FINAL WORD
deploy real-time integration processes
that link your employees, suppliers,
partners, and customers.
Cloud deployment brings the
opportunity to redefine many of
your legacy business processes and
workflows in a way that leverages these
more open, connected, instantaneous
integration paths.
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Business consistency and
process alignment globally
Increasingly, companies have staff
working across multiple locations and
they aspire to provide the efficiency of
a single unified ERP system across the
enterprise to support them. Deploying a
single cloud ERP globally (where the only
infrastructure requirement is Internet
access) removes many operational
obstacles, and gives you the confidence
that your continued expansion efforts
can be accommodated without a
significant IT effort by simply enabling
that new location in your existing cloudbased ERP system. With consistency
comes improved transparency and
increased efficiency.
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HESHAM EL KOMY
Senior Director, Epicor Software
NOT HAVING TO MAKE
A MASSIVE UPFRONT
INVESTMENT IN THE
ERP SYSTEM AND
ITS SUPPORTING
INFRASTRUCTURE IS
CRITICAL IN ALLOWING
SMALLER COMPANIES
TO PERFORM
BEYOND SAME-SIZED
COMPETITORS FROM
AN ENTERPRISE
APPLICATION QUALITY
AND COMPLETENESS
PERSPECTIVE
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These major upgrades are designed to
require little to no project management
on your part, short of double checking
that everything is working the way you
expect it to and ensuring that your
internal users are prepared to take
advantage of the new version.
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Mobile and collaborative
Moving to a cloud-based system
gives everyone the real-time system
access they require as a routine part
of their jobs while driving out the
inefficiency of paper-based processes
and the burden and security risk of
figuring out how to deliver this yourself.
Opening up your ERP system by virtue
of cloud deployment allows you
to retire the poorly defined ad-hoc
“integration by Excel file” workflows
that might have cropped up across your
organisation. In their place, you can
Reduced risk, greater
visibility, better value
Many clients choose a cloud-based
system (ERP and other workflows)
because it allows them to deploy a
much more complete solution than they
could otherwise manage or financially
justify under legacy deployment
models. Not having to make a massive
upfront investment in the ERP system
and its supporting infrastructure is
critical in allowing smaller companies to
perform beyond same-sized competitors
from an enterprise application quality
and completeness perspective.
ERP solutions aren’t just software. They
are tools that can be used to help grow
your business profitably, offering flexible
solutions that provide more accurate
information in real-time, driving smarter,
faster decision-making, and enabling
customers to quickly meet changing
market demands to stay ahead of their
competition. The cloud increases the
business benefits that ERP offers and can
accompany your business on the road to
successful growth.
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