Saturday, March 11, 2006
FT.com / Technology / Digital Business - When a system starts to creak
FT.com / Technology / Digital Business - When a system starts to creak: "Its existing enterprise resource planning system, supplied by SAP, was creaking at the seams. McData�s main product line was storage area networking systems. These had to be configured to meet customers� requirements during manufacturing.
McData had to adapt its ERP system considerably to handle this demanding pro-cess. But customising the system made each upgrade harder and more expensive.
By 2000, McData�s business was growing rapidly, sometimes by as much as 30 per cent a quarter, but its ERP systems were long out of date. �We were several release levels behind,� says Deb Morton, director of enterprise business systems at McData"
McData had to adapt its ERP system considerably to handle this demanding pro-cess. But customising the system made each upgrade harder and more expensive.
By 2000, McData�s business was growing rapidly, sometimes by as much as 30 per cent a quarter, but its ERP systems were long out of date. �We were several release levels behind,� says Deb Morton, director of enterprise business systems at McData"
