Tuesday, November 29, 2005
Expense ahead with next-generation ERP
Expense ahead with next-generation ERP: "Technology
Enterprise Software
Expense ahead with next-generation ERP
by Cliff Saran
Tuesday 29 November 2005
Oracle and SAP are working on new architectures that are more responsive to business change, but there will be costs, and benefits will not be immediate.
The leading enterprise resource planning applications are set for a fundamental change over the next few years. Suppliers Oracle and SAP are changing the underlying architecture...
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... of their software to create a platform for running business processes using a service oriented architecture.
Over time, this should result in ERP systems that are far more flexible and able to accommodate business change than is possible today. However, experts have warned that users should brace themselves to pay as much as three times the original cost of their ERP system to migrate onto the next-generation Oracle Fusion and SAP Netweaver architectures.
Existing packaged applications enable process efficiency, but businesses that implement a package often find the processes they have modelled have become very rigid and inflexible, according to analyst firm Gartner.
Both Oracle and SAP are working on next-generation ERP systems to replace their existing monolithic applications with a component-based approach. This will see business processes run as services within a service oriented architecture. Such an approach should simplify future upgrades but analysts have warned of a complex and costly reimplementation of existing ERP systems.
Oracle's strategy is based on Project Fusion and the Fusion middleware platform. These provide Oracle's service oriented architecture for next-generation ERP and bring together its PeopleSoft and JD Edwards acquisitions with its own eBusi"
Enterprise Software
Expense ahead with next-generation ERP
by Cliff Saran
Tuesday 29 November 2005
Oracle and SAP are working on new architectures that are more responsive to business change, but there will be costs, and benefits will not be immediate.
The leading enterprise resource planning applications are set for a fundamental change over the next few years. Suppliers Oracle and SAP are changing the underlying architecture...
Article Continues Below
... of their software to create a platform for running business processes using a service oriented architecture.
Over time, this should result in ERP systems that are far more flexible and able to accommodate business change than is possible today. However, experts have warned that users should brace themselves to pay as much as three times the original cost of their ERP system to migrate onto the next-generation Oracle Fusion and SAP Netweaver architectures.
Existing packaged applications enable process efficiency, but businesses that implement a package often find the processes they have modelled have become very rigid and inflexible, according to analyst firm Gartner.
Both Oracle and SAP are working on next-generation ERP systems to replace their existing monolithic applications with a component-based approach. This will see business processes run as services within a service oriented architecture. Such an approach should simplify future upgrades but analysts have warned of a complex and costly reimplementation of existing ERP systems.
Oracle's strategy is based on Project Fusion and the Fusion middleware platform. These provide Oracle's service oriented architecture for next-generation ERP and bring together its PeopleSoft and JD Edwards acquisitions with its own eBusi"
