Enterprise Solutions

Design solutions with the whole in mind

In today’s world and economy, it is critical that the enterprise is supported by a system, integrating all departments and functions across a company, onto a single database, that can serve all those different departments’ critical needs. Even more important is linking the company and divisions globally. Having visibility worldwide to inventories and supply chain activities allows for an organization to make timely decisions that deliver reduced costs and improved sales worldwide. The bottom line is both top and bottom lines improve through the use of a solid enterprise system. Enterprise systems are reputed to be complex, clunky systems that require too much effort to implement and maintain. Replacing complexity with simplicity, clunky with seamless, and delivering the best of departmental practices, create the highest return on an organizations investment.

In today’s world and economy, it is critical that the enterprise be supported by a system that, integrates all departments and functions across a company, delivers consistency onto a single database, and can serve all the different departments’ critical needs. Even more important is linking the company and divisions globally. Having visibility worldwide to inventories and supply chain activities allows for an organization to make timely decisions, that deliver reduced costs and improved sales worldwide. The bottom line is, both the top and bottom lines, improve through the use of a solid enterprise system. Enterprise systems are reputed to be complex, clunky systems that require too much effort to implement and maintain. Replacing complexity with simplicity, clunky with seamless, and delivering the best of departmental practices, creates the highest return on an organizations investment.

Creative Innovation Solutions Group has partnered with one such company and ERP solution. xTuple and their ERP solution is scalable, easy to manage, and exemplifies simplicity over complexity. xTuple is a robust ERP solution, providing the functionality large ERP solutions provide, yet keeping it simple and easy to manage. xTuple is the best kept secret in the ERP community. Additionally, the xTuple solutions run on a number of platforms. This means that you are not required to change your desktop computers to run xTuple.

Some of the benefits are

• “Big system” ERP functionality
• Visibility across the supply chain
• Improved operational control
• Real-time decision making
• Lowest total cost of ownership (TCO)
• Any combination of Windows, Mac, Linux
• Open license and community driven development

xTuple ERP is tailored to the specific needs of small to mid-sized entrepreneurial companies. xTuple products give companies visibility into costs, supply chains, processes, inventory and financial operations with a lower cost of ownership than competing ERP products. There are three flavors of xTuple ERP available, depending on your business needs.

The entry level edition is PostBooks. This is available completely free with open source ERP, and suitable for a variety of small businesses. Included in PostBooks are full financial; robust CRM; Sales and Purchasing; Accounting and ad-hoc reporting. Additionally there is light inventory, manufacturing and distribution. Creative Innovation Solutions Group will assess your organizational needs, recommend the optimal configuration, and deliver an implementation, maximizing the capabilities and use of PostBooks.

xTuple ERP Standard Edition is the newest xTuple ERP product, is a mid range commercial offering, offering the features of PostBook plus advanced inventory control, warehousing, and other features to the core package. This is a great edition for distributors, retailers, light manufacturers, and anyone else who would prefer commercially licensed software.

The Manufacturing Edition of xTuple open source ERP is the premium commercial offering by xTuple. This is the recommended options for manufacturing companies in both discrete and batch process production; make to order, make to stock, or mixed-mode; even job shops and engineer-to-order.

The Enterprise Edition of xTuple ERP includes all of the functionality available in both the free and open source PostBooks core, and the commercially licensed Project, Standard, and Manufacturing Editions. It also includes the following add-on components and complementary offerings:

• xTuple Connect, our powerful integration platform for connecting to outside systems. Now includes full integration of your CRM, accounting, and ERP with your existing corporate email system
• the xTuple Web Portal core, enabling your customers and other trading partners to interact with your ERP system over your web site
• the Fixed Assets Depreciation package, for full integration of your fixed asset register and depreciation schedules with xTuple accounting
• a 50% discount on any tier of the xTuple Network (XTN) service offering, allowing for xTuple-manged upgrades, offsite backup, database and hosting services

 

xTuple Enterprise is our premium offering, with a minimum license of ten concurrent users. If you’ve been considering some of these other xTuple product and service offerings, it’s an outstanding value.