Unanet - Best Cloud Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Solution
Company: Unanet, Dulles, VA
Company Description: Unanet is a leading provider of project-based ERP and CRM solutions purpose-built for Government Contractors, AEC, and Professional Services. More than 3,100 project-driven organizations depend on Unanet to turn their information into actionable insights, drive better decision-making, and accelerate business growth.
Nomination Category: New Product & Service Categories - Business Technology
Nomination Sub Category: Cloud Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Solution
Nomination Title: Unanet's enterprise resource planning (ERP) software platform
Unanet released a series of updates to its existing cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) software platform for government contractors and for architecture + engineering firms throughout 2020, into 2021. The most recent upgrades and enhancements (collectively Unanet 20.7) were unveiled Jan. 5, 2021.
Unanet Cloud ERP (Unanet) gives organizations heightened insight into and control over their data, operations, forecasting and planning. In a field crowded with clunky ERP products that force organizations to settle for awkward integrations, incompatibilities and superfluous features, Unanet is the only native, integrated cloud ERP solution built from the ground up for government contractors and architecture/engineering firms.
Unanet arms firms with a powerful, user-friendly set of project management, business intelligence, analytics, time and expense tracking, financials, integrations, and CRM tools within one integrated system. Using Unanet’s customizable, easily digestible dashboards, organizations gain insight into and control over their data, with the ability to analyze it from multiple perspectives, in real time, to uncover enterprise-wide and granular trends and anomalies that they might otherwise overlook. These insights often directly impact the bottom line, enabling organizations to maximize resources (human, financial), increase efficiencies (eliminating silos, automating processes), and provide project managers and organizational leaders with a single source of truth on which to make faster, better-informed decisions.
Ultimately, Unanet provides a unified environment in which to plan, track and manage projects and people, so not only do organizations deliver positive outcomes more efficiently, they’re better positioned to forge lasting client relationships and win more business.
A series of upgrades in 2020 and early 2021 (driven largely by customer input) improved what is already the standard-bearer for cloud-based ERP solutions. Among the notable enhancements:
New analytics tools that seamlessly integrate with existing data for predictive modeling, specialized reporting and heightened clarity into cash flow, revenue and costs.
Unanet Connect, the ERP industry’s first and only open integration marketplace that goes beyond APIs. Simply by shopping this marketplace of over 100 software integrations (with ADP, BambooHR, HubSpot and Oracle, to name several), organizations can create a fully integrated digital ecosystem with Unanet at its center — and do so without complex coding.
Full payroll integration with cloud-based systems Paylocity, Proliant and TriNet.
https://www.paylocity.com/
https://www.proliant.com/
https://www.trinet.com/
Further distinguishing Unanet from its competitors is its best-in-class customer support, which ERP users and independent evaluators like G2 consistently recognize as the standard for service excellence among ERP providers.
The true measures of an ERP solution are consistent, customer-focused innovation, along with the outcomes and experiences it delivers to the organizations and users that rely upon it. Based on customer outcomes and experience, as well as independent third-party ratings, Unanet Cloud ERP clearly excels in both areas.
First, some numbers that speak to Unanet’s steady ascendance in the ERP market:
-In Q2 2020, the number of new Unanet customers grew 56% over the previous quarter.
-One-third of Unanet’s customers have switched to Unanet from a competitor’s ERP product.
Next, data and observations from Unanet users about the solution’s positive impact on their organizations:
-Since the engineering firm M S Benbow implemented Unanet A/E in July 2019, it has seen a 2% increase in gross profit that it attributes directly to various ERP-related improvements. “Unanet A/E has been a true catalyst to collaboration around the right issues within and across departments. It’s giving us insight into data that we’re using to get at the core of real business issues, and has gotten us to the point where we are incorporating more forward-looking data for planning,” said Jennifer Edwards, CPA, the firm’s controller.
-At the accounting firm Gilmore & Associates, DSO has declined by five days since implementing Unanet, resulting in a $50,000-$60,000 increase in monthly receipts. “Unanet Pay has far exceeded our expectations. Because of it, we have increased cash flow and we’re collecting from clients we didn’t expect to ever collect from,” said the firm’s Jeffrey Gilmore.
- “Unanet’s efficiencies and processes have allowed us togrow by 30% this yearwithout having to grow our Finance team,” said Charles Bonner, vice president of finance at government contractor NVE Inc.
Independent ratings that support the aforementioned data and observations:
-Unanet’s Cloud ERP solution was recognized by G2 as a “High Performer” in dozens of categories inthe Winter 2021 Reports. Unanet topped the G2 ratings in numerous categories, includingbest customer support, easiest to use and highest user adoption. That the ratings are based on end-user reviews further affirms the value Unanet provides its customers.
Link to the Jan. 2021 Unanet Cloud ERP product upgrade: https://unanet.com/news/unanet-20-7
Link to the Oct. 2020 unveiling of the Unanet Connect integration marketplace: https://unanet.com/news/unanet-connect-integration-platform
Link to the July 2020 upgrade of Unanet Cloud ERP that included new, robust analytics capabilities: https://unanet.com/blog/analytics-capabilities-for-government-contractors-highlight-latest-unanet-release
Link to G2 ratings of ERP solution providers (ERP for architecture/engineering/professional services): https://www.g2.com/products/unanet-a-e-powered-by-clearview/reviews
Link to G2 ratings of ERP solution providers (ERP for government contractors): https://www.g2.com/products/unanet-govcon-and-professional-services/reviews
Links to case studies involving customers who left Deltek for Unanet’s ERP solution:
Frontier Technology https://info.unanet.com/hubfs/Unanet%20Success%20Story%20Frontier%20Technology.pdf
Magnolia River https://info.unanet.com/hubfs/Success%20Stories/Magnolia%20River%20Customer%20Success%20Story.pdf
Semper Fortis https://info.unanet.com/hubfs/Success%20Stories/Unanet%20Success%20Story%20Semper%20Fortis.pdf
Relyant Global
https://info.unanet.com/hubfs/Unanet%20Success%20Story%20Relyant%20Global.pdf
The Rehancement Group https://info.unanet.com/hubfs/Unanet%20Success%20Story%20The%20Rehancement%20Group.pdf
WBB https://info.unanet.com/hubfs/Success%20Stories/WBB%20Customer%20Success%20Story.pdf
Link to M S Benbow customer case study:
https://info.unanet.com/hubfs/Unanet-AE-Success-Story-M-S-Benbow.pdf
Link to Gilmore & Associates customer case study: https://info.unanet.com/hubfs/Unanet-Success-Story-Gilmore-Associates.pdf
Link to Sev1 Tech customer case study: https://info.unanet.com/hubfs/Unanet%20Success%20Story%20Sev1Tech.pdf
Link to Inc. 5000 listings for 2020: https://www.inc.com/profile/unanet
Link to Unanet press release about 2020 growth: https://erpinnews.com/unanet-sees-revenue-growth-with-competitive-customer-wins-in-govcon-a-e-industries