UNIT4 Agresso

ERPwith NO expiry date

UNIT4 Agresso | ERPwith NO expiry date

Cloud ERP built for change, built for people

UNIT4 Agresso was built to empower your people to deliver and succeed
especially in changing business conditions.
UNIT4 Agresso is a cloud ERP solution designed for service-intensive organizations. Its architectural design guarantees that our
customers can gain a significant advantage over their peers, as it allows them to respond to business change faster, at a lower cost
and without the typical business disruption.

The analysts agree

UNIT4 Agresso was rated 96%
The reported average annual costs of change (internal

for change compliance. Rival

and external costs) are substantially higher for the

systems from SAP, Oracle and

general populationUNIT4 customers reported spending

Microsoft scored between 0%

an average of 55% less on an annual basis.

and 50%.

Source: IDC, The Financial Impact of ERP Architecture on the

Annual Cost of Business Change.

Source: Eval-Source, Which

ERP Architecture Best Handles
Business Change?

and so do our customers!

Whatever new information we need
and whatever changes in direction

The most important element is that making business

that arise, I really never worry about

changes in Agresso has never been a problem for us; the

Agressos ability to support us.

solution definitely contributed to the banks strong position

Anna Malmros, Maintenance Manager

Finance, Coor Service Management

in the market before and after the financial crisis.

Oskar Johann Oskarsson, Senior System Manager, Arion Bank

Agresso in action clean and clear screens and processes.

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Key advantages
Our passion is designing solutions for our customers and their people to excel and
become the best in their industry. We enable them to adapt to new conditions faster, at
less expense and without the usual disruption. We accomplish this through architectural
design and smart use of social, mobile, analytics and cloud technologies.
Built for change
The rigidity and complexity of most ERP architectures mean high costs, major delays and severe disruption for every single business
change that comes along after the initial implementation.
UNIT4 Agresso was designed to let you embrace most (>95%) forms of business change
yourself, without intervention from IT experts simply, quickly and cost-effectively.

Delivery
Model

How?

Process
Model

Because Agressos architecture smartly couples three core areas to move in

lockstep: The data model (information), the process model (workflow) and
delivery model (reporting & analytics). A change made in one area automatically
flows into the other without the need to re-do or re-check for accuracy.

Data
Model

Built for people

With its clear uncluttered user interface, role- / task-focused software and collaborative design, Agresso delivers all the support that
your people need to ensure optimal productivity and service delivery across your organization, particularly in times of change.

How?

Because it intelligently knows who and what people are connected to and from there what rules apply to utilize this. This
provides a fundamental advantage to put collaboration at the heart of your organization. Colleagues stay close, information
is always at their fingertips, answers are just a click away, and they can discuss and resolve queries in a matter of minutes
before they ever become issues.
With 24x7 access, our mobile apps on your preferred device enable you to complete a wide range of tasks on the move. Youve
got everything you need to do your job when you want, where you want, how you want.

Built for cloud

Adhering to the highest industry standards for service delivery, our cloud deployment options give customers the independence,
flexibility, and reliability they need to deploy their business software in the cloud with confidence and at an affordable cost.

How?

Unlike other vendors, our approach to cloud deployment offers much more
than just potential cost savings; its design offers five additional advantages:
Portability preventing lock-in. You can always move to a different
cloud or even back on-premise.
Security every customer has its own data-schema, providing an
extra layer of security above traditional cloud storage design.
Upgrade Elasticity letting you choose when to upgrade.
Solution Completeness fully featured, stable and future ready.
Disaster Rollback quickly (hours, not weeks) and painlessly
undoing human errors.

Security

Disaster
Rollback

Completeness

Portability

Upgrade Elasticity

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Solution highlights
Here is a brief introduction to the main capabilities of UNIT4 Agresso
Financial Management

Human Resources & Payroll

Agresso equips the office of the CFO with a top-tier core

financial/accounting solution, including GL, AP, AR, asset
accounting, and other core functions, plus multi-company,
multi-currency, and multi-lingual capabilities.

Agresso helps you get the best from your organizations most
important assets its people. HR and payroll teams gain a single
control center to access, process, operate and manage all aspects
of the organizations hire-to-retire cycle and payroll function.

As well as easily meeting both statutory and management

demands for information, the finance team can rely on Agresso
for rapid financial insights and answers to help minimize risks,
respond to business change and seize opportunities.

Our solution enables a swift response to new organizational

demands or legislation, so you can respond to change, reduce
ownership costs and keep HR information organized and under
control no matter how varied, fast changing or intricate.

We can make system changes as

and when we need to but without
the price tags associated with other
ERP solutions out there.
Kevin Franklin, CFO, Lifeways Group

Planning, Budgeting & Forecasting

Our comprehensive database-driven tools replace the
use of multiple, disparate, unlinked spreadsheets to assist
organizations in the areas of financial planning and budgeting,
resource planning, project planning, and forecasting.
Now, all participants in the planning and budgeting cycles of
even the largest, most complex or fast-changing businesses can
access a single version of the truth, from which to plan and
make decisions.

Not only are we saving money, we

can now do more with less and, in
many instances, do it better
John Burgess, Councillor,
Cotswold District Council,
on GO shared services
Agresso in action streamlined, employee-friendly HR & Payroll processes.

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Procurement Management

Project and People Management

Our solution supports, automates and standardizes all stages

of the indirect purchasing and procurement cycle from
requisitioning and supplier selection through to goods receipt,
invoicing and paying vendors.

