If your business is growing, you’re probably facing a big business decision: Should you upgrade to a more sophisticated, complete Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution?

That decision comes with equally big questions, including:

• Should you run your business in the cloud?
• Which vendor and solution is right for you?
• Identifying what you need today and what your business many need in the future.

ERP vendors often don’t make these questions any easier to answer. Multiple vendors talking about features you may never use, often in complex language, can be overwhelming to even the savviest technologist. And complicated pricing models only make it harder.

The following seven insights will help guide you through the ERP decision process as a smart and savvy decision maker.