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Shopping Cart Integration with Acumatica Cloud ERP, what you need to consider.

E-Commerce is very challenging and competitive business and in order to stay on top of the game it requires you to constantly innovate and use powerful shopping cart applications that keep up to industry standards and new shopping cart features such as responsive design, SEO, SEM, Omni channel etc. As your e-Commerce business is scaling you would want those orders being processed through Order Management system with better inventory management, this is when you are required to integrate with powerful ERP applications such as Acumatica Cloud ERP to have overall efficiency gain. Plan your ERP integration with Shopping cart, identify the key integration touch-points and the must-have features. We have outlined few integration that Companies should consider while integrating their business process.  The E-Commerce-ERP Synchronization could be one-way or two-way sync process. It's important to understand the advantages of sync and budgetary needs. One Way Sync  would be orde

Acumatica Cloud ERP Version 5.0 - Integrated Features your CEO/CTO wants for their business

We were excited to be part of this new release, Acumatica is proud to announce their new version 5.0 during Partner summit in Denver, Colorado, August 2014. There has been significant number of features added to Ver 5.0 across various modules of product suite, we would like to highlight some of the features that's will impact your decisions to move to Acumatica Cloud ERP or upgrade to latest version. New Version 5.0 Features 1. Single Sign On (SSO)  It now supports Windows Azure Active directory, Google and Windows Live ID. Sign on once and you are active across multiple applications that you use in your day-day activities. Benefits : Allows you to manage single set of credentials across your organization and facilities Acumatica to interact with other web apps 2. User Interface: New improved user interface helps productivity and scalability to various devices, being responsive is important at the same time providing users with interface to conduct business suc

Acumatica's Powerful feature in Distribution module (Sales Quote/Order) - Part I

Here is real life scenario, customer keys in sales quote with close 100+ line items and feels good about the quote sends it out to his customer for approval and it takes few days before they get back and now for whatever the reasons they want to change the customer on that quote to another customer (the final one). How do we change customer ID on an existing quote/order in Acumatica 4.2? You might think I may have to re-key the entire quote/order with 100+ line items since there is no option or feature to change the customer id on an existing quote/order. This thought might force you to re-key entire order with 100+ line items and that might take 30 minutes or more? Is there a better way to do this in Acumatica Cloud ERP? Hmm scratching our head, we get to work to see if we can provide solution out of the box without any customizations, remember customers don't like when you say customization and it's going to cost blah blah ... Try #1: We tried to copy and paste fe

Is your Cloud ERP Secured?

THE biggest topic in enterprise world is not about BIG DATA, it's more than that "Is your Data Secured?" In next few years more and more Companies will move their data to Cloud and statistics shows that, if you are not sure then you should read Gartner reports. If you consider to move you would be thinking of data security and how to protect from intruders who are snatching your credit card information or customer information from fortune 500 companies with security breach that we read every month. Let's say you decide to host your Enterprise ERP OnCloud what kind of security would you look for? Below are few security measures to count on preventing data theft or intrusion Security level 1. Secure website SSL (https mode), pretty basic 2. User accounts /authentication / authorization / passwords policies / roles and membership 3. Entity level restriction groups 4. Active Directory integration - User management and Company policies 5. Key sensitive data

Future of ERP automation

The future looks bright, automation is key to success in any business, take automobiles the latest trend will be driverless cars, we could call this new feature autonomous cars, robotic cars, drone cars - call them what you will, but the self-driving car is coming to a showroom near you. With automation happening rapidly, your ERP software needs to evolve and automate so business can operate much more efficient, reduce cost, improve operations and change to demand, so we all can enjoy a safe ride and spend good time while we are on the road. Acumatica offers those remarkable automation in their new version 4.11 thus allowing to save more time and get things done. Integrated Marketing - With single click you can now accept leads from website directly into your ERP system and automate the entire process of acquiring customers CRM - Record activities, tasks, quote, orders across life cycle of customer management Automate import scenarios and import/export data for third party