The difference of purpose-built software

**Helping you choose the right systems**

To achieve success, and ensure you’re ready for the unknown, it’s imperative to not only improve efficiencies and ensure business continuity for the coming year, but build flexibility for the coming decade and beyond. Technology has an important role to play in this, but not all ERP solutions are created equal.

To grow your business through constant change and complexity, you need flexible, people-centric, project-focused, cloud-based solutions that are purpose-built for professional services organizations — solutions that automate and streamline low-value tasks to energize staff and allow them to focus on higher-value, higher-skilled activities.

Leading PSOs generate growth, optimize talent, achieve service excellence and maximize financial performance by using a combination of modern, flexible solutions including ERP for professional services, HCM, PSA software, Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) and talent management.

Recommendations for choosing the right ERP provider

Market analyst, Constellation Research, recommends³:

Surround legacy systems with cloud innovation and hybrid integration.
Consider a two-tier approach to cloud ERP.
Make the shift to pure cloud ERP.
Incorporate digital feedback loops.
Democratize decisions in the front office and the back office.
Deliver mass personalization at scale with automation and AI.
Identify opportunities for process redesign, optimization, and automation.

Unit4 recommends deploying technology that:

Has a single source of truth supporting a suite of integrated solutions.
Allows you to unify back-office finance teams with front-office operations teams.
Optimizes decision-making with real-time visibility and analysis.
Improves governance through simplified compliance.
Frees people from menial tasks by streamlining and automating processes.
Empowers staff to access self-service apps from anywhere, anytime.

Includes cloud-based, mobile-enabled tools with an intuitive interface.
Delivers natural language interactions through a digital assistant.
Enables innovation through emerging technologies like artificial intelligence.
Includes easily reconfigurable tools so you can swiftly adapt to change.
Has a fast time-to-value due to pre-built modules catering to the specific needs of PSOs.
Offers cloud migration options and software-as-a-service.

³Unit4 transforms From ERP to People Experience Suite, Constellation Research