Epicor unveiled its new Epicor Grow portfolio, an integrated set of artificial intelligence (AI) and business intelligence (BI) capabilities powered by an industry-focused data platform tuned specifically for the requirements of the make, move, and sell industries.
The new portfolio reimagines how AI-powered enterprise resource planning (ERP) software can and should serve the supply chain industries and their workers.
“We know the keys to realizing the full power of AI revolve around two important things: applying AI to a well-defined, practical business issue, and leveraging high quality data,” says Epicor chief product and technology officer Vaibhav Vohra. “Our new Epicor Grow portfolio delivers on both fronts, putting workers at the center of the intelligence ecosystem. We’re delivering deep AI integration across real-world industry workflows – unlike ‘one size fits all’ industry-agnostic ERPs – to surface actionable insights and drive efficiencies. And we’re empowering users with a rich, industry-centric data platform and no-code tools to create purpose-built data pipelines to help solve specific challenges.”
Key takeaways:
- Guided by the company’s cognitive ERP vision to transform traditional ERP from a system of record to a system of action, the Epicor Grow portfolio leverages many types of AI — generative, machine learning, natural language processing, predictive analytics and more — to deliver more than 200 highly specific industry use cases that adapt to workers in their contextual environment or workflow, giving them the insights and efficiencies they need to drive more value.
- Epicor Prism is a generative AI service embedded across Epicor Industry ERP cloud platforms that empowers workers to access the right insights, in the right context, at the right time to make smarter decisions. For example, users can leverage Epicor Prism as a code assistant to create automated business processes more quickly or use conversational ERP to access production and purchasing insights without the need to know where files are located.
- Epicor Grow AI transforms the ERP experience with AI that is easy-to-use, practical, and outcomes-focused. Epicor Grow AI surfaces insights with unprecedented speed and accuracy to solve industry-focused challenges in the familiar context of a customer’s Epicor solutions.
- Epicor Grow Inventory Forecasting stems from Epicor’s recent acquisition of Smart Software, where users can leverage predictive analytics and model “what-if” scenarios to better manage inventories with purpose-built, machine-learning, embedded forecasting engines.
- Epicor Grow FP&A is deeply embedded financial planning and analysis for easy, accurate, and thorough financial reporting.
- Epicor Grow BI is where easy-to-use no-code technology joins and transforms data with elegant visuals, metrics, and dashboards. Users can get alerts and even externalize data blueprints to pair with other BI tools for maximum flexibility.
- Epicor Grow Data Platform is a powerful way to manage all enterprise data in one place with a full-stack, no-code data platform that delivers fast time to insight with deeper visibility. The platform allows users to bring their data to one central location to feed Epicor AI or BI applications, and uniquely includes a no-code, interactive Pipeline Canvas to move or modify prebuilt data pipelines or enable users to build their own.
