When you have bolted on many disparate solutions in your business to make your processes work, and are still having to double capture, repeat processes, get billed and support from many different suppliers, integrations are breaking, solutions are becoming obsolete, growing at a pace your many systems can not keep up with or are planning to grow your business and efficiencies, then you are ready to start looking at investing in an ERP solution, that will be one unified solution, simplify processes, eliminate human error and ultimately increase your bottom line.
In today’s fast growing competitive culture in business, being in the cloud is imperative for streamlining processes and having access to your data at any place at any time. ERP provides a full business management solution for small to enterprise sized businesses that are looking to grow and increase their efficiencies and bottom line. Cloud ERP provides the best business management solution for transforming your company to thrive in the new digital economy. Built on a future-proof platform with open architecture for rapid integrations, scalability, and ease of use, delivers unparalleled value to small and mid-market organisations.
Acumatica has won numerous awards over the years specifically for its Usability, it’s rated one of the most intuitive, simple to navigate ERP’s in the market.
Your partner is vitally important, their experience in implementations as well as a hands on approach from the moment of engagement for years to come. Astraia Technology considers themselves your long-term partner in growing your business. Acumatica conducts a customer survey every 6 months where they call our customers directly to rate our services, this rating directly impacts the partner in terms of their ratings and their margins. It’s crucial that we have successful implementations and good long term support relationships with our customers. Astraia Technology has consistently performed on the upper side of 4 out of 5 maintaining our Gold status with very satisfied customers. Along with multiple implementations over many diverse sectors, we have the experience and good ratings to prove our excellence in working with you on your project.
A Gold certified partner rating is no easy feat to achieve. ERP consultants must pass rigorous training and testing requirements to earn the Gold Certification. This allows our consultants to demonstrate the highest level of deep proficiency. It also means that within the business there needs to be at least 1 or 2 people performing dedicated roles, continuously recertifying through to maintain the Gold status. A Gold Certified Partner such as Astraia Technology will mean you are in very good hands.
ERP is quite unique in the way that there is not one huge upfront payment on licenses. We work on a subscription model which allows you to pay an annual fee. We also can start small and build the solution around your winning needs and as time passes add on more functionality as you can afford to progress.
Unlike other ERP’s and unique to Acumatica is that we base our pricing model on consumption rather than user numbers. Consumption will be based on your highest single number of commercial monthly transactions. This is brilliant for large organisations as everyone gets a license and can the experience benefits of full control of you business.
We at Astraia Technology are always open to working with you on your affordability on paying for the solution. We have a range of different payment options to suit your needs which will be discussed in our initial meetings with you.
We generally work on about 4 to 6 months, this is largely dependant on how quickly we can receive the information we need from you as we go along. We have many skilled consultants which are assigned customers based on their specific experience in your industry, the entire implementation plan will be worked out before the start and signed off by you at each stage so we can both remain efficient and accountable in delivering and excellent solution.
Acumatica University is FREE to our customers, you can skill yourself up as far and in-depth as you would like to go. Basic initial training will form part of the implementation plan and be discussed with you upfront.
Because Astraia Technology has done many Acumatica implementations, the amount we quote you for your implementation is pretty accurate. Sometimes there are major additions that are required by you that haven’t been needed upfront and we need to phase the project in terms of your affordability, but this will always be discussed as upfront as possible. We happily guarantee that our implementation quote will not move more than 10% based on our agreed implementation plan with you.
Astraia Technology prides itself on our great support team. We have a dedicated support desk to assist you with your support needs backed by a team of professional support consultants. To ensure business continuity and peace of mind, we provide various support options ranging from informal Ad-hoc support, SLA contract and SAP hours support.
Every six (6) months Acumatica conducts customer surveys to learn how customers feel about the services they receive from Astraia Technology. While the results of these surveys are very important, the actions that we take based on the results will determine the success of everyone. The results of this score directly affect our rating as an implementation partner. Therefore it is vital to us that our customers are happy with our services. We have consistently scored on the upper edge of 4/5, maintaining our Gold Status as a recommended Acumatica ERP implementation partner.
In order to ensure efficient business continuity, Acumatica releases 2 major versions (i.e., 2023 R1 and 2023 R2). Along with the major versions, the minor versions are released bi-weekly or monthly depending on the changes done by Acumatica.
In order to stay current, Acumatica ERP provides an inbuilt feature to upgrade the instance from an older version into a newer version. The upgrade to a newer version can be achieved remotely from within Acumatica’s existing instance, or it can be done locally using “Acumatica ERP Configuration Wizard > Application Maintenance > Upgrade”. You decide when it suits you to perform the upgrade minor or major, we will coordinate the upgrade for a time when your users are out. If your site is customized, there is a process that includes testing in a test-upgraded Sandbox site, prior to the upgrade.
Unique to Acumatica ERP is that your data is always your own. If for any reason you decide to move away from Acumatica ERP, you can request all your data and we will happily give it to you.