What is Acumatica?

Acumatia ERP

    Acumatica is a cloud ERP system designed for the SMB market. Acumatica includes functionality for financial management, customer management, project accounting, distribution management, manufacturing management, field service management, and multi-channel order management.
Benefits of Acumatica include:

• A centralized management system enabling the control of corporate data in a single system.
• Flexibility to choose where the software is deployed–internally or by Acumatica as a SaaS offering.
• Outside-the-office program access via any device supporting a modern web browser.
• Improved visibility to reporting data through intuitive dashboards and customizable screens.
• Extensibility to add custom capabilities through the Acumatica Framework for development of custom business application.

• Financial Management: General ledger, consolidations, accounts receivable, accounts payable, cash management, currency management, tax management, deferred revenue accounting, fixed assets, recurring revenue management.
• Distribution Management: Inventory management, sales order management, purchase order management, requisition management.
• Customer Management: Reporting and dashboards, sales automation, business intelligence, integrated marketing, service and support, self-service portal.
• Project Accounting: Project cost tracking, advanced billing, time and expense.
• Manufacturing Management: Bill of material and routings, production management, material requirements planning (MRP), product configurator, production management, estimating.
• Field Service Management: Service contract management, warranty management, equipment maintenance, scheduling, dispatching, call center management, route planning, mobile support.

 

Acumatica Framework

 Acumatica Framework provides the application programming interface (API) and tools for developing cloud business applications. Acumatica Framework is a part of the Acumatica Cloud xRP Platform, which provides various opportunities for developing add-on applications that interact with Acumatica ERP through the web services API, applications embedded into Acumatica ERP through the built-in customization tools, and completely new applications based purely on Acumatica Framework.

          The Platform API provided with Acumatica Framework is an event-driven programming API, which is traditional in rich GUI applications. This model covers database access, business logic, GUI behavior, and error handling. All coding is done with only C#.

         The Acumatica Framework Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is built on top of Microsoft Visual Studio. However, the Acumatica Framework IDE implements its own set of web controls to generate an advanced GUI in a web browser.

        All of Acumatica Framework’s web controls have the same rendering and a similar appearance in design mode in the IDE and runtime mode in a web browser. Thus, the developer can utilize all the facilities of the Visual Web Designer component of Visual Studio. The application developer can use the convenient drag-and-drop mechanism to create an application form layout, to perform form visual editing, and to set a control’s properties and behavior through an intuitive graphical interface. This approach does not require any knowledge of HTML or Java Script, yet allows the developer to create a professional and appealing web GUI.