Free Trial Registration (USA ONLY) and FAQ

Please read the frequently asked questions (FAQs) below to determine whether BScaler’s Enterprise Resource Manager is suitable for your business. Currently you can only register if you are a US based company. (Q = Question, A = Answer):

If you’re already familiar with BScaler Enterprise Resource Manager (ERM) solution, then: Schedule a Demo

  • Q1: What is BScaler’s Enterprise Resource Manager?
  • A1: Enterprise Resource Manager (ERM) is a perfect fit for B2B providers such as VARs, Resellers, Importers, Distributors, Wholesalers, and IT Service Companies. ERM is a combination of traditional Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and offers all key features of these systems, including Sales Force Automation (SFA), Accounting, Finance, Materials Requirement Planning (MRP), Service Automation, Commission Management, and much more, in a unified database. It is easy to use and fully customizable in just days, and provides an almost immediate Return on Investment (ROI).
  • Q2: Can I use BScaler ERM to manage my entire company?
  • A2: Yes, you can manage your entire business information including customer data, sales, the complete order-to-cash workflow, and more. Since BScaler ERM is offered as a Software As A Service you can manage your company from anywhere at any time with just a browser.
  • Q3: Does BScaler ERM connect to other CRM systems?
  • A3: Yes, ERM can be connected with other CRM systems if required. However, to keep the total cost of ownership (TCO) low, ERM also provides a comprehensive built-in CRM.
  • Q4: Does BScaler ERM integrate with other applications or services?
  • A4: Yes, ERM has been developed using the most up-to-date development tools. BScaler already provides multiple integrations with other systems (e.g. FedEx, UPS for shipping and tracking, e-commerce, and more).
  • Q5: Can I subscribe to the ERM Front Office Only?
  • A5: Yes, you can use CRM and SFA and only pay for the Front Office service.
  • Q6: Can I subscribe to the Back Office only?
  • A6: Yes, you can use the ERM’s Back Office only.
  • Q7: How secure is my data?
  • A7: BScaler provides a very high level of security to protect your data.
  • Q8: Can I export my data at anytime?
  • A8: Yes, all of your important information is available 24x7 in Microsoft Excel format for your protection and data migration.
  • Q9: What is a minimum number of users?
  • A9: BScaler recommends 5 or more users per customer.

To schedule a demo click: Demo - Short Form
To register for a free trial click: Free Trial - Long Form

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs):

BScaler ERM Web-based Business Management is a totally Java-based, scalable business management system that uses a commercial-grade relational database on state-of-the-art servers running a scalable operating system.

SaaS SMB, SMB ERP or ERP SMB are integrated in the BScaler Unified Database System to provide a Total Web-based Business Management solution for SMBs, VARs, Resellers, Importers and Distributors with over 30 levels of security to protect the enterprise information from hackers and bad employees.


Please read the frequently asked questions (FAQs) below to determine whether BScaler’s Enterprise Resource Manager is suitable for your business.

  1. How long does it take to get ERM up and running? Is it difficult to learn and use?
  2. How secure is our data? Reliability?
  3. Can we have our own server at our premise?
  4. How often is our data backed up?
  5. Is the system virus free?
  6. How often must we do virus scanning?
  7. Can ERM allow us to do Order Tracking?
  8. What happen if an employee/user is terminated?
  9. What has been the average savings in Admin and IT costs?
  10. Can we upgrade from Subscription to Appliance Purchase? 
  11. Can ERM help us with compliance? Anti-Dumping? Sarbanes & Oxley?
  12. Can we integrate some of our existing functions to your ERM?
  13. What are BAM and Executive Dashboard?

