Resources • Guides, Playbooks & Updates

Resources & Insights on Custom Software, ERP & Cloud for Growing Teams

This is where we share what we learn while designing and building custom software solutions, web apps & business portals, accounts & ERP automation, back-office workflows and marketing & growth systems for real businesses.

Explore deep-dive guides, implementation checklists, industry examples and practical tips — written for founders, managers and operators, not just for developers.

Featured articles & playbooks

Start with these long-form resources if you are exploring how to structure your technology stack, choose cloud services, or plan your first custom software project.

All topics Custom software Cloud platforms Industry solutions Growth & operations
Cloud • Guide

AWS Complete Guide for Growing Businesses

A practical introduction to Amazon Web Services for teams moving beyond shared hosting. Learn how to think about compute, storage, databases and security without getting lost in jargon.

AWS Cloud strategy
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Cloud • Guide

Microsoft Azure Complete Guide 2025

An overview of Microsoft Azure services, use cases and best practices for SMEs. Written in simple language with examples from real projects and industry software solutions.

Azure Cloud platforms
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Cloud • Guide

IBM Cloud Essentials for Custom Software Solutions

A focused look at IBM Cloud services that matter when you are planning custom software solutions, integrations and hybrid environments with existing on-premise systems.

IBM Cloud Hybrid cloud
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Custom software • Playbook

Planning Your First Custom Software Solution

A step-by-step playbook for mapping processes, defining roles, choosing modules and avoiding common mistakes when you commission custom software for the first time.

Custom software Process mapping
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Industry • Overview

Industry Software Solutions: Immigration, Logistics, Retail & Education

A practical overview of how different industries use similar building blocks — portals, ERPs, automation and growth systems — in very different ways.

Industry software solutions Use cases
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Growth • Systems thinking

Connecting Operations, Accounts & Marketing into One View

Why it matters to connect CRM, ERPs, admin and growth systems — and how to start small instead of trying to fix everything at once.

Marketing & growth systems Operations
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Browse resources by topic

As your library grows, you can connect these blocks to real WordPress categories. For now, use these topic groups to guide visitors toward the right content.

Custom Software & Portals

Articles and examples on scoping, designing and launching custom software solutions and web portals. Ideal if you are moving away from spreadsheets and want to avoid overbuying a generic ERP.

Custom software solutions Web apps & portals
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Industry Software Solutions

Deep-dives into how immigration & visa consulting, logistics & warehousing, retail & beauty D2C, and education & training use software to stay organised and grow.

Immigration & visa Logistics ERP Retail & education
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Accounts & ERP Automation

Content focused on bridging the gap between front-line operations and accounts: billing, ledgers, GST, ITR-ready exports and reconciliations that don’t depend on manual copy-paste.

ERP automation Accounts workflows
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Back-office & Growth Systems

Guides on internal workflows, approvals, ticketing, Tele CRM and marketing & growth systems that turn campaigns and calls into a predictable pipeline.

Back-office automation Marketing & growth systems
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How to use SolutionERP’s resources in your planning

These articles are not meant to replace a proper discovery conversation — but they can give you language, structure and examples before we talk. Many clients share links from this page inside their own teams.

1. Share with your internal stakeholders

Send relevant guides to co-founders, managers or team leads. Ask them which parts feel closest to your current situation and where they see the biggest gaps.

2. Mark specific sections for your use case

Save or highlight sections that match your processes — for example, immigration file steps, logistics flows or retail order journeys. This makes later discussions faster.

3. Turn insights into a first brief

Use these resources as a starting point to write a simple, honest brief: where you are today, what you want to change and which constraints matter most.

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