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In business for people.

Introducing Unit4 Business World On!- our next generation ERP

Thomas Staven, Global Head of Presales and Product Strategist


Business World On! is our next generation ERP

Agresso Business

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Unit4 Business

World On! Spring 2016

2008 2011 2015 2016

People Platform

Public Cloud via Azure


Business World On! is delivering unique business value

Market leading collaboration tools for your teams built into the system

• Slack.com

• Communities

• Knowly

Groundbreaking tools for better business insights

• Predictive Project Forecasting

• Self-driving Reference Projects

• Books

• Analyzer

• Financial Information Pages

• Information Browser

Improved productivity for your business

• New User Experience

• Significant updates on all Experience Packs

• 530 new features

Superior access for your people

• One mobile app giving access to all key self-service capabilities:

• Everything you need to stay connected and keep things going while on the road via a single mobile app

• Field Service Mobile

In business for people. Proprietary and Confidential

All an employee needs – in one single app

Provides quick and easy access to key

employee information and self-service

functions

Personal information Balances

Work Status Pay Slips

News Feeds Assignments

Absence requests Short cuts to Expenses, Tasks

and Timesheets

An employee-centric app aimed at organizations that use Unit4 Business World


Create ad-hoc browser enquiries from the web

Simplified user experience to enable users to easily create their own browser enquiries via a new business language based object model

Provide easy and flexible access to business data for all business users

Adjustment of report content and format on the fly to get faster to the optimal result


Completing project forecasts by the simple touch of a slider

AI assisted intelligence is used to (re-)calculate the forecast includingall its complex components

Minimal input: A simple slider performs the full (re-)forecasting of a project or workorder

Continuous optimization of results based on usage and applied patterns

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Perfect foundation for self-driving

capabilities and cloud flexibility

A strong platform delivering superior services to Unit4 applications

Natural language interface

CompositeApp SDK

Event Driven Integration hub

CanonicalData Model

Digital Assistant

Automated Business agents

Loosely coupled integration

Dynamic Data Interoperability

Business SDK

Elastic Foundation

Smart Context

Personal Experience


A strong partnership to deliver next generation ERP


3 ways to deploy Business World On!

Public

Cloud

Private /

Dedicated

CloudOn Premise

Shared by many customersDedicated to one customer

Hosted at providers location

Access over internetPrivate network

Shared infrastructure

Dedicated to one customer

Hosted at providers location

Access over internet / Private network

Dedicated infrastructure

Hosted at clients location

Owned infrastructure


Unit4 – Microsoft partnership

Infrastructure-as-a-Service

Ecosystem

• Leveraging Azure as a leading cloud platform

• Multiple datacenters in different regions

• Full set of certifications

Leveraging Microsoft, Microsoft partners

and ISVs for go-to market and co-marketing

activities.

Platform-as-a-Service

Hybrid strategy

Adopting key technologies, such as

• Machine learning

• Elastic database pools

• Azure Stack

Azure datacenters operated by:

• Microsoft

• Microsoft partners

• Customers running Azure Stack

Co-Innovation

Certified architecture

Continuous delivery and co-developing innovations such as integration with:

• Microsoft Office

• Microsoft Delve

Unit4 solutions certified to leverage Microsoft architecture best-practices and

support.

The era of AI and Bots...and the opportunity to deliver self-driving software


By Artificial Intelligence (AI), we mean

the ability for a computational device to

perceive it’s environment and based on

“observations” make “rational decisions”


By Bots (or agents) we mean

(small) automated software applications

programmed to do specific tasks

(Coupled with AI and Natural Language Processing,

a bot can mimic a person)


Approx. every 10 years there is a new

paradigm shift in technology…

we`re convinced we`re seeing one now

and we believe the next one will come

quickly after that....


2000s 2016

The next paradigm shift is here…

2007From Windows to Web From Web to Mobile The era of AI and

Bots

Create new project

Buy a new notebook

Capture my time

1 2 3

Capture my expenses

Application Intelligence / Simplicity User interface / Complexity


Why is this happening now?


Next generation workers demand simplicity and ubiquity

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We’re living with a Work-life blend, not Work-life balance


BYOD is a given, BYOS is following


The rise of the ”silent conversation”


This is transforming interaction patterns….

The rise of the silent conversation is unstoppable

Before year end we’ll find it normal to “talk” to brands and companies

through messaging apps

` The net result is that you and I will be

talking to brands and companies over

Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp,

Telegram, Slack, and elsewhere before

year’s end, and will find it normal` -

Chris Messina, Uber

`2,5 billion people have at least one

messaging application installed` - The Economist

The most frequently used app on the

iPhone is not the phone, the web

browser, or even the camera: it is

messages. Apple’s customers send

200,000 iMessages per second, up from

28,000 in 2012.” - Apple

`32% of people would rather

communicate via text than over phone` - https://processflows.co.uk/


Technology has taken a leap forward with AI and ML

breaking through from the labs to the real world


It is not about replacing people with machines...

“Technology is to extend our reach…just

like we have always built tools” – Ray Kurzweil, Google

“It is not humans or machines, it is

humans + machines” – Dr. John Kelly, IBM


To maintain future productivity and economic growth,

organizations will have to...

Find ways to mitigate the labor pool’s erosion by providing a more flexible work environment for women and older workers….

…by making it possible to work from anywhere via

software accessible from anywhere

Find ways to attract and engage rare young talent….

…by giving the workforce innovative solutions

reflecting the needs of the next generation

Create a working environment where employees will (more and more) be contingent workers….

…by providing the workforce solutions requiring no

“footprint”, no training, accessible trough any UI /

application


54%of any persons’ work week is a

waste of time

…speaking about productivity...

Source: Workfront Survey 2015


…because at work we feel overwhelmed


Administration Profession

Our vision is about allowing our customers to focus 100% on

running their business and serving their customers,

avoiding spending time and energy interacting unnecessarily with enterprise software.


In-efficiency Productivity!

..which is all about boosting people productivity, reducing

in-efficiency in organizations.


Imagine you had an army of bots to help you…


Our vision: Self-driving applications

Business Software and business

processes will become non-existing

or 'silent' in its current form.

Interaction will be natural through

other UIs (your favorite app) and

other physical products

Intrusive Software Pervasive Software

2016 20202017 2018 2019

In business for people.Proprietary and Confidential

Introducing Wanda – our Digital Assistant

Bots (Agents) (Examples)

Time Mgmt.

Workflow

Purchasing

Public data

Natural Language Interface, Self-learning, Proactive


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http://www.unit4.com/

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