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smart ERP system helping as a solitary cause of truth for the company improves all of the provisions, collecting documentation from an MES and an alert management solution. The ERP platform provides the manufacturer with visibility and management of materials, quality, scheduling, and inventory management in order to trace specific orders. In this process, if a safety risk is uncovered, instant action must be taken to recall the affected product. The traceability feature of ERP assists businesses to trace all ingredients or end products back to the supplier, through the inbound carrier, and moved to the outbound carrier and eventually to the distributor.

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Moreover, with the dawn of the Internet and cloud computing trends, we can see a novel paradigm shift with ERP systems.

Users have developed more and more acquaintance and content while using applications on their tablets and browsers on their laptops. They now believe and call that same ease-of-use and suppleness from their ERP systems. Solution providers have seen the demand from its clients to have intelligent software or workflow engines that can strongly handle a process or notify users when an exception happens. Customers want a guideless to use, configurable dashboards that provide one click to key with relevant information’s. These demands can be completed with the aid of effective ERP solutions that allow them to analyze the sales and financial data from a variation of diverse outlooks.

Deployment of an Intelligent ERP system acts as a system throughout your entire company – not essentially just for supply chain or just for finance. With this in mind, it’s important to talk to company leaders in all areas to get their input on the functionalities they would like in a management system. ERP applications are meant to amalgamate your company throughout all areas and surge visibility for workers.

We can proudly say that, solution providers had a specific focus on the various industries and monitored the real-time process portion to become the true strength of the system — specifically how it lines with the rest of the system to permit for swift, up to date and in-depth review of the production floor. Additionally, deployment of a perfect ERP solution of solutions providers are facilitating as a backbone for them and giving the considerable flexibility in their system, will helps companies to grow bigger and better in the marketplace.

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Big Bang ERP: A Dedicated Cloud ERP Solutions Advisor to Escalate your Business

Deskera: Award-Winning Software to Automate Your Business

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Kloudville: Creating New Denition for ERP Solutions

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ProcessPro: Committing to Provide Best-in-Class ERP Solutions

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The Long-Lasting Momentum of ERP in Industries

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he ERP companies are going into a transformative epoch described by sustained but modest evolution, a transformed effort on product and process innovation, and extraordinary collaboration across the value chain.

Further, while the precipitateness of global economic events create new challenges on a daily basis, industries have advanced outlines and implemented to improve lucidity and lessen risk across the supply chain as well as the overall enterprise.

We can say that ERP solution providers are persistently advancing competitive cost configurations as they align their business models with changing market dynamics. They are ramping up their advance strategies to move their offerings in anticipation of extra orders and to produce themselves even leaner. Their business models are changing, and as a result, with value-added facilities, they are attracting a more momentous source of revenue and yielding plentiful profits.

In this issue of “The 10 Fastest Growing ERP Solution Provider Companies,” we have ornamented some of the noticeable organizations, who have achieved trademark by providing Best-in-Class ERP solutions and are well equipped for proceeding the ERP sectors' future. These organizations sponsored the diverse industries in transforming their approach of business work with excellent strategy execution and customer satisfaction as the premier priority.

Our magazine's journey starts with the Cover story on IQMS, who uniquely combine ERP and manufacturing execution system (MES) functionality to give manufacturers a comprehensive end-to-end suite for running the business, backed by the real-time performance and scalability that companies demand.

Apart from our cover story, we have ABM Knowledgeware, IT software and services Company (BSE 531161), is one of the few IT companies in India with an exclusive focus on e-Municipality & e-Governance solutions. We have Big Bang ERP, a boutique consulting firm that helps businesses optimize and streamline their processes, by implementing cloud business solutions like NetSuite ERP, Salesforce CRM, FinancialForce ERP, Rootstock MRP, ServiceNow ITSM and custom business apps. We have Deskera that delivers ERP solutions that help companies of all sizes and industries, run better. Dynamics Africa is focusing on Microsoft Dynamics NAV and GP Enterprise solutions. Kloudville provides a suite of agile business applications to help run and transact commerce operations for business processes.

Lancom Technology for delivering innovative and elegant IT solution to growing NZ businesses, Oracle for offering a complete, innovative and proven cloud solution for organizations of all sizes, ProcessPro develops, sells, implements and supports a complete ERP software solution for businesses that execute batch process manufacturing in highly regulated industries, and Xorosoft for offering innovative labor management software and cloud ERP solutions to businesses.

We have encompassed, “Intelligence ERP: An Innovative Approach in the Market” and “ERP and it’s Security Challenges,” scripted by our in-house editors in the wonderful pages of this magazine.

We have also covered CXO on, “The Proliferation of Complexit,” by Rana Gujral, Cofounder & CEO of TiZE. So, do flip the pages of our magazine to uncover the prominent inspirations of the EPR industry.

Cover Story

Gary Nemmers CEO & President

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eing able to meet the constantly evolving demands and expectations of customers, managing statutory/regulatory compliance, staying abreast with the competitive industrial environment, planning and stocking inventory and most importantly, manufacturing quality products consistently are some of the prominent challenges faced by manufacturing and assembly companies. IQMS® addresses all these aforementioned issues, as well as other challenges, faced by businesses operating in the manufacturing industry. IQMS takes great pride in offering its suite of highly scalable, flexible and faster ERP solutions for the manufacturing sector.

IQMS is a privately held, global software company based in Paso Robles, California with offices across North America, Europe and Asia, built by and for manufacturers. Born on the shop floor, its enterprise resource planning (ERP) software is tailored exactly for the manufacturing environment. It understands manufacturers’ challenges and delivers quality solutions that allow customers to run their businesses better. Designed on accountability, the IQMS system combines ERP, manufacturing execution system (MES), and manufacturing software to advance all aspects of a manufacturer’s business, providing a comprehensive end-to-end suite that is supported by real-time performance and scalability.

Fascinating Leaders of IQMS Randall Flamm, Founder of IQMS, began his career in 1973 as a Maintenance Engineer at a Northern California based molding facility. Due to the lack of commercially available manufacturing software, Flamm began developing a program that targeted the information needs of the plastics industry. As his new quoting software was embraced and implemented at the company, so did his desire to expand it

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to encompass scheduling, inventory control, and production reporting. In 1989, Flamm founded IQMS and started evolving the ERP product with new features and functionality across numerous industries. With Flamm’s retirement in 2015, Gary Nemmers joined IQMS as the CEO and President of IQMS. Both IQMS corporate leaders saw the same opportunity: a manufacturer’s success was contingent upon the shop floor’s procedures and processes. With the outline of automation and information technology oversight and management for the industry, shop floor operations could increasingly become more efficient and cost-effective with the right system in place.

Superlative Solutions with Great Services IQMS solutions are quite apt for discrete and batch manufacturers of auto components, consumer products, electronics, machinery, precision products, plastics, steel and various manufacturing and assembly plants.

Specifically, IQMS' ERP solution is perfect for process manufacturers of leather, cement, dairy, food and beverages, chemicals, plastics, steel, etc.

Developed specifically for mid-market repetitive, discrete and batch process manufacturers, IQMS delivers robust capabilities for addressing strict customer and regulatory certification and compliance. IQMS achieves this by supplying traditional ERP functionality for accounting, sales orders, material requirements, inventory and purchasing, plus extended native features for customer relationship management (CRM), human resources, production scheduling, shop floor control, warehouse and quality modules.

