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Forward
Since the new millennium a divide has been presented to the enterprise resource provider (ERP) user community – particularly for people-centric, services organizations operating in the mid-market. That divide is: how to survive and thrive amidst a fast escalating environment of seemingly non-stop business change while relying on an increasingly fragile and restrictive technology infrastructure that has been patched … and patched again. Organizations have been put in the untenable position of trying to successfully navigate business super-highways powering antiquated ERP “roadsters” refitted with shiny new chassis (service oriented architectures-SOA). The cars look great and are certainly more aerodynamic, but they’ll neither manoeuvre around the potholes, nor overtake speedy competitors. Metaphorically speaking, the example closely parallels events unfolding within IT architectures of the ERP leaders, and the uproar of service-oriented architecture (SOA) marketing being thrown at the problem of gaining business agility. This white paper has been produced by Agresso for 3 reasons:
• To separate IT architecture myth from reality
• To present the case for post-implementation agility, versus pre-installation flexibility
• To outline a strategy for organisation executives to attain an effective, financially responsible and responsive plan for ongoing business change. The end game is to achieve ongoing business agility while minimizing resource drain and business disruption. Since this achievement is tied to complex technology architectures that are the heartbeat of 21st century organizations, the requirement is for an ERP solution framework that will live on through successive generations of business climates, new technologies (like SOA) and regulatory challenges. The purpose of this paper is to provide a strategy for achieving ERP…with NO Expiration Date ™ for private and public sector organizations whose resources are “people” and whose reality are that they are truly Business Living IN Change (BLINC ™). Agresso VITA is the ERP edge for executives who lead.
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