Mergers and Acquisitions - Value of Post Implementation Agility
VITA™ – Post Implementation Agility Platform
Mergers & Acquisitions - Advantage 2
VITA™ M&A advantage #2: post-implementation agility – business user and GUI capabilities
Mergers challenge the agility of even the most disciplined and process-driven organizations, as the infusion of new leadership promotes re-thinking and re-evaluation of prior practices used by either organization. Customers can exploit the post-implementation change capabilities of their Agresso solutions as often as necessary – with little or no outside IT intervention.
With VITA: the data, the business processes and the delivery (analytics and reporting) mechanisms residing in Agresso applications move as one. The reverse-engineered “Lego brick” style framework allows ongoing change to business structures, workflows, data and processes. Even business users with relatively little IT knowledge can single-handedly make the types of ongoing adjustments they desire – for example, to:
- improve their work processes;
- make reporting changes;
- revise needed analytics.
Frequently, these changes can be performed with a simple “drag and drop” methodology with tree structures (i.e. like those in their e-mail folders) that are familiar to even the least experienced users.
Merged companies find that, even for more significant changes, ongoing modifications in business processes can be performed at the graphical user interface (GUI) level by business power users – rather than outside IT staff. This provides a unique total-cost-of-change advantage that cannot be matched by other ERP architectures.
Mergers & Acquisitions - Advantage 3
VITA™ M&A advantage #3: delivering better value from non-Agresso applications
The VITA architecture also provides a significant market advantage, in instances where an Agresso customer wishes to retain one or more non-Agresso solutions (e.g. payroll, CRM, etc.) from a newly acquired company. Agresso VITA adds a complete new layer of intelligence (an unlimited number of views and hierarchical structures), eliminating the information silos in disparate vendor applications. As a result, users at any level of the organization gain a much richer capability to achieve contextual analytics – i.e. data from multiple source systems can be merged, sorted and analyzed for better-informed decision making.
So, how does this differ from standard SOA/Web Services integration? The point is that SOA is only as good (or as bad) as the data/process/delivery (analytics & reporting) architectural capabilities beneath it. If the underlying architectural model is rigid, inefficient or patchwork; then the SOA-connected products will deliver that same style of performance. In contrast, Agresso’s VITA is a great platform for agility; a merged company’s “favourite” or best-of-breed application is enriched by the connection into Agresso’s data/process models and source systems.