Reorganization and Restructuring for ERP
Reorganization or Restructuring - Overview
VITA™ – Dynamic Platform for Agility
Agresso Business World offers customers unrivalled post-implementation agility – the ability to alter the system and get new information out when your requirements change, without having to call in external help. This is especially relevant to dynamic, mid-market public sector and professional services organizations. It is Agresso’s unique VITA architecture that allows it to do this. VITA is a reverse-engineered architecture; unlike other business solutions, it is designed for ease of getting data out rather than focusing on getting data into the system. VITA offers a critical business support that has been lacking for decades in modern technology solutions. This post-implementation agility allows Businesses Living IN Change (BLINC™) to quickly and cost-effectively make unlimited changes to their business operations after the Agresso solution is installed.
Choosing the Right Technology
There is, understandably, confusion about the capabilities and efficiencies of the various technology platforms offered within the enterprise resource planning (ERP) market today. Older, more rigid platforms have been forced to announce efforts to aim for more nimble, less costly solutions that better accommodate business change. These new efforts, often centred around Services-Oriented (SOA) technology, are taking years to complete, are costly to purchase and implement, and will once again entrap would-be buyers into having to stick with yet another generation of technology. Agresso’s VITA platform architecture sits beneath the Services-Oriented Architecture (SOA) technology layer, so that the power and capabilities of VITA are inherent and not dependent on SOA; Agresso is able to make use of SOA easily and in its correct capacity – as a technology enabler, rather than as a replacement for a proper systems architecture.
The implications of the VITA advantage are apparent not only to CIO’s, but also CEO’s, COO’s and CFO’s. Finance departments fully understand the negative financial implications of continually having to hire external consultants to accommodate change, or even ‘swap out’ technology platforms with other solutions – choosing Agresso protects the buyer organization from having to continually pay for “the latest” architectural platform.
Reorganization advantages
Ultimately, Agresso customers gain a five-fold business advantage, when faced with a reorganization scenario:
VITA™ reorganization advantage #1: “Do it yourself” cost centre options
Making quick corrections or additions to cost centres – whether people, infrastructure or service/solution specific – is incredibly easy with the Agresso VITA. The easy graphical “drag and drop” action and clear and concise tree structures provide direct access to VITA’s data, business processes and delivery (reporting/ analytics). With VITA there is no need for IT intervention to:
- create new divisions;
- collapse, expand or append workgroups;
- experiment with different cost centre structures;
- immediately implement the chosen structure.
This represents an impressive way to perform sophisticated and complex business change quickly and easily, without the need for IT resources. These cost centre changes completely and automatically incorporate the business processes that accompany the data. The workflows already in place will automatically be synchronized with the reorganized or transferred structure. A change made by business managers in any one area flows intelligently and immediately to the changed cost structure, while preserving the history related to the previous structure for audit purposes.
For example, if an emergency services department is reorganized to move out of one group, or entity, and into another; it will not only transfer the people, the responsibilities, the payroll and compensation data, it will also move, in lockstep, any specialized union procedures, mandated government compliances, or any other general or specific business rules, workflows, reporting or executive analytic requirements related to that department.
In traditional ERP systems; amending organizational structures in this way generally requires skilled IT resources, either from an internal team or external consultants. This incurs considerable cost and time delays. Empowering business managers to make these changes eradicates the repeated cycle of cost and saves time, benefitting the bottom line AND freeing up those critically important IT resources for more urgent requirements. The Agresso VITA platform’s key differentiator is the ability to cope with and implement high-impact, margin-increasing business change.