ERP Software, ERP Solutions, Enterprise Resource Planning, Project Management Software - Agresso

Resource Centre

Please feel free to browse Agresso's vault of corporate information and download a wide array of relevant and informative data on Agresso Australia and our next generation ERP solution - AGRESSO Business World.

Download White Papers, Press Releases, Policies and Multimedia Presentations to compile a spectrum of focused and credible source material, for either building a reference tool, or to bolster your own knowledge.

Our Library contents has been distilled to be used as concise research tools in your search for the most logical and suitable ERP system for your organisation.

Unit4 Ideas

UNIT4 Ideas is an initiative designed to encourage more interaction between employees and customers to ensure that they can freely communicate their ideas to improve the quality and experience of UNIT4 products, including AGRESSO Business World.

It is a fully open forum where any of our customers can sign up to post individual ideas and have the opportunity to vote and comment on other people’s ideas. The initiative will forge closer relationships between Agresso Australia and its customers and will drive the best ideas and innovations through to product delivery, ensuring the best user experience and agile product development.

Once ideas are posted, they are managed by a dedicated team of moderators, product managers and other internal product experts. They will read and review ideas, votes and comments. The most popular and innovative ideas will continuously fuel the UNIT4 development pipeline where, once delivered, will ultimately benefit the end user.

“We have always encouraged openness around the product development cycle with our customers,” said Ton Dobbe, VP product marketing at UNIT4. “They often don’t know what they will need months down the road given the rate of business change. More input will encourage an agile approach to product development. IT and the business can work together, building the right solution based on business and customer feedback and priority. UNIT4 Ideas provides the platform for customers to easily interact with each other and UNIT4 product specialists in a constructive way that eliminates borders and ensures we listen carefully to all our stakeholders.” Please follow this Link to Share and View Unit4 Ideas.

< Back to Resource Centre

Customer Support

Service and support is provided to all customers in Australia, New Zealand and Asia Pacific who are using AGRESSO software in accordance with our maintenance and support agreements.

If you experience problems while using AGRESSO, you should first inform the Customer Contact in your organisation.
If the problem cannot be solved, please contact the Agresso Australian Customer Support Centre at:

Agresso Pty Ltd Support Center

Suite 5, Jones Bay Wharf

26-32 Pirrama Road, Pyrmont 2009 NSW

Support Tel: +61 2 8570 9090

Support Fax: +61 2 9518 8055

Support Email: support@agresso.com.au

Support Website

Customers requiring support can Login to The Agresso Support Desk to access the Agresso product support network.
You will be given a username and password as part of your Agresso contract.

Hours of Operation

8.30 am - 5.30 pm (Sydney Time), Monday through Friday except public holidays

Education Sector

Go to OneSchool Customer Profile...

AGRESSO Education is a fully-integrated Higher Education software solution to manage the day-to-day activities of administrators, faculty and students both now and in the future. It provides:

A solution tailored for the unique needs of dynamic institutions;
A powerful tool set for responding to evolving needs;
All the business information to enable sound and timely decision-making.

From attracting desirable students, and supporting them throughout their education, to maintaining relationships during their education years, AGRESSO Education offers a fresh new approach to Education software that enables all stakeholders to be more creative and innovative in how they fulfil their mandates.

Designed for Institutions Living in Change

AGRESSO Education is ideal for institutions that need to be agile and make changes to respond to an ever-shifting set of requirements. We work with innovators and leaders who require a solution that offers post-implementation agility: the ability to respond to change without involving costly external consultants and constrained IT resources.

An agile education information management system can empower your institution to respond to both predictable and unpredictable change drivers:

Competitive pressures to recruiting new students
Regulatory changes
Changes in school governance
Changing reporting hierarchies
Acquisition or sale of new property/buildings
Responding to the trend toward merging of institutions.

Education Information Management System
Student Components	Business Components
Registrar & Student Records	Financial Management
Recruiting & Admissions	Procurement Management
Student Services	Human Resources/Payroll
Business Office - Student Accounts & Billing	Project Costing and Billing
Institution-Wide Benefits	Reporting and Analytics
	Business Process Automation
	Planning Budgeting and Forecasting

Taking Advantage of Current Technology

“Today we can access data that we never had before. College deans and project coordinators can view detailed information about each individual program — information such as revenue and expenses, travel costs, and profitability — instantaneously. It’s right there at their fingertips. And they can use that information to make sound business decisions. It saves time, money, and makes us all much more efficient than ever before.”

