Lesson 1: November 1st, 2012
An "enterprise" can be many things, like a company, a project, or a city. Each enterprise has many components like people, resources and each work towards a common goal.
Any enterprise at one point or another has to go through changes and to implement change effectively, previous studies must be done and a key component is the enterprise's blueprint.
Lesson 2: November 3rd,2012
SME's/SMB's ( Small and Medium Enterprises/ Small and Medium Businesses) contribute more to the local economy than large enterprises.
An ERP system is a system that integrates the different components of an organization into one system to reduce duplication and inconsistency of data. A federated ERP is a proposed solution that will help smaller organization to adopt ERP. The difference between ERP and FERP is that the ERP is provided by one vendor and the many servers needed to run the ERP are stored in one location, usually the company, and they are accessed through the company's intranet. The ERP costs a lot of money and contains many components that smaller companies don't need and can't afford.
Using FERP, small companies can select which components they need (for example, HR, Finance, and IT) and they can get each component from different vendors. The servers can be located at each vendor and can be accessed through web services. The web service layer acts as an access point between the servers and the ERP components.
I believe that FERP is an excellent solution for SMEm since they can't afford ERP.
ReplyDeleteI agree all enterprises go through changes and to be prepared for such changes we need an architecture.
ReplyDeleteSMEs indeed are contributing big time to world economies. They are the drivers of economic growth and are the centers of innovations. It's about time good solutions such as FERP are generated.
Raza