Torotrak Selects Epicor(R) to Underpin Its Business
14 December 2010 - 1:00AM
Marketwired
Epicor Software Corporation (NASDAQ: EPIC), a leading provider of
enterprise business software solutions for the midmarket and
divisions of Global 1000 companies, today announced that Torotrak,
a company that develops and holds the patented rights to a
transformational form of variable drive technology that is proven
in delivering fuel efficiency and CO2 emission improvements for
vehicles, has selected the Epicor 9 next-generation enterprise
resource planning (ERP) solution to integrate with its design and
engineering software and replace all other systems in the business.
Over the past ten years, Torotrak has built up a collection of
systems and bespoke software solutions to address the everyday
operational needs of the business, from financial management to
time reporting and project management. While this solution is
capable of running the business at a day-to-day level, it does not
allow the company's project teams or its management easy or
reliable access to information and does not support the generation
of systematic information that can be used to inform decisions,
because each application acts in isolation, and requires a great
deal of manual intervention to bring elements together into
meaningful reports.
"Our biggest problem is getting timely, useful, validated
information that can flow up to the management level and across
departments to ensure we are making informed business decisions,"
said Jeremy Deering, finance director responsible for IT at
Torotrak. "We need to be able to view our entire business and the
projects that we are working on from a single data repository."
Epicor enables Torotrak to address several problems with a
single solution. It will allow the company to address the
inefficiencies and pain of moving information across different
systems, while giving detailed real-time project reporting and
features such as CRM, which otherwise would not have been
implemented by Torotrak.
"The current systems, which are fragmented, do everything to
frustrate, rather than help, our desire to have greater empowerment
throughout the organisation," added Deering. "Empowerment and
accountability go hand in hand with joined up processes and
'connected' information, which is essential to foster confidence at
all levels of the organisation. The way our systems work has to
reflect the work ethic of the company, otherwise it becomes nothing
more than an ideal that can't be reached. Epicor will be linked
directly into our design and engineering software to aid project
management and procurement, and will also allow users to move
seamlessly between it and Microsoft Project, which we also use.
It's about ensuring everyone can get the information they need,
when they need it, and that we don't duplicate effort in terms of
data input and retrieval."
Torotrak reviewed ten different ERP systems before selecting
Epicor, citing the strength of Epicor's SOA-based integration
features, commitment of the company to its technology, and rich
level of functionality, as key reasons for their choice.
"Integration with specialist design and engineering products is
something we have spent a great deal of time on," added Matt
Muldoon, vice president for product marketing at Epicor. "These are
the applications that many customers rely on to trigger every other
aspect of their operation from finance to project fulfillment. By
re-architecting Epicor from the ground up to take advantage of
service oriented architecture (SOA), we've ensured that it is
probably the most open and accessible ERP system available on the
market today."
About Epicor Software Corporation Epicor
Software is a global leader delivering business software solutions
to the manufacturing, distribution, retail, hospitality and
services industries. With 20,000 customers in over 150 countries,
Epicor provides integrated enterprise resource planning (ERP),
customer relationship management (CRM), supply chain management
(SCM) and enterprise retail software solutions that enable
companies to drive increased efficiency and improve profitability.
Founded in 1984, Epicor takes pride in more than 25 years of
technology innovation delivering business solutions that provide
the scalability and flexibility businesses need to build
competitive advantage. Epicor provides a comprehensive range of
services with a single point of accountability that promotes rapid
return on investment and low total cost of ownership, whether
operating business on a local, regional or global scale. The
Company's worldwide headquarters are located in Irvine, California
with offices and affiliates around the world. For more information,
visit www.epicor.com.
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Corporation 949/585.4235 lpreuss@epicor.com Duncan Gurney The PR
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duncan.gurney@theprnetwork.co.uk Damon Wright Vice President,
Investor Relations Epicor Software Corporation 949/585.4509
dswright@epicor.com
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