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UNIT4 doubles innovation efforts to accelerate its lead in cloud ERP [ITWeb](ITWeb Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) UNIT4 (http://www.unit4.com/), the global leader in software solutions that enable business change, today announced increased cloud momentum, with SaaS revenues surpassing growing perpetual licenses by 40% in the first half of the year. Building on this momentum, UNIT4 will significantly increase its innovation capacity by doubling the R&D resources devoted to its Agresso ERP platform. Organisations across the world are embracing social, mobile, analytics and cloud solutions as part of their efforts to modernise and deliver a consumer grade experience to their users. UNIT4 has already invested substantially to create the next generation of enterprise software, as demonstrated with the latest release of its Agresso ERP platform, and through its investment in FinancialForce.com, the leading cloud ERP solution on the Salesforce1 platform. Building on its previous success, UNIT4 will strengthen its R&D capacity, devoted to the development of next-generation ERP solutions, which anticipate and meet the demands of enterprise software users, and extending its vertical specialisation for industries such as education, professional services, not for profit, wholesale, accountancy and public services. UNIT4 plans to double its Agresso product line R&D capacity within the next two years. The proven capabilities of the Agresso platform, such as easy business change, user experience and flexible deployment options for public, private and hybrid cloud, will be extended to all UNIT4 solutions. The additional development capacities and skills will be centred across Wroclaw, Poland and Granada, Spain, where UNIT4 already has teams with over 150 developers in place. The UNIT4 R&D teams in Norway will remain at the heart of Agresso development, focusing on innovation and architecture. "The enterprise software market is at an historical turning point," said José Duarte, CEO of UNIT4. "New technologies and business models have emerged and are determining the future business software leaders. Our present and future investments in innovation represent our commitment to delivering a strong future to our clients, partners and employees. Building on our success to date, we will invest even more aggressively in innovation and R&D. Poland and Spain offer scalable, high quality talent pools that will allow us to build on existing, proven development operations." (c) 2014 ITWeb Limited. All rights reserved. Provided by SyndiGate Media Inc. (Syndigate.info). |