CIO Bulletin has published an issue of 10 Best ERP Solution Providers 2018.

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August 2018
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2. SYSPRO: Industry-Built ERP Software
for Simplified Success
E
RP is playing a pivotal
role in every enterprise.
In fact, enterprises of
all sizes largely depend
upon ERP platforms for their
everyday business. ERP software
helps run day-to-day enterprise
activities, as it automates and
integrates core business processes.
Be it production, customer orders,
or even inventory control and
reporting, ERP takes care of it
all. Once fully implemented, the
ERP system leads to remarkable
developments in all processes like
manufacturing, distribution, and
finance as well.
We have with us SYSPRO, a
leading pioneer in the ERP
software platform. It all began
decades earlier when Phil Duff
and his brother Chris recognized
a potential market in accounting
software. They joined together in
1978 and established SYSPRO.
But back then, many tech
entrepreneurs believed that a
fast IPO would lead to success.
But four decades later, SYSPRO
is proud to be one of the longest
standing independent vendors of
ERP software with its operations
expanding over 60 countries
Why SYSPRO?
Here are some of its strengths of
SYSPRO that make it the leading
force in ERP:
Combining Trust and
Innovation
As a privately-held company,
customers are the only
stakeholder of SYSPRO. And so,
the constructive feedback from
the customers provides a source
for innovation and improvement
in the products delivered. “Our
customers can rest easy and trust
that SYSPRO has their best interest
in mind when determining the
product roadmap, and not that of a
private equity institution,” notes Phil
Duff, the CEO.
Unified Platform
Most ERP platforms work on
a complex combination of
various applications that are
joined together with mergers
and acquisitions. But the story
of SYSPRO is different from it
as a solid, single code base. The
company delivers a unified and
tightly knit platform, with which
clients can be confident that every
process will function smoothly.
Connect to the World
SYSPRO ERP was developed on
the Microsoft Dot-NET platform.
This has ensured that customers
can seamlessly connect with
other third-party systems for their
highest productivity. Powerful
mobile solutions and upcoming
tech from SYSPRO ensure its
customers are leading in their
market.
Flexibility
The best part about SYSPRO is its
flexibility. The firm understands
that each business requirement is
unique and there isn’t a one-size-
fits-all. That’s why the SYSPRO
ERP is modular. It enables clients
to save money by deploying only
what they need up front and then
as the client’s business expands,
they can add more functionality.
SYSPRO also provides the
flexibility to deploy either on-
premise or on the cloud.
“With SYSPRO, you gain more than a software solution. You get a global
team of industry experts committed to ensuring your success.”

3. Tailor Made
“SYSPRO focuses on making our
software work in your operation
while solving complex business
challenges with a simple approach,”
explains Phil. “For some of our
customers, this has meant designing
new functionality.” A good
example is SYSPRO’s Material
Yield System or the Container
Tracking capability. At SYSPRO,
there’s always a solution. So, any
individual business challenge
won’t be an obstacle for the clients
to choose a system for their needs.
Security
SYSPRO knows that ERP systems
make the core of the business,
and so it is critical to control
transactions and operations.
That’s why the company
provides powerful features and
multidimensional security at
all levels to protect everything
important.
Fact paced ROIs
“Our goal is for customers to
realize ROI from their ERP
implementation as fast as possible,”
Phil says. “That’s why we
developed the award-winning IDEAL
implementation methodology which
provides a roadmap to success.”
SYSPRO isn’t just a software
developer, but a full-solution
provider. The decades and decades
of experience in supplying to
manufacturers and distributors
have ensured SYSPRO delivers
only the best practices.
Cornerstone of Values
SYSPRO is future proof. As the
business grows and processes
change, enterprise organizations
require flexible systems that can
adapt and scale. More importantly,
the growing enterprises will also
require the best industry experts
and best practice advocates. Since
the ERP product suite is fast,
responsive and the leading force
of innovation, it gives clients a
solution and a team that they can
rely on in the long run.
