Make Sure You Look Under the Hood! Facts About the Acumatica Cloud xRP Platform
Buying a cloud ERP, like buying a car, requires you to pay attention to all the details. For both purchases, you want to make sure you’ve chosen the solution that gives you the power, reliability, and cost-effectiveness that will get you where you want to be in the future. In other words, for both purchases, you need to take time to look “under the hood.”
In a car, this is straightforward. You pop open the hood, check out the fluids, hoses, and belts, and you listen for weird noises. On a cloud ERP… um… what do you do?
Let’s talk about how to look “under the hood” with Acumatica Cloud ERP and the Acumatica Cloud xRP Platform.
What Is the Acumatica Cloud xRP Platform?
Simply put, the Acumatica Cloud xRP Platform powers absolutely everything your cloud ERP can do for you. Continuing with the car analogy here, you can think of the xRP Platform as the engine of your Acumatica solution: it has the power of a Hemi and the speed of a V8.
The Acumatica Cloud xRP Platform is the most stable, secure foundation to support all your business needs, delivering unmatched freedom so you can run your company exactly how you want to with truly 100% customization flexibility.
The Cloud xRP Platform is one of the main differentiators that makes Acumatica such a strong Cloud ERP. If you’ve heard the line from the Acumatica team about how they’re actually a technology and platform company that uses their tech for ERP, this is because Acumatica expends a vast amount of their resources on building the perfect platform to run your ERP. But really, their platform could run anything.
However, all this is kind of high level. Let’s get into the details.
Surprising and Unique Capabilities of Acumatica Cloud xRP
When you’re looking “under the hood” at the platform for your Acumatica solution, what really matters is how reliable and long-lasting the platform will be for your needs. But, as you’ve noticed over the past few years, determining your organization’s long-term needs can be nearly impossible in today’s rapidly shifting business landscape. Agility is the new name of the game.
Therefore, when assessing the Acumatica Cloud xRP Platform, you want to focus on how much agility the platform delivers to you. To determine this, you can focus on how other companies have used Cloud xRP for their needs.
Add-on customization
Because Acumatica Cloud xRP is an easy-to-use open platform with open standards for developers, companies using Acumatica ERP can add on any kinds of customization they want, with 100% flexibility.
Instead of relying on secret, proprietary code, Cloud xRP uses industry-standard .NET and HTML 5, meaning any experienced developer can create an Acumatica-integrated add-on solution for your company. Many other ERPs require you to hire a costly programmer to customize application-specific code, which can limit your agility.
Use cases:
- Developers have created a wide range of Acumatica-integrated add-on solutions, available in the Acumatica Marketplace.
- Cloud xRP’s industry-standard code and open framework make it easier to create your own custom solution when you work with a partner who is also a developer.
Using the platform for something other than Acumatica ERP
Earlier, you read that Cloud xRP is perfectly built to seamlessly run Acumatica ERP, but that the platform is so flexible and powerful that, really, it could run pretty much anything. Some companies have pushed the envelope on this idea, seeing just how far they can go to create their own solution on the Acumatica platform.
These companies have demonstrated that the sky is the limit when it comes to building your own solution on Cloud xRP.
Use cases:
- One custom software development firm used Cloud xRP to build their own end-to-end eCommerce solution.
- One housing firm created their own purpose-built software on xRP to help their customers manage properties, clients, and financials.
- One supply chain solutions provider built their own stochastic ordering and receiving tool using Acumatica Cloud xRP.
- Numerous non-Acumatica ERPs have been built on the Acumatica Cloud xRP Platform, including ACCEO, Visma, Lexware, Senior Software, Censof, and MYOB.
Additionally, since Cloud xRP is a robust, stable, secure platform, it can be considered the critical tool for keeping your Acumatica ERP running smoothly with seamless, invisible upgrades that take advantage of the latest cutting-edge tech capabilities. Luckily for you, Acumatica regularly updates their xRP Platform – which means you get all the benefits of the latest tech innovations in your Cloud ERP, without having to worry about the underlying tech itself.
Choose the Right “Mechanic” for Your Acumatica Solution
As you can see, Acumatica Cloud xRP empowers your business to maintain full agility at all times – helping you leverage your own one-of-a-kind solutions or setups that make your organization run better, smarter, and faster. You can think of Acumatica Cloud xRP as your very own custom-built car that looks great, purrs when you hit the gas, and smokes the competition in a race. (This car analogy certainly is driving this article, isn’t it?)
To keep your “custom car” Acumatica setup in tip-top shape, you’ll need to work with the right “mechanic,” an experienced Acumatica partner with the knowledge and expertise to roll up their sleeves and work “under the hood.” By partnering with this expert, you can always keep your Acumatica Cloud ERP solution optimized for your precise requirements.
No matter which roads you choose for your business’s future, the right Acumatica partner can help you keep driving forward toward your goals – day after day, and year after year.
Learn more about choosing the right Acumatica partner.
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