John Rogelstad

(SYS-CON Media) - The Marena Group in Lawrenceville, Georgia, has always followed its own path and bucked convention. A maker of compression garments for athletic and post-surgical use, the company exports approximately half of its domestically produced goods to overseas markets - a true exception in the garment field. The company has also followed its own instincts in the area of information technology and has readily embraced open source products. For many years, Marena relied upon one Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) product, but the longer we used it, the more dissatisfied we became. The existing application had undergone numerous updates and add-ons over time, which made it extremely difficult to maintain. In addition, the vendor was acquired by another company and... (more)