SESSION 708 EXTENDING XA TO MOBILE DEVICES. Using Catavolt Extender to Mobilize Your XA Applications

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1 SESSION 708 EXTENDING XA TO MOBILE DEVICES Using Catavolt Extender to Mobilize Your XA Applications

2 WHO ARE WE?

3 TRIMIN SYSTEMS Infor/XA Channel Partner for 30+ Years (Gold) Located in Minneapolis, MN Includes team of over 30 resources, with a focus on Manufacturing & Government Solutions Owner is Bill Metzger, one of the pioneers of Mapics. Sales and Services for 50+ active Infor/XA Customers in the Midwest Partner with Catavolt since 2012 Successful deployment of Catavolt many XA and some non-xa companies

4 CATAVOLT Established in 2011 Founded by some of original members of Paragon (wrote Power Link) and became part of Infor/XA Located in Alpharetta, GA Purchased by Hexagon in 2017 First initiative was a pre-built connector to XA that leverages System Link as it s underpinnings Pioneers in creating a customizable browser and mobile based editor that is platform & device independent

5 WHAT IS CATAVOLT EXTENDER?

6 FIREWALL CATAVOLT GLOBAL CLOUD ARCHITECTURE 6 ERP DATA CENTERS SATELLITE SERVER DB / BI CRM SSL Secure Platform MBaaS CATAVOLT CLOUD FIREWALL SSL USER Turnkey App A secure hybrid cloud integration, all communications with back end systems performed via satellite server nodes via encrypted and verified connections. Local integrations utilize web services, databases and custom systems. Nodes can regulate and throttle user load on back end systems.

7 KEY FEATURES Secure Gateway No data is stored in the Cloud or anywhere outside the original system Encrypted Encryption and verification on every communication Real Time Define user interaction with instant deployment and no code User Customizable Very much like building Cards/Views in Power Link System Link Since you own XA and Enterprise Integrator/System Link we have a natural prebuilt connector! Any file you expose in E/I is immediately available on mobile/cloud! Rapid Deployment Tenant installed in less than day; beging launching your ERP Data following day! Device independent Browser (Google Chrome, Explorer, etc..), Android, Apple; No coding required!

8 TECHNOLOGY OVERVIEW Apps - A cloud platform that lets you deploy 100 s of apps without writing any code Fast! - A patented security (and fast) delivery method without storing data outside of the original system Any Data Source - Patented middleware connects to any backend system, including legacy to modern Meta-Data - In simple terms Catavolt Extender is a Meta-Data editor (like IDF and E/I!) Documents - Supports file attachments (2 way), can capture photo s and documents, and integrates seamlessly with XA s Attachment features. Forms - Can also do Form Overlays (GML) and imbed your ERP data real-time (updatable!) XML - When using it for XA, since it uses System Link, all of your data edits and rules are enforced automatically!

9 EXAMPLES PHONE

10 EXAMPLES TABLETS

11 EXAMPLES FORMS Form-Fill & Photo s Can capture as signature, date, and even imbed photo s on the form.

12 USE CASE SHOP FLOOR EXECUTION

13 BUSINESS CHALLENGE Need a low-cost alternative to shop floor execution & data collection that lets me configure it to work for my business processes Want to avoid expensive integration and middleware Would like it to be real-time (updates) Would like to be able to run this on inexpensive devices (Android) Need to support bar coding and XA documents (shop packet) Needs to be easy to use Needs to be scalable and grow with my needs

14 ESHOP! Evolved solving real requirements for XA Customers over years Leverages PMC (TRDATA) which provides a seamless and supported integration module Using Catavolt it is EXTREMELY flexible Can make it point and click transactions using keypad or scanner, or go paperless and use it as an electronic shop-packet Can typically even support the viewing of drawings and documentation Built using Enterprise Integrator so all business rules and edits enforced (won t allow bad data into your ERP)

15 SUPPORTED TRANSACTIONS

16 ESHOP ACTIVE OPERATIONS VIEW

17 ESHOP PAPERLESS SHOP-PACKET

18 Drawings Catavolt can be configured to pull drawings and other documentation from any server on the network. This does require some discovery on how your documents are indexed and cataloged. Also XA Attachments are natively supported. ESHOP DRAWINGS SUPPORTED

19 ESHOP SCANNING AND DIRECT INPUT

20 ESHOP MOBILE FACING Work Benches Work benches are available based on your roles and security. In this example a supervisor can see alerts, active jobs, and who is logged in or not. Receiving would have the app s on right.

21 ESHOP MOBILE FACING

22 ESHOP MOBILE FACING

23 ESHOP MOBILE FACING

24 VALUE ADDED BENEFITS You can use eshop to provide inquiry to critical production data from a mobile phone anywhere in plant. You are paying for System Link. Are you using it? This connector uses System Link not Power Link license! Remember you can display data using a form overlay, that can be updated real-time and printed in.pdf format or stored on your network No other shop floor solution allows you to change the functionality on-the-fly and deploy immediately through-out the organization This solution is ideal for remote warehouses and disconnected users. No VPN required.

25 Inventory and Labor Accuracy COST JUSTIFICATION Enhanced Edits You can for example validate all material issues before performing RM Value of real-time data at your fingertips Lower cost of hardware than some typical data collection systems Leverage lower cost system link connections to ERP vs. using the Power Link interface A system that is release transparent by design since it is using the toolsets Infor recommends to integrate and extend XA, so lower cost on upgrades

26 HARDWARE

27 WRAP-UP

28 HOW-TO-GUIDE-ON-SESSION EVALUATION