INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Mobile Technology
Focus Softnet offers ERP with
mobile and cloud features
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C
IOs need to consider how well a
software solution can handle the end-
to-end requirements of their business
when choosing which ERP to implement.
Sunil Mathew, COO of Focus Softnet, says
this is the major capability CIOs should be
looking for when considering deploying an
ERP solution.
Focus Softnet has recently upgraded its
complete product portfolio and its flagship
product, Focus 9, now has multilingual
capability and is GCC VAT compliant.
“The most important aspect for any CIO
looking to implement an ERP is to ask to
what extent is it meeting the end-to-end
requirements of the entire operations that
he has,” said Mathew.
“The most important aspect of any ERP
is not to create different data silos where
different applications are handling different
data bases, we are looking at everything
end-to-end.
“For example, for a warehousing company
the most important aspect is from your
advanced notification right to the final
delivery of your products to the consumer,
everything in between needs to be taken
care of by the application.
“The system should be capable of handling
multiple stages in multiple formats on
multiple device interfaces. You can’t take
your system into a warehouse – you will
be taking a handheld device into the
warehouse so it should be capable of
processing data and processing forms on a
handheld device.
“The system is well capable of handling the
whole process end to end for any vertical.”
The company offers customers vertical-
focused solutions that offer a targeted
industry specific version of their ERP offer.
Focus Softnet’s vertical market capabilities
include Focus RMS (Retail Management
Suite), Focus e-RMS (Restaurant
Management System), Focus MRP (Material
Requirement Planning) and Focus WMS
(Warehouse Management System).
“The product itself is flexible for
customisation but for every vertical you can’t
keep customising so we have created vertical
ready templates,” said Mathew.
Sunil Mathew, COO of Focus Softnet
www.intelligentcio.com
“For example, for sales and distribution,
automobile, real estate, the service industry,
manufacturing, and housing, there is a
ready-made template.
THE SYSTEM IS
WELL CAPABLE
OF HANDLING THE
WHOLE PROCESS
END TO END FOR
ANY VERTICAL.
“So for every specific industry requirement
we have created ready-made templates
which are out-of-box implemented so
the time for implementing a new vertical
normally is three to four months for an ERP
but with a ready-made template it will not
take more than a month or 45 days.”
Security is another consideration for small
and medium businesses as they begin to use
cloud-based solutions on multiple connected
devices. Software solutions from Focus
Softnet are optimised for all forms of mobile,
connected devices including thin-PC clients,
with remote access.
“Now that Focus 9 is a cloud ready
application which is accessible across
multiple platforms, be it thin client web
application or mobile application, the
accessibility of data across multiple locations
is very easy and very quick with the kind of
architecture we have defined for Focus 9,”
said Mathew.
“Gone are the days when you really had
to worry about synchronisation of data
back and forth, keeping multiple servers or
having an offline server etc that’s no longer
required, it’s all online and is immediate with
a cloud option.” n
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