A Living Architecture for Businesses Living in Change - ERP Business Software
Businesses Living in Change - Overview
Since the new millennium, and over the last 24-36 months in earnest, a divide has been presented to the enterprise resource provider (ERP) user community – particularly for people-centric, services organizations operating in the mid-market.
That divide is: how to survive and thrive amidst a fast escalating environment of seemingly non-stop business change while relying on an increasingly fragile and restrictive technology infrastructure that has been patched…and patched again.
Business Strategy for Enterprise Organizations
Business Strategy for Enterprise Organizations
Organizations have been put in the untenable position of trying to successfully navigate business super-highways powering antiquated ERP “roadsters” refitted with shiny new chassis (service oriented architectures-SOA). The cars look great and are certainly more aerodynamic, but they’ll neither manoeuvre around the potholes, nor overtake speedy competitors.
Metaphorically speaking, the example closely parallels events unfolding within IT architectures of the ERP leaders, and the uproar of service-oriented architecture (SOA) marketing being thrown at the problem of gaining business agility.
This white paper has been produced by UNIT4 Business Software for three reasons:
- To separate IT architecture myth from reality;
- To present the case for post-implementation agility, versus pre-installation flexibility;
- To outline a strategy for organisation executives to attain an effective, financially responsible and responsive plan for ongoing business change.
The end game is to achieve ongoing business agility while minimizing resource drain and business disruption. Since this achievement is tied to complex technology architectures that are the heartbeat of 21st century organizations, the requirement is for an ERP solution framework that will live on through successive generations of business climates, new technologies (like SOA) and regulatory challenges.
Agresso VITA is the ERP edge for executives who lead.
Learn why Agresso is considered a rare, exclusive and true "find" ERP system:
- Agresso: ERP for mid-market, people-centric service organizations
- Identifying Agresso customers: Businesses Living in Change
- The Agresso ERP experience: Agile, dependable and undisputed quality
ERP for Mid-Market, People-centric Service Organizations
ERP for Mid-Market, People-centric Service Organizations
UNIT4 Business Software in North America is a wholly-owned subsidiary of UNIT4, a $517 million enterprise resource planning (ERP) company and a top six mid-market ERP software player globally. UNIT4 Business Software’s leading ERP product for organizations living in change, Agresso Business World, is widely acknowledged as the business software solution that delivers the lowest Total Cost of Change.
Agresso offers a fully integrated suite of software application solutions to support both operational and strategic anagement, including Financial Management, Human Resources and Payroll, Procurement Management, Project Costing and Billing, Reporting and Analytics, Business Process Automation and Field Services/Asset Maintenance.
Agresso features state-of-the art, role-based, security-driven solutions sitting on what leading IT analysts describe as perhaps “the most unique and agility-focused IT architecture ever built” - Agresso VITA. Like its name, is a living architecture that has successfully enhanced numerous generations of technology breakthroughs, including today’s highly marketed Web Services and SOA capabilities. Each successive new generation of technology, and those yet to come, is enriched atop Agresso’s VITA platform.
With market leadership positions throughout Europe and proven multi-national, multi-currency and multicompany capabilities, the heart of Agresso’s customer base is the mid-market, where it has amassed 10,000+ organizations throughout 100 countries. UNIT4 Business Software targets companies in the $50 million to $1 billion range, though there are ample success stories outside of that range on both ends.
Equally important, UNIT4 Business Software understands the people-centric, services business environment and the accompanying rescheduling, reorganizations and the project “go/kill” decisions that are a reality of organizations in this sector.
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