The yesteryear ERP story based on old technologies is more or less over.  Most of the businesses have implemented some kind of ERP based on old technologies which can be accessed only from within the four walls of the office.   To achieve the next level of productivity businesses are looking for compact, quick to implement, simple-to-use Web based enterprise solutions which can be accessed on lap tops, Mobile Phones and other hand-held devices from any-where, any-time  in the world through an internet browser over a broad band internet . Whether you are in Office or on travel, on a holiday or walking on a street, you can stay connected and work on your ERP.

OPEN SESAME™ Acumen’s flagship is now being offered as a pay by use through the SAAS model of software delivery. Acumen is in talks with IBM to launch this service jointly with IBM. IBM would provide world class SAAS hosting infrastructure. OPEN SESAME™ enterprise management software for all manufacturing verticals shall be hosted on in IBM SAAS infrastructure

This is a paradigm shift in the way software shall be bought, accessed and used. Customers don’t need to invest in IT infrastructure, software licenses and even in an IT department. In fact the entire IT department which is non-core function to a manufacturing can be outsourced to Acumen and IBM combine with Total cost of ownership of an IT Budget being a fraction of what it is

The salient features of the Acumen IBM SAAS Model of software delivery is as follows

•	Web based application technology is very suitable for software as a service (SAAS) model of delivery
•	The application is installed on a web-server and is accessed by users through internet broad band connection
•	Users of the service pay on a per user basis quarterly
•	No client software needs to be installed on user’s computer in this model.
•	The customer can outsource the entire IT department to the Acumen IBM combine

Most I T heads prefer to deploy standard packages rather than going in for customized solutions for various reasons like time constraints to document their software requirements, employee-attrition rate, large time periods required for evaluation of Vendors, knowledge transfer to solution developers, developing, testing, deploying, stabilizing the solutions and subsequently to maintain them. Also the costs involved in custom-built applications are huge and are not comparable with the standard package costs. At the same time most of the standard ERPs, stifle the well-defined Industry & customer specific business processes in the garb of industry best practices.

We at Acumen, respect these customer specific business processes, which are evolved over long years of proven business experience do not believe in stifling them.

Open Sesame™ offers the most flexible architecture to its customers to configure its own specific business processes, define its own rules-engine, etc. Therefore none of our customers feel they have compromised having deployed our products. So therefore while you deploy a standard product like Open Sesame™, you can still continue with the specific business processes and get the best of both worlds. More than 95% of your customer specific requirements would have been met without having to customize Open Sesame™.