Within the ERP market, the company is seeing debates on the merits of the cloud versus on-premises implementations.

IQMS believes that its customers should be able to choose the deployment that best suits their needs, so the company has formed its Choice is the New Cloud™ program.

Through this program, IQMS offers options for deploying software that confirms robust protection and disaster

We are committed to providing smart, safe and sustainable ERP solutions around the world

recovery for its customers, but without the cost of maintaining a remote data center. Instead, customers can install the IQMS system through one of three deployment approaches: (1) As a cloud-based subscription service, (2) As licensed software managed in the cloud by IQMS, or (3) As an on-premises implementation of licensed software.

With these three deployment options, manufacturers have the flexibility to choose the right solution for their company and their budget.

IQMS’ competition tends to emphasize traditional “back office” ERP functionality; whereas, with IQMS, its focus is on the manufacturing shop floor where “the money is made” by fulfilling orders on time with quality products while minimizing costs. The company makes it a priority to ensure that manufacturers are meeting quality strategies and standards while accomplishing short delivery times, saving time and money.

As technology progresses, so does IQMS’ software. From wireless and mobile capabilities to the ever cumulative requirement for instantaneous visibility, collaboration and communication, IQMS EnterpriseIQ software will continue to protect a strategic place in manufacturing as the only total, enterprise-wide solution.

New Approaches and Cutting-edge Solutions IQMS believes that previously the manufacturing industry was focusing on low-cost components, relying on long,

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complex and unreliable supply chains in order to achieve increasingly lower price points. However, today, the manufacturing sector is reshoring to the countries where the final product is made, enabling short supply chains that can be relied upon to produce quality parts on short notice.

IQMS sees manufacturers building additional plants close to their end consumers to ensure this ease of doing business. With multiple plants in place, manufacturers are relying heavily on automation along with production and process monitoring to deliver quality parts on time to specification.

In the most advanced manufacturing regions, industry regulations are on the rise, and these requirements are being pushed down the supply chain. Mid-market manufacturers are seeking information and equipment to measure and document regulatory compliance. Therefore, the need for ERP systems with integrated quality management functionality is on the rise. Through its Implementation by Design™ process, IQMS certifies that manufacturers can migrate to a fresh ERP system within three to six months.

Making Clients a Top Priority At IQMS, there are three teams dedicated to client relations: First, the frontline Customer Support Group, which is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, directly answers its customers’ product usage and support

We form long-term partnerships with our customers based on trust, support and bottom-line, measurable ROI

questions, ensuring their systems continue to run efficiently.

Second, its Professional Services and Education Group provides ongoing training so that customers can continuously receive additional value from their ERP systems. With a solid team of project managers, solution architects, and subject matter experts in place, the Professional Services team offers assistance from planning and implementing the new ERP solution through full adoption and ongoing maintenance of the solution with training, shadowing, mentoring and change management support.

And third is the Customer Success Group, which works proactively with customers to extract maximum value from their IQMS products and services. Team members from this group collaborate with customers to recognize their uses of and experiences with the software, identifying any gaps.

Centered on their findings, the team will offer recommendations and work with their IQMS Support and Professional Services counterparts to provide customers the training, knowledge and resources to maximize their operational efficiency and effectiveness, ensuring customers reach their business goals and objectives.

What most stands out about IQMS is its Implementation by Design™ approach for getting customers up and running successfully in a predictable timeframe. Importantly, its implementation approach parallels the manufacturing process. This accelerates understanding and buy-in among customers about the people and processes required to get an enactment into production effectively and on schedule.

Remarkable Impressions of Employees behind the Successful Journey of IQMS IQMS appreciates that company employees are vital to its success. The company stats include a 25% improved headcount over the past year alone. IQMS is known for its

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extensive 120-day training and evaluation program. New hires undergo 90 days of core hands-on product training followed by 30 days of shadowing and mentoring, concluding with both written and verbal testing on product knowledge and soft skills. IQMS fosters a participatory management style, beginning with open door policies and engagement across all levels of the organization in strategic planning, process creation and strategic direction of the company.

While articulating about its company team, Gary Nemmers says, “Not only do IQMS team members work hard, we play hard, too. Associates enjoy a ‘Google-like’ environment, filled with company provided snacks, ongoing staff mixers and company-sponsored events. In addition to giving back to our associates, we also take pride in giving back to the local community. Over the past year, IQMS donated nearly $200,000 to local non-profits, including $40,000 in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) scholarships to eligible high school students. We even provide opportunities for associates to volunteer several hours a month at local non-profits while on the clock.”

Future Outlook Holds Significant Opportunities IQMS attributes its success to placing customers first through its manufacturing shop floor focus and world-class support. The company realizes that its success is linked to their success, which is tied to their ability to ship quality products on time with minimal costs.

IQMS sees that the manufacturing industry is developing, which means customers will be looking for process enhancements to become more proficient and productive. In addition, IQMS knows that the sustained adoption of the internet of things (IoT) and the use of big data to perform predictive analytics will make manufacturers more productive and more reliable, ensuring better quality while cutting operational and labor costs. As a company that places the goals of the shop floor and manufacturing first, IQMS will continue to prove itself and its value in the marketplace, providing ERP total system solutions to its current customers as they grow while expanding its current customer base.

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ABM Knowledgeware abmindia.com

Prakash Rane Founder & Managing Director

ABM Knowledgeware, IT software and services Company (BSE 531161) is one of the few IT companies in India with an exclusive focus on e-Municipality & e-Governance solutions.

Big Bang ERP bigbangerp.com

Mark Rhyman & Gabriel Tupula Co-CEO’s

Big Bang ERP is a boutique consulting ďŹ rm that helps businesses optimize and streamline their processes, by implementing cloud business solutions like NetSuite ERP, Salesforce CRM, FinancialForce ERP, Rootstock MRP, ServiceNow ITSM and custom business apps.

Deskera deskera.in

Shashank Dixit Co-founder & CEO

With a focus on innovation and quality, Deskera works with customers and clients worldwide to deliver ERP solutions that help companies of all sizes and industries, run better.

Ajen Sita Founder & CEO

Dynamics Africa is an ISV Partner focusing on Microsoft Dynamics NAV and GP Enterprise solutions.Dynamics Africa is an ISV Partner focusing on Microsoft Dynamics NAV and GP Enterprise solutions.

iqms.com

Randall Flamm Founder Gary Nemmers CEO & President

IQMS uniquely combines ERP and manufacturing execution system (MES) functionality to give manufacturers a comprehensive end-to-end suite for running the business, backed by the real-time performance and scalability that companies demand.

Kloudville Inc kloudville.com

David Keller Founder & CTO Zarar Rana President & CEO

Kloudville is a leading company providing a suite of agile business applications to help run and transact commerce operations for your processes.

Lancom Technology lancom.si

Warwick Eade Founder

Lancom Technology provide innovative and elegant IT solutions to growing NZ businesses.

Oracle oracle.com

Steve Cox Group Vice President ERP EPM Product Marketing

Oracle offers a complete, innovative, and proven cloud solution for organizations of all sizes who want to thrive in the digital economy.

