Architecture and Deployment

Abel’s architecture is designed for performance, integrity, and scalability, giving your business a structured platform that supports growth and operational complexity over time.

Abel can be deployed either as a cloud-hosted solution or on-premises, with flexible options that determine where your Abel server is located and how it is managed.

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Abel's Architecture

Business systems must process transactions consistently, maintain data integrity, and support operations as they grow in scale and complexity.

Abel’s architecture provides a structured foundation for performance, data integrity, and long-term adaptability.

At its core, Abel is built on a multi-layered framework anchored by its Application Engine. This engine drives workflow automation, system integration, and transaction validation, ensuring that business processes are handled consistently across the system.

Key Benefits

Unified System Abel combines operational functions and financials in a single integrated platform, ensuring cross-functional processes operate consistently with real-time financial updates, and replacing multiple existing systems with a unified system.
Seamless Integration Cross-departmental workflows connect operational and financial processes, helping reduce manual handoffs between teams and ensure processes operate consistently across the business.
Configurable Workflows Abel’s ERP consultants configure and automate document flows, processes, and system behaviour to support your operational requirements, allowing workflows to be structured and improved to better support how your business operates.
Adaptable Framework Abel’s workflows and configuration can be refined and adjusted over time as business requirements evolve, supporting ongoing improvement and changes to how your operations are structured and managed.
Scalable Architecture Additional features and capability can be introduced without disrupting existing processes, enabling the system to expand as your business grows.
Multi-Database Capabilities Abel supports multiple connected databases for organisations operating across sites or regions, enabling consolidated reporting and central oversight of distributed operations.
Multi-Currency and Multi-Language Abel supports multi-currency operations and provides built-in tools to support translation, enabling the system to be used across regions with different financial and language requirements.

Abel's Foundation

Business systems need to support how operations actually work, with processes that link activities across functional and operational areas of the business.

Abel’s architecture supports this by modelling real-world activity using recognised processes (such as ordering and payments) and key business entities (such as clients, stock, and employees). This process-driven model underpins Abel’s Application Engine.

Key Design Drivers

Process-Driven Design System behaviour is based on real-world business processes, ensuring that activity flows consistently across operational and financial areas of the business.
Engineered for Speed Abel is designed to deliver responsive performance across complex workflows and high transaction volumes, supporting day-to-day operational demands with consistent and reliable processing across workflows.
Real-Time Transactions Financial and operational postings update immediately, giving users a current view of business activity as transactions occur.
Data Integrity All transactions are validated by the Application Engine to maintain consistent and balanced data across financial and operational processes.

Extending Abel’s Functionality

ERP systems often need to support changes in business processes without compromising stability or upgradeability. Abel’s layered architecture provides a structured approach to system enhancement and extension.

Key Capabilities

Core (Abel Schema) enhancements Functionality with broader application is developed into the core system and becomes part of the standard Abel platform, ensuring consistent and predictable system behaviour.
Customer-specific (User Schema) enhancements Functionality unique to a specific business is developed within a dedicated user layer, enabling extensions without altering the core system.
Upgrade compatibility The separation of core and customer-specific enhancements ensures that systems can adopt new Abel versions while preserving existing functionality.

This approach allows businesses to extend Abel in a controlled way, while maintaining a stable core system and a clear upgrade path over time.

Technology and Integration Capability

Abel provides a robust core platform, supported by technologies that enable operation across desktop, mobile, and factory-floor environments, integration with external systems to support end-to-end business processes, and reporting and business intelligence to support operational and analytical decision-making.

Core platform

Microsoft technologies

Integration technologies

Data and reporting technologies

Deployment Options

Businesses need flexibility in how their ERP system is deployed, depending on operational requirements, IT capability, and long-term strategy.

Abel can be deployed using a range of options, including cloud-hosted and on-premises environments, determining where your Abel server is located and how it is managed.

Our ERP consultants work with you to determine the most appropriate deployment model based on your requirements.

Deployment Options

Abel supports three main deployment approaches, each providing a different balance of control, flexibility, and external support:

On-Premises

Some businesses require direct control over their systems and data, particularly where local access, regulatory requirements, or specific operational constraints are important.

Core Features

Self-managed Your internal IT team manages hardware and software environments, maintaining full control over infrastructure and data.
Local access The system can be accessed locally without reliance on internet connectivity, supporting environments where continuity of access is critical.
Compliance Data is stored and managed on-site, supporting regulatory and data sovereignty requirements.
Multi-site capability Abel can be deployed across multiple locations, supporting coordinated operations across sites.
Administration tools Built-in tools support backup, system management, and maintenance.

Hosted

Many businesses prefer a cloud-hosted environment where infrastructure is managed externally, reducing the need for internal IT overhead.

Core Features

Managed environment Infrastructure is maintained by a specialist provider, reducing internal IT responsibilities.
Scalable capacity Infrastructure can be expanded in line with business growth and system demand.
Internet dependency System access depends on reliable internet connectivity and appropriate network infrastructure.