The leadership team with their
experience and understanding
are the prime source of strength
for SYSPRO. Majority of the
management team and the
members of the board have
been with the company since its
birth. And each one of them has
played a pivotal role in raising
the company to what it stands
for today. Over the decades,
they have constantly kept a close
connection with customers and
partners, spread across the world.
Their skills and experiences are
the cornerstones of SYSPRO’s
corporate governance and success.
Meet the Visionary
Phil Duff and his brother Chris founded SYSPRO, and decades
later, Phil has stayed true to his values, and those values are
evident throughout the company. Phil has always believed in
continuity and the long-term, rather than quick profits. This
philosophy is one of the cornerstones bolstering the robust
performance and affordability for which SYSPRO is renowned.
He leads a talented global team, supported by over 1600 partner
resources. Together, they deliver cost-effective, scalable and
customizable enterprise software and services to customers
across six continents.
SYSPRO focuses on making our software work in your operation while
solving complex business challenges with a simple approach.
“ “
Phil Duff, Chief Executive Officer
3 | August-2018

4. Allan D. Robison, President and CEO of the company has a
foremost mission to manage and grow EXEControl Global
Solutions for the mutual benefit of its owners, employees,
and most importantly, its customers. As part of that mission,
his goal is to insure that every department within the
organization runs smoothly, and the quality of products and
services exceed the highest standards in the industry.
Robison took the position of President in 1994 upon
purchasing the company from Dr. Dolph Ebeling. Prior to his
presidency, he contributed to every department giving him
a clear understanding of the intricacies of every area of the
business. In addition, the American Production and Inventory
Control Society (APICS) has certified him in Production and
Inventory Management (CPIM). This business certification
exemplifies his deep understanding and principles that guide
his management leadership. Robison has served on several
Boards and provides volunteer services to help educate
today’s youth.
Howdy Robinson!
EXEControl Global Solutions: Achieving network
continuity and continuous improvements in
business process efficiency
C
ompanies become
competitive when they
make effective use of
information technologies
and information systems.
Information systems purpose is
providing right information to the
right people at the right time. It
is used to track, store, manipulate
and distribute the information from
gathered data to appropriate persons
when necessary.
Why worry when EXEControl Global
Solutions is here? The company was
established in 1969 and is a leading
Information Technology company
for small and mid-size businesses.
Its experienced team of consultants,
engineers and technicians provides
all services necessary to deliver and
maintain successful information
systems.
EXEControl Global Solutions
provide business software, business
consulting, network support and
services all over North America.
The company’s chief product is
EXEControl ERP/ CRM software.
EXEControl Global Solutions
act as a resource for forward
thinking customers to achieve
network continuity and continuous
improvements in business process
efficiency.
Allan D. Robison, President & CEO

5. Why is EXEControl unique?
The company firstly concentrates
on the opportunities to enhance
the potency and profitability and
then it chooses the apt technology
required.
It becomes senseless when a
business spends thousands to
save hundreds and computer
automation should fetch a good
ROI (Return on Investment),
that is where EXEControl comes
to play; they focus on pay-off.
The company will understand
the business and the technology
available to suggest the right
places to apply technology.
EXEControl designs solutions that
fit a workplace by understanding
their operations and tailoring
the needs. EXEControl gives
100% support to its clients and
helps them resolving problems
related to computer system since
EXEControl’s clients depend
on computer systems. “Our
commitment is to bring permanent
resolution as quickly as possible.”
Success story
Problem: The company’s client
in the health products industry
had to face 2 hard drive failures
simultaneously and incurred total
loss of $40,000, 9 days for a team
of disaster recovery specialists
= $15,000, Network services =
$25,000 and valuable staff time
and productivity lost = countless.
If the affected company had
known EXEControl Global
Solutions, they would have known
the reason for their hard drives
failure.
