL is NetSuite above roughly $20 million in revenue, Business Central for Microsoft shops below that, and Acumatica when per-user licensing would wreck the budget. Everything else on the usual lists is an inventory tool wearing an … Read more
By Mike Carter, Managing Director, KORE1 SOW misclassification is staff augmentation bought on a statement of work: named people, directed by your managers, billed by the hour against timesheets. No industry dataset tells you how much of your SOW spend it covers. You get that number by auditing your own ledger. Three numbers are going … Read more
