The manufacturing sector has seen its share of ups and downs over the last few years and is only just starting to re-emerge enough to confidently begin exploring new IT solutions for the complex data demands of the industry. Today Epicor announced an ERP application that might offer more cost-effective solutions for traditional manufacturing that has hiterto relied on installed internal software. This new SaaS offering might allow for a feasible shift from spreadsheets to the cloud, leaving manufacturing clients responsible only for the software they use. The company anticipates that at the beginning many manufacturing clients will use a “blended” ERP solution, using their new offering for lightweight processes versus as a full replacement.
Managing Manufacturing via the Cloud
May 11, 2010