ProcessPro processproerp.com

Dr. Michael Bertini CEO

ProcessPro develops, sells, implements and supports a complete ERP software solution for businesses that execute batch process manufacturing in highly regulated industries.

Xorosoft xorosoft.com

Gurinder Singh Co-Founder

Xorosoft specializes in offering innovative Labor management software and cloud ERP solutions to businesses.

Dynamics Africa dynamicsafrica.biz

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INTELLIGENCE ERP: An Innovative Approach in the Market

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rom the past few years, it is observed technology focused companies use Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) applications for smooth-running of the business processes, for enabling the business to have a greater insight and visibility into their supply chain operations. This revolutionary development boosts the pace of businesses and helps in maintaining a competitive edge in the industry. Due to ERP, now, the companies have acquired capabilities to break down barriers between the business and the customer. Due to an increasing demand for ERP software solutions the competition has intensified. iERP a Next Wave in ERP Technology is continuing to expand our knowledge and abilities and business leaders are demanding some new updates to improve their business. It’s not satisfactory to only have an ERP as organizations already have the capacities, but it is vital to have intelligence ERP which delivers results. iERP performs many more activities like collecting data, reviews from various aspects and yields information based on exemptions and business rules. Only intelligence ERP have these abilities as standard ERP applications don't have these capabilities.

Intelligence ERP contributes several advantages including, Machine Learning (ML), Enhanced Business processes, Differentiated user experience (UX), and Product improvement.

Machine Learning (ML) Shaping the Business iERP applies the ML and advanced analytics to foretell, study, investigate, report, and maintain company resources and business practices. This characteristic allows the entire snapshot of the operational data vital to the ERP application. As iERP software learns, the application serves to build forecasting analytics and imminent solutions to obtain the information required to adjust and reconfigure the business developments.

Enhanced Business Processes An iERP allows the users to reveal new judgments, develop specific estimates and predictions, set up process automation, and develop suggestions for subsequent levels.

Users can observe the information and set goals for business transactions or forecasts iERP provides a 360-degree panorama of the company’s overall effectiveness and furnishes the administrative team with the tools required to make better and faster decisions.

Allow Users to Perform Smart Tasks The additional advantage of ERP practices is the way they change the UX and eventually affect the way employees do their jobs. The traditional ERP software requires employees to trace the information they need to perform their tasks, at lengths before putting it into action. Due to Intelligent ERP systems, it becomes easy to perform many of the tasks rather than collecting just information and it enables the users to fulfill their tasks more efficiently. iERP Enhances Product Quality With the support of iERP, the organizations will able to develop their outcomes. The use of iERP can create an accessible method of interaction with their representatives which will enhance the product development. Also, iERP system can perform modifications to their products, records, or production process that they might have neglected before. These modifications help to increase revenue.

According to IDC estimates, 35% of business leaders will demand intelligent ERP by 2018, as there is more to it than just the technology. The ERP technologies are impressive and typically combined with big data and cloud deployments to make the proper resources available for these huge computing jobs.

Reduces Cycle Time iERP uses all the information about product, market, and trade sector and interprets them, and also discovers the method as it goes on. The introduction of iERP into business can greatly diminish sales cycle times. Due to automation and augmentation in iERP several steps in the business process can be diminished, and those lingering steps can be expanded by constant learning in the system.

Workers Need to Evolve Skill Sets There are few factors that are making iERP practices worthy, possibly unavoidable. It will affect the employees of the organizations who carry those practices. It reduces the human interference to perform business processes so that employees will need their skill sets to adapt to the new landscape.

The Future is Ahead The iERP system has progressed beyond recognition. New digitalized iERP business forms are facilitating magnified experiences and innovations, opening the importance of information.

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ABM Knowledgeware: India’s First Choice for e-Municipality & e-Governance solutions…

We offer the best customer-valued solutions by building techno-functional capabilities in niche areas with high integrity

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he global e-government studies inevitably require the development of severe measures that represent the quality and level of e-government.

Headquartered in Mumbai, ABM Knowledgeware is booming into the ERP domain by tackling the numerous drawbacks that arise associated with ERP implementation.

With the exponential growth of this market, they have been designing solutions that focus exclusively on ERP implementation for E-Governance. Incorporated in 1993, ABM has engaged in discovering itself in the emunicipality segment since year 2000 with several successfully sustained projects, bringing 750+ urban & local (municipal) bodies and some of the major smart cities under its clientele. On the whole, ABM stands as a robust, scalable and sustainable ERP solution which offers value for money by reducing the cost of ownership and customization need for users.

ABM is a Bombay Stock Exchange listed (BSE:531161) company, and is one of the few IT companies in India which has 17 years long exclusive impulse on Egovernance and undisputed leadership in e-Municipality.

They have been the first choice by the major states of India for e-Municipality & e-Governance solutions. ABM is the frontrunner in enabling the e-governance services in India with several efficaciously sustained projects. Their various

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Prakash Rane Founder & Managing Director

e-government solutions deliver 28+ million Citizen Services per year compared to 4.2 Million in 2010 and rising.

The Fascinating leader of ABM Prakash Rane, Founder and Managing Director, ABM Knowledgeware is a B.tech Degree and holds a PG Degree in Management Studies (M.M.S.) along with a superb academic record. Prakash has a vast experience in the field of e-governance. Under his stewardship, the company has attained a leadership position in the niche of e-governance in a short span of time. He has conceptualized various pioneering and efficacious strategic solutions in egovernance which have become a benchmark in the industry.

Prakash is a first generation entrepreneur who decided to start a business without any working experience. When he started his software business 19 years ago, the fledgling industry’s focus was on drumming up the business abroad while largely overlooking the Indian Government as a potential customer.

While describing his journey, he says, “For me, wealth is a combination of Leadership + Credibility + Profits. I consider values such as Truth, Accountability, Gratitude, Integrity and Family of utmost importance while doing my business. I believe if a person cannot stand for anything in business, in life then he/she carries a risk of falling for everything. I have realized the importance of knowing what I don’t know and continually strive to learn. As in June 2017, from the past 17 years (post listing on BSE), our market capitalization has grown over 140 times and employee strength has grown 130 times.”

Exceptional Services with Innovative Models ABM MAINet®: It is an integrated ERP that can manage the entire working of a typical municipality (Corporation or Council) of any size. It encompasses all Citizen-facing services and work handled by every department of a municipality. It can be implemented statewide by the Urban Department for all ULBs in the state or individually by a distinct Urban Local Body. It is designed & developed by ABM with a meticulous study of municipal councils /corporations processes and incorporates the best practices to create a truly e-governed municipality.

state and central government organizations and other bodies, to transfer to an end-to-end digitized enterprise. It tremendously improves service delivery by automating Accounts &Finance, Project Management and Stores & Purchase, HRMS, Payroll and Pension, Land & Estate Management and reduce operating costs.

SAP Practice: In addition to the inhouse built ERPs, ABM has SAP practices that benefit in covering core functions of e-governance for government bodies. It boasts of some of the largest SAP implementations in Asia in the Urban sector. They have also implemented SAP in 377 municipalities across Madhya Pradesh

techno-functional skills to create entry barriers for competition. In accordance with technology, ABM remains compliant with the standards specified

by Digital India guidelines with a required focus on “Digital” framework.

