The application landscapes in the user companies stuck in the conversion. Many IT managers realize that they encounter with their over decades architectures limits. Current challenges in terms of agility and flexibility of the IT substructure, can cope with any current business software systems barely. Too slow and immobile, the software monoliths have planted in the center of the IT landscape and become a millstone around the neck of the corporate IT there more and more.
The requested from the business contribution to innovation and business support can not provide these systems. The CIOs now stuck in a dilemma. On the one hand they must ensure that existing applications continue to do their duty and function. Finally, still hangs the bulk of the business in mind.
On the other side of the print, the business software landscape to modernize so that they can meet future challenges grows. Companies must react quickly to changes in the business model and can view them in the systems. They must also meet the growing demands of users, for example as regards the mobile use of the software.
Enterprise Resource Planning
IT departments are often between the old and the new IT world caught. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems. “The requirements of agility and responsiveness have the most highly customized ERP implementations led to a dead end,” said Andy Kyte, vice president of Gartner, at the beginning fixed. In the heyday of ERP those responsible had been working on a reliable and integrated systems and so long screwed around on the ERP solutions to this would have fit the needs of their companies. “Today, the punishment for years of excessive Customizing must be paid,” says Gartner analyst.
“A system that is not flexible enough to reflect changing business needs, acts as an anchor, not like a sail. It slows down the company, instead of it advancing. “According to Kyte grows in many boardrooms concern because of the too rigid Business Software. The often highly customized and bent ERP software brings about the next wave of legacy problems. The analyst expects business software architectures are changing dramatically in the coming years “. The concept of a single central ERP suite that meets all business requirements, is dead” The future belongs to hybrid ERP approaches, the on a Premise-core system flexibly supplemented with ERP modules and functions from the cloud.
Such hybrid ERP environments, according to the Gartner analysts to be the norm in five years. This, however, poses new challenges to the company, warns Nigel Rayner, also an analyst at Gartner. Loosely coupled ERP suites from on-premise and cloud-modules would provide IT departments with new integration challenges. In addition, the adoption of cloud services is no guarantee that the ERP operating’ll make easier or cheaper.
Many business leaders were groping in view of the generous promises of some cloud providers in this case and then see themselves with more work and higher costs faced – for example, because of internal know-how built up, managed the integration and complex vendor management must be mastered.
“You can not assume that cloud applications deliver magically added value,” warns Kyte and Rayners colleague Carol Hardcastle. Especially for new composite hybrid ERP environments it is important to keep your strategy and most of all the relevant business case in mind in the course of ERP investments. That is not always easy in heterogeneous composite of cloud and on-premise components landscapes, recognizes the IT expert. One area in which cloud applications have already been largely established, the customer relationship management (CRM).
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