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Ticket Triage for Plex ERP: How Small BA Teams Decide What Gets Fixed First

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It is 7:40 am on a Monday morning and your inbox already has four Plex problems in it. A supervisor at one plant cannot print labels. An accountant at another company cannot close last month's books. Somebody - you are not sure who - reports that "Plex is slow." And a text message from a plant manager says a workcenter stopped recording production two hours ago. Four tickets. One of you. Which one do you touch first? If your answer is "whichever one I saw first" or "whoever is loudest," you do not have a support process - you have a reaction process. The fix is an old idea borrowed from emergency medicine: triage . This article covers what ticket triage is, why it pays for itself in a Plex ERP environment, the five-step pass I recommend for every incoming ticket, and the specific challenges that hit small Plex business analysts who support more than one company, in more than one location, at the same time. Listen to the podcast version of this post:...

How to Be a Data Privacy Champion during Data Privacy Week (Jan 27 to 31, 2025)

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Data Privacy Week, taking place from January 27 to 31, 2025, is an international initiative aimed at empowering individuals and businesses to respect privacy, safeguard data, and enable trust.  Data Privacy Week aims to spread awareness about online privacy, helping citizens understand their power to manage their data and encouraging organizations to respect their users' data.  Personal data is collected every day by various websites, and while you can't lock down all your data, you can take simple steps to control how it's shared. Become a Data Privacy Week Champion and help encourage businesses to respect privacy, safeguard data, and enable trust. Champions receive a toolkit of materials to use and customize, helping to spread the message of data privacy. Data Privacy Week - National Cybersecurity Alliance