Unit4 Announces Industry Mesh; Multi-tenant Industry Cloud Service for Managing Integration and Resources Across Business-Critical Applications

• 21^st century ERP with fully maintained enterprise application ecosystem that is ‘Right for your Business’
• Includes integrations such as Salesforce, D&B, and Slack

Miami, FL, November 16, 2021 – Unit4, a leader in enterprise cloud applications for people-centric organizations, today announced Unit4 Industry Mesh, a new multi-tenant cloud service available as part of the ERPx cloud platform, that delivers industry-specific ERP and packaged integrations for mid-market organizations.

Mid-market organizations need the agility of cloud and SaaS solutions to adapt to market disruption. All are faced with managing a growing portfolio of cloud apps but find themselves hamstrung by endless integration challenges and an inability to free up the core data they need to cope with rapid change.

With the release of Unit4 ERPx, organizations gained a platform and tools designed around the specific needs of their people, with new technology and capabilities to help them be more efficient while making their teams more resilient and adaptable. Unit4 Industry Mesh builds upon that value by providing customers with pre-built data flows between applications, data sources, and the industry ecosystem. By delivering business-critical data flows out-of-the-box, Unit4 Industry Mesh significantly reduces the cost, burden and time-to-value of integration, while also bringing organizations much richer and more consistent data sharing across the enterprise.

According to Unit4 research, for a typical customer with 1,000 employees, the productivity impact of optimized integration between ERP and ancillary systems equates to up to $1.2M/ €1.0m per year. 

IDC finds by 2023, 40% of Global 2000 companies will be using their ERP systems as the data and transactional hub for their industry-based ecosystem[1]. Mickey North Rizza, Enterprise Applications and Digital Commerce Program Vice-president notes, "Unit4 is providing industry differentiation with its industry-fit data flows. In this competitive world, industry differentiators are a great source of competitive advantage for organizations."

Unlike typical industry solutions that simply offer templated best practices or an integration toolkit that leaves the burden of development with the customer, Unit4 Industry Mesh does the work for you, delivering the pre-built integrations as a service. Based on domain expertise honed over 40 years, Unit4 Industry Mesh connects people, processes and data with industry-fit models, data sets and data flows, ensuring a seamless plug and play user experience so teams can work faster and more confidently.

The initial release of the Unit4 Industry Mesh will have capabilities that include a host of general data flows with leading providers such as:  

• Salesforce and Microsoft Dynamics CRM to capture cost of sales and support billing for finance users while providing invoice and reminder data for account executives
• Oanda for import and update of exchange rates
• Dun & Bradstreet for customer credit ratings
• gov for U.S. government watch list checking
• Slack and Microsoft Teams for collaboration
• Microsoft Outlook integration that brings absences, training and employee assignments automatically into user calendars
• Many other integrations including tax filing, e-invoicing, banking, document management and credit card transactions