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Sage ERP X3 Version 7
Technology evolutions
Version 7 technology – presentation 2
Agenda
1. What are our customers expecting from an ERP
2. Focus on technology
3. User interface and usability
4. Collaboration features
5. Conclusion
V7 Evolutions
What Customers Really Care About
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0% 5% 10% 15% 20%
Winning new customers
Reducing my operating costs
Growing my revenue
Top business priorities | All regions
GROWTH1
PRODUCTIVITY
2Sage Business Index 2013 – Mid-Market
V7 Evolutions
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$55,900revenue increase per employees when the usability of company data increases by 10%*
(*) Center for Research in Electronic Commerce at the McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin
7 Benefits of Version 7 Technology
V7 Evolutions
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Usability: a redesigned user experience, to get more done, faster
Mobility: native mobile technology to go where your business takes you
Control: increased control over business processes
Intelligence: the insight you need, when you need it
Responsiveness: easy access to data to better serve customers and earn repeat
business
Profitability: increased user productivity
Expansion: the ability to scale and expand to new geographies, new markets,
or in the cloud
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Version
7
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The aim of the V7 evolution
Capitalize on our existing assets:̶7 Flexibility of our solutions̶7 Broad functional scope̶7 Partners solutions and knowledge
Review the ergonomics to leverage SAGE ERP X3 as a solution:̶7 More user friendly than ever̶7 More accessible to all the users̶7 More intelligent for everyone (in bringing the accurate information)
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How do these technology operate?
Have the best user experience possible• A renewed look• Best use of the spaces (web pages rather than screens)• Simplicity: the actions are obvious links• Navigation as on the web: by links, by search, by bookmarks• The availability for an authorized user to change the screen layout
Include collaboration features• Ease the extraction of data with Office tools• Share the documents between teams
Capitalize on a strong open source technology stack• Based on the industry standards• With scalability and performance in mind
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Version 7 technology – presentation
A scalable and cloud ready architecture
Load balancer
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The standard choices we made
Standard REST protocol (http, https) between the browser and the server• Stateless protocol whenever possible (scalability)• Stateful when a user interface transaction is in progress (performance)• Tolerant to bad connections conditions (mobility)
Web server stack based on• Very powerful and scalable on farms• With a load balancer to address several
node servers on several servers• Able to work with additional load balancing
/ failover proxies• Native https or https provided by a proxy• Able to run with an external
load balancer / failover proxy
V7 Evolutions
1. No more boundary between the browser and server, allowing engineers to code both.
2. Built almost twice as fast with fewer people 3. Written in 33% fewer lines of code 4. Constructed with 40% fewer files5. Double the requests per second vs. the Java
application.6. 35% decrease in the average response time
for the same page.
Rewrote account overview from java technology to node.js
1. More than 2 millions visitors per day2. Update 2 million item catalog takes 15 minutes3. MongoDB dynamic schema makes it easy to adapt
quickly the data model to the evolving needs4. Continuous availability and scaling capabilities
The biggest German online retailer
The standard choices we made
Document database based on • Very powerful and scalable on farms• NOSQL, able to work with documents• Used for personalization, collaboration & administration data.
Search engine powered by • Open source, based on apache lucene.• Able to scale and to run on farms.
V7 Evolutions
1. 5 millions paid subscribers, 12 millions active users2. 40 millions songs, albums, artists searchable3. Gain 10x response time and great scalability
Global music service available over 180 countries
AMAZON SECURITY GROUPS
Reinforce security: not an option on the Cloud
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Support of external identity
providers
SSL encryption
Connection secured by certificates
Database security
Sandbox definition to
secure access to
application server
resources
Security services
The solution has been audited and certified byan external company for safe operation in the Cloud.
V7 Evolutions
The client is any recent browser:• HTML5, CSS3• Dedicated client for mobiles• No need to download a
dedicated application• Uses API javascript for local
storage, communicationmanagement, threadmanagement…
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The ability to work on every modern browser
V7 Evolutions
V7 workbench designs services• Based on metadata dictionaries
(Classes, properties, methods)• Usable without user interface• Supplied with QA tools
and performance tools• The user interface is designed
in representations
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Evolution of the development platform
V6 written code continues to work • Based on the existing metadata• “classic page” technology
embedded in the client
A switch exists from “read-only” V7 pagesto convergence pages
V7 Evolutions
V7 workbench allows to develop mobile transactions:• The same class• A dedicated representation
Data is stored in drafts:• Offline input is possible with further synchronization• Local cache is possible on reference data
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Evolution of the development platform
V7 Evolutions
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User interface is full web
help Page personalization Add to
favorites
Organize favorites
Shortcut in favorite bar
Access to user panel logout
Homepage Navigation
page
Search in data and functions
Change locale
Change endpoint
Change role
A very light shell at the top bar and the full page dedicated to application dataNavigation uses hyper-links, search, browser back button
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User interface is full web
In classic page, all the previous buttonsand upper links are grouped
The right bar is used to trigger operations and methods:
The actions on a field are identified by iconsand shortcuts are displayed in tooltips
User interface is full web
Search operationson functions(menu items)and ERP datawith a quickresult on avertical bar
The complete results can be based on approximated matching
Additional filters are possible
User interface can be personalized
Dashboards and navigation pages can also be personalized• Drag and drop editor• Use of components in the portal (processes, statistics, reports, web pages)
Pages can be personalized• V6 pages with some constraints (order)• V7 page with no limits• No more developer skill needed for personalization• Personalization can be shared• Personalization can be defined as “factory” and delivered by partners and Sage• The personalization is WYSIWYG
User interface personalization : home page
User interface personalization : navigation page
Page personalization for users
Every page has a structure that can be reorganized and redesigned
Elements can be moved by drag and drop
V7 Evolutions
Office Integration : Office is a client- A plugin to be installed and an additional panel in Office menus- PowerPoint export of any query including requests and stats- Excel export of query- Word mail merge on lists, and Word report on details- Excel export on V6 grids
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The V7 web client
V7 Evolutions
An user can be member of teams- A team is a free organization of users for
collaboration purposes only- Every team has an administrator, authors,
and members
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Collaboration tools
V7 Evolutions
Teams member can publish and share documents- The documents are stored in mongoDB
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Collaboration tools
A better usability with a simple web experience
A mobile access to the ERP
The insights you need with portals, dashboards, processes description
An increased user productivity with easy navigation, search…
The ability to grow seamlessly with an optimized and scalable platform
The version 7 technology brings
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