Louis Columbus is featured as one of the top 100 to follow on Twitter.

Vinnie Mirchandani, Deal Architect, joins a Plex sponsored afternoon with several of its customers and its own manufacturing savants. Plex, from the heartland of the US manufacturing industry in Michigan, is one of the few cloud ERP vendors with a focus on manufacturing.

From HACCP forms generation to automated track-and-trace systems, affordable software tools make FSMA compliance easier for small and medium-sized processors, and can reduce the potential of recalls.

New mobile technologies are helping senior manufacturing executives quickly get data from the shop floor.

The last 18 months have produced a lot of industry jockeying for cloud-based enterprise applications. SAP's high-priced acquisitions of SuccessFactors and Ariba -- it paid a combined $7.7 billion for less than $1 billion in cloud revenue.

Plex Systems is a software-as-a-service company that is focused on cloud computing ERP systems. Founded in 1995, Plex Systems is led by CEO Jason Blessing.

Read more about the ERP industry analyst discussion, revealing benefits of cloud vs. on-demand ERP platform as a service (PaaS).

Aberdeen Group discusses how the Plex community takes end user collaboration to the next level.

Cloud computing stocks continue to show wide variation in performance throughout the first half of 2013.

The era of the slow, apathetic ERP software vendor that peddles monolithic products that are difficult to upgrade may be coming to an end, according to a recent report from Nucleus Research, which finds ERP vendors are increasingly responding to user demands for more intuitive UIs and integrated mobile and analytic capabilities.