We’ve just signed up for Epicor ERP SaaS in a public cloud environment. We have 3 companies which are all separate legal entities with no inter company transactions and only 1 site per company and our Epicor consultants are now telling us that, because we are in a cloud environment rather than on premise, we are required to have multi-site management licenses. Does that sound right to you? We are just at the beginning of our Epicor implementation and I want to make sure we’re starting off on the right foot
Thanks
We are cloud and multi-company and we do have the license. I don’t think that cloud should make it so. If you want to do:
Consolidated Purchasing/Payables
Consolidated General Ledger
Global Parts, Customers, Exchange Rates, etc.
AP Allocations
Global Credit
Global Configurators
Multi-Company Dashboards or
Intercompany Trading
then you need the module. On-prem vs. cloud doesn’t make technical sense to me and sounds more like rent-seeking if you’re not requiring any of the above capabilities.
Are you sure it’s not cheaper to do that? With the tiered licensing per user gets cheaper as you get more users. Otherwise you would need 3 standalone contracts all starting at 0 right?
The consultants told us Epicor require us to have the multi-site license because we’re cloud based and not on prem and from a technical standpoint it had to happen - they never suggested it had anything to do money - other than it’s going to cost us more because of the additional licenses. I would think they would have started the conversation with the “this is saving you money” line if that was the primary reason but you never know! Hopefully I’ll get more answers when I talk to our consultants management team tomorrow, thanks.
Why don’t you try creating a company in your test environment. We had the same divided opinion with on-prem when implementing Epicor with E9 8 years ago. Some said you need the license while others gave the reverse opinion. The companies we have are totally independent of each other.
We created a company in the test environment and it worked. This put the case to rest forever with all the divergent opinions. The we created more companies when we went live. Maybe you can give it a shot if you have a test environment which you can rebuild if things do not work out.
Just curious … Is it against the licensing agreement to have multiple companies in separate Environments/DB’s? Like when you have an environment for Production and one for Test.
I know you’d not be able to have any type of inter-company transactions (save for making uBAQ’s with Ext BAQs). This might not be possible to setup in a multi-tenant, but could be done with an Azure based hosting.
