Enterprise Applications--The Genesis and Future, Revisited Part ...

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... for that finished item, the computer could calculate ... Indeed, the enterprise systems currently in use by ... large corporations worldwide are an evolution of the ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Erp/2004/03/research_notes/TU_ER_PJ_03_31_04_1.asp - 23k - 2004-03-31 Summary: Knowing the history and evolution of enterprise applications is essential to understanding their current use and future developments. Each step in the evolution of the software is built on the fundamentals and principles developed within the previous one, which holds true for the contemporary phase of th

The Essential ERP - Its Genesis & Future

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... Knowing the history and evolution of ERP is essential to understanding its ... 1960s - Pre-Computer Era. The focus of manufacturing systems in the 1960s was on ... http:/.../ResearchHighlights/BusinessApplications/2000/12/research_notes/TU_BA_PJ_12_26_00_1.asp - 44k - 2000-12-25 Summary: Knowing the history and evolution of ERP is essential to understanding its current application and its future developments. Each step in the evolution of ERP is built on the fundamentals and principles developed within the previous one.

ERP: Origins, Developments, and Trends

by TEC staff writer ... Evolution. ... Materials requirement planning (MRP) computer systems were developed to promote having the right amount of materials when needed. ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Erp/2005/05/research_notes/TU_ER_STF_05_17_05_1.asp - 17k - 2005-05-17 Summary: ERP first developed as a form of inventory control and later grew to link disparate bodies of information together from across the enterprise. Now, ERP enhancements include SCM, CRM, and e-commerce features, just to name a few. However, where is this technology going? What does it mean now?

Architecture Evolution: From Mainframes to Service-oriented ...

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... Part One of the series Architecture Evolution: From Mainframes ... batches—not to mention that the systems' only users ... The client is the computer on the desktop ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/ERP/2006/09/research_notes/TU_ER_PJ_09_18_06_1.asp - 18k - 2006-09-18 Summary: Product architecture is going to do much more than simply provide the technical functionality, the user interface, and the platform support. It is going to determine whether a product is going to be able to accommodate increasingly evolving user requirements.

Architecture Evolution: From Web-based to Service-oriented ...

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... Two of the series Architecture Evolution: From Mainframes ... However, most client/server systems have meanwhile been ... architecture is that any computer with secure ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/ERP/2006/09/research_notes/TU_ER_PJ_09_19_06_1.asp - 22k - 2006-09-19 Summary: Traditional enterprise systems have proven difficult to change and extend. The inherent problem of old core code and business logic duplication is part of the reason traditional enterprise resource planning systems have not readily taken to e-commerce.

Voting Technology: An Evaluation of Requirements and Solutions

by Nelson Nones ... 3. Existing Punch Card Systems. ... alternatives such as the Internet, while others viscerally distrust computer technology and ... Evolution of Punch Card Technology. ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/ExecutiveView/2001/01/research_notes/TN_EV_XNN_01_02_01_1.asp - 33k - 2001-01-02 Summary: The issues created by the use of punch card ballots, an obsolete technology, during the recent US Presidential election are similar to the ones that businesses confront every day when dealing with technological change. It is therefore instructive to examine voting technology issues in the way that most b

EDI versus. XML--Working in Tandem Rather Than Competing?

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... that business-to-business (B2B) computer-mediated communications ... organizations replacing their EDI-based systems with XML ... opposed to the ongoing evolution of a ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/eCommerce/2004/03/research_notes/TU_EC_PJ_03_05_04_1.asp - 15k - 2004-03-05 Summary: Electronic data interchange (EDI), extensible markup language (XML) , and any other format are merely

Enterprise Applications--The Genesis and Future, Revisited Part ...

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... ERP was an important step in an ongoing evolution of computer tools that ... underpinning of the most sophisticated business applications systems today still ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Erp/2004/04/research_notes/TU_ER_PJ_04_06_04_1.asp - 11k - 2004-04-06 Summary: Unless all the functional modules have access to and use the same data in near real-time, unless all processes are fully integrated (so that, for example a mobile sales rep can see the live inventory data for order promising), and unless users can seamlessly move from one module to another, we are not ta

The Power of One

by Brion Schweers ... of their businesses occurred faster then the evolution of the ... business performance by enabling interoperability between diverse computer systems, helping them ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Erp/2003/08/research_notes/MI_ER_XBS_08_27_03_1.asp - 19k - 2003-08-27 Summary: The typical mid-market company that has roughly $350 million in annual revenue, has not fully automated its business processes, and would gladly give up its legacy systems if everything could work from one server, and give the executives the information they need in the process. Another opinion in the di

Fourth Shift's evolution Within SoftBrands' DemandStream

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... company's strategy, since product development for evolution is done ... these applications through the purchase of Computer-Aided Business Systems (CABS), a ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Erp/2002/09/research_notes/EN_ER_PJ_09_30_02_1.asp - 25k - 2002-09-30 Summary: With a set of seemingly complementary products and via a strategy of focusing on customers, astute acquisitions of more complementary software companies and a careful deployment of all resources around the world including product development, sales and customer support, SoftBrands hopes to rise from the