“ABM’s deep techno-functional expertise, the experience of handling mega-sized projects with 1 lac plus users and hundreds of locations are key factors that make us unique and well equipped in addressing the challenges”, says Prakash Rane, Founder & MD, ABM. Accelerating Future Cravings ABM effectively evaluates the upcoming technologies for its fitment to its solutions and client’s need, and takes pragmatic decisions of incorporating the same from time to time. It also covers Double Entry Accounting Reforms and Automation, Water Billing and Accounting Solutions, Smart City Solutions, Tourism Portal, Right To Service Automation, Mobile Apps, Cybersecurity, etc.

ABM has also developed skills required for enabling ‘Change Management’ during and after “Go state in India which is one of the Live” of its implementation. They aim biggest SAP implementations to provide digitized services to citizens anywhere in India in Urban Sector. to transform India into a digitally Outstandingly Outlined Strategy for empowered society and knowledge economy. guiding clients ABM functions in the domain of automating Government processes, and They are also currently focusing on has developed deep domain knowledge ‘Cyber Security’ to enable users to work faster with a highly secure, yet by adding substantial value to improved transparency and efficiency simple to use remote access solution.

ABM is striving to enhance the within same government system post its automation. In other sectors, where offerings by constantly upgrading the technology and plans to offer ABM can be distinguished are the GRP/ABM MAINet® as Software-asaddressing of the challenges faced by GRP: It is an ERP for Government/ a-Service (SaaS) model and also Government customers viz. Change Semi-Government and Public Sector Management and “Staying Live” after leverages its experience of ERP Organisations. Built with an objective “Going Live.” implementation and support in similar to run a paperless office in all its opportunities. administrative transactions, GRP is an Hence ABM is more into Business indigenous ‘integrated office Model Innovation rather than Product automation system for government and or Tech innovation, and is dedicated to other government bodies.’ It helps both productize its services to blend its

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Big Bang ERP: A Dedicated Cloud ERP Solutions Advisor to Boost your Business

We are your cloud solutions provider, propelling your business to the next level

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y implementing cloud ERPs, CRMs, MRPs, and ITSM systems, Big Bang ERP, a leading cuttingedge boutique cloud consulting firm, supports businesses to optimize and streamline their processes. Their greatly skilled team of specialists works together with organizations to succeed in exceptional business enhancements for every department in the enterprise so that the companies can focus on what they do best; rather than on repetitive manual processes, spreadsheet management, and other non-value-added activities.

Acting as trusted advisors, Big Bang ERP delivers their diverse proficiencies and in-depth expertise to the achievement of organizations around the world. The team at Big Bang ERP is dedicated to helping businesses and customers achieve their goals with smart, effective, scalable and superior, cutting-edge cloud solutions that are provided on time and within the scope.

Their methodology for consulting follows a proprietary seven-step process that has business needs as its foundation: The Big Bang Experience™. Responsive consultants work right with their clients to detect process gaps, propose solutions, and implement customizations for ERP, CRM, MRP & ITSM systems for companies of all sizes and industry.

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Mark Rhyman Co-CEO & Chief Business Development Ofcer

Gabriel Tupula Co-CEO & Chief Operating Ofcer

The Big Bang ExperienceTM is the approach used by Big Bang ERP to amplify the triumph of their client cloud business transformation. The process safeguards the project team and ramps up successfully in which needs are documented, solutions are proposed & reviewed, development work is validated, and the system is deployed efficiently.

Maven Leaders of Big Bang ERP Mark Rhyman, Co-CEO & Chief Business Development Officer, holds a Masters’ degree in Computer Science from Concordia University. He is a Forbes Tech Council Member and a successful entrepreneur. Mark enjoys the challenges that come with being a successful business owner and in sustaining the tremendous growth that Big Bang ERP has experienced over the past year and half. The challenges have kept Mark on his toes and given him the opportunity

to meet and work with incredibly talented people along the way.

Gabriel Tupula, is the Co-CEO & Chief Operating Officer, holds a degree in Computer Engineering from the l’École Polytechnique/University of Montreal. Gabriel Tupula Yamba is a leader in operational excellence and corporate growth.

Gabriel’s cumulative experience in information systems, software development and internet marketing allows him to be a creative problem solver and a result-oriented project manager. As an analytical thinker, he can see the big picture and create a road map to tangible results. He can also reconcile the gaps between advanced technological concepts and practical applications. Gab adapts his strategies to meet the needs of the client, each with unique business processes. He aims to leverage existing tools and out-of-the-box solutions combined with expertise to meet their client’s requirements and business culture.

Serving Diligence and Intelligence Big Bang ERP distinguish themselves from the competition by proposing multiple solutions so that the customer can choose the best option for their business. Big Bang ERP currently uses, provides, implements and supports the following best in class cloud application development, ERP, CRM, MRP & ITSM software such as: Primary ERP, CRM, MRP & ITSM solutions: NetSuite, Salesforce, FinancialForce, Rootstock and ServiceNow Cloud ERP, CRM, MRP & ITSM Extenders: Avalara, B2BGateway, Nexonia, OzLink, Pardot, RFSmart, SPS Commerce and newly launched Big Bang ERP SlackBot for NetSuite.

Services offered: System selection, Business Process Review (BPR), Implementation, Development, Migration, Integration, Support and Training for cloud-based business solutions.

Big Bang ERP has a clear understanding of different solutions to the market and is doing competitive analysis to be able to differentiate the strengths and weaknesses of the top tiered solutions.

Benefitting clients with exceptional working techniques Big Bang ERP has the upper hand over many consulting firms. The company believes in recruiting young talented employees who will have both functional and technical expertise.

Their strategy has worked out very

SuiteWorld 17 in Las Vegas during their sold-out breakout session. This SlackBot allows teams in every department to reduce emails, admin tasks and time while maintaining quality and increasing productivity.

Any critical process can be expedited in Slack with easy commands to pull information about all the leads, push new information to NetSuite or to notify Slack users. It’s a fast, streamlined process that allows bidirectional communication via any mobile or desktop device that has the Slack App.

Big Bang ERP, a NetSuite 4-Star Award winner is now offering their “SlackBot for NetSuite” to their customers for free. They can customize each SlackBot for any of the following departments: Sales, Orders, Procurement, Project Management, Financial/Accounting and Marketing.

Cloud-based CRM, ERP, MRP and ITSM systems have become the backbone of many companies, and Big Bang ERP is looking forward to bringing the most cutting-edge, timewell for them since it makes it easier to saving, cost-effective, quality cloud ramp up the pace on projects as well as business solutions for every department. maintain budget constraints.

Big Bang ERP experienced global growth in the past years. Their team can assist customers anywhere in the world in a very responsive manner.

They have also expanded their official territory with their product partners to support both America and EMEA. They also successfully opened a second office in Mauritius at the end of 2016 to serve the emerging EMEA territory.

