Released on = June 19, 2006, 6:07 pm

Press Release Author = Alba Spectrum Group

Industry = Computers

Press Release Summary = The evolution of ERP/MRP comes together with the change in
business processes and new businesses models emerging. If we look at the companies,
going public in .com era and now, we could recognize very unusual business models,
such as Google, which is neither really paid services, nor advertising media

Press Release Body = The evolution of ERP/MRP comes together with the change in
business processes and new businesses models emerging. If we look at the companies,
going public in .com era and now, we could recognize very unusual business models,
such as Google, which is neither really paid services, nor advertising media.
Looking at the other companies, such as eBay, Amazon.com - we could say that the
shift for the ERP is made from traditional business processes, such as
manufacturing, customer service, project management, accounting to more generic
processes, such as Supply Chain Management (SCM), where you can't identify
"standard" functionality - it is mixture of warehouse management, EDI and extranet
for your business vendors and customers, barcoding, consignment, shipping &
receiving, etc. Considering these trends, ERP design should be really revised and
geared toward the future change and systems integration, customization and
interoperability
. Late 1980th - this was the time when ERP functionality was kind of agreed upon:
Finance, Discrete or Process Manufacturing, Sales Order Processing, Accounts
Payable, etc. The real challenge was in surviving through computer hardware,
operating systems and database platform battles of 1990th. We see multiple major
ERP products currently on the market, architectured in this period: Microsoft Great
Plains/Dynamics GP is very good example. This product architecture is Great Plains
Dexterity, which had hardware, OS and DB independence in its design - C programming
language was a hope and Dexterity is a shell, written in C. In 1990th there was a
conception of rich functionality MRP (Oracle, SAP, PeopleSoft) and standard
functionality ERP - mid-market - Great Plains, Solomon, Navision, etc.
. Global Market. Even small or mid-size consulting company, having its own ERP
add-ons and small products, has to go for Worldwide clientele. Plus clients
themselves are going Worldwide and require its ERP partner to support their
subsidiaries "overseas"
. Axapta or now Microsoft Dynamics AX. Being designed at the end of XX century with
the three-tier model and supporting such modern technologies as Unicode (Chinese,
Japanese languages), MS SQL Server, XML Web Services, having CRM module and being
localized for over 30 nations. Axapta is targeted to upper mid-size and large
corporate markets, plus it has excellent positions to automate worldwide operations
for multinational corporation.
. Brazil. Microsoft Business Solutions in Sao Paulo has Axapta as a rising star to
win over Brazilian market. In our opinion, Brazilian agriculture and food
processing/export businesses might be in the best synergy, plus telecommunications,
franchising network, services. Multinational corporations are also in the loop -
Microsoft Dynamics AX is Microsoft answer to Oracle e-Business Suite and SAP mySAP
. MarphX/X++ versus C#. As it was announced on Convergence 2006 - MorphX will be
ported to .Net platform, so you as software programmer/developer could us all .Net
languages, including X++ to customize Axapta.

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Andrew Karasev is Chief Technology Officer at Alba Spectrum Technologies (
http://www.albaspectrum.com http://www.ronix-systems.de http://www.enterlogix.com.br
) - Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains, Navision, Axapta, MS CRM, Oracle
Financials and IBM Lotus Domino Partner, serving corporate customers in the
following industries: Aerospace & Defense, Medical & Healthcare, Distribution &
Logistics, Hospitality, Banking & Finance, Wholesale & Retail, Chemicals, Oil & Gas,
Placement & Recruiting, Advertising & Publishing, Textile, Pharmaceutical,
Non-Profit, Beverages, Conglomerates, Apparels, Durables, Manufacturing and having
locations in multiple states and internationally.
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