Carlos Arenas, Finance Manager, Bow Valley College

AGRESSO Education’s unique architecture allows it to run atop of the latest technology and “move with the times” – today, taking advantage of .NET; tomorrow, whatever the next generation of platforms brings – without re-development or product obsolescence. Customers are assured:

A long-term stable education information management system;
All the benefits of current software technology;
An agile foundation that eliminates duplication of effort.

A common theme in higher education software is frustration with legacy education information management systems built on out-of-date technology. They are difficult for staff to use, require significant manual intervention, and are notoriously troublesome and expensive to change. In many cases maintenance agreements become overly burdensome, outsourced hours bleed money, and applications are no longer supported.

The Agresso Education Difference

AGRESSO Education’s unique VITA™ architecture, allows changes to your system long after initial installation – in response to changing requirements, at the lowest possible cost and without depending on expensive external consultants and constrained IT resources.

Changes to match new structures, processes and reporting requirements, as well as regulatory changes, can be swiftly and effectively made immediately, via screen-based tools by operational users without the need for programming.

With its architecture, web services, API and integration tools, AGRESSO Education provides a education information management system that is built to last.

Easy Access to Information

All education information management systems are good at data acquisition and storage. Where AGRESSO Education is different, is its ability to get that data out in the form of relevant information.

Whether you are in the Registrar's Office, driving Recruitment and Admissions, responsible for Student Services, working in the Business Offices, or any other function at your institution. AGRESSO Education provides the relevant information to make your job easier.

The AGRESSO Assessment Engine – Degree Audit and Much More

System-Wide Monitoring

The key to the Assessment Engine is that you can create your own processes and define your own stages and monitoring points based on any data in the system.

Like most systems, AGRESSO Education offers degree audit capabilities but takes the concept a giant step further. The Assessment Engine monitors satisfactory academic performance and keeps students on track to complete their programs. But it can do much more. Virtually any process (e.g. recruitment) can be created and tracked by the Assessment Engine, which automatically moves the process through defined stages and provides alerts where necessary. Below are some examples of how the Assessment Engine can be put to work in Recruitment and Student Billing:

Recruitment process:

Develop a program to systematically attract new students;
Identify prospects and move them through a communications program;
Rank the prospects and identify key prospects;
Monitor successful campaigns.

Student billing process:

Track payment of fees and move student from "applied" to "enrolled";
Alert students of billing status;
Initiate transcript holds and registration restrictions;
Alert financial aid coordinators.

UNIT4 Business Software's Experience

UNIT4 Business Software has a long and solid history with over 400 higher educations institutions around the world. Our commitment to the higher education sector is marked by our significant, ongoing investment in the AGRESSO Education solution and our increasing customer successes in both the United States and Canada.

Press Releases

Ethiopia Tackles Drinking Water - January 12^th 2012

Manchester City Football Club Recruits AGRESSO - July 27^th2011

Declare Independance from your ERP Vendor - June 30^th2011

OneSchool Announcement - June 21^st2011

Cloud Platform - June 17^th2011

Agresso Replaces Magnox's SAP - June 14^th2011

CDPP Selects AGRESSO- May 17^th2011

Kinetic IT Chooses AGRESSO Business World - January 26^th2011

Leadership Team

Since inception, the leadership team at Agresso has forged a vibrant company boasting perpetual year-after-year growth.

Agresso Pty Limited has two founding Directors, John Catarinich, CEO and Chris Develin, Director of Software.

Agresso Pty Limited was forged with a healthy disrespect for the status quo and a passion for evolutionary progression. The Agresso team believe that Australian organisations needed more flexible and powerful business solutions which enable customers to address change quickly, efficiently and cost effectively, whilst adding indispensable value and delivering measurable improvements in performance.

Commencing business operations more than a decade ago, Agresso Pty Limited is held privately and funded by its own self-sustaining operations and underwritten by the shareholding companies and their directors.

We add a unique Australian flair to our advice, combining the best technology strategy and management approaches from Europe, the Americas and Asia whilst adding a local commercial and innovative touch.