The reality is that your computer
network is one of the few
components of your business that
can actually put your company
out of business. When you manage
your network internally, you
accept 100% of the risk. When
EXEControl Global Solutions
manages your network, not only
do you offset a significant portion
of that risk upon EXEControl
Global Solutions, but behind
EXEControl Global Solutions is a
$1,000,000.00 E&O (Errors and
Omission) insurance policy helping
to protect its clients.
How can EXEControl help
you as your VoIP provider?
You want a VoIP provider that
offers the features and tools you
need to grow your company.
Most providers include standard
features such as an automated
attendant and the ability to
route different phone numbers
separately (i.e. one number which
rings all phones, another number
that rings only a select group of
phones).
EXEControl’s feature set includes
the standard features, as well
as some sophisticated features,
including, but not limited to Fall
back server1, Fall back routing1,
Web GUI (Graphical User
Interface), FMFM (Find Me Follow
Me) and many more.
Case study:
One company was in search of a
good VOIP Solution and called
EXEControl asking if the proposed
service would be a high quality
solution for them. EXEControl
asked a couple of questions about
the proposed solution and voiced
its concerns about QoS. The
company was not sure about QoS
and asked EXEControl to call the
carrier and find out.
EXEControl called the VoIP
provider and asked, “How do you
know VoIP will provide reliable
service for this customer?” The
provider said, “We don’t. It’s
a 50/50 shot.” Incredulously,
EXEControl asked, “So you’re
selling them a system with a
50/50 shot of it working?”
The company was not sure if
the solution would work for its
customers and it also failed to
inform customers that they might
have troubles with it. On the other
hand, the customers who come to
EXEControl Global Solutions for
VoIP don’t look back.
EXEControl’s biggest advantage
as a VoIP provider is its QoS,
leaving its competitors wondering
how it can provide such quality
service. Essentially, EXEControl’s
proprietary technology, which
will reconstruct a damaged audio
stream, is unique.
“We are a
full service
information
technology
company,
offering business
software, business
consulting and
networking
support
and services
throughout North
America.”

6. Ramco Systems: Staying Ahead
of the Technology Curve
T
echnology keeps you
ahead. Technology is very
crucial for businesses
today to expand and
explore. No matter how big
or small your enterprise is,
technology has both tangible and
intangible benefits that will reap
profits and help meet customer
demands. ‘Communication’ is
the aim of all technological
advancements. Human Capital
Management solutions, ERP
software, business-specific
solutions are a few of the many
unavoidable technology aids that
can transform every business and
its operations into a huge success.
To get the right solution is already
half the solution to a business
problem, and Ramco Systems
offers those solutions.
Ramco Systems is a fast-growing
enterprise software player
disrupting the market with its
multi-tenanted cloud and mobile-
based solutions in HCM and
Payroll, ERP, and M&E MRO
for Aviation. Ramco Systems
separated itself from the Ramco
Group of Companies in 1997.
Ramco’s aura of support is spread
across the nations including India,
USA, Canada, Europe, Australia,
Middle East, South Africa and
APAC. The very innovative and
cost-effective business solutions
from Ramco have earned it a
happy clientele and at least
150,000 users worldwide. Ramco
has come a long way, since its
foray into the ERP market in the
nineties.
And their ever-innovating, quality-
focused approach has earned them
many awards, recognition, and
honors. Ramco also makes it to
the Gartner Magic Quadrant for
Cloud Core Financial, and HCM
suites. Ramco, which even entered
the Forrester Wave’s List for SAAS
Human Resource Management
Systems, recently won the Global
Payroll Association’s ‘Payroll
Innovation Award’ 2018.
Ramco’s Unique Value
Proposition: Ramco
VirtualWorks and
Project Chrysalis
VirtualWorks is Ramco’s
revolutionary enterprise
application assembly and delivery
platform that helps build solutions
that are fully multi-tenanted and
agnostic in nature. VirtualWorks
implements Ramco’s model-
based software development
methodology – framework infused
with all software development
processes. All applications
developed on this one common
platform weeds away from the
challenges faced during the
integration of multiple products
that are developed on different
technology platforms.
