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E picor ’ s roots go back to the early 1970s when , in previous iterations , the company began developing software for job shop manufacturers . Fundamentally focused on delivering industry specific core solutions for manufacturing , Epicor was founded in 1999 . Where there is a customer demand - typically with lower volume , higher value types of businesses - Epicor ’ s offering supports manufacturers of Configure to Order ( CTO ) and made for demand products .
Mark Hughes , Regional VP for UK & Ireland at Epicor , believes that the efficiencies technology can bring to manufacturers are critical and its where Epicor aims to be at the cutting-edge with functionality . “ Deployment methods , cloud , SaaS , all of these things are becoming more relevant ,” he says . “ Whether we call it industry 4.0 , the Internet of Things ( IoT ) or simply connectivity , it ’ s about taking technology and enabling a business to get value out of that . The big thing we ’ re seeing at the moment is
NOVEMBER 2019