With a wider brief and a sharper delivery target, Epicor has expanded its Ascend with Epicor programme to support qualified cloud ERP go-lives in as little as 90 days. The programme, which was introduced last year to support cloud migrations for existing customers, now covers three scenarios: new customers replacing legacy or non-Epicor platforms, existing Epicor users moving from on-premises systems to the cloud, and customers integrating acquisitions or new business units.
Alongside that broader scope, Epicor is adding new AI-driven capabilities intended to speed up the most labour-intensive parts of ERP delivery. The company said Ascend can audit a customer’s environment, extract and organise data, and generate a migration plan before implementation begins, reducing the manual discovery work that often extends project timelines. By surfacing potential issues earlier, Epicor said teams can resolve problems before they affect delivery.
Rather than treating migration as a straightforward transfer from one system to another, the company is presenting Ascend as a structured process for extraction and optimisation, with data prepared for use in the new environment from the outset. For customers, that means less time spent getting legacy systems ready and more time working on a live cloud platform.
Vaibhav Vohra, President and Chief Product and Technology Officer at Epicor, said: “Innovation only creates value when customers can put it to work quickly inside their ERP systems. That’s why Epicor is delivering industry-first AI capabilities and applying AI across the implementation process. By working closely across our product and services teams, we’re reducing complexity, accelerating adoption, and enabling qualified ERP deployments in as little as 90 days, without compromising the security and rigour ERP demands.”
Early results, Epicor said, include implementation timelines reduced by up to 40%, with some of the clearest gains appearing in acquisition scenarios where businesses need to integrate operations quickly. Cornell Pump Company was cited as one example.
Todd Arntson, IT Manager at Cornell Pump Company, said: “Facing a complex acquisition, we had days — not months — to keep operations running. With Epicor as our partner, we deployed Kinetic in just two weeks without losing a single piece of data from our previous ERP, NetSuite. Epicor AI migration tools that are part of the Ascend Program helped us minimise disruption and reduce risk, transforming a high-stakes moment into a confident go-live.”
As software vendors put more emphasis on implementation speed and time-to-value, Epicor is extending AI beyond the live product and into the delivery process itself.
More information is available through the Ascend with Epicor programme.