For a long time, in digital product
design, there has been a clear split
between the business software
and the consumer software. That
division, however, seems to be
getting thinner, and the business
users today want their applications
to be more customer-friendly
and simple in design. Ramco, the
foreseer of opportunities, once
again innovates with its Project
Chrysalis – which aims at cutting
down the clutter in business
applications by simplifying
navigation and making them more
intelligent, user-centric, intuitive,
and context-sensitive.
Products: their
Strength, their
Solutions
For HR and talent management,
Ramco offers Ramco HCM with
Global Payroll, a comprehensive
solution to solve an organization’s
human capital management
needs from hire to retire. The
“We firmly believe that the pursuit of excellence in
Quality is a journey rather than an end.”

7. HR solution is designed to
stay in pace with the changing
trends and comes as a Gen-Y
interface, making it accessible
on smartphones (iPad, Android,
and Windows), integrating it with
social channels.
Ramco ERP on Cloud is built on
VirtualWorks and enables to get
a 360-degree view of business,
anytime, from anywhere. It also
envelops the entire spectrum
of enterprise functions through
a suite of products like SCM,
HCM, CRM, EAM, Project
Management, Process Control,
Analytics, Advanced Planning &
Optimization, and Connectors.
Ramco Aviation Software
for Aerospace & Defense is
comprehensive enterprise-wide
M&E/MRO software suite with
a vast array of applications. The
needs of the airlines like Heli
Operators, Business Aviation
segments, MROs, etc. are specially
catered to with Ramco Aviation
Software. With this software,
airlines can reduce overhead
costs; automate end-to-end
operations; manage inventory
more effectively; reduce AOG, and
increase aircraft availability.
What’s next for
Ramco with Next-Gen
technologies?
Blockchain, the distributed ledger
technology, with its decentralized
and transparent modus operandi
is reshaping the internet of
businesses. Ramco aims to bring
the power of blockchain into its
future products. Ranging from
distributed identity to the supply
chain visibility across operators,
are the numerous use cases that
are being tested at their labs.
Docker Containers is another
disruptive technology invading
the business world today. The
open source software development
platform bundles applications in
“containers”, which are portable
among systems running the Linux
OS. But it is equally important
to test the benefits and trade-
offs of dock containers before
embracing the new trend. And
Ramco is already doing that in
order to educate and help prepare
enterprises to absorb the change.
And the final “touch” is the
trending touch technology
called the Haptic Design or
kinesthetic communication. Ramco
experiments the haptic design for
enterprises – that which enables
them to carry out transactions
with actions lighter than a touch.
The Man with the Plan,
VA – Leading Ramco Ahead
Virender Agarwal (aka VA), the leader who led
business transformations through technology for more
than 30 years, is the CEO of Ramco Systems. Under
his leadership, the company has gained the trust of
fortune 500 customers spread across the globe. His
noteworthy achievements include growing revenues of
HCL Technologies for about fourfold in three years, and
for building the APAC-MEA business from scratch to over
half a billion US dollars for one of the largest IT outsourcers
in a short span. Prior to Ramco, VA was President &
APAC Region Head for HCL Technologies, Singapore. The
Graduate in Business Management from the Birla Institute of
Technology and Science was also the first Indian to receive
the prestigious International Management Action Award in
2004 conferred to him by SPRING Singapore.
Virender Agarwal,CEO

8. E
RP is slowly catching up
with CRM. It previously
did not have the viability
without the cloud
platforms. But now with the cloud
as a deployment option, ERP is
starting to leave a mark on how
businesses function. Because of
its comprehensive capabilities
of handling operations and sales
together, it is even starting to
become popular. Companies now
do not have to spend a fortune
on deploying software. They can
simply use cloud ERPs to process
operations without any specialized
help. Additionally, they work on
the same scale as the traditional
ERPs. On that, they also bring
to the table their heightened
availability quotient.
