Applications That Work the Way You Do
Epicor low-code/no-code tools reduce barriers to development and allow for more agile, responsive, and innovative approaches to solving your business challenges.
Visualize, Personalize, and Revolutionize Without the Code
Epicor low-code/no-code development tools enable you to tailor our applications through graphical user interfaces and configuration. Instead of hand-programming complex code, you’re visually designing what you want using simple actions like choosing menu items or clicking, dragging, and dropping various elements. With our no-code tools, you don’t need to be an expert in the underlying mechanics—all you need is a rudimentary grasp of coding logic. Everything in the Epicor system is available via REST APIs and OData, and can be fully documented using Open API and Swagger. Our APIs combined with our low-code/no-code tools help your business more easily overcome challenges such as these:
- Slow and expensive software tailoring
- Inability to automate business processes and workflows
- Non-technical staff
- No tools to foster innovation
- Difficulty integrating with outside systems and apps
By 2026, 80% of low-code tool developers won’t be in formal IT departments
Source: Gartner
By 2024, 75% of big firms will use 4+ low-code tools, partly for citizen devs
Source: Zdnet
Source: Gartner
Source: CNBC
Epicor Named for the 10th Consecutive Year in the Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for ERP, 2024
Global leaders are leveraging powerful technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to boost productivity while navigating challenges like supply chain disruptions, escalating costs, and skilled labor gaps. The Gartner Hype Cycles are clear, graphical representations that trace the developmental path of these emerging technologies. Epicor has been named a Vendor for the 10th consecutive year in the 2024 report. Read the report to explore these solutions in greater depth, while learning how innovative ERP providers are transforming the make, move, sell landscape.
No-Code/Low-Code Benefits for Makers, Movers, and Sellers
Manufacturers
A manufacturing solution with low-code/no-code tools can empower efficiency, adaptability, and innovation:
- Streamlined Production: Quick customization enables tailored production workflows.
- Real-Time Adaptation: Non-technical staff can modify and innovate new processes in response to changes in demand or supply, while customers can configure the product they want.
- Cost Control: Simplifies automation, reducing labor costs and minimizing human error.
- Enhanced Integration: Easily connects with existing machinery and systems, ensuring a seamless flow of information across the production floor.
Distributors
An distribution solution with low-code/no-code tools for distributors offers these specific benefits:
- Streamlined Order Processing: Simplifies automation of order-to-delivery workflows, increasing speed and accuracy.
- Supplier Collaboration: Facilitates real-time adaptation to supply chain fluctuations, improving coordination with suppliers.
- Cost Management: Reduces reliance on specialized developers, saving on software customization for specific distribution needs.
- Inventory Optimization: Enables easy customization of inventory tracking and forecasting, reducing overstock and stockouts.
Retail
A retail solution with low-code/no-code tools can revolutionize operations:
- Personalized Customer Experience: Enables the quick customization of sales and marketing strategies for targeted engagement.
- Streamlined Sales Process: Facilitates integration with various sales channels, reducing manual efforts in order processing.
- Agile Response to Trends: Allows non-technical staff to adjust retail strategies swiftly in response to market trends, helping ensure competitiveness.
- Inventory Management: Simplifies automation of stock tracking, helping ensure optimal product availability across stores and online platforms
Building Supply
A building supply solution with low-code/no-code tools can fortify efficiency for lumber and other building supply distributors and dealers:
- Optimized Inventory Management: Enables tailored tracking of various lumber and building materials, reducing waste and ensuring timely availability.
- Streamlined Supplier Collaboration: Facilitates automation in supplier coordination and procurement, aligning with construction cycles and demand patterns.
- Enhanced Customer Service: Simplifies the customization of sales processes and support for contractors, builders, and DIY customers.
- Agile Market Response: Allows for swift adaptation to market trends, construction regulations, and seasonal demands, maintaining competitiveness and compliance.
Automotive
An automotive solution with low-code/no-code tools can drive efficiency:
- Enhanced Parts Management: Facilitates the rapid customization of parts inventory, tracking, and procurement, aligning with specific automotive needs.
- Streamlined Service Scheduling: Simplifies the automation of service appointments and workflows, improving customer satisfaction.
- Supplier Collaboration: Enables real-time adjustments to supply chain dynamics, fostering better relationships with parts suppliers.
- Responsive Market Adaptation: Allows quick adaptation to market trends and regulatory changes, ensuring compliance and competitiveness.
Challenges We Help Solve
Slow and expensive software tailoring
Customizing traditional systems is time-consuming and costly due to complex coding, integration challenges, vendor dependency, upgrade complications, lack of agility, regulatory hurdles, maintenance overhead, scalability issues, and specialized resource constraints. These low-code/no-code development tools mitigate the challenges:
- Epicor Cloud SDK: Lets you define metadata for a new service, generates the service, creates or generates the related database table, application, REST API, and user interface for that application, all without coding.
