Enhance and Optimise: The Benefits of Hosting BisTrack on Azure for Timber and Builder’s Merchants

Timber and builder’s merchants currently using BisTrack, or a similar ERP software, know exactly how fundamental these solutions are to the management and operation of their businesses. As BisTrack is designed to aid the management of key organisational areas, including customers, sales, purchasing, stock and finances, you must ensure that the software is always operating to its highest possible potential.

In recent years, the upsurge in usage of Cloud computing has revolutionised the operations of many businesses, providing greater flexibility, scalability and security. As the benefits become undeniable, it’s now time for the merchant sector to embrace the potential of the Cloud too.

What are the combined benefits of BisTrack and Azure?

Hosting ERP software, like BisTrack, on the Azure Cloud has many advantages for both your business and your IT. Not only will you benefit from the advanced capabilities of Azure, but the Cloud platform will enhance BisTrack’s base functionality too. Read on to discover exactly how hosting BisTrack on Azure could benefit your merchant’s business.

Increased stability

Timber and builder’s merchants have complex jobs, consistently being forced to juggle a range of responsibilities in order to allocate and deliver construction materials accurately and efficiently for up to thousands of clients. While BisTrack can help with these challenges, if it is not hosted on an advanced infrastructure, its operations will eventually begin to slow. Azure offers the powerful infrastructure needed to ensure that BisTrack continues to work efficiently and effectively. In addition, as part of our Microsoft Azure Cloud service, the experts at Excenta deploy and manage all the critical Azure infrastructure for you, including servers and networking, ensuring that they are always performing at optimal levels.

Optimised performance

Merchants handle large volumes of information every day, managing customer, product and sales order queries. As a result, BisTrack has an extremely high data output. Many merchants using BisTrack do not have a system in place to store or archive their data properly. This can negatively affect the performance of the solution, as it is forced to read every legacy transaction in the background while operating.

When you host BisTrack on Azure, your information is stored in Microsoft Azure data facilities and replicated a minimum of either three or six times for resiliency. Additionally, with Excenta archive and performance monitoring modules, as well as with Azure’s Archive Storage, the Cloud platform offers the perfect environment in which to archive legacy data. Moving BisTrack to the Azure Cloud increases the efficiency of processing requirements and boosts its performance.

Enhanced security

Many merchants have already experienced their ERP solution being hacked or had ransomware injected into their BisTrack environments. This could have extremely damaging consequences for your business, limiting the accessibility of crucial data in BisTrack or your financial suite, and potentially halting your operations.

As Azure has such extensive security features, it is the ideal infrastructure to protect your BisTrack environment from cyber attacks. With a multi-layered security architecture equipped with built-in security controls and threat intelligence, you can feel confident that your data is safe in the Azure Cloud.

Optimise BisTrack on Azure today

Excenta are a Microsoft Gold Azure Cloud Solution Partner (CSP) and an Epicor BisTrack partner, with years of combined experience in both solutions. As a result, we are uniquely positioned to help you enhance the potential of your BisTrack solution in the Cloud.

If you’d like to find out more about the combined advantages of BisTrack and Azure for the merchant’s sector, download our eBook, BisTrack and Microsoft Azure: A Match Made in Heaven.