Saturday, July 19, 2008

ERP

Enterprise resource planning helps companies in many aspects. In many cases it has been found that companies would experience a higher rate of success if ERP operations were vested to an external third party person. Hence the need of ERP outsourcing arose.

Companies are known to choose ERP outsourcing for these reasons:

Manpower deficiencies:
IT professionals are always in great demand all over the globe. It becomes very difficult to retain IT talent pool. The case of an ERP professional is in no way different. It will be difficult for the company to train new people on their systems. Such training will take long time for the person to be acclimatized to the process. Companies therefore prefer to outsource ERP rather thank relying on the undependable human factor which exhibits a very high rate of attrition.

Vague understanding of ERP:
The level of expertise required for ERP during the stages of ERP training, implementation has to be at par with industry standards. Unfortunately this does not happen in many companies for reasons like poor training or apprehension to change or other practical difficulties.

Companies find themselves strayed with the half-baked knowledge on ERP. Since this is bound to do more harm than good a large number of they are keen on ERP outsourcing. The company could also face the dilemma of choosing developer ERP outsourcing or consultant ERP outsourcing.

Vagaries of IT Department:
The IT departments (comprising of both ERP and non ERP professionals) are either unable to meet the demands of the ERP process in the company or not competent enough to carry on the same. Another issue is that the company does not necessarily heed to their advice and modifications in every stage. All these could affect their autonomy which in turn will reflect on the progress of ERP in the company.

When the company is outsourcings ERP services they are not going to have any say unless explicitly agreed upon. Moreover the tendency of the human mind accepts the view of an external person's in the right sense even if it is a criticism. The company should make a choice between developer ERP outsourcing and consultant ERP outsourcing.

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Business Intelligence

Business intelligence (BI) is a category of applications and technologies for gathering, storing, analyzing, and providing access to data to help enterprise users make better business decisions. BI applications include decision support systems, query and reporting, online analytical processing, statistical analysis, forecasting, and data mining.

Normally describes the result of in-depth analysis of detailed business data. Includes database and application technologies, as well as analysis practices. Sometimes used synonymously with “decision support,” though business intelligence is technically much broader, potentially encompassing knowledge management, enterprise resource planning, and data mining, among other practices. Business process engineering: The analysis and re-design of business processes and associated technology systems, with the goal to eliminate or reduce redundancy and streamline interactions.

In the fiercely increasing competition amongst corporations it has become mandatory to make quick and sound crucial business decisions based on analysis of business critical data. This is the point where data warehouses come into play. Although many companies are relying on data warehouses, they are still struggling to achieve positive results due to fragmented and inconsistent data.

For the modern enterprise, time wasted due to data loss and inconsistencies is unacceptable, particularly when this can often be remedied easily through the use of a data warehouse. The standard ERP and legacy ERP therefore expanded its horizon with the introduction and implementation of BW to encompass new applications administrators responsible for administering and maintenance of these data reserves.

As business gets more competitive, executive management faces the task of sifting through enormous amounts of data, hidden in multitudes of operational and historical legacy systems, to make informed decisions. Business Intelligence solutions powered by optimally designed Enterprise Data Warehouses address these challenges, providing comprehensive and qualitative information.

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