EPPS ERP claims to address the interests of different business sizes

Atul Pimple, Co-Founder and Joint MD of EPPS Infotech, a startup in the ERP landscape, spoke to Dataquest regarding the ERP solution which the company has developed to address ERP needs of various business sizes. Interestingly EPPS ERP , claims Atul Pimple, has been built keeping in mind the popular enterprise IT trends like mobility, IoT and big data, etc.

What is EPPS ERP solution? Who is your target audience?

Atul Pimple

We consider ourselves as a new-age start-up in the ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) landscape. We initiated developing our product in 2011 with the matured, tested and final product being launched officially earlier this year. We developed a technology platform that promises to offer an ERP solution devised on the aspects of agility, efficiency, customizability and scalability. Our vision is to facilitate efficient, agile, balanced and enduring business decisions for customers.

With our ERP solution, we aim to address the business interest of different enterprise sizes – from small and medium sized (SME) to larger conglomerates.

What sets your solution apart from the competition?

In the present scenario, businesses are puzzled whether to opt for a reasonably developed ERP solution offered by local players or a top notch solution by global MNCs.

The most noteworthy feature of our ERP solution is the mobile ERP functionality. We pride ourselves as this feature is not offered by even the premium priced ERP solutions from global MNCs. Our ERP solution enables quick decision-making even while on the move – ‘Business Anytime Anywhere’ redefined. Further, it works seamlessly across all prevalent OS (operating systems), browsers and smartphones as well as tablets.

Our founding principle is to offer SME’s an ease to do business and expand operations by providing them with configurable ERP platforms. In addition, the appealing and easy to understand interface enables easy training of the EPPS ERP functionalities. A reduction in the overall training time makes it cost and time effective.

Who are your customers - Mid-Tier, Small or Large Enterprises?

Our ERP solution is offered to all industries irrespective of the size of the business.

 Are you looking at the IoT opportunity with EPPS ERP solution?

IOT helps devices talk to devices, as referred as Machine to Machine. When this entire unstructured data is aligned appropriately with the structured data in ERP, critical business decisions can be taken from anywhere at anytime which is the prime objective of our solution.

How can Internet of Things (IoT) shape the future of ERP?

With the evolution of ERP, clients are expecting their ERP vendors to act as a consultant in streamlining their business processes. If in the near future, IoT is collaborated with ERP, businesses will witness a breakthrough as organizational issues will be identified and resolved quickly. As we all are well aware, ERP presents an integrated view of the business function. Imagine if all these applications were attached to an IoT device, core details such as the location, usage and performance will be readily available at the click of a button.

Could you elaborate how IoT-based ERP implementation can help industries?

It is a known fact that when IoT is collaborated with ERP, operational efficiency of organizations is raised a notch higher. Let’s take for instance the manufacturing industry, if IoT and ERP are brought together, demand and supply of raw materials will be done in a timely manner where no human intervention will be required. Prompt delivery will result in happy customers thereby raising the productive quotient of the business. If this practice is followed without any glitches, companies with their efficient quo can tap newer geographical markets.

For predictive maintenance and condition based monitoring it is very important to connect equipments with sensors and applications. A perfect handshake between this unstructured data and the Structured ERP data can help manufacturers achieve maximum efficiency from equipments.