What Is Epicor Kinetic Design? 7 Things to Know Today!

Recently, during Insights 2018, Epicor announced a new UX/UI framework, Kinetic. Its intent is to offer a modern look and feel enabling developers to create applications that work across any device or form factor.

Here’s 7 things to know about Epicor’s Kinetic news.

• That platform is the Epicor Kinetic Design common cross platform UX framework. Announced at the convention it will only go into a pilot phase in June. In a later release this year the Epicor E10 home page will use the framework. This will be followed by general availability in 2019. Other areas of Epicor systems will also get the Kinetic treatment though it is unclear when that will occur.
• The Kinetic framework consists of three elements Epicor Kinetic Design, Epicor Kinetic Framework and Epicor Kinetic Applications.
• Epicor Kinetic Design offers set of new user experience guidelines and patterns for building applications for Epicor solutions. Delivering unified colors, typography and icons, user interface (UI) elements, and page layouts, Epicor Kinetic Design empowers partners to deliver value-added solutions consistent with Epicor usability best practices and interaction guidelines to enhance customer experience.
• Epicor Kinetic Framework embodies Epicor Kinetic Design principles and lives as a website accessible by approved Epicor partners and customers. They have access to sample code and tutorials, a UI component code library, API documentation, and actual code, all with web native and responsive design—working seamlessly on desktop, tablet, or mobile.
• Epicor Kinetic application will be any application that is coded to Kinetic Design standards. They can be made available on the Apple or Android stores. Epicor will also create a marketplace for applications that ISV partners create
• Kinetic is not a NoCode/Low Code environment; however, the intention is to eventually become one. At the moment it is clear that while the platform is ready for beta it is still a first iteration. A small change in the code is immediately reflected across any device. However customers/partners will still need developers to create the code. In time though this could change, especially for the creation of simple apps.
• Kinetic is more than just a UX/UI framework. It the framework of a platform that will allow customers and partners to create apps for Epicor users to utilize.

Why Kinetic?

Increasingly, companies have personnel working across multiple locations – these companies are consistently pushing to provide the efficiency of a single unified ERP system across its increasingly mobile, cloud-enabled enterprise to enable a productive, high performance mobile workforce. Additionally, cloud economics make sense. There is no doubt that for companies of all sizes the economics of cloud deployment are undeniably compelling, with Epicor Cloud ERP deployments often running as high as 40 percent less than their on-premises deployment parallel. Also, many capital-constrained companies pursue the cloud because it doesn’t place the same demands on their cash flow as the major up-front capital investment typical of legacy deployments.

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