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SLIEDRECHT, THE NETHERLANDS--(Marketwire -06/29/12)- UNIT4 (EURONEXT:UNIT4), a global business software group, announced today that its multi-tenant cloud deployment model has been accredited by Technology Evaluation Centers (TEC) as "reinventing cloud multi-tenancy" by delivering all the benefits of multi-tenancy while providing peace of mind for larger organizations that require a change-oriented platform with the security of a separate database. Its 'pure cloud' software-as-a-service (SaaS) deployment option has security and change features that are competitively unique - and advantageous - to organizations seeking low-cost business agility.

The TEC accreditation report "UNIT4 Multi-Tenancy SaaS Delivery Model Accreditation - June 2012" applies to UNIT4's Agresso ERP cloud deployment option, Vita Cloud Angel, housed on Agresso's change-centric Vita architecture backbone. Today, both single and multi-tenant Vita Cloud Angel implementations of Agresso are running globally in 200+ companies, and a fast-growing percentage of UNIT4's software revenue is now coming from cloud-based contracts.

UNIT4's unique multi-tenant approach: five advantages

UNIT4 has created a new category of multi-tenancy for larger organizations that are concerned about the risks associated with traditional multi-tenancy and require a more secure and more change-ready cloud solution. The multiple tenants share the application and database "servers", yet have a unique advantage over other ERP multi-tenant options: their information is protected and "move-ready" in separate databases. For sophisticated and highly configurable solutions such as ERP, many businesses and organizations want a much higher level of data/information security rather than being part of one pervasive database shared by all tenants.

By approaching multi-tenancy in this way, UNIT4 offers all the benefits of multi-tenancy with unique advantages for the customer and solution provider:

For the customer:

From the ERP suppliers perspective (which simultaneously provides stability and cost benefits to customers):

"UNIT4 has a global reputation for both supporting low-cost change and for providing choice," said Ton Dobbe, Vice President, Product Marketing at UNIT4. "We will always be the leader in supporting changing business requirements on every level. What could be better for an organization than to select a cloud deployment, and then decide it's not for you and switch easily to a traditional on premise model? Or how about easily being able to merge data and processes with an acquired company? Or handle changing tax or environmental regulations, reorganizations or market requirements seamlessly? We're not just delivering a security-optimized multi-tenant cloud option: we are delivering the optimum ERP solution for organizations to keep up with this fast-changing marketplace - both from a technology and cost perspective."

TEC accreditation report covers multiple requirements

As part of the accreditation process, TEC interviewed both UNIT4 architectural executives as well as current Agresso ERP users who are currently deployed in a cloud multi-tenant SaaS environment on areas including data security and compliance. UNIT4's software upgrades also all occur simultaneously and concurrently, with all clients automatically running on the same version of Agresso software. Agresso clients reported high levels of satisfaction with the quality of UNIT4's service-level agreements (SLA's) for uptime and security, for procedures and documentation, for its communications regarding any changes to the physical location of customers' data and UNIT4's overall cloud-based security strategies and methodologies.

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TEC Accreditation: UNIT4 Reinvents Cloud Multi-Tenancy