Adapting Technologies

Adapting Technologies
Epicor ERP Version 10 provides tools for future success.

By Cassandra Balentine

Epicor Software Corporation provides business software solutions for manufacturing, distribution, retail, and services organizations. The company ranked number 101 in the 2013 Software 500, reporting a software and services revenue of $797 million for the 2012 fiscal year.

With over 40 years of experience serving small, mid-market, and larger enterprises, the company has more than 20,000 customers in over 150 countries. It is headquartered in Austin, TX, with offices and affiliates worldwide. 

Epicor enterprise resource planning (ERP), retail management software, supply chain management (SCM), and human capital management (HCM) enable its customers to drive increased efficiency and improve profitability. 

Latest ReleaseRecently, at its annual customer conference—Epicor Insights, the company announced the availability of Epicor ERP version 10. The latest development provides tools required for businesses to partake in the transformation of business required of next-generation enterprise resource planning (ERP) software.

According to Malcolm Fox, VP, product marketing, Epicor Software, version 10 is a blend of rich global functionality built on agile technology that eliminates complexity to make ERP easier to use, more collaborative, and more responsive than ever before, while supporting today's business imperatives such as social collaboration, deployment flexibility, accelerated performance, and broad device accessibility. 

"With a streamlined experience across multiple devices and expanded deployment choices—on premise, cloud, or managed service—Epicor ERP version 10 delivers a consistent experience, delivered in a single solution. The new touch-enabled, intuitive UI is designed from the ground up to work with touch screen devices—empowering users to work the way they want," says Fox. 

With Epicor ERP version 10, companies gain a technology platform that can support them as they conduct business today and in the future—on any device, anytime, anywhere in the world. At the foundation of Epicor ERP version 10 is the next-generation Epicor ICE 3 Business Architecture that drives increased performance, scalability, interoperability and ease of use, while reducing the cost and complexity of doing business leveraging a 100 percent Microsoft technology stack.

Fox says this release delivers a substantial simplification in the overall technology stack and is an unprecedented development project that kicked off in 2007. Early research and promising initial results over a number of years eventually led to this initiative consuming the bulk of our development capacity for the past 30 months, including an extensive global customer beta program.

"The world of business and consumer technology has changed rapidly over the recent past leading to new demands for flexibility, agility, and ease of use. Inspired by the expectations of today’s tech-aware workforce, Epicor ERP version 10 introduces a number of new applications and technologies that will transform the way companies operate. Based on the five principles of collaboration, choice, responsiveness, simplicity, and mobility, Epicor ERP version 10 is designed to help organizations work better, both internally and externally, leveraging the knowledge and experience of the people and systems connected together throughout the supply chain," concludes Fox.

In the FieldCustomers are already live and running their businesses on Epicor ERP version 10 today, including Allambi Youth Services, Boers & Co FineMetalworking Group, Cylicron Engineered Cylinders, LLC., Enpress LLC, Habasit America, Hallmark Building Supplies, Humtown Products, MK Products, and XT (previously Xstrata Technology). 

Epicor ERP version 10 is designed for discrete manufacturers, distributors, and service organizations in the global mid-market. It is immediately available in 35 languages and 26 countries worldwide. SW

Jun2014, Software Magazine