The Multiplicity of Variables a Company Must Take into Account During the Process of Global ERP Implementation and Deployment (Part XI)- Some of the Top Vendors of Global ERP Solutions: SAP and Oracle.

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Global ERP Implementation and Deployment (Part XI)

Among the leading providers of global ERP software solutions, SAP occupies one of the topmost positions in the market. This fact is due to its high level of technological innovation. This is evinced in the advanced globalization features of its products and the regular delivery to customers and business clients of updates and upgrades, which conform to global industry norms and are compatible with the standard software support platforms used by businesses in the Information/Internet technology industry (Microsoft/.NET, XML, Java Systems, etc.) as well as by multiple businesses from other industries which also run their operations through an erp based, shared online database system to improve their company's internal organizational infrastructure, and their business performance in the global marketplace.

The integration of multiple foreign market data and country demographics into a central database for determining the impact of a specific software product or global ERP solution on multiple target consumer populations from various countries, is effected through an important stage known as “System Landscape.”  This is a principal component in the process of global market and foreign industry systems analysis conducted before the deployment of a global ERP software system by a business or vendor.

Aside from SAP, Oracle is also a second big competitor in the global ERP industry and it has also derived full advantages from its purchase of PeopleSoft’s global ERP software products and services. With regards to PeopleSoft, it is another major global ERP software company which has also been able to maximize its global presence by concentrating on applying all the major multiple benefits of Unicode (the major multiple character/text set translational platform used by the majority of businesses and varied industries to deal with foreign language considerations).

Thanks to Unicode support, PeopleSoft 8 allowed a company to run and deploy all of the software's multi- purpose applications simultaneously in over 100 languages. Unicode truly is “unique,” because of its long history in the development of character/text/script set translational platforms and encoding applications compatible with the standards of the Internet and information technology industry. Its level of technical expertise has promoted the evolution and performance of the Unicode group to higher standards, thanks to its development of ever more efficient and innovative technologies in its applications to increase multiple –language encoding potential, by centralizing and enlarging what is termed in the software industry and informatics, as “codespace.”

In synthesis, a code space is made up of individual “code points.” The number of code points available depends on the number of of bits available in the program. The greater the number of bits, the more code space is available to encode a greater number of text and character sets within a more extended system and global framework.  It follows that a greater number of code points maximizes the program’s potential to simultaneously encode a greater number of multiple and more elaborate language characters, texts, and scripts like Arabic, Egyptian glyphs and also Chinese ideograms, not to mention the recent efforts underway to encode even more elaborate languages such as cuneiform, including in this category what is regarded as one of the oldest languages in the word (if not the oldest): Sumerian.

Written by :

Don Cooper