RFgen Mobility, SaaS and the Oracle Cloud

Presented by: Robert Brice President

Agenda

• Trends in SaaS and Cloud Computing • How to Capitalize on the Move to Mobile

SaaS? • About RFgen Software • Q&A

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“Change is good. It's also often hard. But

to succeed in business, you must often run toward it.”

~ Dave Kerpen

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Trends in SaaS and Cloud Computing

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Shift to SaaS and Cloud Computing Continues to Gain Momentum

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Cloud and SaaS CAGR is Over 23%

Over the 2013–2017

forecast period, public IT

cloud services will have a

compound annual growth

rate (CAGR) of 23.5%,

five times that of the IT

industry as a whole.

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Cloud and SaaS Will Be the Bulk of New IT Spending by 2016

Gartner predicts that the bulk of new IT spending by 2016 will be for cloud computing platforms and applications with nearly half of large enterprises having cloud deployments by the end of 2017.

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SaaS Spending Will Reach up to 60% of Future IT Budgets

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What is Driving Business Adoption of Cloud and SaaS? Businesses need enterprise

applications that keep pace with

how fast they want to move on

new business strategies. The

latest round of cloud computing

forecasts reflect the urgency

enterprises have of making IT a

foundation for strategic

business growth.

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“The need for flexibility, scale, and ease of

deployment and use is driving adoption of SaaS

to support mobile enterprise strategies.”

~Strategy Analytics

Mapping Cloud Opportunities

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Mobile SaaS The “Browser-less” SaaS Model

Mobile SaaS is more about apps than browsers. • This runs counter to the

original concept of SaaS, which was always browser-based.

With Mobile SaaS you’re increasingly likely to “do it in an app.” • In large part because of the

importance of offline support on mobile devices that are not always connected to the internet.

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According to the latest report by Strategy Analytics, “The market for Mobile SaaS will grow from a $6.7 billion in 2012 market to reach $19.7 billion by 2017.”

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How to Capitalize on the Move to Mobile SaaS?

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How to Capitalize on the Move to Mobile SaaS?

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RFgen’s leading-edge mobile technology platform is now available for SaaS licensing for both on-premise and Cloud deployments.

Automated Data Collection is a Necessity for ERP Success When competing for new

customers and growing your

footprint in existing accounts, it

can a be a key differentiator to

provide supply chain management

(SCM) functionality as part of the

sales process, but how can you

maintain account control and stay

price competitive?

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Winning More Business With RFgen

• Classic and SaaS licensing options

• Not-to-exceed implementations

• Version flexible solutions

• Large pre-built mobile apps library

• WMS-lite logic for directed activities

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SaaS Licensing Costs are Typically 65% Less Than Classic Licensing Options

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Benefit From a Recurring Revenue Model and Reduce or Eliminate CAPEX Requirements

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Traditional software licensing captures the value of the software upfront and attempts to secure recurring revenue via maintenance. SaaS generates annual revenue and guarantees revenue, that we share with partners, as long as the customer continues to use the offering.

The Case for On-Premise

• Companies that deploy this model enjoy control over all of their systems and data and, perhaps even more importantly, the peace of mind that comes from knowing that critical business infrastructure resides in-house.

Control

• In fact, data security is one of the chief impediments to widespread cloud adoption. Specifically, a 2013 IDG Enterprise cloud computing survey revealed that 42 percent of cloud-based projects are eventually brought back in-house as a result of security concerns.

Security

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There are a multitude of benefits afforded by an on-premise solution, the two most often cited are as follows:

The Case for Hosted

• By enlisting the services of a hosted provider, you eliminate the burden of purchasing and maintaining hardware and no longer have to waste resources on unused capacity.

CAPEX Savings

• From being able to streamline processes to improve accessibility to monitor projects more effectively, a hosted environment allows you to achieve unprecedented business performance across the board.

Enhanced Business Productivity

• Since companies no longer have to invest time in buying and setting up hardware and software, they can seamlessly scale up or down depending on their usage of services on the cloud. This frees up a company’s internal teams so they can focus more on innovation instead of managing resources.