Rootstock Software was founded
in 2008 by Pat Garrehy. Based
out of San Ramon, California
the company is well known in
the circles of manufacturers and
distributors as the provider of
quality Cloud ERP. Rootstock
Software aims to cut costs,
improve processes and increase
the revenue with minimal IT
infrastructural investment for
the companies using its ERP.
The company since its inception
has grown and now provides
its services to its customers
throughout North America,
Europe, and Asia Pacific regions.
Manufacturing and distribution are
all about being able to handle a
business that is split into locations
and sites. “Rootstock Software
provides the breadth and depth of
solutions that today’s manufacturers
and distributors need to efficiently
operate and grow their businesses.”
The solutions from Rootstock are
enhanced by the agile nature of
the cloud environments. They
help manage the processes of
manufacturing, distribution,
and supply chain in real-time.
Plus they provide this service
anytime and anywhere! So the
manufacturers and distributors
using Rootstock’s services can
manage multiple workplaces and
services by using the centralized
visibility to control the operational
activities. Hence, the companies
utilizing these services can look
at each step of the manufacturing,
distribution and supply chain
processes.
Partnerships
The partnerships you forge are the
drivers of growth in any business.
In this regard, Rootstock has an
enviable portfolio of partners. The
Rootstock ERP is built on top of
the Salesforce cloud platform. We
all know that Salesforce is one of
the most trusted cloud platforms
of the world; this was identified
by the Rootstock’s founders very
early on. They saw the potential
that Salesforce had and so
they hopped on the Salesforce
bandwagon. The Rootstock ERP
is available to many businesses
through Salesforce’s exclusive
Rootstock: The ERP Provider
for Manufacturers and Distributors
Because Rootstock is 100% native to the Salesforce platform,
our application and your data inherit all of the security
features of the Salesforce Platform.
”
”

9. Rootstock Originator
Pat Garrehy, CEO and Founder of Rootstock
Mr. Garrehy brings to the table a blend of great analytical
mind and business acumen to Rootstock. He has worked
in the areas of management, sales and also on the
technical side of things for over 30 years. He is the one
who gives Rootstock the strategic direction.
Mr. Garrehy has an impressive background as a software
engineer and architect. Before Rootstock, he founded
and was the CEO of Relevant Business Systems. Relevant
Business System was sold in 2006. The software
created by the company is used in a number of business
operations of big companies like Solectron and Lockheed.
Mr. Garrehy holds a BS degree in Business and
Mathematics from the University of California and has
an MBA in finance from the University of Southern
California.
solution platform, Force.com
and Salesforce’s AppExchange
which is the world’s most popular
marketplace for business apps.
Other than Salesforce, Rootstock
partners with Financial Force,
Avalara, and ZenKraft.
Rootstock’s software adapts fast
and is highly configurable which
gives the organization using it
the flexibility to implement any
workflow, collaborate socially and
add new possibilities of services
through which the software can
meet the requirements of their
customers. Compared to the
other ERP providers Rootstock
provides a much more reliable
way of planning and executing the
necessary operations to help craft
the organization’s decision-making
process. Rootstock will help
elevate the overall performance of
your manufacturing, distribution
and supply chain operation
Plaudits
• Rootstock was nominated in two categories for the 2017-18 Cloud Awards program. Rootstock was
shortlisted in the “Best Cloud ERP Solution” and the “Best in Mobile Cloud Solution.”
• Rootstock won the Frost & Sullivan Award for Cloud ERP in 2016.
• Nucleus Research rated Rootstock as an “Expert” in the ERP Value Matrix 2016. In 2017, Nucleus
Research included Rootstock in its leaders quadrant.
• Rootstock was awarded the Best Cloud Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Solution by Stevie Awards.
• THINKstrategies Inc. presented the Best of SaaS Showplace (BoSS) Award to Rootstock for delivering
business benefits through their SaaS solutions.
Pat Garrehy, CEO & Founder