Unsure where to post this but I need some advice on this.
I have a client that I’ve learned Kinetic from and E10. So that is where most of my knowledge is.
I was recently hired on another project and they use Epicor Eagle. Which is their POS application. When I was brought on they said they used Epicor and figured with what I know, would be a good fit for them. Little did I know they use Eagle.
So what should I know difference wise and anything else you can mention?
Can I make BPMs and BAQs?
Custom dashboards?
They need custom reports done but I don’t know if it’s the same in eagle as in E10/Kinetic.
I do know it’s all on premise. Was hoping for cloud but it’s not.
E10/Kinetic and Eagle are two different products built on two different platforms at Epicor. Because of this, within the products, you will find different ways to do things. Reporting, automation, etc are done differently. BPMs and BAQs are Kinetic specific. Epicor is working on unifying our approach across all platforms, but we have not gotten there with Eagle yet.
I happen to work at a company that uses both Eagle and ERP/Kinetic in 2 different LLC’s. Eagle is not remotely similar to ERP. Customization similar to BPM is not available in Eagle, it’s pretty much a walled garden with all integrations done by the company and fully baked into the main code base. They do have an ad-hoc data reporting application called Compass which works very well. You can get direct (read-only) access to the MySQL database behind this application if you want to build SQL queries directly or integrate to a 3rd party reporting tool.
FYI. Eagle is pretty old code written in Cobol. The MySQL database that Compass uses is a “shadow” database of the application. Transactions that happen in Eagle are copied in real time to Compass. The newer N-Series versions of Eagle have added a few data features directly from this MySQL database.
Tim, does Epicor actually have plans to modernize the Eagle application? That would be welcome news indeed.
Yes, each of our older products does have a migration plan and/or path. But the question does not have a direct answer without knowing more facts about your business. There are multiple versions of Eagle… Example, there are specialty versions for Automotive. We also have a new cloud-based product called “Propello” for Retail, but it may not be the best solution if you are in the Auto or Lumber retail space. Your best option if interested in making sure you are on the latest version of the software for your industry is to contact your Customer Account Manager (CAM) to talk to them about your business. https://www.epicor.com/en-us/industry-productivity-solutions/retail/
We’re using the “standard” version of Eagle for several retail hardware stores and we’re on the latest version. Eagle software handles the retail hardware store enviroment really well even though the core appliaction is old. Our biggest frustration with Eagle is the inability to integrate to custom business processes or features outside the scope of Eagle or the few 3rd party integrations available. It’s impossible to get data back into Eagle other than manual entry or manual imports. Eagle features with ERP/Kinetics ability to integrate and customize would be the ideal software for our retail enviroment.
I’ve learned a lot about it already. It is vastly different but does carry some similar logic and naming here and there. Not the same but similar.
I haven’t dived into compass yet but so far I’ve found Eagle to be really simple and easy. Only wish I could get a key for all the window shortcut codes.
First off, apologies for trying to revive a necropost. I’ve been pulling my hair out trying to get an answer to what seems like a simple question. Our company is using the Epicor Eagle system, primarily using Compass and the Eagle Browser to generate reports for our POS system. I have access to the Eagle database via MySQL Workbench and can build queries on any of the views/tables therein.
My question is this: I can build reports in, for example, Compass, get the results and export them out to Excel. However, the company wants to build PowerBI reports from the Eagle DB so we can have them update automatically. Is there a way to determine what specific tables and columns Compass is pulling from the Eagle DB for a given Compass report? Currently, I’m using a process of guesswork/trial and error to find the related Eagle DB tables/fields but it’s insanely time consuming and inefficient.
We’ve been trying to work with our company’s CAM on this and other issues, but the response has been, shall we say, somewhat lacking.