Matt Koopmans

Matt Koopmans

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Requirements for your software implementation - Three things you must do

Implementing new business software is hard. Way harder than it should be - and usually we are the cause of the complexity. We tend to understand what we do in the business, but we do not fully understand why we do it, leading for overestimating the complexity of the process. There are three simple r...

Matt Koopmans
13.10.19 07:32 PM - Comment(s)

A first look at Zoho Books Budgeting function. Note that the initial minor bug at release as mentioned in the video had been resolved at the second day of release. All Zoho Books users, with or without Zoho Inventory integration, will have the budget menu available.

Matt Koopmans
09.10.19 10:16 AM - Comment(s)
How scope gets in the way of trust and success

Go and ask for a quote for an IT solution delivery, and the first thing you get asked is: "What is the scope?" Seems fair - if you want to get a price commitment, you will be asked for a functionality boundary. But what does this actually do to the delivery of your solution? Nothing good, ...

Matt Koopmans
07.10.19 05:18 PM - Comment(s)
Why your agile approach will probably fail - 5 common misconceptions you must address right now in your agile deployment

Much has been said about agile, and much is continued being said. Agile deployments of software fail, and agile deployments of software succeed... And every so often an article pops up which contributes to the common misconceptions that create the weak foundations to build your agile deployment. Let...

Matt Koopmans
28.09.19 03:14 PM - Comment(s)
Zoholics Sydney 2019 - the BIG anouncements

On 19 and 20 September 2019, the Zoho team visited Sydney with the Zoholics customer conference. Every year, this conference gets bigger, and better. With this year a number of BIG announcements from the Zoho team with regards to the already excellent value offer of Zoho One. In this post we will br...

Matt Koopmans
23.09.19 10:46 AM - Comment(s)
Lean Startup? Get yourself sorted with enterprise grade systems for a lean startup budget

In any startup scenario, there are two things you will never have enough of: time and cash -  the latter at least until a successful funding round. A great practice for any startup is to practice being lean - it teaches you to be frugal with these two scarce commodities of time and money, so th...

Matt Koopmans
10.09.19 08:46 AM - Comment(s)
Implementing business applications? GAME ON!

If you ever played a computer game, you know that great games start easy, and incrementally introduce new complexities. As Nolan K. Bushnell coined the phrase to describe the best games: "easy to learn, difficult to master". So what does this have to do with business applications? Surely, ...

Matt Koopmans
05.09.19 01:28 PM - Comment(s)
Why you should take back control over your website

We spend a lot of money making our websites look great. All the latest design trends, the right imagery, the coolest animations and other effects. We spend thousands, if not tens of thousands of dollars on this. After all - it is the digital business card of your company, right? Wrong! Or to phrase ...

Matt Koopmans
29.08.19 10:48 PM - Comment(s)
Zoho for IT Support

When you offer IT support to multiple clients, or in a complex environment, you want to be able to do this in the most effective and efficient manner. No time wasted on finding the support emails - everything should be at the fingertips. Further, there are a myriad of server, client, and device oper...

Matt Koopmans
26.08.19 05:32 PM - Comment(s)
Our last post on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter

Aurelian Group is this week leaving the social networks Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. We will solely focus on our audience on LinkedIn, Google My Business, and YouTube.

Soon the links to these networks will disappear from the side-bar of our site, and the pages/accounts themselves will disappear...

Matt Koopmans
15.08.19 09:41 AM - Comment(s)