Epicor 9 – Ten reasons to purchase or upgrade to

1. ADVANCED BUSINESS ARCHITECTURE

   As your organization continues to grow, you need a business architecture
   that allows you to take advantage of modern technology developments.
   Epicor ICE (Internet Component Environment), the underlying technology
   framework for Epicor, merges the flexibility of a true service-oriented
   architecture (Epicor True SOA™
   ) with Web 2.0 concepts to not only meet
   business requirements today, but offer the flexibility to adapt to
   future opportunities.

2. INCREASE USER PRODUCTIVITY

   Enabling continuous performance improvement within your business means
   empowering your employees to be more productive. Epicor True SOA™
   features the Epicor Everywhere™
   Framework, a unique technology that
   allows you to extend your current applications to Microsoft®
   Windows®, Web browsers and mobile devices. By extending Epicor to familiar and
   convenient productivity tools and leveraging Web 2.0 concepts, such as
   enterprise search, presence, and real-time communication, ICE enhances the
   user experience and productivity.

3. HIGHER QUALITY AND LOWER COSTS

   Lean manufacturing and total quality initiatives are critical to continued
   success in a highly competitive market. Epicor’s next-generation solutions
   are well positioned to support just that with business process management
   (BPM), a solution that lets you create and model your business processes
   within your Epicor business application. The system can put records on hold,
   automate notification, invoke custom code, and require additional data
   entry (such as a password for electronic signature) based on your unique
   business rules. Additionally, product data management capabilities include
   document vaulting in Microsoft Office®
   SharePoint® for rapid retrieval and collaboration.

4. OPTIMIZE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF YOUR SUPPLY CHAIN

   End-to-end management of goods from sales order to shipment requires
   streamlined processes both internally and with suppliers. Maximizing
   effectiveness of your supplier network requires utilization of new tools such
   as Service Connect, a business orchestration and integration tool that
   enables faster and more efficient application-to-application and business-tobusiness connectivity. Enhanced solutions for efficiently managing internal
   supply chains coupled with tightly controlling inventory resources and
   orchestration of these resources, maximizes the effectiveness of your
   supplier network while controlling costs.

5. CHOICE AND FLEXIBILITY

   Epicor ICE 2.0 builds upon an already extensive set of integrated tools for
   enhancing and extending Epicor. Applications and business processes can
   easily be tailored to meet your organization’s specific needs and everchanging business requirements. User interfaces can be modified to specific
   roles, workflow and preferences, significantly improving the end user
   experience. ICE provides the ability to meet the unique needs of your
   organization and individual employees.

6. MAXIMUM BUSINESS INSIGHT

   You need analysis tools that logically and dynamically align with your core
   enterprise applications and your users. Epicor Enterprise Performance
   Management (EPM) places a heavy emphasis on the active use of the
   right information at the right time for the right people. It proactively
   guides and readjusts the course of your business rather than just passively
   measuring its progress or reserving business intelligence tools for a
   chosen few.

7. GLOBAL SOLUTION WITH LOCAL EXPERTISE

   Epicor next-generation enterprise applications feature a unique
   “configurable engine” approach, which makes it easier to adopt the legal
   and legislative requirements of the world’s economies and the
   international standards including IAS, IFRS, and GAAP. Epicor created a
   truly configurable ERP platform that can be tuned for small, medium and
   large businesses, different industries, local firms or multinational
   conglomerates without the need for complex source code changes. Epicor
   makes business anywhere a reality.

8. STANDARDIZATION AND CONSISTENCY

   Epicor provides a consistent, repeatable single solution approach that
   integrates your corporate headquarters with divisions and operating
   locations. Epicor enables the local, regional, or centralized deployment of
   master data and standard processes within a consistent, pervasive security
   framework. This ensures that operational information produced locally,
   cascades upwards into a single consolidated view of global activities that
   accurately reflects your organization’s performance.

9. STAY CURRENT WITH YOUR CROSS INDUSTRY NEEDS

   Epicor understands that many businesses, manufacturing in particular,
   have diversified the industries they serve in an attempt to strengthen
   business performance and reduce risk in uncertain times. As a result,
   deploying solutions that fit cross industry requirements and stay current in
   the changing environment of business is critical. Recent updates for Epicor
   solutions follow this theme and particularly strengthen functionality in key
   areas for some of our customers’ industries.

10. SEAMLESS BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

    A complete end-to-end resource based on more than a dozen modular
    business suites, Epicor places significant emphasis on embedded
    capabilities, like customer and supplier relationship management,
    advanced planning and scheduling, business process management, field
    service management and product configuration all available as system
    wide processes. Through a unique combination of sophisticated global
    business management, distributed deployment and master data
    management facilities, you can truly virtualize your enterprise.