PWR Consulting Report Extols Syspro Fit For Mid-Market

SYSPRO “Power Tailoring Bundle” Labeled “Industry Leading”

COSTA MESA, Calif.— September 3, 2008 – SYSPRO, a provider of visionary ERP for the manufacturing pragmatist, said today that a newly issued PWR Consulting report, “Big Visions for the Pragmatic, Yet Visionary Midsize Company,” concludes that SYSPRO is an ideal solution for mid-market manufacturers and distributors.

According to the report, “SYSPRO offers a comprehensive enterprise resource planning system that is well suited for the global marketplace with multi-national, multi-company and multi-location support. It also bridges front and back-office operations with tight integration into SYSPRO CRM, Planning and Scheduling. Analytics and e-commerce functionalities provide the sophistication required to respond rapidly to changing economic conditions and ensure control over the entire supply chain.”

The report poses and answers the question: “How can mid-sized manufacturing and distribution companies leverage technology to combat industry chaos and realize their true profit potential?

“The key to succeeding in the New Economy is not to focus on technology for technology’s sake, but to select business applications that pragmatically protect corporate resources while providing a visionary path for growth,” notes the report, listing the following as ‘tailor made’ criteria for selecting an ERP system:

Make trust a priority: All successful relationships are built upon mutual trust, and customer/vendor relationships are no exception to the rule.
Plan for Success: Small-to-medium manufacturers tend to have fewer IT resources, and therefore rely more on the software supplier and/or the implementation consultant to clearly understand the SMB market, applicable vertical nuances and most of all to get the requirement mapping right.
Find a Best-In-Class ‘Power-Tailoring Bundle’: Packaged applications are built to meet about 80% of a company’s needs. That [other] 20% is the part that will enable your team to personalize their views, workflow and analysis for faster decisions on cost-cutting, business opportunities and swift change as needed.
According to the report, the framework for partnering with an ERP provider should insist on the following factors:

• A true company/vendor partnership
• Broad, integrated functionality
• Highly tailorable interfaces/workflow
• Excellent references
• Depth of experience in business size/verticals
• Manufacturing & Distribution interoperability
• Scalability
• High return on investment
• Changeable/scalable for future requirements
• Vendor reputation and financial stability
  

Finally, the report highlights SYSPRO as “a pragmatic, but visionary ERP provider [that] focuses on a unique selling and customer support program using a visionary approach it calls PragmaVision. It seeks out ‘PragmaVists’ – visionary, growing, pragmatic IT purchasers seeking a strong client/vendor relationship, one that it needs to meet the challenge of growth and to evolve to the next higher level of business activity. To meet this challenge, SYSPRO offers an award winning implementation program called STARS (Structured Technique To Achieve a Rapid Solution). This is important because PragmaVists seek not only a high return on investment (ROI), but also a faster time to benefit. Time-to-benefit is an essential part of every rapidly growing business.”

According to the PWR Report: “SYSPRO customers have achieved some or all of the following benefits: profitable business transformation, increased productivity, increased production and services quality, inventory reductions/ optimization and more efficient distribution methodology.”

The report labels the following recent SYSPRO announcements as the “Power Tailoring Bundle” that leads the industry:

• Microsoft Office Business Application Integration – the ability to operate SYSPRO’s ERP solutions from within the context of Microsoft Outlook, Office, Excel and other Office solutions. This creates operational efficiencies, speeds up responses to favorable or unfavorable data, and provides a more comfortable operational context for business users.
• Power Role-based User Interface - the ability for system administrators to control the customization of the SYSPRO User Interface (UI) by applying roles to operators.
• Customized Panes and Executive Views - the ability for users to create their own views and forms and to customize the SYSPRO product to create dashboards and executive views that provide instant access to critical data all within one screen, anywhere in the product.
• Power Charts - the traditional charting facility within SYSPRO has been rewritten to provide leading-edge functionality that significantly enhances the visual representation of data within the product and allows for considerable end-user customization.

SYSPRO’s more thoughtful approach to adopting new technology, such as web services and SOA platforms, also reflects the desires of its buyers who are driven by business needs and not by the latest headlines. This exemplifies SYSPRO’s ongoing strategy of helping to simplify the success of its customers. SYSPRO calls its buyer landscape “PragmaVision,”™ consisting of pragmatic, visionary ERP executives that are driven by a desire for smart, but aggressive market growth.

The PWR Consulting Report may be read in its entirety by clicking on the following link: http://www.syspro.com/usdripemails/pdf/How-Power-Tailored-Solutions-are-Transforming-Manufacturing-Distribution-World-PWR-Consulting.pdf

About SYSPRO
Since its inception in 1978, SYSPRO has been delivering state-of-the-art business solutions to some of the world's leading companies. As a global leader in the production of world-class ERP software, the company now caters to the specialized needs of 14,000 licensed companies in more than 60 countries worldwide. SYSPRO is marketed globally through regional territory distribution centers and a global reseller network in the US, Canada, Africa, Asia Pacific, Australia and the UK.

SYSPRO is a fully integrated business software solution that provides complete control over the planning and management of all facets of business including accounting, manufacturing and distribution operations in a variety of industries.

For additional information on SYSPRO, call Stanley Goodrich at 714/437-1000 or go to www.syspro.com

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