Product Description
Agresso offers a fully-integrated Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution, providing both operational support and strategic management to organizations that face rapid, ongoing change.Financial Management
Human Resources and Payroll,
Procurement Management,
Project Costing and Billing,
Reporting and Analytics,
Business Process Automation,
Field Services and Asset Maintenance
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Finanical Management
Integrated global financial management - for businesses living in change.
What is it?
Agresso Financials is a top-tier, global accounting system. It delivers a fully integrated range of functions, including: general ledger; accounts payable and accounts receivable; comprehensive budgeting, asset accounting, cash management capabilities; and other dedicated tools. As a core module in the Agresso Business World Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution suite, it places effective financial management at the heart of your business systems and processes.
Who is it for?
Financials is designed for organizations that constantly face internal and external demands for change. The module's "multi-everything" (multi-company, multi-currency, multi-lingual) capabilities enable it to meet the needs of a huge range of customers - from the smaller or more specialized, through to the largest or most complex, national or international organizations.
How can it help?
With Financials, Agresso customers can not only meet all their statutory accounting and reporting duties but are also much better placed to minimize risks, respond to change and seize opportunities.
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Human Resources and Payroll
Integrated personnel management and administration - for businesses living in change
What is it?
Agresso Human Resources (HR) and Payroll delivers a single, definitive control centre and information repository to help get the best from an organization's most important assets - its staff.
Who is it for?
This module provides a comprehensive range of tools to help HR and payroll teams perform their roles. Workflow and employee self-service facilities help reduce duplication, minimizing the time spent by staff on day-to-day administration. Inquiry, reporting and analysis tools help managers to gain a clearer insight into an organization's resources - no matter how turbulent the situation.
How can it help?
Fully integrated functionality enables HR and payroll departments to access, process, operate and manage all aspects of the organization's hire-to-retire cycle and payroll function.
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Procurement Management
Integrated end-to-end procurement management - for businesses living in change
What is it?
Agresso Procurement is a fully integrated solution that supports, automates and standardizes all stages of the indirect purchasing and procurement cycle - from requisitioning to paying vendors. These include: the initial identification of a need for products and services; expenditure approval; electronic data and information exchange with suppliers; goods delivery; expediting and inspection; invoice matching and payment settlement.
Who is it for?
Our procurement management solution is designed for organizations that want to control costs and streamline their procurement practices without sacrificing control - equally suited for both centralized and de-centralized purchasing processes. It enables procurement managers to move away from operational, day-to-day tasks and instead focus on managing and negotiating stronger supplier relationships, scrutinizing spend and purchase decisions, to ultimately evolve the procurement function from a cost- to a profit-centre.
How can it help?
- A single point of entry
- Reduced maverick buying and strengthened relationships with suppliers
- Better purchasing information with lower overhead
- Full authorization and budgetary control
- A broader integrated solution
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Planning Budgeting and Forecasting
Integrated budgeting, forecasting and planning - for businesses living in change
What is it?
Agresso Planner is a flexible, database-driven budgeting, forecasting and planning tool, which is fully integrated with all core Agresso Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) modules - replacing the use of multiple, diverse, unlinked spreadsheets.
Who is it for?
Planner provides invaluable support for all participants in the planning and budgeting cycles, of even the largest, most complex or fast-changing businesses.
It brings together information from across the organization and key systems to provide a "single version of the truth", from which to plan and make decisions. For example, it:
assists financial managers, who need to gain control over the accuracy, completeness and timeliness of their budgeting process enables planning departments to create forecasts and perform "what-if" analysis.
How can it help?
Planner assists organizations in the areas of: financial planning and budgeting; resource planning; project planning; and forecasting.
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Project Costing and Billing
Integrated end-to-end project management for businesses living in change
What is it?
Agresso Project enables optimal use of resources, as well as automation and tight management for all processes in a project. It covers the whole cycle: from project initiation (including estimates, budgeting, forecasts, commitments and planning); through to resourcing and costing (capturing all cost elements such as time, purchasing, expenses, payroll, contract administration, sales orders and even depreciation via Fixed Assets); all the way to billing, reporting and analysis.
Who is it for?
Agresso Project is designed to meet the needs of fast-changing organizations that manage any type or scale of jobs or projects. Project managers use it to achieve maximum profitability and optimize the cash flow of their projects, while satisfying their customers' expectations.
How can it help?
- Ability to model project structures "your way"
- Full project visibility and control at any time
- Workflow saves time, maximizes cash flow and minimizes cost recovery time
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Field Services and Asset Maintenance
Integrated asset maintenance and service team management - for businesses living in change
What is it?
Agresso Field Force brings together a range of management and administration tools in a single module that covers: asset maintenance, inventory management, contract management, resource allocation, regulatory reporting, time/billing invoicing, and mobile workforce communication.
Who is it for?
The main types of organization that will benefit from Field Force are those managing the maintenance of their own or others' assets (i.e. properties or equipment) or which have field-service teams or other mobile workers. It is ideal for those managing projects and performing operational tasks that involve ongoing maintenance, and it offers a streamlined and transparent way to fulfill high-volume, small-service-order activities. It also supports a move from decentralized handling (via local offices) to a call-center-driven operation.
How can it help?
Field Force enables field service/asset maintenance organizations to provide the highest levels of service for today's demanding customers. Thousands of individual service level agreements (SLAs) need to be managed, each with their own unique pricing model. Failure to meet these demands means declining customer satisfaction, serious delivery delays, and invoice errors that impact payments and cash flow.
The module addresses these challenges in a practical way, balancing customer satisfaction and business profitability.
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Reporting and Analytics
Integrated information delivery tools - for businesses living in change
What is it?
The Agresso Reporting and Analytics capabilities provide straightforward but powerful tools to meet the diverse individual information requirements of users across the entire organization.
They form one of the three integrated core components of Agresso's VITA architecture: the information delivery model - gathering detailed intelligence from the rules and hierarchies defined in Agresso's data and process models.
Who is it for?
The same, single, consistent, shared data source fulfills the information requirements of users at any level of even the largest, most complex or diverse organizations around the globe:
enabling operational staff to define and retrieve information relevant to their specific operational needs
allowing managers to view, analyze and report on their business operations to gain an unparalleled understanding of the operation's structure, activities and performance
allowing corporate leaders to enjoy real-time control over the entire enterprise, sharing "one version of the truth" at all times.
How can it help?
Agresso's Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution is designed for unlimited information access to both structured and unstructured data and provides unprecedented analytics capabilities that can instantly and continuously handle the most intense change scenarios.
Advantages
Agresso is unique in the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) industry for its primary strength, post-implementation agility, or the ability to make changes to the ERP system after it has been implemented.Almost all major ERP vendors offer limitless flexibility PRIOR to implementation. But once their systems are in place, customers are locked into the system configuration that reflects their requirements at the moment of go live. Any significant change to the configuration typically requires expensive IT or external consultant resources.
A survey completed by CFO Research Services shows that a typical company may spend an average of more than $1.2 million each year to maintain, modify, and update its ERP system. 80% of the executives surveyed report that they have customized their ERP systems either moderately or extensively to adapt the product to their organization's unique business requirements.
For dynamic organizations facing frequent change, that Agresso refers to as Businesses Living IN Change (BLINC), the punishing costs of keeping their ERP systems in line with their business can often outpace licensing and maintenance fees.
Agresso Business World has been touted by industry analysts as unique among ERP competitors due to its unusually tight coupling of data management (Information Warehouse), process modeling (Business Processes) and information delivery (Reporting/Analytics).