Our integrated end-to-end project solution is the best way

to optimize, automate and manage the people and processes
involved. It covers the whole project lifecycle from initiation
through resourcing and costing, all the way to billing, reporting
and analysis.

Now, procurement managers can keep costs down and

streamline procurement practices, without sacrificing control.
Agresso frees up time to focus on managing and negotiating
stronger supplier relationships, scrutinizing spending and
optimizing purchase decisions.

We are confident our decision

to consolidate to a single system will
reduce costs significantly, even helping
us become more profitable, and
improve efficiency across the City.
Gunnar Bjrkman, Deputy Chief
Executive Officer, City of Stockholm

Field Service and Asset Management

Our integrated and connected approach provides full support
for the teams and activities involved in asset maintenance
whether your own or for customers including inventory
management, contract management, resource allocation,
regulatory reporting and invoicing of billable time.

Because Agresso reflects business changes seamlessly and

instantly, managers always have a comprehensive and accurate
view of their project and the detailed definition, costing and
resourcing information they need for effective planning,
coordination and decision-making.

Agresso takes you far beyond the savings and control that can
be achieved with isolated best-of-breed systems enabling
managers, call center staff and field workers to all share the
same consolidated customer information, wherever they are.

Agresso allows us to be more strategic.

Whereas I formerly had to pull various
spreadsheets to analyze data, I can now
slice and dice the information any way
I want, and always know Ill get one
version of the truth. By giving us back
so much time, Agresso helps us focus
on our mission of providing quality
affordable housing opportunities for
those in need in our communities.
Craig Violante, Chief Financial Officer,
King County Housing Authority

Agresso in action smart, intuitive tools to plan and manage

people and projects.

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Technology highlights
Agresso delivers exciting new ways to engage and support your teams by harnessing
the latest proven advances and best practices
Social and Collaboration tools
A range of smart, fully integrated social and collaboration tools
play a major part in Agressos outstanding usability and finetuned functionality.
Context-based chat and screen-sharing features mean you
can discuss and share information with colleagues and capture
conversations in the context of the business, whether this is
about an invoice, a project, a customer, a supplier, an expense
claim you name it! This keeps everybody aligned, provides a
full audit trail and makes it an extremely powerful approach
for rapid problem resolution especially in times of change.
You can even involve non-Agresso or off-line users in the
discussions, via integration with Outlook, where chat is
transformed into email, and the email responses transformed
back into chat to ensure every aspect of the conversation is
captured in one place.

Only Agresso combines robust and

comprehensive features with a modern
underlying technology and the ability
to extend its capabilities with ease.
Ren Bellu, IT Director for ERP Systems,
The Judge Group

Mobile Apps
Agresso keeps you connected with your colleagues and the
system, so you can work more enjoyably and effectively, how
ever and wherever you need to. Its designed for todays mobile,
online world including a range of sophisticated, focused,
intuitive apps.
For example, you can:
Browse and query your data with the UNIT4 Agresso
Reports App.
Check and update timesheet entries with the UNIT4 Agresso
Timesheets App.
Get clear, instant access to your approval tasks with the
UNIT4 Agresso Tasks App.
Capture expenses details while on the move with the UNIT4
Expenses App.

Agresso in action easier, instant collaboration from within screens.

Agresso in action smarter ways to stay connected.

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Analytics & Reporting

As an integral part of Agresso, these straightforward but
powerful tools allow you to realize the full potential of Agressos
unique and extremely flexible information model. These tools
continue to surprise every single Agresso customer by delivering
unlimited intelligence, analysis and insights to people at any
level of even the largest, most complex or diverse organizations.
Our integrated, intuitive analytics tools empower users to
quickly and easily access the precise information they need and,
thanks to Agressos unique architecture, the reports always stay
in sync with business or organizational changes, without having
to call in IT experts.

Our smarter approach to multi-tenancy offers you the best of

both worlds:
Economies of scale enabled by sharing facilities with other
organizations.
The reassurance and protection of your own, completely
separate, database.
This enables unrivaled security AND portability, with the
guaranteed freedom to choose, and keep adjusting, your
deployment options to absorb and adapt to ongoing
business change:
Move into the cloud.
Move out of the cloud.
Move to a different cloud.

Its your cloud ERP your way!

Typical
Multi-Tenant
Cloud

Agresso in action turning data into insights and intelligence.

Cloud ERP
Traditional on-premise ERP software locks you into a resourcehungry cycle of IT ownership and management that costs you
time and money for each layer involved. Agresso replaces all
that complexity and overhead with a single, simple, end-to-end
subscription service delivered by experts you can trust.

Moving to the cloud alleviates

the IT burden, while delivering
comprehensive, innovative ERP
functionality that will keep pace
with our needs.
Ellen Wieckowski, Vice President for IT,
Robert Morris University

UNIT4
Approach

Agresso in action delivering cloud ERP with complete security AND flexibility.

About UNIT4 Business Software

UNIT4 Business Software is the North American subsidiary of UNIT4, a leading provider
of people-centered enterprise software for services organizations. We provide cloud ERP
and business applications designed to meet specific vertical market requirements helping
customers embrace change simply, quickly and cost effectively. Through our solutions, our
customers change and innovate at higher speed and lower cost.
The Group incorporates a number of the worlds leading software brands including UNIT4
Agresso, our flagship ERP suite for mid-sized and large services intensive organizations;
UNIT4 Coda Financials, our best-of-class financial management software; UNIT4
Campus, our fully integrated higher education and research software suite; and Sabre

CentralCommandTM with Agresso, our ERP solution designed for the travel industry.

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