We serve the needs of our local, national and international clients from our head office at Jones Bay Wharf in Pyrmont NSW and from our satellite offices around the Asia Pacific.

Peter Simons, our Director of Sales and Marketing and Tim Buric, our Support Services Manager, complete our highly experienced and market savvy Senior Management Team for Australia, bringing lengthy experience industry esteem to the table .

Advantage... AGRESSO

If you think you need to keep returning to the same ERP system despite its inability to accommodate change.... THINK AGAIN!

Change Is Inevitable… How Are You Preparing for It?

The primary differentiator between AGRESSO and other Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) vendors is our pinpoint focus on People, Service and Project -Centric organisations in rapid change mode – or as we call these organisations
….Businesses Living IN Change (BLINC)™.

BLINC™ organisations operate in today’s dynamic environment, facing relentless pressure - both internal and external. This predictable transformation of the business landscape requires managers to do more with less. They must do it better and do it faster, all whilst empowering their employees and engaging with stakeholders.

BLINC ™ organisations face the challenges of ongoing change – restructuring and reorganisations, business process changes, financial management-driven changes, mergers and acquisitions, new regulatory requirements, external competitive pressures and other unpredictable challenges. For many, these hurdles are the norm rather than the exception.

As the leader in this new, multi-billion-dollar cross-vertical niche, Agresso is focused on providing solutions based on an architectural backbone that is distinctly superior to other mid-market ERP offerings because it allows cost-efficient change to the ERP system after go-live.

The ability to change “on demand” is an important factor in differentiating AGRESSO in the ERP market, however the blindingly fast in-house control that users are granted over that change is AGRESSO's definitive and unchallenged tipping factor.
AGRESSO not only empowers you with the means to change course with astonishing ease, but goes an important step further to actually put you behind the wheel of your solution as you out-manoeuvre your competition.

Business Process Automation

Business Process Automation (BPA) takes the built-in agility and seamless integration of the AGRESSO ERP system to a whole new level, enabling users to fine tune their processes and procedures in response to business shifts.

Because the data model, process model and delivery model (Reporting and Analytics) are fundamentally linked together by our unique easy-change VITA architecture, changes only have to be made once — without redoing and rechecking in the other areas.

For example, if a re-organisation means the merging of two departments, the changes made to the rules in AGRESSO's data model can be automatically reflected in the AGRESSO process model by a single change in the system.

With AGRESSO you sidestep the wasted time and expense incurred by hiring an external consultant to reprogram your workflow processes!. The new manager will not only get an updated set of P&L reports reflecting the change in the departmental data structure, but also be automatically sent requests to approve invoices, timesheets, expense claims etc. from all their staff under the new structure.

We Understand Change

At Agresso we understand change - It’s in our DNA!

We understand the environments in which People and Service-Centric organisations operate and thrive in.

We recognise that the constant re-evaluation and re-prioritisation of projects that are a reality of this sector can make or break these organisations. If your organisation is a BLINC™, the unexpected is a fact of life and Agresso specialises in tools to master this reality – to survive and thrive!

AGRESSO Business World will allow your organisation to:

Work Smarter: Reduce costs and increase efficiency by using consistent business processes designed by you – and not imposed by the system!
Increase Performance: Create shared services, productivity tools and integrated performance management using AGRESSO’s game-changing workflow management and self-service solutions.
Work Securely: Anytime, Anywhere: Manage business from a single, integrated system while complying with rules and standards across multiple jurisdictions
Work Sharper: Ensure financial and operational control and sound corporate governance with a whole-of-organisation approach to compliance and risk management.

If you are considering a new solution here are some questions to ask of ERP Vendors:

Was the architecture designed from the ground up to innately handle change?
Can I easily make substantive changes without 'tear downs ' and re-implementation?
Does the implementation methodology leave me equipped with the expertise to truly “own” my system?

We Offer a More Competitive Alternative

BLINC™ organisations cannot afford to be hampered by rigid or brittle architecture. They need an ERP solution that is an enabler of, change and not an obstacle to it,. If your organisation is a BLINC™, Agresso will save you a fortune in ongoing ownership costs and provide you the agility to out-manoeuver your competition.

We're Calling Out to the Competition

Agresso openly challenges the current convention of employing armies of expensive consultants to respond to a business alteration, shift, or modification..

