Why CRM and ERP Should Have Always Been One System

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CRM and ERP systems have lived separate lives for too long. It’s time to end the split.

Your business doesn’t treat sales, operations, and finance as disconnected. So why does your software?

In reality:

  • Leads become quotes

  • Quotes become contracts

  • Contracts drive fulfillment, billing, and revenue

  • Everything affects cash flow and forecasting

But most companies are stuck re-entering data from one system to another, building clunky integrations, or worse — managing it all in spreadsheets.

NODE⁵ merges CRM and ERP into one unified agentic system:

  • Sales teams can trigger fulfillment

  • Finance can view contracts in context

  • Agents track the full journey — from first contact to final payment

The result?

No silos. No confusion. Just one system that runs your business from start to scale.

Dylan Winn-Brown

Dylan Winn-Brown is a freelance web developer & Squarespace Expert based in the City of London. 

https://winn-brown.co.uk
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