Vita ERP Architecture

Vita means living and the Vita architecture for Agresso ERP software is just that – a living, agile platform ideally suited for dynamic organizations.

Vita successfully embraces recent technology advancements such as Services-Oriented Architecture (SOA) in a way that enables Vita to be inherent and not dependent on SOA - making use of it easily as a technology enabler, rather than as a replacement for proper systems architecture.

Vita – The Business Agility Platform

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. This is especially relevant to dynamic, mid-market public sector and professional services organizations.

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 centered 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 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.

Business Process Management Software

Our development priorities were primarily concerned with how people would use the data. Of course all ERP systems offer user-focused features but only Agresso's Vita platform for business process management offers a fundamentally user-focused architecture.

Every technical decision was made in the context of ultimate flexibility so users could continually change the business process management software system and change it back again without disruption or destabilizing their system.

We used a generic data model rather than a specific data model that would have been locked in and static. “Fail-safe” mechanisms were built-in to ensure that all changes track back to the same data model. It is the best of both worlds for rapidly changing organizations – functional agility and system integrity.

Business Intelligence & Process Management

A change made in any one of the data, process and information delivery areas automatically flows intelligently and makes associated changes and adjustments throughout the system. And that change does not need to be redone or re-checked for accuracy anywhere else with our business management software.

Note: This approach is not the same as bolting separate applications together in an open framework – applications that were never designed to work together in the first place. It is much more fundamental and much more difficult to achieve if you haven’t built the entire framework that way in advance.

Vita business management software has successfully embraced numerous generations of recent technology advancements, including today’s highly marketed Web Services and Services-Oriented Architecture (SOA) capabilities. Crucially, Vita sits beneath the 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 proper systems architecture.

Vita vs. Other Systems

Each successive new generation of technology, and those yet to come, is enriched atop Agresso’s Vita platform.