- Epicor Application Studio: Allows users to configure a wide array of elements such as screens, fields, workflows, and more with a visual drag-and-drop designer in Epicor. It empowers a wider range of users to personalize the system while also helping ensure that customizations are secure, upgradeable, and aligned with best practices.
Inability to automate business processes and workflows
Lack of robotic process automation (RPA) capabilities and computer-assisted human workflows can lead to inefficiencies, increased costs, customer dissatisfaction, compliance challenges, inability to expand your business, and a loss of competitive edge. These low-code/no-code development tools mitigate the challenges:
- Epicor Automation Studio, Powered by Workato: An enterprise iPaaS, Workato is often referred to as an integration-led automation platform. With a library of connectors and recipes as your starting point, you can set up RPAs such as checking for contracts in the Epicor system that are about to expire or automatic workflows that trigger emails requesting approvals, to name just a few examples.
- Epicor Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Workflow: Our fully digitized repository with business automation eliminates the waste and double handling associated with paper, poorly maintained online folders, and never-ending email threads. ECM Workflow provides an easy-to-use graphical canvas for you to create and edit document-driven workflows such as for AP invoice approvals.
- Epicor CPQ: Our visual configure, price, quote system lets salespeople and customers use drag-and-drop options to change colors, dimensions, parts, and materials. A button click automatically generates quotes and supporting documents, along with everything needed to start production: CAD drawings, BOMs, instructions, and cut sheets.
Non-technical staff
The absence of no-code/low-code tools intensifies the gap between IT experts and business users. This leads to delays in operational responses, missed opportunities due to slow adaptations, and miscommunications over needs and solutions. The result is increased costs and rigid systems, with business users often feeling dependent and frustrated; the overall efficiency and agility of your organization can suffer. In contrast, Epicor low-code /no-code development tools can empower all users to succeed:
- Epicor Connected Process Control: Designed for manufacturers, this low-code/no-code solution enables non-technical users to digitize procedures, integrate devices, and optimize workflows, ensuring improved efficiency and quality in production
- Grow, an Epicor solution: Our no-code/low-code approach allows non-technical users to harness BI effortlessly. With 75+ out-of-the-box connectors, users easily link to diverse data sources in addition to the Epicor system, and through a user-friendly interface, craft custom dashboards and reports. The benefits of advanced analytics are now accessible to everyone.
- Epicor Automation Studio, Powered by Workato: Workato’s low-code/no-code features enable non-technical users to establish integrations and automations with ease. Boasting over 1,000 connectors, this solution simplifies the connection to a vast range of platforms, while its library of 500,000+ ready-to-use recipes plus Epicor industry templates offers users predefined workflows. This reduces the need to build from scratch and helps ensure a swift, user-friendly setup process.
Barriers to innovation
Not having the right development tools can stifle your business’s ability to innovate rapidly, making it less competitive and adaptable in a fast-changing market environment. Our no-code/low-code tools encourage new ideas and solutions without the traditional development hurdles. Users are free to experiment and create unique situations that meet their needs:
- Epicor Cloud SDK: Create an extension that perfectly mirrors a manufacturer’s complex production process incorporating details about materials, machines, stages, quality controls, and more.
- Grow, an Epicor Solution: Allow employees at all levels to identify trends, pinpoint inefficiencies, and propose informed solutions with Grow BI. Giving everyone the ability to assemble, transform, analyze, and visualize data enriches cross-departmental collaboration—leading to more diverse and innovative problem-solving approaches.
- Epicor CPQ: Automate processes like quote creation and CAD file and BOM generation, reducing bottlenecks and freeing up engineering and sales teams. Time and resources saved can be redirected to R&D and responding to market demands.
Difficulty integrating with outside systems and applications
Different platforms use diverse technologies and standards, making connections complex. Systems receive software updates on a regular basis, often causing disruptions to existing integrations. Furthermore, the technical expertise required for smooth integrations may not always be available within your organization. Epicor Automation Studio, powered by Workato, uses a low-code approach to make this scenario run smoothly:
- Epicor connectors: Interface outside apps and platforms with Epicor using its REST API, enabling data exchange without manual API handling.
- Recipes: Dictate data flow and data transformation using a visual interface.
- Triggers: Cover a wide range, including from new or updated records, run on a schedule, from a webhook, and more.
- Error handling: Monitors integrations and notifies you of sync errors.
- Templates: Help you get started with 1000+ platform connectors to non-Epicor systems, plus 500,000+ recipes
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