Functional Enchancements

All Enterprise Resource Planning(ERP) systems are general purpose solutions and the gap between a specific organization’s unique needs are often not met in full with standard product configuration options.

Agresso AVOIDS the typical headaches associated with custom development:

  • ad-hoc coding that is difficult to maintain
  • high costs to migrate
  • overly-dependent on specific developers
  • brittle in the face of future changes

For most vendors, closing that gap is called “custom development” and it is burdened with the reputation of high cost and high risk. Not so with Agresso!

Functional Enhancements Versus Custom Development

Agresso uses a very different method to meet the unique needs of our customers. We augment the capabilities of our ERP solution by adding functional enhancements. It’s not just a semantic difference. It is our unique approach to bridging the gap between an organization's ideal business requirements and the out-of the-box Agresso solution set.

Agresso is a Platform as well as an ERP Product

Agresso was architected to allow the addition of customer-specific business logic and functionality without modifying an iota of the source code. New properties and methods can be developed outside of the application code base and called during execution to modify or extend the behavior of Agresso. This added functionality inherits the full Agresso framework and is perfectly integrated into a seamless look and feel. Further, this code is portable to future releases of the application.

Our Team

Agresso’s North America development team is comprised of seasoned developers. The team includes Senior Analysts and Designers, Developers, Technical Writers and Quality Assurance/Quality Control analysts, with backgrounds in computer science, software engineering as well as business.

A Perfect Fit

With Agresso Functional Enhancements technology, there is no good reason why Agresso enterprise resource planning system users should have to be satisfied with a less than 100% fit with their business model and needs.

We also leverage the experience and efforts of our corporate Research & Development (R&D) team in Europe. This is the group that develops the Agresso ERP systems as well as the Agresso framework. Agresso’s corporate R&D team comprises a large group of software professionals who define architecture and application functionality.

Because the core Agresso functionality and development tool set are inherited from our corporate R&D unit, it allows the North American team to focus fully on understanding and developing ideal solutions for the customers in our region.

Our Methodology

Agresso follows the same, robust development methodology for each enhancement it undertakes. The process has proven its value across many ERP system projects and across multiple development teams.

Each phase of the process invites users to participate thoroughly in the development cycle and requires a gateway review and sign-off document between the customer and Agresso before proceeding to the next phase:

Customer Quotes

  • The biggest selling point on Agresso is its change capabilities – government entities like ours can keep costs in line because they won’t outgrow the system every five years.
    Ken OgdenIS Manager
  • “Let’s say the ‘owner’ of a project changes, backdated to the beginning of the year. All the finance team needs to do is change the project tree, and all the reports move correctly, without dropping a dollar.”
    Paul WilliamsCIO
  • We conservatively anticipated an 8% improvement in overall efficiency, a 50% reduction in the costs associated with reporting, and the elimination of almost $30K in annual IT maintenance fees.
    Stewart AustinSenior VP of Information Technology
  • “Institutions will face considerable challenges in complying with and integrating new Government-mandated requirements. Fortunately, the agility of the Agresso approach allows us to satisfy the legislation, despite the complexity of the requirements."
    Eric FechterVice President, College Services
  • Agresso ... provided a solution model that no other company wanted to do for us when we solicited bids. With the expense we were incurring to make ongoing changes to our former solution, we could never get ahead and the functionality was still lagging.
    Steve ArndtCTO
  • “Agresso has a history of success in the public sector, as well as the ability to run the complete solution on one product with no third party packages.”
    Genelle DavidsonManager, Financial Systems
  • "We needed a system with flexibility; a system that could resolve current tracking and reporting limitations as well as a system that could grow with us without the fear of a costly re-implementation.”
    Cheryl DyasFinance Director
  • “When we first entered our 2007 Excel-based budget projection into Agresso, we were able to correct several $50K+ errors, significantly impacting our budget projection process."
    Jim GoldenDirector of Business Systems
  • The Agresso suite will help us considerably improve response time to customers. Agresso provides a platform that enables the City to quickly adapt to change.
    John EmersonIT Director
  • Agresso, we saw as leading-edge software, offering a sophisticated modern platform, and most importantly, it provided us with the post-implementation agility neccessary to adapt to the unknowns in the future.
    Sherri FlynnProject Manager