Advanced Systems Integration and Architecture

Enterprise Resource Planning

Enterprise Resource Planning

A cross-functional enterprise backbone that integrates and automates many internal business processes and information systems within the sales and distribution, production, logistics, accounting, and human resources functions of a company.

ERP Software Application Package

A suite of pre-engineered, ready-to-implement, and integrated application modules catering to all the business functions of an enterprise.

ERP Software Application Package

It possesses the flexibility for configuring and dynamically customizing the delivered functionality of the package to suit the specific requirements of the enterprise.

Enterprise Resource Planning

It can provide comprehensiveness and flexibility because the heart of the system resides a computer-aided software engineering (CASE)-like repository that stores all details.

Enterprise Resource Planning

It changed the basic developmental model of implementing computerized systems within enterprises to that of implementing off-the-shelf, ready-made packages.

Cloud Computing

It represents a new way to deploy computing technology to give users the ability to access, work on, share, and store information using Internet.

Everything as a Service (XaaS)

It is the term that ideally describes Cloud Computing.

Cloud

It is a complex network of data centers, each composed of thousands of computers working together that can perform and achieve the functions of a software on a personal or business computer units providing user access to a vast number of applications, platforms, and services delivered over the Internet.

Private Cloud

Also known as internal cloud.

Private Cloud

A cloud-based infrastructure operated exclusively for a single organization with all data protected behind an internal firewall.

Private Cloud

It is physically located at the company's on-site data center or can also be managed and hosted by a third-party provider.

Public Cloud

Also known as external cloud.

Public Cloud

It is available to the public where data are created and stored on third-party servers.

Public Cloud

The service infrastructure belongs to service providers that manage them and administer pool resources.

Public Cloud

It is based on a shared-cost model for all the users or in the form of a licensing policy such as pay per use.

Hybrid Cloud Platform

It encompasses the best features of the mentioned cloud computing deployment models.

Hybrid Cloud Platform

It allows companies to mix and match the facets of public and private cloud that best suit their requirements.

Agility

Helps in rapid and inexpensive re-provisioning of resources.

Location Independence

Resources can be accessed anywhere (except on limitations set by the company's internal control).

Multi-tenacity

Resources are shared amongst a large pool of users.

Reliability

Dependable accessibility of resources and computation.

Scalability

Dynamic provisioning of data helps in avoiding various bottleneck scenarios.

Ease of Maintenance

Users (companies/organizations) have less work in terms of resource upgrades and management, handled by service providers of cloud computing.

SAP

It was founded in 1972 in Walldorf, Germany.

SAP

It was founded by five IBM engineers namely Hasso Plattner, Klaus Tschira, Claus Wellenreuther, Dietmar Hopp and Hans-Werner Hector.

SAP

It is the recognized leader in providing collaborative business solutions for all types of industries and for every major market globally.

SAP Business One

An ERP solution arranged into 15 modules, automating the major functions in a business organization.

Menu Bar

It displays at the top of the screen. It contains the Windows standard menu (File, Edit, Window, Help) as well generic SAP Business One functions.

Toolbar

It displays under the menu bar. IT is a collection of icon buttons that grant easy access to commonly-used functions. The functions represented by the button are also available in the menu bar.

Modules Menu

It is used to navigate in SAP Business one, and also arranges the functions of the individual applications in a tree structure.

Modules Menu

It contains a list of all modules with their related options.

Menu Options

They are arranged in the same order as the menus in the main menu. It cannot be modified and may be inactive for unauthorized users.

User-Setup Window

It defines the users of the SAP Business One.

Enterprise Integration

The strategic consideration of the process, methods, tools, and technologies associated with achieving interoperability between IT applications both within and external to the enterprise to enable a collaborative business process.

Enterprise Integration

It is not purely about technology integration. It also includes a consideration of business processes that cut across various IT applications, and so provides the planned basis for technology integration.

Enterprise Integration

It is not some new technology fad that will come and go, but an essential feature of how IT solutions need to be designed to address today's business requirements.

Information Aggregation

Aggregating, organizing, and presenting information from multiple IT sources in one single view.

Single Point of Data Entry

Replacing the need for manual and duplicate data entry into multiple IT applications with data entry into a single IT application.

Web Channel Integration

Enabling Web-based customers and partners direct access to the services provided by existing business systems.

Supplier Integration and Supply Chain Optimization

Enabling a supplier to integrate with a larger company's business process or an electronic marketplace.

Enterprise Application Integration (EAI)

It is concerned with integrating the IT applications that reside within the organization. An example is the integration of the customer accounts IT system with the order-management IT system.

Business-to-Business Integration (B2Bi)

It is concerned with integrating an organization's IT system with those of its business partners or suppliers such as in an extended supply chain.

Web Integration

It is concerned with integrating an organization's IT application with a Web application to provide a Web channel.

Presentation Integration

It is the aggregation of data from multiple IT systems within a single view. An example is a Web portal that aggregates and displays a customer's stock portfolio taken from one IT system and bank account balance from another IT system.

Data Integration

It is the synchronization of data held in different databases. For example, if two (2) different databases hold the same customer's address details, a change of address in one database should also be synchronized in the other database.

Application Integration

It is where applications make some of the functionality directly accessible to other applications. (Ex. SAP and PeopleSoft often expose their functionality through well-defined application program interfaces (APIs).

Service Integration

It is a common set of reusable services that are made available to other applications.

Process Integration

It is the definition of business-process or workflow models from which reusable services are called.

SAP Accelerated Implementation Program (AIP)

It is specifically designed for SAP Business One implementation.

AIP Methodology

It divides the implementation into five (5) phases. These phases cover the period starting with the handover from the sales team to right before the handover to the support organization.

AIP Methodology

It provides a milestone for each phase. Each milestone marks the completion of a discreet activity in the project: software installation, system configuration, testing, and so on. The milestone has been selected by SAP and partners as crucial checkpoints in your project plan.