Brady, a European-based global supplier of trading, risk management and settlement solutions to the agricultural, metals, recycling, and energy sectors, announced that its recycling solutions, CRES and IMPACT, are now available in a cloud offering.

For over 30 years Brady has been providing business solutions to many of the world's recyclers and steel mills.  Until now, however, clients had to secure and maintain the servers and infrastructure required to support these systems.

Now Brady's cloud Services offer an alternative choice with many additional benefits by providing the highest levels of availability through n+1 redundancy and fully optimized storage across the solution. Due to the scalability of this cloud environment, adding more resource as demand increases is easy. Traditional on-premise installations in which adding more resources may require having to re-architect the entire infrastructure to accommodate growth. With the Cloud solution, however, additional costs for scaling up or out are incremental, allowing the client to control IT costs and minimize system upgrade disruptions.

Moving CRES to the cloud also enables Brady to offer the solution to organizations that previously were too small, either in terms of the financial outlay requirements or relative to their system requirements. Now prospective clients, with as few as three locations, can take advantage of the system's capabilities and benefits previously only available to their much larger industry peers. 

Today, organizations are constantly seeking ways to reduce or control cost while maintaining levels of quality and service. For steel mills, raw material costs represent over 50 percent of the cost of their finished products.  By automating many aspects of the planning, procuring, receiving, managing inventories, consuming, accounting and supplier relationships, IMPACT provides numerous opportunities to reduce costs and improve efficiencies. 

Brady's IMPACT clients may choose an optional rental license model, which allows organizations to effectively opt to “pay as you go”, while immediately realizing the cost savings and inherent operational efficiencies provided by the product.