Thursday, 7 December 2006
SAP Charts Road Map for mySAP ERP, Maintains Stable ERP
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SAP AG is all set to stabilise its MySAP ERP suite for the next five years. The first step towards this goal is the initial 'enhancement package' for MySAP ERP. The first enhancement package is now available to customers running mySAP ERP 2005 as part of their license and maintenance agreement... |
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SAP AG is all set to stabilise its MySAP ERP suite for the next five years. The first step towards this goal is the initial 'enhancement package' for MySAP ERP. The first enhancement package is now available to customers running mySAP ERP 2005 as part of their license and maintenance agreement. This first enhancement package leverage enterprise SOA for both software design and delivery. Customers can now consume new functionality and enterprise services in a continuous fashion, allowing them to drive business process innovation while maintaining the stability of their core Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. The announcement was made at SAP’s fourth annual Analyst Summit, being held in Las Vegas, December 4-5.
SAP added service-level agreement monitoring and analytics around employee interaction, the HCM area. In the financials area, SAP strengthened its functionality for credit collection management to include credit report monitoring, collections management analytics and enterprise services for integrating to external credit information providers for a smoother invoice-to-cash process. SAP has also added functions specific to the retail and manufacturing industries, including demand management and Point of Sale (PoS) integration for retailers.
The idea with the so-called enhancement packages is to allow users to upgrade functionality on an as-needed and somewhat continual basis, and at the same time maintain a stable core ERP system.
According to SAP, the contents of first enhancement package includes:
- Innovations in mySAP ERP Human Capital Management
- Innovations in mySAP ERP Financials
- Innovations for the industries
- Demand management and POS integration for the retail industry
- Innovations for adaptive manufacturing
SAP intends to deliver two to three enhancement packages per year. These can contain both functional and technical enhancements as well as enterprise services for mySAP ERP. Each enhancement package will also include enterprise services for a particular business scenario, the definition of these services in the enterprise service repository, and applications consuming those services—including composites where available and all the documentation required for customers to get up and running quickly. This documentation is being delivered via an interactive Wiki format.
"The new five-year upgrade cycle for mySAP ERP makes it easier for customers to deploy new technology and maximise their software investments as they redesign their business processes", said Albert Pang, director of enterprise applications research at IDC. "This release cycle and strategy simplifies adoption of new enhancements and it matches the needs of customers who typically want to plan and perform an upgrade every five to seven years."
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