Driving towards the Future Dream In April 2017, Big Bang ERP added Rootstock and ServiceNow to their Industry Specific Solution Partners and just recently, they launched the first custom SlackBot for NetSuite users at

“I am so proud of all the hard work that has gone into making Big Bang ERP what it is today and bringing creative, quality solutions to the table like our SlackBot. Not only will it make people’s life easier while on the go, but also accommodate the new generation of employees who very much prefer texting and working remotely. This is only the beginning for us and we look forward to having our talented team of experts bring even more ingenious ideas to the table” shares Mark. www.bigbangerp.com

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o be a leading entrepreneur and to increase a business, one should focus on processing their business with proper planning and execution. The best way is to analyze the data and strategize accordingly for better results. But it is difficult sometimes to store so much of data and hence the data gets misplaced. So we have ERP. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is a software solution that provides manufacturers with the information necessary to effectively manage their business processings. ERP is a fully integrated real-time system giving the information needed to grow business. ERP connects agility by collecting information from every department, every process throughout the entire enterprise. This means, up to the

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moment, seamless communication and accurate picture of the valuable resources and tools with better project plans. This is total business intelligence with quote to figure out management potential and sleek office automation.

ERP equips you with ability to instantaneously track orders and monitor the acquisition of raw materials, parts, services and labor.

ERP Protections

A complete ERP solution integrates a Manufacturing Execution System (MES) and the Quality Management Module. MES enhances ERP with up to the moment in process job data.

This provides the ability to make critical adjustments immediately. With real-time quality management integrated, tools are available to secure& ensure a superior product with higher customer satisfaction, which ultimately will be leading to increase business.

Security Challenges Today, opportunity in hacking business is at peak.

ERP in particular is a paramount. ERP systems are the focal point of the businesses that use them.

Pirated access can affirm medical records, open the door to larceny at financial institutions and undermine industrial firms.

Hackers have deviated their focus from individuals to enterprises. An increase in number of targeted attacks, including ones against ERP systems is expected. There are a lot of resources on the Internet providing all the required information to attackers to customize their techniques on the ERP's architectures. We can say that ERP is vulnerable.

It is now time for firms to take ERP security on a serious note. Some of the challenges in ERP security are as followsInadequate Response Planning The first ERP security threat is lack of planning. Many of the businesses cannot run properly due to lack of planning.

Firms do not have effective methods in place to detect ERP vulnerabilities and incursion. The worse scenario is that, many don't have an adequate incident response plan in place for when there is a suspicious activity.

There is often a paucity in business in a proper incident response that includes the ERP layer. Logging for forensic purposes is not defined properly.

Ransomware Attacks There is no such system which is immune to the ransomware epidemic. Experts believe that the volume of ransom attacks against ERP systems is going to rise from here onwards.

At present, researchers at ERPs have leaked a proof-ofconcept attack against SAP systems. A remote command execution vulnerability allows the autoloading of any program from the server onto the workplace in SAP's standard client application. The cybercriminal can download malware to the device that can automatically be installed on every endpoint with SAP graphical user interface when a user runs the application.

Insider Threats One of the most widespread internal attacks is payroll fraud. Malicious workers or former employees who still have access to the ERP system are another top security threat. Even if it is tough to stop, businesses are already concerned about it. Insider threats top the list of security risks.

An employee can change its wage. A direct modification can be easily detected. Many of these breaches by employees instead inflate the number of additional working hours, raising total wages secretly. The fraud therefore is extremely difficult to detect.

Vulnerable Interconnections ERP systems are commonly interconnected with many other systems. This is a part of the value of ERP. It also poses a security threat because it is a vulnerability in one of the systems which opens the door for access to the others.

The ERP systems can be compromised potentially by a vulnerability in a connected app. And a vulnerability in ERP can spread to other systems. A flaw in ERP may be the first step in a multi-stage attack resulting in physical damage. Interconnections should be taken into account by enterprises. They also need to monitor them closely because there is more room for attack than ever before.

Poor Patch Management The process of repairing vulnerabilities in an infrastructure of an organization in order to maintain network security is

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called as patch management. One of the biggest ERP threats today is inactive security patches. ERP systems are not often upto-date. Many businesses have an inadequate process for monitoring these updates and putting them into place. IT security teams have their own patch management programs. These programs usually exclude ERP systems. According to security perspective, poor patch management can be costly.

Poor ERP Security Delegation Defining the handling of ERP security is one of the biggest security challenges in the current year. The consequence is that many preventive measures fall through the cracks.

SoD and user management are two terms which are mostly focused by security teams inside ERP-specific departments. IT security teams mainly focus on the OS and networking layer rather than ERP application itself. Today, the key challenge for ERP security is the grey area between those teams. Defining the same, it is critical in closing the gap between them.

The information security teams are not fully aware of the importance of ERP security in a holistic way. This not only includes a lack of awareness about basic security practices but also more modern best practices such as scanning for security vulnerabilities, continuous monitoring, and proper cloud security.

ERP provides with a clear view of opportunities, to serve better to new and existing customers in an ever challenging market.

Modern ERP is flexible but one should look forward to the security challenges to increase a business. Therefore, refined attacks are only a small part of the problem when it comes to ERP security. The bigger challenge is organizational. ERP eventually is perching at the root of a business. Today, many of the top ERP security challenges actually come from action not taken by the firms using these systems.

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Deskera:

Award-Winning Software to Automate Your Business

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nterprise resource planning is the frontrunner in serving efficiency and productivity solution to the companies all over the world. In today's competitive global environment, it is important for companies of all sizes to have an ERP in place. Enterprise resource planning ensures that deployment of resources take place, and company can observe them on a real-time basis. A number of manufacturing businesses, steel, oil, automotive, textile and pharmaceutical companies have already applied ERP solutions, thus making ERP lead the whole lot of industries.

In this market race, a leading Cloud Software Company, Deskera, is distinctively famous for providing the business solutions for small and midsize businesses. Their solution drives small and midsize business growth and bridges the digital divide by providing them with access to new, high quality technological assets. By eliminating the need for IT infrastructure, Deskera’s cloud-based software allows companies to focus on their time and resources in other growth areas like product development, marketing or sales.

Deskera is headquartered in Singapore and havs offices in India, Malaysia and Indonesia along with a a presence in the rest of South East Asia. At present, Deskera is

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enthusiastically growing in the United States. Their products with its Big Data backbone offer a much required industry tool for inventing new solutions that cater huge customer base. Deskera’s strength is shaping their products to fit customers’ needs for businesses and industries of all sizes.

Within a short span of about eight years, Deskera has become a leading provider of cloud services that facilitate process automation. They aim to keep up the momentum of making businesses simpler, user-friendly and automated.

With a customer-centric approach, Deskera helps enterprises and businesses to thrive.

A Dynamic Persona of Deskera Plenty of people have a visionary mind, but there are few who decide to do something about their ideas now. Not

tomorrow, but today. And that is the significance of Shashank Dixit, Cofounder, and CEO of Deskera, who built the company from the ground up listening to the needs of small business owners in his community.

Even as a student at IIT Kanpur, Shashank was always a passionate entrepreneur and he founded Deskera immediately after his graduation. It was ten years ago, before anyone understood the potential of the cloud; Shashank predicted the opportunities, the flexibility and the scalability that cloud technology could bring to small businesses in his area. He is one of the most driven individuals who bring a potent mix of vision, zeal, technical knowledge and business acumen to all his business dealings.

Top Notch Services with Innovative Serving Style Deskera ERP is a blueprint for business processes. By having inventory capabilities built within ERP, Deskera offers more functionality than simple accounting software. In addition, they are assisting to ensure companies are following Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP). Deskera ERP can benefit companies across a range of industries to capture, track and report on inventory.