  1. Q: How long does it take to get ERM up and running? Is it difficult to learn and use?
    A: In most cases it only takes about 48 hours to set up a new customer (including data migration) and activate the users. ERM requires very little customization and training and has been designed to be intuitive and interactive so that it is simple to learn and easy to use. BScaler also provides a large amount of documentation with illustrations and extensive indexing, and telephone support. As a result, a customer’s learning curve has been relatively short, usually no more than a few days.
  2. Q: How secure is our data? Reliability?
    A: Customers’ data is as secure and the back-up system and disaster recovery plan are as stable and reliable as anyone’s in the IT industry, or BETTER.
    1. The reasons: One of BScaler’s principal founders comes from the Network Infrastructure and Information Security Industry: His specialty: Business Continuance Planning and Solutions. The company he also co-founded was one of the industry’s best and ranked in the TOP VAR Business 500 in 2002 and also awarded the “2002 Technology Leader Award”
    2. Our main business line is ERM Solutions to SMBs, where business functions are regarded as mission-critical as for larger enterprises. Business continuance be it High Availability, Recovery Procedures, Network Center Risk, Data Center Risk, Data Security are in BScaler’s DNA! It has over 30 security levels to protect the enterprise information from hackers and bad employees.
    3. Typically, after the sale, secure customer data is BScaler’s priority No.1. We then deploy our back-up and protection plans for the new customer to protect data from the outside and from mechanical failure. We back up customer data regularly, and store them off-site. Testing of Back-up Plan, Evaluation and Maintenance are also done on a regular basis.
    4. BScaler has ample redundant power: Fault-tolerant technology is built into the system with two or more redundant computers, each performing tasks in unison. Should one of the computers fail, the other will take over and continue to work; an alarm alerts managers to replace the malfunctioning computer.

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  3. Q: Can we have our own server at our premise?
    A: Yes, definitely.  BScaler is the only major SaaS provider that offers you the option to buy your own server, the BScaler SaaS Plus™ ERM Appliance.
  4. Q: How often is our data backed up?
    A: Backup policy and schedules are defined in our Service Level Agreements. We ensure that they are frequent enough that any need to restore data will be minimally disruptive to customers operation.
  5. Q: Is the system virus free?
    A: With some very determined virus writers in the world today, no system can boast that it will always be safe from virus attacks. So far, though, virus invasion has never been a problem for BScaler’s customers. We have very stringent policies in place and any software from the most susceptible provider, however good it may be, is avoided.
  6. Q: How often must we do virus scanning?
    A: BScaler’s servers are well protected with virus scanning carried out as regularly as needed.
  7. Q: Can ERM allow us to do Order Tracking?
    A: Yes, Order Tracking is a built-in feature of BScaler’s ERM which is highly appreciated by many of our customers, especially importers.

  8. Q: What happens if an employee/user is terminated?
    A: Your own ERM Administrator will log into your system and make this user inactive instantly. Your company data will stay, and a user with the appropriate role (e.g. Sales Administrator) can reassign contacts to another user.
  9. Q: What has been the average savings in Admin and IT costs?
    A: Savings from 50% to 80% of those costs has been the average for many of BScaler’s customers. Some even achieved more than that.
  10. Q: Can we upgrade from Subscription to Appliance Purchase?
    A: Upgrades can be done at any time. And any prepayment that a customer made on subscription will go toward the cost of Appliance Purchase.
  11. Q: Can ERM help us with compliance? Anti-Dumping? Sarbanes/Oxley?
    A: Yes, ERM has Order Tracking methods in place for Importers to show Anti-Dumping compliance to auditors. We also provide the data and tools that are necessary for our customers to obtain SOX compliance.\

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  12. Q: Can we integrate some of our existing functions to your ERM?
    A: BScaler ERM covers virtually all of the critical functions of every Small to Medium Business. However, should the needs arise, additional features can be added for a sliding scale amount, and depending on how likely they would be useful by other potential or existing customers. Furthermore, if your company requires certain aspects of your existing system to be integrated with ERM, our service is available.
  13. Q: What are BAM and Executive Dashboard?
    A: BAM means Business Activity Monitoring. This is where executive decision-makers can click the ERM Executive Dashboard regularly to view the state of the Balance Sheet, P & L and other Financials. Executive Dashboard is no longer in the exclusive territory of the Fortune 500 CEOs. Now made available by BScaler’s ERM, it has become a ‘Must Have’ management tool for SMB Managers and Owners in the Flat World economy where competition is not just local but entirely global in nature.