Increased Scalability and Speed

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There’s a reason why 49 percent of executive-level managers view cloud computing as transformational, according to an IDG survey the top three are listed below:

RFgen Give You the Ability to Pick the Model That Suits You Best

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Keep Implementation Costs Under Control and Meet Customer Expectations

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According to a study by the Harvard Business Review for supply chain implementations…

“The average overrun was 27% — but that figure masks a far more alarming one. Graphing the projects’ budget overruns reveals a “fat tail”, a large number of gigantic overages. Fully one in six of the projects we studied was a black swan, with a cost overrun of 200%, on average, and a schedule overrun of almost 70%.”

RFgen Delivers On-time and On-budget Service Engagements

When using RFgen’s SCM implementation team to automate your customers mobility needs, we treat all service engagements as not-to-exceed contracts.

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What Delays Customer Upgrade Decisions?

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Facilitate Customer Upgrades by Minimizing External Costs

All RFgen mobile apps and technology infrastructure are version flexible, meaning we eliminate “version-lock” scenarios where customizations and integration points need to be re-implemented thereby reducing the cost to upgrade.

A typical JD Edwards upgrade with RFgen takes only one week of testing.

Upgrades to the RFgen infrastructure are backwards compatible.

All RFgen mobile apps can switch between JD Edwards World and EnterpriseOne.

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Off-Network Mobility

75% of organizations deploying mobile field solutions had trouble with wireless connectivity in some locations. Employees need to be able to keep working productively when their connection to the ERP is severed.

Sarah Howland, editor-in-chief, “Field Mobility 2013: How the Latest Technology and Trends Are Transforming the Mobile Workforce,” Field Technologies special edition, 2013.

No Excuses When There’s No Connection

True Mobile Apps Mean “No Mobile Browser”

• One of the biggest advantages of apps over browsers is that they can offer robust offline capabilities.

• RFgen’s Mobile SaaS model doesn’t use a browser but is instead a rich mobile client app, available for iOS, Windows and Android devices.

• Further, depending on preference, our customers can easily host their solutions wherever they want — in the Oracle cloud, 3rd party cloud or on-premises.

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RFgen Offers Hundreds of Mobile Supply Chain Apps That are Ready for Business Whether customers choose a classic software purchase or SaaS licensing, all of RFgen’s mobile apps are available for use whenever and where ever they’re needed.

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• Inventory Management • Process and Discrete Manufacturing • Labor Tracking and Reporting • Equipment and Plant Maintenance • Enterprise Asset Management • Transportation and Logistics • Warehouse Management • License Plating

Create Cross-Platform, Custom Business Apps Without Coding • RFgen provides you with the advantages of

a fully developed and thoroughly tested native mobile app that’s already in your favorite app store.

• Leaving you free to focus on designing custom business forms tailored specifically to your customer’s unique requirements, the RFgen Mobile Framework handles the things you don’t want to worry about such as: » Security » Offline file sync » Data connections » Cross-platform device integration

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CODING

Improve Warehouse Operations Via Directed Picks and Replenishments • RFgen Warehouse Director will

direct warehouse workers to complete inventory movement tasks such as put away, picking, and replenishment using JD Edwards inventory.

• Built to help facilitate JD Edwards sales when basic warehousing is needed and a fully implemented Advanced Warehouse offering could place the ERP sale in jeopardy.

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About RFgen Software

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About RFgen Software

• Over 3,000 customers

• Installed in over 35 countries worldwide

• Local support options available worldwide

• Available out-of-the-box in over 20 languages

• Hundreds of mobile supply chain apps ready for business

• All RFgen mobile apps are version flexible

• All RFgen consulting engagements are not-to-exceed

• Partners account for 65% of all implementations

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RFgen – The Strategic Solution for All Your Customers’ Mobility Requirements Discover for yourself the many differences that come from working with a company like RFgen, become an RFgen partner today! Classic and SaaS licensing On-premise deployments Oracle Cloud hosting Fast and flexible solutions SaaS revenue sharing Aggressive partner margins Not-to-exceed services

engagements

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RFgen Software designs, implements and deploys mobile and wireless software, and open source supply chain solutions for automated data collection.

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