They want to be the core to any business for everything surrounding

accounting like human resources, project management, and customer relationship management. As Deskera was built to be used onsite, offsite, and on the go, the software has the look, format, and feel of an app that users quickly adapt to. In the Deskera ERP, they provide depth and simplicity, all while guiding users through standard accounting processes and practices.

The best feature within Deskera ERP is the financial reporting tool. It comes in very handy for analyzing enterprise income and expense. It accurately

prepares the balance sheet and the general ledger, help to do away with the complicated and time-consuming paper-pen based financial recording.

The simplicity and flexibility of the software allow them to get customers up and running within weeks or a few months, not years. They also use elements of Blockchain technology that helps Deskera process transactions incredibly fast. Where many ERPs take hours or a day to generate reports, their ERP can create reports almost instantly.

intelligence in ERP will help recognize not only changing trends, but also problem solving to manage those outlines in real time. By knowing this Deskera is researching and analyzing thousands of options for new inventory or machinery in the ERP such as availability, price, or accessibility.

They engage with their customers by seating them on Customer Advisory Boards that assist with product development. Right now they’re working with one of their Advisory Boards to take a deeper look at MRP product and how they can ensure that they’re meeting the needs of the manufacturing industry.

They are working on new features of the products based on feedback from their customers through programs like the Customer Advisory Board. Also they are working on a few exciting new partnerships and integrations as the company becomes a leader in cloud software across the globe.

Deskera loves to listen to the customers’ business needs. Their technology was erected to scale with the ability through new features based on the changing needs of growing businesses and industry evolution.

Stepping Towards Future Artificial intelligence will play a huge role in the future of ERP. Artificial

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Kloudville

Creating New Denition for ERP Solutions Manage complexity and work better with solutions from Kloudville

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very customer wants to get a special treatment, with individualized and personalized product or service.

Earlier, the scenario of ERP industry was somewhat contrary to the customers’ demand. The entire ERP landscape was filled with “one-size fits all” systems that were traditionally reserved for large enterprise customers.

The market for business process solutions has evolved into a fragmented market of suppliers and currently each possess their own strengths surrounding a core business functionality. Kloudville is one such leading company in the industry, who views the current scenario of the “ERP Solution Industry” as a market of specialized applications for each functional business area that have fragmented the traditional feature sets of an ERP. Having started with a mission of providing applications for businesses looking to gain greater insights into their operations, Kloudville continues to reduce the complexity of multiple systems and enables businesses to thrive in a digital marketplace. Rather than being forced to adapt to a rigid system, customers are empowered to make the solution unique through point and click configuration.

Kloudville focuses on addressing the needs of the real engine of commerce, SMBs. They aim to improve the entire industry, not only by making the best customer facing ERP, but rather lead the way in product education and

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David Keller Founder & CTO

communication to the market to ensure effective business growth through automation.

Services which are helping businesses to ‘Work Better’ Kloudville saw a landscape filled with pointed or inflexible solutions that require lengthy implementations. This is what motivated them to design solutions that have all the breadth of traditional enterprise software and the flexibility to be up and running in a fraction of the time. Kloudville and its products are enabling clients to create and configure their businesses which can be accessed virtually from anywhere in the world through their cloud based implementation to avoid infrastructure, maintenance, and administrative costs.

Their business suite offers global scalability capable of handling customers all over the world, enabling multicurrency transactions, from multi-location inventory.

Kloudville offers highly flexible solutions where components can be configured in a great deal of depth. With Kloudville, businesses can truly map out a unique business model tailored made for them.

Kloudville is the solution of choice for businesses that are looking to gain greater insights into their operations from lead to cash and seeking a single foundation to grow their business. The team at Kloudville is currently focused on building industry specific applications for manufacturing, wholesale distribution, and professional service industries.

Their focus on giving the best office experience possible to their customers and their unique form of service is what keeps Kloudville apart from others.

About the pillars of Kloudville With over 20 years of rich experience in designing, building and leading engineering organizations in top technology companies, Founder and CTO, David Keller is leading the company with extreme precision and dedication. Before building Kloudville, David served at ConceptWave. There, he was the Chief Architect and was involved in designing and leading a team of engineers in building a world-class Order and Catalog management software for global telecom carriers.

Along with David, Zarar Rana, the President and CEO of Kloudville, leads the team of Kloudville on the way to success. Zarar is a serial entrepreneur with a proven track record of founding and building software companies like Objectel Inc, and ConceptWave Software Inc. Both companies, the former being an Inventory management and the latter being a market leader for Order management and Catalog management software, were sold to Oracle and Ericsson respectively. Currently, he operates both Kloudville and ZCOM Systems Inc., a global consulting and systems integration business. With their extensive working experience in leading teams, both David and Zarar have proven to contribute significantly in completing their mission to bring simpler solutions to the market that do not compromise on functionality.

What makes Kloudville unique?

The platform of Kloudville is built upon patented technology, which is meant to handle the volume and

Zarar Rana President & CEO

complications of a large telco business, a foundation which is designed to scale. Their solution gives the clients an ability to sell goods directly to their customers. It offers greater functionality than traditional ERPs. Kloudville's core value lies in the ability to cut through the twist and turns associated with enterprise systems and enabling businesses to operate better with modern applications tailored for their needs. With a clear agenda of providing an end-to-end solution without ambiguity or rigidity, Kloudville aims to be the cloud solution of choice for the SMB community to gain a full view of this chain.

Looking forward, Kloudville is planning to build more enduser centric ERPs with a greater vertical focus and a modern UI. The company is leading the charge by focusing on better business intelligence reporting, workflow automation and mobile access to give their customers the highest hope and a degree of flexibility to run their operations in the right way.

“At the heart of our efforts is a focus on self-help tools that will reduce the complexity and learning curve traditionally associated with new system adoption,” asserts the team at Kloudville.

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t the end of the month, it’s taking longer and longer to reconcile financials. Even forecasts related to sales are based more on guesswork than on solid figures. As a result, business is having trouble in keeping up with its order volume and also customer satisfaction is faltering. Marketers have no idea how much inventory they have in their warehouse and it is quite painful to find out the same.

If this is the scenario in their business or close to it, then it may be the time to consider an ERP system.

Because each and every organization is unique and there is no single indicator that utters, “Your business

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Enterprise Concern

needs ERP now!” However, the companies that are benefited most from ERP software will often face exactly same problems and frustrations. Is your business facing some of these same issues? Here are the points which will help you to discover the signs that your company is ready for an ERP. Having Different Software for Various Processes Think for few minutes about how employees at your company track records and process information. Does your account’s staff use one system for payables and receivables while sale’s staff uses another system to enter in customer orders? Is that process of order taking and fulfilling into

accounting takes time-sucking manual process? Do your employees use different solutions to track shipping and receiving in the warehouse?

It can wreak havoc on the processes when various front and backend systems run separately, that are meant to ensure smooth running of company. While not having an accurate data from sales, inventory management will suffer a lot and without the updated information from accounting can prompt a contagion effect on everything varying from marketing budgets to payrolls.

ERP software amalgamates these systems so that each and

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every business function depends on a single database. An ERP solution breaks up information logjams with one source of information that contains accurate, real-time data and helps staff in making better decisions more quickly as well as freeing up their time to work on more high-value exercises so that it can help the businesses to grow even more faster.

