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DATA DATA DATA

Writer: John Bell
John Bell
Feb 20
1 min read

Updated: Aug 28


Data

🔥 Hot take: Your ERP implementation won’t fail because of the software, but it can fail because of your data. 🔥 Everyone obsesses over: The demo. The features. The dashboards. The go-live party. Meanwhile, the data is sitting in the corner.....duplicated, incomplete, inconsistent and held together by hope. An ERP is only as good as what you feed it. Crap in........you know the rest! If your customer list has: 14 versions of the same client Postcodes in three different formats Credit limits that haven’t been reviewed since 2016 Congratulations. You’ve just upgraded your ability to make bad decisions faster. Clean data isn’t admin work. It’s strategy. Because data determines: ✅ Whether your reporting is trusted ✅ Whether your forecasting works ✅ Whether your automation actually automates ✅ Whether your CFO sleeps at night Here’s the uncomfortable truth: You don’t “migrate” data. You inherit it. And if you don’t cleanse, rationalise, and redesign it before go-live…Your shiny new ERP just becomes a very expensive archive of old chaos. The best ERP projects start with one brutal question: 👉 If we had to defend this data in front of the board tomorrow, could we? If the answer is “we’d need to tweak it first”… you’ve got work to do. Most SI's will shy away from your data. We don't! We understand the importance of data in the success of an implementation. C&J ERP Consulting Ltd will roll their sleeves and get stuck in along side you.

 
 
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