AGRESSO also challenges the faulty assumption, in both the corporate and public sectors, that it is necessary to continually rip-and-replace technology strategies as each new technology trend comes along.

"The bottom line is that the likes of Agresso may lead many lethargic and jaded chief executive officers (CEOs) to wake up at long last, and to examine the longer term impact of their mission-critical enterprise system buying decisions."

Predrag Jakovljevic - Research Director with Technology Evaluation Centers, Inc.

If you think you need to keep going back to the same ERP system regardless of its inability to accommodate change, THINK AGAIN!

Advantage... AGRESSO

If you think you need to keep returning to the same ERP system despite its inability to accommodate change.... THINK AGAIN!

"Change Is Inevitable… How Are You Preparing for It?"

Considering a new solution? Here are some questions to ask of ERP Vendors:

Was the architecture designed from the ground up to innately handle change?
Can I easily make substantive changes without 'tear downs ' and re-implementation?
Does the implementation methodology leave me equipped with the expertise to truly “own” my system?

The primary differentiator between AGRESSO and other Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) vendors is our pinpoint focus on People, Service and Project -Centric organisations in rapid change mode – or as we call these organisations
….Businesses Living IN Change (BLINC)™.

BLINC™ organisations operate in today’s dynamic environment, facing relentless pressure - both internal and external. This predictable transformation of the business landscape requires managers to do more with less. They must do it better and do it faster, all whilst empowering their employees and engaging with stakeholders.

BLINC ™ organisations face the challenges of ongoing change – restructuring and reorganisations, business process changes, financial management-driven changes, mergers and acquisitions, new regulatory requirements, external competitive pressures and other unpredictable challenges. For many, these hurdles are the norm rather than the exception.

As the leader in this new, multi-billion-dollar cross-vertical niche, Agresso is focused on providing solutions based on an architectural backbone that is distinctly superior to other mid-market ERP offerings because it allows cost-efficient change to the ERP system after go-live.

The ability to change “on demand” is an important factor in differentiating AGRESSO in the ERP market, however the blindingly fast in-house control that users are granted over that change is AGRESSO's definitive and unchallenged tipping factor.
AGRESSO not only empowers you with the means to change course with astonishing ease, but goes an important step further to actually put you behind the wheel of your solution as you out-manoeuvre your competition.

Business Process Automation

We Understand Change

At Agresso we understand change - It’s in our DNA!

AGRESSO Business World will allow your organisation to:

Work Smarter: Reduce costs and increase efficiency by using consistent business processes designed by you – and not imposed by the system!
Increase Performance: Create shared services, productivity tools and integrated performance management using AGRESSO’s game-changing workflow management and self-service solutions.
Work Securely: Anytime, Anywhere: Manage business from a single, integrated system while complying with rules and standards across multiple jurisdictions
Work Sharper: Ensure financial and operational control and sound corporate governance with a whole-of-organisation approach to compliance and risk management.

We Offer a More Competitive Alternative

BLINC™ organisations cannot afford to be hampered by rigid or brittle architecture. They need an ERP solution that is an enabler of change, not an obstacle to it. If your organisation is a BLINC™, Agresso will save you a fortune in ongoing ownership costs and provide you the agility to out-manoeuver your competition.

We're Calling Out to the Competition

Agresso openly challenges the current convention of employing armies of expensive consultants to respond to a business alteration, shift, or modification..

"The bottom line is that the likes of Agresso may lead many lethargic and jaded chief executive officers (CEOs) to wake up at long last, and to examine the longer term impact of their mission-critical enterprise system buying decisions."

Predrag Jakovljevic - Research Director with Technology Evaluation Centers, Inc.

If you think you need to keep going back to the same ERP system regardless of its inability to accommodate change, THINK AGAIN!

Agresso Blog

Enterprise Software Blog

Summer 2011

With every closing year comes fresh surprise, last year’s shock already forgotten as the annual chorus erupts: “Can you believe… it’s December already?”

Right now, a lot of people are spending their final weeks of 2011 reflecting on the year’s achievements and challenges, absorbing lessons learned and laying down blueprints for an even more successful year in 2012.

This annual practice, carried out in some form or another in most business organisations around the world, involves not only an introspective review of what we’ve done well or could do better, but also examines industry trends and external economic developments that may offer some insight, or even foresight, into what we can expect in the coming months.

