Unit4, a cloud leader in enterprise software for people-centered organizations, announced the latest release of Unit4 ERP, its Cloud-based platform used by over 2,700 organizations worldwide. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on customer attitudes towards ERP as more employees move to remote or home-based working. Today’s platforms need to offer flexibility, the ability to easily integrate with third-party systems and be able to deploy industry-specific functionality and easy-to-develop extensions. Time to value is a cornerstone for any new ERP system, so the ability to expedite deployments through proven methodologies while leveraging industry best practices is a critical success factor.
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Global Project Resource Planning and Management
This latest release includes new capabilities that allow complex service-based organizations to more effectively plan and resource projects to improve outcomes. They can work together more seamlessly across multiple legal entities to improve collaboration, streamline work and provide improved service to their customers. In addition, it leverages social, mobile, predictive analytics and machine-learning technologies from the Unit4 People Platform to provide a self-driving solution that enables people to focus less on administrative tasks and more on what matters most to their organization’s purpose.
Purpose-built Extensions Deliver New Capabilities and Value
Through Unit4’s low code Extension Kit, customers can benefit from the ability to connect different business systems and create new workflows without the need to develop code. The kit is available for customers and partners to seamlessly make use of all the capabilities offered by Unit4 ERP. Unit4 partners are adding value to the company’s products through Extension Kit developments, rapid best practice implementations and customer training.
Faye O’Connell, Product Development Director at Embridge Consulting said: “Unit4’s Extension Kit presents a fantastic opportunity to seamlessly integrate with external and legacy applications, while removing the need for out-of-date data exchange approaches like file transfers. Our plans at Embridge Consulting are to support customers in the configuration of flows that will leverage the capabilities of the Extension Kits and deliver optimized end-to-end business processes.”
William Garcia, Head of Development at Arribatec said: “The Extension Kit democratizes integrations and empowers Unit4 users to create and maintain integrations with third party systems without development. It eliminates the black box approach of traditional custom or bespoke solutions. Customers will benefit from substantial time and cost savings.”
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Unit4 Partner-developed Extensions:
- Course Calendar Integration: confirms attendance using Unit4’s digital assistant, Wanda, and automatically schedules the meeting in Outlook
- Signaling Completed Workflow: when a workflow has been completed, it will automatically update the requestor via Unit4’s digital assistant, Wanda, upon completion
- ERP Timesheet Sync: any time logged in Jira is automatically added to timesheets in Unit4 ERP
- Automatic Credit Check Upon Entering Purchase Orders: when a purchase order is created, a credit check is performed and the result is published via Unit4’s digital assistant, Wanda.
Industry Models deliver Out-of-the-box Best Practices
Unit4’s Industry Model deployments ensure that every customer benefits from specialized industry knowledge, best practices and the latest technology like AI and machine learning so they can efficiently combat the complexity of their operating environment. Given today’s environment, organizations are demanding ERP vendors deliver expedited deployments, simplified implementations and faster time to value. Unit4 delivers this through its proven methodology. Customers such as Warchild, Missouri Botanical Gardens, City of Alkmaar, Helmond Municipality, LaREM have experienced successful “go lives” leveraging Unit4’s Industry Models.
To underscore the company’s experience in successful “go lives” and ongoing support, Unit4 was recognized as one of the world’s leading “services-centric” Cloud ERP vendors according to a recent report from Constellation Research. The report found that customers selected Unit4 solutions based on flexible configuration capabilities, deep vertical expertise, mid-market focus, and a people-centered design philosophy. The company was also named a gold medalist according to ERP software users in SoftwareReviews’ latest ERP Data Quadrant and awarded top vendor in customer relationship management, vendor support, and ease of data integration.
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