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

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What Customers Really Care About

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Winning new customers

Reducing my operating costs

Growing my revenue

Top business priorities | All regions

GROWTH1

PRODUCTIVITY

2Sage Business Index 2013 – Mid-Market

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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

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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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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

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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.

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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