During 2011 we saw global economies fluctuate, industries morph with new global requirements and information technology accelerate with snowballing pace. When change is the only constant, then managing the future means only one thing – Flexibility.

In this edition, Agresso Australia provides focus on three key customer’s achieving such agile flexibility to ensure their continuing success through 2012 and beyond. Below is a highlight reel of their achievements and industry progress during another productive year in 2011.

SKILLED Group provides total workforce management, flexible labour solutions and project-based workforce solutions- This project focused labour service approach allows their clients to focus on their core business operations.

Through a network of over 170 offices across Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Malta and United Arab Emirates SKILLED provides the benefits of an international provider with a market leading local presence.

SKILLED has 40 years of experience and excellence in Workforce solutions servicing customers through the provision of flexible resourcing to manage peaks and troughs in their labour requirements whilst sustaining productivity. With this in mind, SKILLED Group assessed their rapid growth rate, complex project base and disparate array of legacy management systems.
Read more...

In 2005, the then Minister, Honourable Rod Welford said principals, teachers and other school staff 'have been smothered by an avalanche of paper work to support the system instead of the system being designed to support school staff to deliver their best at the coalface. We must embark on a quest to turn that around." Queensland Government's OneSchool Project is now delivering on this quest.

“The current generation of students learn and speak ICT with ease. They thrive on its functionality, portability and adaptability. They use ICT to play, live and learn.”

Coupling this revelation with the opportunities ICT represented for broader communication between parents, teachers and pupils, QLD’s ‘Smart Classroom’ was conceptualised.

The key scaffolding of the Smart Classroom strategy is the ‘OneSchool’ information system, a centrally shared hub of student data, reports and records managed and accessed by up to 1,300 Schools.

The OneSchool Project is charged with delivering a comprehensive, flexible and sustainable information management system that flexes with future changes.
Read more...

Supporting projects in over 130 countries, Halcrow, the top infrastructure planning, design and management specialist, is a powerful illustration of a people-centric service organisation’s need to be flexible and transparent in order to remain competitive.

Halcrow is organised into five main business factions focusing on transport, water, property, maritime and consulting. This business configuration has operated since AGRESSO was first implemented in 1999 on a worldwide basis. At the time more than 2,500 staff and 17 separate business groups operated under Halcrow.

Today, Halcrow has a turnover in excess of AU$700 million with 6,000 employees spanning a 32 country global network of 90 offices, representing a global force in consulting, engineering and civil projects.

“From Abu Dhabi’s iconic Yas Island to multi-billion dollar transport corridors in Brisbane and water management projects in ACT, Halcrow enables the delivery of some of the world’s largest and most exciting infrastructure projects.”

With such broad and complete project services and customer offerings, Halcrow requires a powerful and agile Project Management Solution to analyse and manage these comprehensive services.
Read more...

Product News

A new environmental performance management solution has been announced to assist businesses analyse, understand and improve their environmental sustainability.
Read more...

Agresso is taking ERP to the cloud with Vita Cloud Angel. Minimise risk and capital expenditure by implementing a world class ERP system using resource- conscious cloud technologies.
Read more...

On behalf of all of us here, I would like to take this opportunity to wish you and your families a safe and restful Christmas season. The team and I look forward to contributing to your continued success in 2012.

Best Regards of the Season,
John Catarinich
Chief Executive Officer

www.agresso.com.au
sales@agresso.com.au
+ 61 2 8570 9000
Suite 5, 26-32 Pirrama Rd. Pyrmont, NSW, 2009.

Feel free to pass this on to your colleagues or let me know who else in your organisation needs to receive this information as well.

	December, 2011

Australian and Global News for your attention

News:

Survey shows:76% of senior managers are dissatisfied with Enterprise software change capabilities.
World Congress for Project Management showcases Agresso.
The CDPP replaces Ageing SAP.
Queensland Government rolls out state-wide Education Management Software.
New AGRESSO Mobile Timesheet App.
Manchester City, FA Cup winners, sign up some Premier ERP.
Nuclear Power Giant takes a mammoth corporate U-turn.
The Telegraph Video on ERP transition and implementation.
Cloud Services launched for Xentrall.
Kinetic IT recognises transparency benefits of Next Gen software.
Easy Jet's CIO on Budget Discipline.
Change Stifles Business Growth and Profitability.
Agresso's Public Sector users spend 3.5 times less on running costs.
Six Norweigan Municipalities opt for Future-Proof Cloud Software to manage their operations.
Higher Education Software needs more elasticity.
Agresso Video - Stop the Madness.

