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Postmodern ERP strategies: Tiering
Another in the series of postmodern ERP Strategies. While these are excerpted from SAP Nation 2.0, the concepts can be applied to many other ERP environments.
In the 1980s, as AS/400s and LANs matured, many multinationals adopted two- or three-tier application strategies — a mainframe-based application for corporate, domestic subsidiaries and regional hubs, with decentralized versions, for international subsidiaries. JD Edwards (now part of Oracle), Platinum (now Epicor), Sage and other vendors were beneficiaries of such tiering strategies.
Things have evolved quite a bit since then — now companies can go with SaaS systems for smaller subsidiaries, and as a result may not even need local IT support.
Many SAP customers have adopted two-tier strategies. NetSuite and Microsoft have particularly benefited as the solution for smaller subsidiaries.
SAP's own products, Business One and Business ByDesign, also target two-tier opportunities similar to the ones described above, and often work out more economical and flexible than Business Suite in secondary locations.
More excerpts over the next few days.
September 29, 2015 in Enterprise Software (IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP), Industry Commentary | Permalink