Tired of SYSPRO's price hikes &
forced licensing changes?

SYSPRO is transitioning from concurrent licensing — where a pool of licences can be shared — to named-user licensing, where each individual employee requires their own dedicated licence. For businesses with large workforces, shift workers or seasonal staff, this change typically results in a dramatic increase in total licensing costs, sometimes doubling or tripling your annual ERP spend overnight. Both Acumatica and Epicor offer licensing models designed to avoid this trap.

Acumatica licences by resource consumption — the transactions, storage and computing resources your organisation actually uses — rather than by the number of individual users. This means you can give every employee access to Acumatica without incurring additional per-user charges. As your team grows, your ERP costs don't automatically grow in lockstep.

Acumatica is widely recognised as the world's only fully native cloud ERP — designed and built from the ground up for the cloud, not adapted from a legacy on-premise system. It delivers true cloud benefits: automatic updates, anywhere access from any device, elastic scalability and no on-premise server infrastructure to maintain.

SAP S/4HANA and Oracle ERP Cloud are powerful but come with implementation timelines measured in years and total cost of ownership that can run into millions of dollars. Epicor Kinetic offers 85–90% of the functionality at a fraction of the cost with a dramatically shorter implementation timeline. It is purpose-built for manufacturers and far easier to use, which means lower training costs and faster business returns.

Yes. Helical Consulting has a proven data migration methodology specifically designed for SYSPRO migrations. We extract, cleanse, transform and load your historical master data — customers, suppliers, inventory, bills of materials, open transactions and financial history — into your new Acumatica or Epicor environment.

A straightforward Acumatica migration for a single-site distribution company typically takes 3–5 months from kickoff to go-live. A more complex Epicor implementation for a multi-site manufacturer may take 6–10 months. Helical Consulting uses an agile, phase-based implementation methodology that prioritises getting core processes live quickly.

Zoho and Odoo are excellent tools for small businesses that primarily need CRM and basic accounting. However, they are not designed for the operational complexity of manufacturing or distribution businesses. If you're managing multi-warehouse inventory, production orders, MRP or complex B2B supply chains, you will quickly hit their ceiling. Acumatica and Epicor are purpose-built enterprise ERPs with the depth SYSPRO customers genuinely need.

Absolutely. We offer flexible post-implementation support packages including a dedicated support helpdesk, agreed SLA response times, onsite and remote support, scheduled health checks and user training refreshers. Our support teams are based in-region across East and Southern Africa — support in your time zone, in your language, with consultants who understand your market.

The first step is a no-obligation, free 60-minute discovery consultation with one of our senior ERP consultants. During this call we will understand your current SYSPRO setup, your key pain points and your growth plans. From there, we produce a Migration Readiness Assessment outlining your recommended migration path, indicative project timeline and business case — all provided at no cost.