Not Having Easy Access to Information How long will it take to find out, what your average sales margin is? What about various key performance metrics of orders per day? Companies relying on siloes systems and spreadsheets needs to be constantly updated and should be reconciled manually.

When employees across your company need immediate access to key data that means the pace of business is faster than ever before. At any time, executives can get a holistic view of business operations with an ERP solution while others can only get the information they needed for doing their jobs more efficiently.

Accounting is More Difficult and Takes Longer Often, from your accounting department only, the first noticeable sign will come that your company needs ERP software. If your employees every week spend hours in manually entering paper-based invoices and sales orders into different accounting then you need to consider that most of the time is being wasted on tasks that ERP software can handle instantly.

The same scenario is going with financial reporting, an ERP solution can make a noteworthy impact if it is taking ages to reconcile or consolidate information related to finance across systems and through countless spreadsheets. So, if all the financials will be in a single database then accounting staff won’t have to spend several hours rekeying numbers, crossposting information, or manually reconciling data. Thus, it will help your accounting staff to deliver critical reports without any delay or frustration and they will become more productive.

Sales and the Customer Experience Suffers Often, inventory management is one of their biggest challenges when companies are growing very fast. As it ensures that the subsequent amount of products is in the right place at the right time, which is a vital part of any business operation.

When customer data, inventory and sales are separately maintained, then serious problems can occur across your company.

Sales will be off until the next shipment arrives, if you are running out of a popular product. Meanwhile, if customers are calling to inquire about an order and employees are not able to track it to see whether they are shipped or are still in stock then company will start developing a poor reputation for services and reliabilities.

Moreover, with an ERP system staff of every department will have an access to the same and will also have up-to-date information too.

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Oracle:

Scaling Business Growth with Oracle ERP Cloud Oracle ERP Cloud Advances your Business with Integrated Cloud Applications, Infrastructure and Platform Services

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RP software is the backbone of many organizations. Oracle’s modern, connected cloud applications deliver the functionality, data analytics, security, mobile capabilities, and social collaboration tools needed to run a business efficiently.

Their innovative cloud ERP is industry-leading in planning, forecasting, and financial reporting capabilities, with the simplicity of a unified cloud experience across applications.

Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Cloud and Oracle Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) Cloud offer a complete, innovative, and proven solution for organizations of all sizes who want to thrive in the digital economy.

Helping customers meet industry standards and by using modern best practices, Oracle offers one cloud structure for the entire business. Oracle ERP Cloud is designed to scale as customers’ businesses grow, and it manages accounting, Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A), revenue recognition, risk management, governance, compliance, procurement, project planning, tax reporting, the financial close, and so much more.

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Steve Cox Group Vice President ERP EPM Product Marketing

The Oracle Cloud offers complete SaaS application suites for ERP, HCM and CX, plus best-in-class database Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) from data centers throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia.

An Oracle Financial Cloud Solutions Leader Steve Cox is the group vice president of Oracle ERP EPM product marketing. Steve leads the go-to-market strategy for Oracle ERP Cloud and Oracle EPM Cloud solutions. Cox joined Oracle in 1997. Prior to his current role, he held various management positions within Oracle, including product marketing, consulting, and development.

Steve holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from the University of Bath. He is the author of Modern Best Practice

Explained, an ebook articulating the next generation of business processes needed by organizations embarking on digital transformation.

Oracle’s cloud customers can get to the business at hand to plan their next competitive disruption, rather than spending time planning a future software upgrade project.

Delivering Industry-Leading Cloud ERP Oracle has used their deep business experience to form one of the strongest and most complete ERP cloud portfolios on the market. Oracle is a name trusted by companies in all industries across the globe to help them get the utmost efficiency and innovation from the cloud. Their ERP Cloud solution gives customers the insights they need to make betterinformed financial and resource decisions.

Enhancing Business Processes with New Technologies Oracle ERP and EPM Cloud offer a complete solution to streamline every part of the modern finance puzzle with solutions for: financials, revenue management, project management and finances, performance management and reporting, procurement, project portfolio management, order management, inventory, accounting, and risk management.

Oracle knows there are a range of choices for customers who are using ERP for the first time or looking to replace/upgrade their existing infrastructure—but stresses the selection should be guided by which provider can best support the evolution and growth of your business. The Oracle ERP Cloud solution provides for the needs of your business now and in the future. It is mobile, has built-in analytics, and includes secure social collaboration.

Oracle partners with customers to achieve their business goals – assembling the right team to ensure that everyone’s needs are met, identifing the technical needs for their cloud ERP, building a business case to secure C-level buy-in – including a detailed ROI forecast – and working with the customer to define what cloud ERP success looks like for their business.

They provide cloud customers with a minimum of two upgrades per year, which deliver additional features, better experiences, and new technological capabilities, whereas an on-premises solution might do an upgrade every five years or so. Thus,

As a part of Oracle’s ongoing R&D and innovation efforts, Oracle will

amplify its cloud applications, including ERP Cloud, with artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Steve asserts, “I’m more than a little enthusiastic about the promise of our new Adaptive Intelligent Applications and the benefits they'll have for our customers. Our competitors, of course, have a narrative around AI and machine learning, but we're outcomefocused, working to improve business results for our customers with adaptive intelligence and many other emerging technologies.”

Leveraging insights confined within Oracle’s Data Cloud, which is a collection of more than 5+ billion consumer and business profiles, with over 45,000 attributes, Oracle Adaptive Intelligent Applications will use Oracle’s web-scale data and apply advanced data science to learn and ingest the data about an organization’s

users and their behaviors. They then deliver targeted information to customers and employees. The great benefit is that the Applications will automatically offer individualized recommended actions to streamline the tasks of business users, including finance professionals.

A Vision for the Future Oracle develops and invests substantially in R&D, bringing the latest business software innovations for customers to use as needed.

Additionally, using global customer input, they're constantly working to push the boundaries to enable customers to do more with ERP Cloud.

While describing their competitive strategy, Steve says, “I’m lucky, as I get to meet and listen to hundreds of customers both one-to-one at our focus groups and at Oracle events around the world such as Modern Finance Experience and Modern Business Experience, Cloud World and our Digital Days. I’m a voracious reader, with Forbes, Inc., WIRED, Fast Company, and HBR at the top of my list, and I’m always looking for new ideas on Medium and from the Twitter feeds of The World Economic Forum, Bain & Company, and so many blogs.”

Oracle continues to innovate their cloud solutions. They have developed their own Cloud Applications so that they can harmonize with other systems.

In moving to customers to the cloud, they help them to either advance a single process such as supplier qualification, planning and budgeting, or to modernize parts of their business, such as a subsidiary. Modernizing a subsidiary with Oracle ERP Cloud and uniting it back to the overall group systems can be the first step to link their existing finance system to the cloud.

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nterprise software has failed us! For decades, vendors and consultants have claimed a savings of 20-30% with the implementation of MRP, CRM, ERP .. or a plethora of other offerings over the years. Far too many of these systems fail to realize the benefits that justified the initiative to begin with. Most companies embark upon the enterprise software implementation with big fan fare, company wide town-halls, memos and armed with an army of consultants. After several months of implementation and hundreds and thousands of dollars spent, the majority of the workforce figures out a way to ‘bypass’ the system and its use is relegated to a handful of poor souls in the back-office departments.

