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JoeHNew Participant
posted in Americas - Midwest - IL, KS, ND, NE, SD

6.1 -> Kinetic

We are new to Epicor, so not sure about going from 6 to Kinetic.  Our current system is on Prem.  We were really looking at staying that way so we would not have to upgrade on Epicor’s schedule.  In looking around we ended up being hosted by a third part (2WTech).  This way we have more flexibility in different areas.  According to Epicor, we are on Prem so we are not tied to their cloud rules but our external staff will not have to connect to us to work and we have no additional hardware/software costs and have automatic Disaster recovery and backups taken care of.

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1 year ago
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lairdlKnown Participant
asked in Kinetic & Epicor ERP

Epicor forcing everyone to the cloud?

The company I work for is starting their conversion to Epicor Kinetic from a different ERP system.  While going thru this process and contracting, Epicor offered us both On Prem and Hosted on their servers.  Our management wants to make sure that we control the data and the system update process.  Since we could not control the timing of the system updates, we started to think more On Prem would be the best for us.  So in talking with some consulting companies to help with this conversion we found that there are a handful of 3rd party hosting companies that will/can  host Kinetic (with Epicor’s blessing).  In the presentations at Insights I heard that they were trying to do a web technology shift for the software but not forcing people to be hosted.  Our rep admitted that there are situations where companies cannot be hosted due to bad internet connections and very low bandwidth on top of security concerns.  He did not see any time line of On Prem going away soon.  During this conversi

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