Pronto Xi—The ERP from “Down Under” Becomes TEC Certified

Introduction to Pronto Software

I’m admiring to say that the acceptance for the PRONTO-Xi action adeptness planning (ERP) arrangement has been completed by TEC’s analyst team. Actuality I’d like to allotment my consequence and some abstracts apropos this arrangement with you.

This accomplished anniversary we had the amusement of accepting Pronto as guests at TEC’s offices. Both Terry Leister, VP North America, and Jayd Blunden, Senior Business Consultant at Pronto Software were actuality for the acceptance meeting. I absolutely acknowledge the actuality that they fabricated the continued cruise from Australia to Canada to accommodated the analysts and appearance us their absorbing system.

Pronto Software is an chip band-aid provider, accepted mostly in Australia (where they are based), as able-bodied as in the South Asia region. They are currently putting a lot of accomplishment into acceptable added accustomed and acknowledged in the North American market. The aggregation has catered to the midsized ERP bazaar for over 30 years and assuredly has a abysmal and bright compassionate of their over 1,500 customers’ business needs and challenges. Pronto Software defines its above audience as manufacturing, importer distributors, chip retailers, accessories and account companies, mining, and mining accumulation companies.

Product Strengths and Challenges

In acclimation to ascertain the solution’s features—in added words, its able aspects as able-bodied as its weaker points—I acclimated the advice that I acquired during the audience affair as able-bodied as the abstracts from the appeal for advice (RFI) that was completed by Pronto. I aswell acclimated TEC’s eBestMatch™ accommodation abutment arrangement (DSS), which can be acclimated by anyone searching to do a agnate exercise for any action software alternative project.

Among the functionality of the Pronto Xi ERP system, I would like to highlight the following:

* I alone admired the user interface argumentation that the arrangement is based on, breadth the user has a array of advice readily accessible on the screen—in absolute time. In aggregate with online queries, screens, reports, and drill-down and awning customization capabilities, it gives users the adeptness to acclimatize and appearance plan spaces, apply on business tasks, and abate the amount of ascribe errors. The awning customization allows you to change, modify, add, or adumbrate awning prompts, fields, grids and buttons, and even actualize user-defined buttons.

* Pronto Software is a single-source supplier. This agency that they accommodate a individual cipher application, and no affiliation is appropriate for the a lot of archetypal business processes: the chump does not charge to acquirement and install added third-party programs. The aggregation offers added accomplice applications—mostly for business intelligence (BI) appliance Panorama—and interfacing with added systems. All added modules are an inherent allotment of the arrangement and can be calmly angry on and off as needed.

* Another absorbing aspect of Pronto’s Xi artefact is its scalability. The arrangement can be auspiciously acclimated by baby businesses with absolute few workstations, as able-bodied as by almost ample corporations with bags of users and an continued amount of business processes and procedures. The arrangement is scalable and abiding abundant to serve organizations with added than 2,000 users.

* Pronto Xi software can be delivered to the chump through acceptable accession or through the software-as-a-service (SaaS) model. The bell-ringer offers Pronto Hosted Services that accommodate multi-site hosting and administration adeptness with abstracts apery and replications.

* Pronto Xi ERP aswell contains a able-bodied and able point-of-sale (POS) bore for retailers and distributors. The appraisement array for the functionalities of this bore in our eBestMatch arrangement were high; which a lot of absolutely shows that Pronto Xi has the adeptness to attempt with the best POS systems on the market.

* Active intelligence and assignment intelligence appearance are aswell provided with this system. These are accoutrement that can be acclimated for alternate advice with your ERP system. The arrangement is acute abundant to accomplish abbreviate bulletin account (SMS) and pop-up messages, forward a fax or e-mail, run a process, and barrage an appliance based on accurate contest or important assignment milestones. It’s absolutely up to the user to ascertain them. It can be used—for instance—to e-mail your chump if the acclimation is accessible to be shipped, or it can SMS the account administrator to active him/her that a accurate account is out of banal and needs to be reordered.

* With accepted auditing capability, the arrangement allows users to clue changes that accept been fabricated to any acreage or section of advice aural the absolute system. The “what,” “when,” “where,” and “by whom” types of questions can be calmly answered.

In animosity of all the software’s appearance and advantages, I begin a few areas breadth Pronto Xi’s capabilities were not as able-bodied as its competitors in this space.

* There are some weaknesses in the action accomplishment administration module. It’s accessible that this ERP appliance has developed from detached accomplishment (where I feel it is assuredly able in functionality) and based on Pronto’s acknowledgment to our RFI, some specific business processes accurate to connected blazon of action accomplishment are not accurate by default, and ability crave customization, modification, or—in the case of by-products or co-products tracking for authentic tasks—“workarounds.” In added words, the appliance can abutment these business processes, but it does not do so “natively,” i.e., some user manipulations aural added sets of functionality may be required. A agnate access may be appropriate for activating compound acclimation based on the absolute characteristics of ingredients, crop calculation, assorted action models for the aforementioned item, annular bill of abstracts (BOM). The acceptable account for abeyant barter because Pronto Xi ERP is that this hasn’t chock-full added action manufacturers from appliance the product, and Pronto has accomplished abounding acknowledged arrangement accomplishing examples in the biologic and actinic verticals, aliment processing, and added mixed-mode or action industries.

* The all-embracing appraisement for the animal adeptness (HR) bore was lower due to a almost weaker agent self-service functionality. This functionality alluringly allows advisers to appearance pay stubs and assay and advance own claimed information, such as name, address, allowances accompanying to a activity event, tax filing status, amount of exemptions, audience and beneficiaries, etc. This is declared to be offered in approaching releases but for now it may not be the best best if self-service functionality is a analytical antecedence for your company. Added than the self-service breadth of HR, Pronto approved HR ratings that larboard the mixed-mode ERP boilerplate far behind.

* The aggregation focuses mainly on the Australian, New Zealand, South-East Asia, and North American markets. As such, the arrangement is translated into French and Spanish languages only. This ability be an affair if you are planning to use your ERP arrangement in countries breadth users allege added languages.

The addition assay blueprint beneath shows that in a lot of business areas, Pronto’s Xi arrangement ante college than boilerplate by the industry benchmark. The alone exceptions—as I mentioned earlier—are animal assets and action accomplishment administration areas—where the ratings are hardly lower than the industry benchmark.