Organisations that are seeking to deepen their penetration in the market but may be finding it difficult to seamlessly integrate the important parts of the business can leverage Sage X3, the latest product from Sage a provider of HR and payroll solutions.
The product was launched recently in Lagos by Keith Fenner, VP of sales for ERP for Sage ERP Africa and head of Sage Middle East.
According to Fenner, although there may a wide range of choice in ERP systems, the Sage X3 offers a different proposition.
“Firstly we changed the name from ERP (Enterprise resource planning) to BMS (Business management software) because ERP does have negative connotations like long implementation, lots of cost and a reward that does not match the investment.
“We had to make it a 100 percent web and in doing that we obviously solved the cloud problems so that you are able to have all products on premise which a lot of people in Nigeria want,” Fenner said.
The Sage X3 deals with specific requirements of firm in their specific industries, Fenner said. It is faster allowing a business to accelerate all core business processes, in the cloud or on premise. The X3 is also flexible in managing domestic and international businesses with ready-to-use functionality. It adapts to the way a company operates, as well as an evolving IT strategy without loss of data or functionality.
A major feature of the Sage X3 is the data management hub which allows one to bring all of these together to connect the big data cloud together with a business own premise or other cloud applications, or ERP applications.
“The Sage data management hub has been invented effectively for three things; the first thing is for migration whether that is a migration from Sage products it is part of our customer for long strategy. Whether it is migration from a competing product, it sit there and it can pull that data the whole time from this systems so you do not have to have this huge expensive data migration from one system to another because your reporting is coming from this data migration. That is critical for us in our own migration and it obviously helping our customers. The flip side of it is it is a business intelligence layer that sits on top of business intelligence layers,” Fenner said.
