Intuitive ERP from Aptean, a software developer's perspective
July 28, 2016
Intuitive ERP from Aptean, a software developer's perspective
Score 7 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Aptean Intuitive ERP
Aptean Intuitive ERP is used by all departments. The employees in the shop use it to log their hours spent building a part. Quality uses it to check raw material coming in then issues it to stock which the warehouse guy pulls for the work order then quality inspects the final part logging the information into the ERP system. Sales Orders, Purchase Order and Shipments are all tracked in the system. The usefulness of this ERP system comes from its extensibility. We can add functionality to all business objects and forms. This becomes important in our industry because of the sensitive nature of some of our parts. If a part is classified as a "defense article" there are export regulations. I have been able to add functionality to the Sales Orders and Shipments which will stop shipments unless there is a valid export license assigned where needed. The downside is no documentation on the code base. We are granted 90% of the source code so I can look at what they do and figure out a solution, but documentation would be very helpful.
Pros
- Easily allows adding fields to the database. The data manager reads all fields, so just adding a field automatically brings it over.
- Optionally purchasing a tool called "Form Wizard" allows non-programmers to add new fields to a form and move around existing fields freeing up the developer to work on other things.
- They have a wrapper for the DevXpress grid which allows individual users to add and remove columns pertinent to their specific job.
Cons
- Documentation. The design of en extensible system works well once you figure it out. Some things can be tricky and time consuming.
- They provide no support for customizations. I can understand not wanting to help write specific custom code, but they refuse to even tell anyone what a method on a base class does unless you pay them $200 an hour.
- Their proprietary design can cause modifications to take longer. If you use one of their forms you can not load it, you must call their launch function and put you code in the "Execute" method. If they were more standardized the documentation issue would not be so bad.
- Since we can customize it I would like to think it has been beneficial.
- It is difficult to measure how well business would have done without the software.
This is the only ERP product I have used.
Aptean Intuitive ERP Feature Ratings
Using Aptean Intuitive ERP
50 - Everything in the entire business from the janitor to the President. The president does president things and the janitor logs their time to an expense work order.
2 - I am the software developer and do everything from adding functionality, modifying existing things and user education. My boss handles the administrative work, backing up the database and customizing reports.
- Track inventory
- Track Employee hours
- Ensure accuracy
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