Business management solutions such as ERP are no longer an island designed for users in administrative functions, but must be designed to connect to users in both the front and back office.
This new interaction paradigm is user-centric, collaborative, participative, and social. Ultimately, the adoption of a user-centric ERP will not be a nice-to-have, but an economic necessity for the enterprise.
Sage ERP X3 introduces a new user experience, and a range of new technology components, designed to deliver rapid search results, capable of supporting web service development, and integrated with document management. Sage X3 is designed for the connected, mobile, social, collaborative, intelligent enterprise.
Sage ERP X3 is an integral part of the global technology strategy for Sage to better support start-ups, and small- and medium-sized businesses around the globe.
Sage X3 technology features
The architecture of Sage ERP X3 allows the solution to embrace the innovation of mobility, while maintaining stability and reliability. the cloud is the enabling technology behind the connected, social enterprise.
Sage X3 provides choice of deployment. It provides customers choice whether to deploy in the cloud, on-premise, or in a hybrid model where the cloud can supplement on-premise resources.
Sage ERP X3 offers on-premise and hosted (private cloud) deployment options to best meet the requirements of a mid-sized customer.
Sage X3 is designed to scale from 8 to more than 2,000 concurrent users, and deploy locally or in multi-country scenarios. The implementation process is designed to be streamlined yet flexible enough to meet varying business requirements. This process includes a comprehensive implementation tool kit, role-based user profiles, and an implementation methodology for more rapid deployment at home or abroad.
Sage X3 is designed to give a true web experience throughout including web pages, hyperlinks, bookmarks, search and more. Sage X3 provides end-users broad yet simple personalization capabilities for all pages of the application. In addition, Sage X3 guides the users in their sessions through visual processes and workflows.
Power users can personalize the screen layout of Sage X3 in WYSIWYG mode, and share their personalization with others. This personalization can be defined by user and by role, shared and shipped from one environment to another. A default personalization is supplied within Sage X3, based on the experience of Sage consultants.
Sage X3 was audited and certified by a third-party for safe operation in the Cloud. Sage X3 supports external identity providers like LDAP, Oauth2 (Google and Microsoft Live accounts) and Sage ID. This improves security by offloading the management of user credentials, and also improves the user experience by providing a Single Sign-On (SSO) experience. User credentials do not transit through the ERP when integrated with Oauth2 identity providers or with Sage ID. In addition, communications with the various client components can be secured with HTTPS, and communications between server-side components are authenticated with certificates.
The collaboration platform within Sage X3, and the TEAMS functionality allows users to better share, review and contribute to documents, templates and processes using the TEAMS functionality within Sage X3 company-wide.
Sage X3 is architected around RESTful Web APIs, with simple JSON feeds. The architecture allows external processes to easily consume data feeds coming from Sage X3 an also allows Sage X3 to easily consume data feeds from the external world.
All the ERP clients (mobile client, web UI, Microsoft Office add-ins) interact with the platform through the RESTful Web API. Service orientation is handled at the heart of the ERP rather than through a separate middleware tier.
This new interaction paradigm is user-centric, collaborative, participative, and social. Ultimately, the adoption of a user-centric ERP will not be a nice-to-have, but an economic necessity for the enterprise.
Sage ERP X3 introduces a new user experience, and a range of new technology components, designed to deliver rapid search results, capable of supporting web service development, and integrated with document management. Sage X3 is designed for the connected, mobile, social, collaborative, intelligent enterprise.
The technology behind Sage X3
Sage ERP X3 is an integral part of the global technology strategy for Sage to better support start-ups, and small- and medium-sized businesses around the globe.
Sage X3 technology features
- Integrated business intelligence
- Interactive user portal
- Visual process maps and process editor
- Workflow engine
- Graphical query tool
- LDAP integration / Single sign-on support
- Predefined configurations, roles, processes
- Eclipse plugin for development
- Microsoft Office integration to Word, Excel
- and PowerPoint
- Mobile web apps
- Tablet view
- Full Web Client via HTML5
- Online help portal
- User and Role Page Personalizations
- Full text Search capabilities
- Web interface supported by node.js
- Document storage supported by mongoDB
Stability and Predictability
The architecture of Sage ERP X3 allows the solution to embrace the innovation of mobility, while maintaining stability and reliability. the cloud is the enabling technology behind the connected, social enterprise.
Sage X3 provides choice of deployment. It provides customers choice whether to deploy in the cloud, on-premise, or in a hybrid model where the cloud can supplement on-premise resources.
Deployment Options
Sage ERP X3 offers on-premise and hosted (private cloud) deployment options to best meet the requirements of a mid-sized customer.
Sage X3 is designed to scale from 8 to more than 2,000 concurrent users, and deploy locally or in multi-country scenarios. The implementation process is designed to be streamlined yet flexible enough to meet varying business requirements. This process includes a comprehensive implementation tool kit, role-based user profiles, and an implementation methodology for more rapid deployment at home or abroad.
User Experience
Sage X3 is designed to give a true web experience throughout including web pages, hyperlinks, bookmarks, search and more. Sage X3 provides end-users broad yet simple personalization capabilities for all pages of the application. In addition, Sage X3 guides the users in their sessions through visual processes and workflows.
Power users can personalize the screen layout of Sage X3 in WYSIWYG mode, and share their personalization with others. This personalization can be defined by user and by role, shared and shipped from one environment to another. A default personalization is supplied within Sage X3, based on the experience of Sage consultants.
Security
Sage X3 was audited and certified by a third-party for safe operation in the Cloud. Sage X3 supports external identity providers like LDAP, Oauth2 (Google and Microsoft Live accounts) and Sage ID. This improves security by offloading the management of user credentials, and also improves the user experience by providing a Single Sign-On (SSO) experience. User credentials do not transit through the ERP when integrated with Oauth2 identity providers or with Sage ID. In addition, communications with the various client components can be secured with HTTPS, and communications between server-side components are authenticated with certificates.
Collaboration
The collaboration platform within Sage X3, and the TEAMS functionality allows users to better share, review and contribute to documents, templates and processes using the TEAMS functionality within Sage X3 company-wide.
Openness
Sage X3 is architected around RESTful Web APIs, with simple JSON feeds. The architecture allows external processes to easily consume data feeds coming from Sage X3 an also allows Sage X3 to easily consume data feeds from the external world.
All the ERP clients (mobile client, web UI, Microsoft Office add-ins) interact with the platform through the RESTful Web API. Service orientation is handled at the heart of the ERP rather than through a separate middleware tier.
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Sage X3 and Sage Software are trademarks of Sage Software, Inc. Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft SQL Enterprise Manager and SQL Server Management Studio are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Oracle is is a registered trademark or Oracle Corporation. All other product names used here are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
Sage X3 and Sage Software are trademarks of Sage Software, Inc. Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft SQL Enterprise Manager and SQL Server Management Studio are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Oracle is is a registered trademark or Oracle Corporation. All other product names used here are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
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