Why does this happen? A study by Sand Hill Group shows that only 1 percent of potential users of the system, cited the cause as a lack of software functionality. An overwhelming 70 percent cited usability and complexity as the main

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About TiZE TiZE optimizes operations for formula based manufacturing rms such as coating companies through its agship product RealWork™. The company is passionate about solving real operational issues and enable real work. Its mission is to reinvent the drab and archaic world of ERP systems by building modern, usable business software.

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Rana Gujral Co-Founder, CEO TiZE

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obstacle. Former NYTimes Design Director Khoi Vinh captured this common frustration in his seminal 2007 article, If It Looks Like a Cow, Swims Like a Dolphin and Quacks Like a Duck, It Must Be Enterprise Software, saying: “If you work at a big company and you’ve ever had to do something that should be simple, like file an expense report, make changes to your salary withholdings - or,.. if you’ve ever tried to apply for a job at a big company - then you’ve probably encountered these confounding user experiences. And you probably cursed out loud.”

The problem is that enterprise software has to support very complex tasks, but software companies design it for a general audience, not for specific users. Since it has to work for a variety of companies, it’s designed as a one-size-fitsall solution that doesn’t actually fit anyone well.

try to alter their employees’ behavior to fit the flaws in the software. This is wrong and it needs to end.

Enterprise software used to be about making existing work more efficient. Today, the opportunity for software is to transform the work itself. Here at TiZE we are passionate about this goal. We are embarking on this journey with our industry specific solution for the speciality chemicals industry based on an entirely new approach to software.

The approach based on providing the simplest fit and function, combined with ease of use. As Bessemer Venture Partners state in their industry focus, occasionally technology is so revolutionary that it can transform the way an entire industry works. This is perhaps the most compelling opportunity ahead of us.

A lot of enterprise software was created a long time ago when there wasn’t as much concern for the user experience. Now, customers are more demanding of a quality experience, but with many existing customers, it’s difficult for enterprise software companies to do a complete redesign. And with little competition, customers don’t have much choice.

There is also a darker, ulterior motive behind this mess.

Having many features allows enterprise software sales professionals to engage in a conversation that allows for incremental increases over time. Often enterprise software is tiered in a variety of ways in order to extract maximum revenue.

Because it’s so challenging to fix problems with enterprise software, companies find that it’s easier to change their work processes. Through training and documentation, they

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Software complexity kills its customer’s profits. We are here to kill complexity itself. One industry vertical at a time.

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ProcessPro:

Committing to Provide Best-in-Class ERP Solutions

Speaking your language, Understanding your needs

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he pace of change in business today is now greater than ever before, so companies require a robust ERP solution designed specifically for their industry that streamlines their business processes and provides timely information for critical business decisions.

ProcessPro develops, sells, implements and supports a complete ERP software solution for companies that execute batch process manufacturing in highly regulated industries. This focus allows them to deliver solutions with very robust functionality that provides a tremendous value to the customers. Also, this allows their employees to gain significant expertise in those industries, both regarding their business processes and the regulatory bodies to comply with.

ProcessPro functions as an independent subsidiary of Open Systems, Inc., with whom they merged in early 2016.

This novel structure allows them to leverage shared investments in their joint software platforms and ongoing R&D and provides them with experience and expertise as they look to entering new international markets.

A Pacemaker of ProcessPro As the CEO of Open Systems, Inc. and ProcessPro, Michael Bertini is passionate about fostering a culture that places the customer first. His team’s primary objective

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Dr. Michael Bertini CEO

is to help clients to succeed, become more productive and transform their organizations. Michael confidently believes that organizations need the right information provided efficiently to the right people, at the right time, to adapt to their markets in real-time. He has the vision to invest and grow vertically oriented businesses, like ProcessPro, that can provide significantly more value to customers than a more generic “one size fits all” ERP solution. By linking functionally richer vertical solutions, deep vertical domain expertise and a shared investment in adaptable core technologies and platforms, Michael believes he can promote his customers’ success in a way that few other ERP systems can.

Promising Services with Brilliance ProcessPro serves a comprehensive ERP solution for batch process manufacturers, including food and beverage,

pharmaceutical and nutraceutical, cosmetic and personal care and specialty chemical. Their solution footprint encompasses every aspect of their business which includes selling, to planning production, managing, manufacture, shipping and generating financials. They deliver these solutions on the current state of the art technologies which they will continually review. A full set of services from ProcessPro includes training and implementation of their software, industry-specific business process consulting and highly responsive “help desk” support.

By focusing on the industries that ProcessPro has expertise in, they can deliver richer practical solutions to their customers, provide superior and deeper industry insight specific to their business and stay current on the regulatory and business environment changes that impact those industries.

discern how customers’ businesses and markets are changing. They are also leveraging the broader investment of their overall organization in R&D to ensure that they are up-to-date with technology and are aware of upcoming trends or innovative technologies that might create an impact in the future.

Their ability to emphasize on the unique requirements of their customers’ markets, as well as invest in a high technology and platform research, provides ProcessPro the overall ability to better lead their industry than either their larger or smaller competitors.

Delivering Uniqueness by Understanding Clients’ Needs

Safety and Modernization Act and product control and traceability.

They provide the operational controls, formulation, auditing and reporting required to meet the FDA compliance needs of cosmetic and personal care business manufacturers. For nutraceutical and pharmaceutical customers, they assist with the compliance of regulations such as 21 CRF Part 11 and achieve validation of their internal processes and systems with the FDA. For specialty chemical customers, they aid them by complying with both local and global standards for the handling, labeling, and shipping of hazardous materials such as GHS. In all, ProcessPro helps customers effectively manage their business while supporting the demands of their industries.

Forwarding towards Future Goals

Innovation is ProcessPro’s life. Their The standard, unique capability across products are constantly evolving to their separate vertical markets is the best meet the needs of customers and capacity to manage recipes or formulas the industries they serve. They’re very effectively, account for changing units excited about the next release of their of measure (weight to volume, etc.), software. It has the ability to deliver on changes in state (solid to liquid, etc.), As a software solution built on a mobile features and reporting on any yield (loss of moisture, chemical flexible platform, ProcessPro can device, interactive analysis, user reactions, etc.) and precisely trace lot address the few, but significant personalization and configuration, differences a particular company might level information on all inputs and support for preventative controls and outputs related to the manufacturing have without compromising their compelling forecasting tools to truly process. Also, their platform includes capability to stay current with their drive compliance and control. It also unique development tools that allow latest releases. Inclusively, they increases user productivity and provide the right balance between size them to extend or modify standard delivery of critical business metrics, functionality in a way that does not and capacity to specialize, and as a which are the key factors in realizing a result, they dramatically improve their impact the ability or cost of return on investment in ERP! incorporating their latest releases into customers’ return on their initial and customers’ business. long term ERP investment.

Advanced Strategies ERP Software First and foremost, ProcessPro works diligently to stay connected with their clients, industry organizations and internal teams to ensure that they

For each industry ProcessPro serves, they understand and meet the unique demands of the client’s business. For food and beverage manufacturers, they provide the ability to meet FDA requirements for cGMPs, the Food

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