In additional to acquisitions, The Adonix Group, based in Paris, France is also focused on internal development and continues to pour more than 20 percent of its revenue into product development. After "biting the bullet" a few years ago and committing a substantial investment to basically rewrite its flagship offering, Adonix X3 ERP, to make it both Web native and a Web services amenable solution (extensible markup language [XML] and Java compliant), Adonix seems to be thriving in the ongoing timid economy. Also unlike most of its peer vendors, which started their ERP applications in the manufacturing space, Adonix first established a strong presence and functionality in the distribution and logistics field. Having mastered the idiosyncrasies of French business requirements in distribution, administrative, and accounting procedures, the company has remained the local market leader, despite strong competition and onslaught from international ERP vendors.
Going even further in the past, to complement its initial solution, which had initially focused on finance and accounting, and distribution for the lower-end of the mid-market, Adonix acquired a number of companies during the last several years. The most prominent of these were Prodstar, a French manufacturing resource planning II (MRP II) solution for mid-market manufacturers and their international subsidiaries, GSI Transcomm, a US provider of distribution and financial applications called TOLAS, and the Geode product from Geodis Logistics, a European WMS solution. Consequently, Adonix started rewriting its solution in 1997 after the Prodstar's acquisition and released the first version of Adonix X3 in 1999. However, the combined Adonix legacy applications are installed in over 4,000 sites, with approximately 200 in the US. Although one may expect a substantial recurring revenue stream or a new license opportunity from this large installed base from, for example, the former Prodstar product and older versions of Adonix, the challenge of incremental migration and concurrent support remains.
Since mid-2002 when version 1.34 emerged, Adonix X3 has been a Web-native ERP solution designed for mid-sized companies. Its functionality includes fully integrated manufacturing, such as routing, bills of material (BOM), product configurator, master planning schedule (MPS) and MRP; costing; quality control; shop floor control (SFC), and capacity planning; distribution, including purchasing, sales, inventory management, and replenishment; and warehouse management, including receiving, put-away, location control, cycle counting, picking, packaging, shipping, optimization, and automation control. It also encompasses, customer resource management (CRM) functionality, including contact management, marketing campaigns and after-sale service; and finance, which includes budgeting, allocations, analytical accounting, accounts receivable AR, accounts payable (AP) and general ledger (GL). All of these are on a single common architecture.
Incidentally, the Internet-based product architecture for the extended enterprise, (without any code on the client side) runs using a standard Web browser, enables remote offices and traveling users, and secure real-time access for partners, suppliers, sub-contractors, and so on. The product also enables companies to extend Adonix X3 business transaction and inquiry functions to their Web sites, making it relatively easy to connect to customers, trading exchanges, and key business partners. Namely, the Adonix Xtend module uses industry standard middleware, XML technologies, and Adonix application programming interfaces (API) to create the connection. The product extends relatively easily to the Web via the publication of X3 business rule APIs in Java/XML format to interface Web applications, so that the same X3 central application is accessible from a browser. The product is thereforee Web services-compliant, since it supports all the common Internet standards including XML, Universal Description, Discovery and Integration [UDDI], Web services description language [WSDL], and simple object access protocol SOAP) as part of its development toolset.
Going even further in the past, to complement its initial solution, which had initially focused on finance and accounting, and distribution for the lower-end of the mid-market, Adonix acquired a number of companies during the last several years. The most prominent of these were Prodstar, a French manufacturing resource planning II (MRP II) solution for mid-market manufacturers and their international subsidiaries, GSI Transcomm, a US provider of distribution and financial applications called TOLAS, and the Geode product from Geodis Logistics, a European WMS solution. Consequently, Adonix started rewriting its solution in 1997 after the Prodstar's acquisition and released the first version of Adonix X3 in 1999. However, the combined Adonix legacy applications are installed in over 4,000 sites, with approximately 200 in the US. Although one may expect a substantial recurring revenue stream or a new license opportunity from this large installed base from, for example, the former Prodstar product and older versions of Adonix, the challenge of incremental migration and concurrent support remains.
Since mid-2002 when version 1.34 emerged, Adonix X3 has been a Web-native ERP solution designed for mid-sized companies. Its functionality includes fully integrated manufacturing, such as routing, bills of material (BOM), product configurator, master planning schedule (MPS) and MRP; costing; quality control; shop floor control (SFC), and capacity planning; distribution, including purchasing, sales, inventory management, and replenishment; and warehouse management, including receiving, put-away, location control, cycle counting, picking, packaging, shipping, optimization, and automation control. It also encompasses, customer resource management (CRM) functionality, including contact management, marketing campaigns and after-sale service; and finance, which includes budgeting, allocations, analytical accounting, accounts receivable AR, accounts payable (AP) and general ledger (GL). All of these are on a single common architecture.
Incidentally, the Internet-based product architecture for the extended enterprise, (without any code on the client side) runs using a standard Web browser, enables remote offices and traveling users, and secure real-time access for partners, suppliers, sub-contractors, and so on. The product also enables companies to extend Adonix X3 business transaction and inquiry functions to their Web sites, making it relatively easy to connect to customers, trading exchanges, and key business partners. Namely, the Adonix Xtend module uses industry standard middleware, XML technologies, and Adonix application programming interfaces (API) to create the connection. The product extends relatively easily to the Web via the publication of X3 business rule APIs in Java/XML format to interface Web applications, so that the same X3 central application is accessible from a browser. The product is thereforee Web services-compliant, since it supports all the common Internet standards including XML, Universal Description, Discovery and Integration [UDDI], Web services description language [WSDL], and simple object access protocol SOAP) as part of its development toolset.
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