Solarsoft launches flagship ERP software in the cloud
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iVP, Solarsoft's ERP for discrete manufacturers, is now also available in the cloud, leaving manufacturers free to concentrate on making things, rather than managing a data centre.
The iVP ERP solution is already being used by 350 manufacturing companies across 2,500 plants, and has a reputation for tightening inventory accuracy and strengthening enterprise-wide control and supplier management.
The launch now of a pay-monthly SaaS (software as a service) model, where software and the computer rooms that run it, are moved off site gives manufacturers useful choice, particularly in the current economic climate.
Steven Hargreaves, product director at Solarsoft, comments: "Our new cloud-based ERP solution for discrete manufacturers relieves them of the burden of owning, updating and maintaining their own systems, with all the skill, labour and expense involved.
"This means … that sensitive and expensive servers are no longer being housed on dusty shop floors, and that billing is consolidated into one predictable monthly service charge."
That said, Hargreaves warns wannabe cloud ERP users to watch out for new software providers in the ERP market. Experts in cloud delivery models cannot become overnight experts in ERP, he advises.
"Serious, heavyweight ERP underpins an entire business, and must be deeply embedded within it to maximise the return on investment. It cannot be set up in 24 hours and casually tested on a suck-it-and-see basis. Any vendor or service provider indicating such a scenario just doesn't know the field," says Hargreaves.
