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Our integration model is a beacon of API-first technology that both offers and utilizes Data as a Service. While we excel in delivering traditional DaaS, like parts information to our Automotive Aftermarket clientele, our integration model is redefining cloud-based DaaS for the modern era. This model not only enables easy integration of any data service you choose into your Epicor system but also facilitates robust data exchanges between Epicor products. Furthermore, you can turn your data into a profitable asset, securely delivering it as a service to your customers. Our integration model addresses these decades-old challenges:
Building Blocks of the Epicor Integration Model
Epicor Data Fabric, powered by Confluent Kafka, seamlessly links Epicor-to-Epicor products across business units, companies, and industries. It provides the event streaming platform that allows you to collect, integrate, and share data from heterogeneous sources. It's also the transit for data to and from Epicor Connected Services.
Epicor Connected Services, a keystone of our integration model, provides a suite of composable modules tailored for diverse organizational needs. Businesses can handpick features across operations, finance, security, sales and marketing, and enterprise management, ensuring alignment with their industry-specific requirements.
Epicor Automation Studio, an integral part of our integration model and powered by Workato, is a low-code Integration-Platform-as-a-Service that automates data interactions with outside apps and platforms. Utilizing Epicor connectors through REST APIs, it ensures smooth data interchange. This cloud-based solution makes it easy to define data transformations using a vast library of connectors along with pre-built “recipes” and handles error monitoring for you.
The Epicor Data Platform, featuring the embedded Grow BI solution, aggregates, transforms and visualizes data from across the enterprise. It seamlessly imports data from your Epicor application and diverse outside data sources via APIs that continually update and refresh data. You get current and reliable metrics when your managers need to make critical business decisions.
Today’s supply chain professionals need much more visibility to augment what traditional EDI provides. In addition to reliable data from within the business and from supply chain partners, they need to monitor external data points like commodity price fluctuation, labor shortages, extreme weather, and public health disruptions, to name just a few. Dive into the capabilities of our integration model, adept at processing everything from structured machine data to unstructured market data, all designed to fuel insights and drive your business growth:
Monolithic systems often trap businesses in rigid frameworks that inhibit growth and innovation. Epicor offers a modern alternative with its API-first architecture, uniting various integration components for unprecedented flexibility. Data Fabric establishes Epicor product-to-product connectivity, while composable modules through Epicor Connected Services offer tailored solutions. Automation Studio, powered by Workato, seamlessly integrates with external systems and apps, and Data Platform turns data into actionable insights. These interconnected components create a nimble ecosystem that brings agility and precision to enterprises, empowering them to adapt and innovate.
Epicor Automation Studio, powered by Workato, not only simplifies integration with outside systems and applications using a low-code approach, but also offers an intuitive data flow design and extensive templates to kickstart your ecosystem. By leveraging these tools, businesses can eliminate the need for large developer teams and navigate away from the complexities of managing diverse tech standards and API changes in the applications they integrate with.
Even if your businesses operate in different industries, less data fragmentation means more operational efficiency and more cross-functional synergy. Epicor Data Fabric tackles this challenge by linking Epicor Industry Solutions and guaranteeing cohesive data integration across the board. Regardless of the varied solutions in play, all units can tap into the consistent capabilities offered by the composable modules through Epicor Connected Services, streamlining operations and maintaining a consistent user experience.
Confidently upgrade your systems and add new functionality without the risk of breaking your integrations. An alternative to custom-built integrations, with REST API connectors that are engineered for adaptability, upgrade compatibility, and backward compatibility, our integration model takes a standardized approach that ensures each upgrade integrates smoothly with your existing setup. Prevent downtime, data errors, and unexpected costs.
You can have all the data in the world, but if you’re not measuring KPIs and ROI, do you really know the health of your organization? At Epicor, our industry solutions have built-in capabilities to make it easy to keep a pulse on your business and important metrics. Moreover, with the Epicor Data Platform, you have the tools to securely transform, blend, and analyze your data. For instance, you can analyze buying trends to capitalize on missed opportunities or anticipate future challenges. Additionally, as another example, you can to set up email alerts about shifting customer behaviors, allowing you be proactive in identifying potential risks.
In this eBook, Kerrie Jordan, Epicor Group VP, Product Management, discusses how manufacturers can use data as a service technologies to make their production environments more flexible, efficient, and scalable.
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