Reports & Whitepapers:

Resources & Brochures:

Our Approach

Specialist Expertise

We transform your organisation by leveraging the power and functionality of our flagship product suite AGRESSO Business World, which forms our core focus.
Through the employment of international specialists and pooled resources from our partners around the globe, we can deliver world-class solutions at a local level.
Our team is comprised of specialists who have either consulted or worked in the industry for many years. As a result, all of our consultants have rich and deep experience with the AGRESSO business suite.

Outcome Focused

We deliver transformative outcomes to our customers which generate significant returns on their investment in our products and services.
We work collaboratively with our clients to transfer skills and capabilities, we want to transfer our skills, knowledge and a can-do sense of purpose.
We work to construct long term, sustainable outcomes.

Flexible and Innovative

We do not propose generic solutions - each project is tailored to deliver on the outcomes our customers seek.
We thrive on change and we react swiftly to our clients’ requests.
We work as one team – one which is forged directly with our customers by integrating seamlessly with their in-house teams.

Lean & Focused

Agresso Australia is owned by our management team, we have a low cost culture and treat our clients’ money as if it were our own.
We direct our energy and focus to the implementation and configuration of AGRESSO for your business – it’s our DNA, we are passionate about it - and it’s all we do!

ERP Software, ERP Solutions, Enterprise Resource Planning, Project Management Software - Agresso

Resource Centre

Please feel free to browse Agresso's vault of corporate information and download a wide array of relevant and informative data on Agresso Australia and our next generation ERP solution - AGRESSO Business World.

Unit4 Ideas

Customer Support

Agresso Pty Ltd Support Center

Support Website

Hours of Operation

Education Sector

Designed for Institutions Living in Change

Education Information Management System

Taking Advantage of Current Technology

The Agresso Education Difference

Easy Access to Information

The AGRESSO Assessment Engine – Degree Audit and Much More

System-Wide Monitoring

Recruitment process:

Student billing process:

UNIT4 Business Software's Experience

Press Releases

Leadership Team

Since inception, the leadership team at Agresso has forged a vibrant company boasting perpetual year-after-year growth.

Advantage... AGRESSO

If you think you need to keep returning to the same ERP system despite its inability to accommodate change.... THINK AGAIN!

Change Is Inevitable… How Are You Preparing for It?

Business Process Automation

We Understand Change

AGRESSO Business World will allow your organisation to:

If you are considering a new solution here are some questions to ask of ERP Vendors:

Was the architecture designed from the ground up to innately handle change?

Can I easily make substantive changes without 'tear downs ' and re-implementation?

Does the implementation methodology leave me equipped with the expertise to truly “own” my system?

We Offer a More Competitive Alternative

We're Calling Out to the Competition

"The bottom line is that the likes of Agresso may lead many lethargic and jaded chief executive officers (CEOs) to wake up at long last, and to examine the longer term impact of their mission-critical enterprise system buying decisions."

Predrag Jakovljevic - Research Director with Technology Evaluation Centers, Inc.

If you think you need to keep going back to the same ERP system regardless of its inability to accommodate change, THINK AGAIN!

Advantage... AGRESSO

If you think you need to keep returning to the same ERP system despite its inability to accommodate change.... THINK AGAIN!

"Change Is Inevitable… How Are You Preparing for It?"

Considering a new solution? Here are some questions to ask of ERP Vendors:

Business Process Automation

We Understand Change

AGRESSO Business World will allow your organisation to:

We Offer a More Competitive Alternative

We're Calling Out to the Competition

"The bottom line is that the likes of Agresso may lead many lethargic and jaded chief executive officers (CEOs) to wake up at long last, and to examine the longer term impact of their mission-critical enterprise system buying decisions."

Predrag Jakovljevic - Research Director with Technology Evaluation Centers, Inc.

Agresso Blog

Our Approach

Specialist Expertise

Outcome Focused

Flexible and Innovative

Lean & Focused