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Whatever the size of your business, ERP implementation is a critical project. A successful implementation will move your business from a tangled mess of siloed processes to a streamlined system that acts as a single source of truth, enabling better reporting, superior decision-making, and improved collaboration across your organization. But achieving this isn’t easy. According to Datix, 64% of ERP projects go over budget, and 74% take longer than expected.

While there are many challenges young companies might struggle with, they certainly escaped one that is a blessing and a curse at the same time – the legacy IT systems. Data is indeed one of the companies’ most valued assets, as knowledge (read, ‘data’) empowers better, more informed business decisions. Moreover, chances are your organization already has most of the knowledge it needs. The only caveat, though, is that it might be inaccessible and therefore, pretty useless.

ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems integrate a broad range of core business processes and functions into one central system that acts as a single source of truth for an organization. An ERP system consists of a wide range of integrated applications, each one dealing with a particular function. These could include, for example, finance, operations, marketing, human resources, customer relationship management, supply chain management, and more.

Through a new partnership with Kong featuring native integration with Moesif, API providers will now have an enhanced Kong experience—enabling API teams to monitor their APIs and stay informed of issues and behaviors impacting their customers. With user behavior analytics, Kong customers can now track the entire customer journey with Moesif from initial sign up to the first API call and empower engineering and business teams with the product insights needed to experiment and take action.

For any API-first company, implementing the right API analytics platform is critical for tracking the utilization of your APIs and to discover any performance or functional issues that may be impacting customers. There are a variety of open-source projects you can leverage to build a complete API analytics platform. Before jumping into building an API analytics solution yourself, you should first list out your requirements and use cases.

The problems with legacy systems can be extremely detrimental to the success of any business, especially one that primarily handles customer data. Business needs and demands are constantly changing and the type of software and systems we use or don’t use can be the difference between growth and stagnation. As a result of this, legacy modernization for many organizations is nonnegotiable.