Companies today are operating with islands of technologies and maneuvering the waters with increasing IT complexity that are being constrained by budget reductions and policy restrictions that are making it difficult for new companies to take advantage of new ERP, enterprise resource planning, technologies and enterprise systems innovations on the market that could help them improve productivity and profits.

Companies today are operating with islands of technologies and maneuvering the waters with increasing IT complexity that are being constrained by budget reductions and policy restrictions that are making it difficult for new companies to take advantage of new ERP, enterprise resource planning, technologies and enterprise systems innovations on the market that could help them improve productivity and profits.

Unfortunately companies are hampered by legacy systems and technologies.  Integrating and consolidating with new technologies as well as the cost of adopting new technologies  are  key factors that are blocking companies from building a competitive advantage.  In this very competitive marketplace, companies often look to technology innovations to separate them from the rest of the pack.

To address this challenge, technology managers are taking a step back and designing an IT architecture that are founded on an SOA, or services oriented architecture that make the IT infrastructure more flexible and capable of migrating to new future and current IT innovations that are critical in competing in the aggressive marketplace.   ERP solutions that have a service oriented foundation allow companies to stay on the bleeding edge by implementing the best of the best when it comes to IT strategies and business process outsourcing and consolidation.

As it relates to ERP systems, this flexible architecture is referred to as ESA, or enterprise services architecture.  Companies like SAP, the largest “big” enterprise software vendor are helping companies to develop a blueprint for their IT architecture to embrace new technologies and innovations.  Recognizing the importance of ESA architecture, enterprise vendors are letting companies test drive new enterprise system modules by replicating live enterprise services and showing how a company could better migrate to new technologies such as open source and SaaS, software as a service, applications . 

IT managers are able to see first-hand how enterprise services architecture for their ERP systems can extend current business processes across new businesses, consolidate IT and business processes to achieve economies of scale, replace custom programming with module driven functionalities, more flexible interfaces, and dramatically simplify the IT integration architecture.

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