Paul,

We have done several of these upgrades. It is not as invasive as what you might have experienced doing prior upgrades. If you are current on your Sage X3 Business Care you should have access to the latest Sage X3 versions so you can install it in another environment to look around, test upgrade, etc. That would also give you access to the latest documentation, show the functional changes as well as system specs.

One thing to remember if you are looking at the Sage X3 SaaS option is that solution will not allow 3rd party add-ons or customizations at this point. There are many Sage X3 customers who have their implementation Hosted. For example at Expedient, AWS, Azure, etc. This gives you Cloud to eliminate your internal infrastructure needs but allows for 3rd party solutions and customizations. 

Happy to discuss further.

Joe 

Hi,

I did a short project to update a folder V7 to V11.
We subscribed to an Azure environment to do this project. Our V6 folder was in our local server.
We asked to an expert to install the V11 solution (3-4 days) and do the technical upgrading and fixed technical issues (4-5 days).
After that, we did some tests to be sure everything works well (10 days). We have gone live. We met some issues of latency. We fixed that with an Azure specialist. But after 2-3 months, everything was well.

The difference between V7 and V11 was not big. Some new tables and fields but nothing very important (not the same change between V5 to V6 or V6 to V7). And with what I have seen of V12, it not a revolution.

Adrien